I think I may need a little help on this one... Earlier this week I purchased an oem WD Raptor 36gb 10,000rpm drive. I decided to reformat all my drives and use the Raptor as my system drive for XP. Since doing so I have noticed quite a lag in performance. Transfer rates given by 2 seperate benchmarking programs show the Raptor more that 12mb/s behind my other drives in transfer speed along with a 17.9s access time which is more than 7 seconds slower than my next slowest drive. The difference is even noticable during basic windows operations.
I have DFI LanParty NFII Ultra motherboard and I have looked through all manuals and FAQ for a solution. The bios settings have been checked and rechecked over and over again. Even Western Dig provides no help. Based on the info I will soon provide can you guys let me know if I am missing something or is it a problem with the actual drive.
My basic setup is
amd 2700+ oc'd 2800
Cooler Master Aero 7+
DFI LanParty NFII Ultra
2 x 512mb OCZ PC3200 Enhanced Latency
MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Western Digital 36GB 10,000 8mb cache (SATA)
Maxtor 60GB 7200 2mb cache
Western Digital 60GB 7200 2mb cache
2 x Maxtor 120GB 7200 8mb cache (Raid)
16x DVD
52x CD-RW
The curreny drive setup is as follows:
Primary Master: WD Raptor - (via SATA: uses the primary channel)
Primary Slave: Maxtor 60GB
Secondary Master: WD 60GB
Secondary Slave: 16x DVD
Raid: 2x Maxtor 120GB
Pleas help me if you can
ALright I have an update now:
I decided to take the advice of a few people and I disconnected all the hard drives with the exception of the WD raptor, then I reformatted it and reinstalled windows. After installing all the drivers once again the problem was still there. Slow reaction times in windows, slow MY Computer browsing, and low transfer speeds. And this is all after a fresh install of windows on a completely blank Hard drive, with only HD and cdrom connected, and all nvidia drivers installed.
if you have any suggestions please help
I have DFI LanParty NFII Ultra motherboard and I have looked through all manuals and FAQ for a solution. The bios settings have been checked and rechecked over and over again. Even Western Dig provides no help. Based on the info I will soon provide can you guys let me know if I am missing something or is it a problem with the actual drive.
My basic setup is
amd 2700+ oc'd 2800
Cooler Master Aero 7+
DFI LanParty NFII Ultra
2 x 512mb OCZ PC3200 Enhanced Latency
MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Western Digital 36GB 10,000 8mb cache (SATA)
Maxtor 60GB 7200 2mb cache
Western Digital 60GB 7200 2mb cache
2 x Maxtor 120GB 7200 8mb cache (Raid)
16x DVD
52x CD-RW
The curreny drive setup is as follows:
Primary Master: WD Raptor - (via SATA: uses the primary channel)
Primary Slave: Maxtor 60GB
Secondary Master: WD 60GB
Secondary Slave: 16x DVD
Raid: 2x Maxtor 120GB
Pleas help me if you can
ALright I have an update now:
I decided to take the advice of a few people and I disconnected all the hard drives with the exception of the WD raptor, then I reformatted it and reinstalled windows. After installing all the drivers once again the problem was still there. Slow reaction times in windows, slow MY Computer browsing, and low transfer speeds. And this is all after a fresh install of windows on a completely blank Hard drive, with only HD and cdrom connected, and all nvidia drivers installed.
if you have any suggestions please help