SATA HDD Speed SLOW SLOW SLOW

[Barry1315]

I have 2 computers identical in every respect EXCEPT one has windows 7 X64 Ultimate and the other has windows XP pro
I tested with minimum installed software on each and tested the 1.5 gid SATA drive in each then removed drive from each and installed op sys and software again ( very time consuming ) and tested drive speeds again and as I suspected the XP opp sys
was 2 times faster than the windows 7. Yes I checked all settings in both , both times so Windows still has a problem that has not been repaired and has known about this and will admit so back in 2010. Guess Microsoft will shove Windows 8 on us along with Cloud.

 

[RealBeast]

And I've installed a minimal (Home Pro) x86 Win 7 on DOZENS (not just one) of systems and they were far quicker than the old XP that they had -- all the way down to an ancient Shuttle XPS with a 1GHz Athlon that I had to use XP drivers installed on 7 in XP mode, and yeah you guessed it Win 7 was quicker.

Take your one anecdote and read up on sample size in statistical analysis. Then come back and post something useful.

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Actually it depends on ram...install 1 gb of ram in an XP machine and benchmark it then do the same with a Win7 machine ...guess which will be faster....the XP machine...

All the best Brett

 

[Barry1315]

re read what I said ( identical ) and I am not measuring RAM

 

[stubbies2003]

So barry since when someone tried to give advice you just got snippy is this just a complain about microsoft fest for you then? Feel better now I hope now that you have that off of your chest?

 

[RealBeast]

Hi

Actually it depends on ram...install 1 gb of ram in an XP machine and benchmark it then do the same with a Win7 machine ...guess which will be faster....the XP machine...

All the best Brett

Not really, at least in my probably 40 old machine updates in the 1-2 gb range, and the old Shuttle only had 512k of memory and still ran benchmarks faster in Win 7 than XP.

 

[mightymaxio]

What drive are you using? A 5400rpm drive? The reason windows 7 scores lower is because of superfetch and other indexing services enabled which allows you to pull up files faster but makes the speed slower. If your that interested in benchies on a sata spinning hard drive your mentally insane. Get an SSD and quit your complaining!!!

 

[Barry1315]

using 7200 rpm and I guess you are in love with microsoft reading your answer (biased). I am only interested a software that does what it clams and windows 7 X64 ultimate does not do as it should. by the the way both drives are SATA 3 6 gig on SATA 2 buss

 

[stubbies2003]

using 7200 rpm and I guess you are in love with microsoft reading your answer (biased). I am only interested a software that does what it clams and windows 7 X64 ultimate does not do as it should. by the the way both drives are SATA 3 6 gig on SATA 2 buss

Well now you are starting to show some lack of technical knowledge as SATA 2 or 3 doesn't matter one iota for a standard 7200 RPM HDD as those cannot saturate a SATA 2 let alone approach a SATA 3 bandwidth. Only SSDs will do that.

 

[RealBeast]

Barry, I for one do love every other OS from MS -- 98, XP, then 7. My second or third computer was an Apple 2 BTW (ancient guy), but I still have a place in my heart for DOS.

I run pretty much every MS and many Linux OSs under VMWare 8 on a very solid Win 7 x64 system with zero raided Vertex 3 240s, 4 2Tb data drives, and an 8x3Tb Hitachi RAID 6 on an Adaptec 6805 in a giant Lian Li case, but I gotta say that several of my other pretty good machines seem just as quick with single Intel 320 ssds.

SATA III really has minimal real world impact, except for when I'm ripping BR disks into ISO images 4 or 5 times a week later copied to the RAID 6 for all house streaming and then raided ssds are a real time saver. Cost effective, no, but I value my time so I like it.

I run a Win 8 VM, but so far I don't have any real opinion on whether it will be worthwhile. Although I will look at Win 8 phones and the level of integration to a desktop OS.

I still like to tinker with all sorts of old rigs though, and try to help new folks get addicted.

Now let's all try to play nice and not look like fanboys for anything. Peace.

 

[popsickle]

Please, I have the same problem, and I need to know why. I have a SATA disk at 3 GB/s (1000 x 1000 x 1000). I'm only getting a speed below 50 MiB/s (1024 * 1024) when copying a file. I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits. I'm not anti-Microsoft or what ever, but the OS has a very big problem. I suspect "sleep commands" intrusion on the kernel !

Barry, I for one do love every other OS from MS -- 98, XP, then 7. My second or third computer was an Apple 2 BTW (ancient guy), but I still have a place in my heart for DOS.

I run pretty much every MS and many Linux OSs under VMWare 8 on a very solid Win 7 x64 system with zero raided Vertex 3 240s, 4 2Tb data drives, and an 8x3Tb Hitachi RAID 6 on an Adaptec 6805 in a giant Lian Li case, but I gotta say that several of my other pretty good machines seem just as quick with single Intel 320 ssds.

SATA III really has minimal real world impact, except for when I'm ripping BR disks into ISO images 4 or 5 times a week later copied to the RAID 6 for all house streaming and then raided ssds are a real time saver. Cost effective, no, but I value my time so I like it.

I run a Win 8 VM, but so far I don't have any real opinion on whether it will be worthwhile. Although I will look at Win 8 phones and the level of integration to a desktop OS.

I still like to tinker with all sorts of old rigs though, and try to help new folks get addicted.

Now let's all try to play nice and not look like fanboys for anything. Peace.

 

[popsickle]

I have tried with Ubuntu and I have the same problem, so it's not Windows

 

[mightymaxio]

Disable superfetch and indexing and watch the speeds magically get better. Like i said earlier your just trying to pick a fight based on common sense and not about the operating system. Your comparing a corvette to a honda civic. Your comparing an airplane to a blimp. Your comparing a tube tv vs a high def TV.

Dont start blasting Windows 7 about the speed if you yourself dont have an SSD. Even a slow SSD is way faster than any HDD unless the HDD is a 15k rpm cheeta. If you dont like the speeds use XP and enjoy your outdated software that hasnt been supported since last year!

Do you notice the speeds? Maybe well then get faster hard drives or disable the services like i stated in the original post instead of picking a fight that you are not going to win in your lifetime!!