Optimize your harddrive

[Sharp]

Hey,

I bought my new system and assembled it and I'm not quite sure I have as h\good hardrive speed as I could.

I've got a Gigabyte X58A UD3R v2 and a harddrive with 6 gb speed. I know I won't get 6 gb per sec, but I think I could get better then what I have.

How can I optimize my harddrive speed, is it for example just cangeing the sata slot, or something involving software?

Thanks in advance to all you awesome overclock3d gents

 

[hmmblah]

What hard drive do you have? What kind of read/writes are you getting?

 

[CRAZYCAP]

are you trying optimise a mechanical drive or an SSD

 

[Sharp]

I've got a mechanical drive, its a WD 1TB 10EALX and its got 32 Mb cache.

I've connected the power and the sata, but there is another 8 pin input and I was wondering if I need to use that or not.

I would also like to know which program you recommend for testing read/write.

 

[hmmblah]

The 8 pins are for jumpers, you won't use those at all.

I use crystal disk mark for testing hard drives.

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

 

[Sharp]

I downloaded it and I got about 110 read/write on the "seq" section, is that good or bad?

 

[d3fu5i0n]

I downloaded it and I got about 110 read/write on the "seq" section, is that good or bad?

That's slower than you should get, yes. But the rating is 6Gigabits which is around 600MBytes for peak. Never seen it achieved though.

I'd say if you got between 180-220 you're fine.

I'm not experienced in storage devices that much, so don't take my word for it.

 

[Sharp]

okey, I'm not sure how I achive the 6gigabits transfer, I've got 6gb harddrive, motherboard and cable, so its all there I just need to know how to do it

 

[marsey99]

you never will to tell you the truth, same as the older spec sata never quite hit 3gb/s as its just the theoretical max speed.

its kinda like how cars can claim to have a 3.2s 0 to 60mph time because it can do that on a rolling road with no resistance, out in the real world you are lucky if it does 3.5s and are more likely to take 4s.

 

[Sharp]

you never will to tell you the truth, same as the older spec sata never quite hit 3gb/s as its just the theoretical max speed.

its kinda like how cars can claim to have a 3.2s 0 to 60mph time because it can do that on a rolling road with no resistance, out in the real world you are lucky if it does 3.5s and are more likely to take 4s.

yeah, but I think I cloud get better reads and writes, still...

If theres anyone that knows how to get the "sata 3.0" to work on ud3r I would be glad. I dunno if you gotta do something in the software or if I'm just connected it to the wrong sata connector.

 

[Sharp]

So?

I would realy appreciate if someone knew anything, even a link to another webside would be fine

 

[S_I_N]

make sure you have the latest drivers for your chipset and or raid drivers first of all. Outside of that a second hdd of similar specs (i.e.sata rev, cache, rpm) and check it and see what you get. If its different from main drive (higher) then its possible ya got a defective drive. I get about 289ish with 3 sata 3Gb in raid 0.

 

[Filekutter]

I agree with S_I_N, chipset drivers. Maybe even research to see if any of them fluctuate, and good luck.

 

[Sharp]

I've got a GIGABYTE motherboard so I tought I could you extreme hard drive(XHD), but I can't seem to find the program on the cd neither on the cpmputer any tips?

 

[kilobravo]

I've got a GIGABYTE motherboard so I tought I could you extreme hard drive(XHD), but I can't seem to find the program on the cd neither on the cpmputer any tips?

Very easy.Find your mobo here,and find it under utility

http://www.gigabyte....oad-center.aspx

 

[Sharp]

I found the program and downloaded it, but when I tried to install it its sad "no raid hd, innstalation aborted".

What should I do?

 

[dugdiamond]

you're not going to get great speeds, as the drive is 7200rpm

6gbps ports are only as good as the hardware they are fed. (ie 10K/15K mechs or SSDs)

for instance: i have 50mb broadband (see sig below). you may think great, but i can only receive data as fast as the sender is willing to send it, which 75% of the time is <=20mb

it's the same with the new sata3 revisions. they are intended for higher throughput devices. 5400rpm and 7200rpm drives won't utilise this.

 

[ExpertLayman]

you're not going to get great speeds, as the drive is 7200rpm

6gbps ports are only as good as the hardware they are fed. (ie 10K/15K mechs or SSDs)

for instance: i have 50mb broadband (see sig below). you may think great, but i can only receive data as fast as the sender is willing to send it, which 75% of the time is <=20mb

it's the same with the new sata3 revisions. they are intended for higher throughput devices. 5400rpm and 7200rpm drives won't utilise this.

He is right. Even if the drive says that it is Sata 3, as far as I know there isn't a a low price drive that can yet achieve it. I don't even think there is a drive that can utilise it yet. Usually they tell you the transfer rate, and it is much much slower. You need to fork out a lot more than a 7200rpm.

 

[Ya93sin]

3Gbps is 375MBps, so there won't be many cases where Sata II is a bottleneck.