Very wierd performance rating

[Will Schuitman]

On my previous installation of windows vista beta2 build 5384. my primary
harddrive which was a 250Gb sata drive rated at 2.8
Now I have RC1 installed on a 40GB ide drive and it rates at 5.4

Why such a huge diference ? seeing the sata drive has a much higher data
transfer rate shouldn't it have a higher rating than the IDE drive?

and also my cpu a p4 3.0 Ghz with prescott core with HT enabled had a rating
of 3.2 under build 5384
and under RC1 it all of a sudden has a rating of 4.4

So out of build 5384 and RC1 which gives the most accurate results ?

 

[Richard Urban]

Was your SATA drive connected through an add-in PCI card, by any chance?

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Will Schuitman]

no my mother board has onboard sata with Xp pro I have verified it running a
transfer rate of 144 mb/sec

 

[Lang Murphy]

Free space on the drive has, I think, an impact on the rating...

Lang

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

As long as there is 15% free space for Volume Shadowcopy files. Beyond that
shouldn't matter.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Yes, sir... but didn't see any reference to free space so thought I'd throw
that out as something to look at...

Lang