Gigabyte p55a-ud4p & slow ATTO results?

[Ozark_86]

These seem slow to me, but thought I would check with y'all first:

I get a max of about 108k read / 94k write on my barracuda drive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

My system drive is worse - 53k read / 56k write on my main drive:

HITACHI Deskstar T7K250 HDT722516DLA380 (0A31637) 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive

That drive is a few years old now, but should it have better performance?

I've reran the results in IDE and ACHI mode, but it's not much different. I'm running win7 64 rtm

 

[mfenn]

I believe that your 1TB drive has 500GB platters and your 160GB has 80GB platters. So, your performance is about what I would expect from those drives.

You would be better off using the 1TB as your boot drive and relegating the 160GB to backup duties.

 

[Ozark_86]

That's a good point - I wish the 160 gb was enough for backup!!

 

[mfenn]

That's a good point - I wish the 160 gb was enough for backup!!

Well even if you can't do a full-drive backup, you can at least pick out 160GB of your most important data (school assignments, tax documents, super-hard-to find music etc.)