Serial ATA Drive slow

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Hello,

I have just bought a Serial ATA 160gb Maxtor drive, and when checking its
performance it seems that its cache(?) was half as good as expected. I have
checked in system properties and its set up to DMA etc.

What would cause this? and is there anything I can change to improve
performance?

Regards
Simon Jefferies
mailto:simon[nospam]@cooltoolsonline.co.uk
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Simon Jefferies wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just bought a Serial ATA 160gb Maxtor drive, and when checking its
> performance it seems that its cache(?) was half as good as expected. I have
> checked in system properties and its set up to DMA etc.
>
> What would cause this? and is there anything I can change to improve
> performance?
>
> Regards
> Simon Jefferies
> mailto:simon[nospam]@cooltoolsonline.co.uk
> -- remove [nospam] to email me --
>
>
>

What did you get? What did you expect? How did you measure it?
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Cheers, Bob