Puggle Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 This is a fresh new F120, attached as slave to SATA 2, quick formatted out of the box to 4096 allocation. Is this normal speed? Can you see the bottleneck? It's significantly short of manufacturer claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 You didn't provide us with any system specifications so we cannot help you thoroughly. http://forum.corsair.com/forums/profile.php?do=extra This is not significantly short of manufacturer claims. It is definitely running on SATA II. If you're running on an AMD chipset then your speeds are about average, if you're running this on a ICH7, 8 , 9, or 10 southbridge then your speeds are below average. You can try different RST drivers or reverting back to ms ahci. Please tell us what you're currently using. 4096 allocation is correct and if the drive is empty I cannot think of any other way to speed up the drive except you should try AHCI it may be faster than IDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heintz.G Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 If you're running on an AMD chipset then your speeds are about average. This part of your reply is quite incorrect, here is what an average AMD chipset should look in ATTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 This part of your reply is quite incorrect, here is what an average AMD chipset should look in ATTO. Average is a bit vague. It depends on which specific AMD controller you are talking about. The older AMD controllers are not quite as as fast as their intel counterparts released at the same time such as the ICH8 or even ICH9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Could it also be an alignment issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 In cases like this, a secure erase followed by a fresh install of Windows 7 allowing the OS to format and align is always a good idea. But, we need more info from the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggle Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 Sorry gentlemen, running on ICH10R. Core 2 Q6400, GA ep45T-UD3R. Remember it is a blank factory fresh drive. Win 7 is not on it. Nothing is. Therefore secure erasing has nothing to do with it? I need to know if this drive is withing acceptable specs before I use it as a boot drive in a workstation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 It looks a little slow. What OS are you using to do the testing? And, has this drive been formatted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggle Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 This was in XP, quick formatted the drive with 40960 I'm going to go ahead and install Win 7 x64 fresh, as planned on it and retest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggle Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 Ok win 7 x64 freshly installed on this new drive. Attached atto results. So basically, exactly the same. Am I looking at a controller issue here? Or a bad drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpionri Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Can you try Intel RST 9.6 or 10.0 and see if the results improve ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Ok win 7 x64 freshly installed on this new drive. Attached atto results. So basically, exactly the same. Am I looking at a controller issue here? Or a bad drive? Do you have any way of testing the drive on another machine with an ICH9 or ICH10 controller? Also, has this drive been secure erased since you got it? If not, please secure erase it and try it again. Also, make sure you are using the newer Intel drivers listed above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggle Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 Ok I'm going to tear it all down and test with ICH10R and ICH7 (the 2 southbridges I have avail) and compare. I got updated RST for ICH10R, but after much searching I can't find RST compatible with older ICH7. Can you point me in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 10, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 10, 2010 I do not know that there is an update for that ICH version but you might check on Intel's site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 I'm running an ICH7R (different system than what's in my profile, it's actually a core2extreme, quad) and I get much better results than that..which proves to me that ICH7R is capable of speeds just as fast as 8, 9 and 10. It also proves to me that even modern AMD chipsets are slower than last gen Intel.. I don't know if the drivers are different between ICH7 and ICH7R but I can tell you one thing: The ICH7R, 8R, 9R, and 10 all take the same RST drivers. These are MS AHCI btw fresh after secure erase and as a PRIMARY drive: I'm running an Asus board in my setup, I see that you're running a Gigabyte. I am a bit partial to Asus, but I will tell you that Gigabyte seems to be a little slower judging from what I've seen. I don't have any hardcore proof for that statement but I'll try to pull up some results if I can find some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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