Tomek 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2006 Ok, I have a new WD 320Gb HDD! I enabled ran the SiSoftware Sandra Lite test without UDMA66 enabled and got the following: Proc: 28396 MIPS and 19234 MFLOPS HDD: 62Mb/s and 18ms Random Access I than enabled UDMA66, restared and ran the test again, and I got the following: Proc: 28106 MIPS and 19034 MFLOPS HDD: 62Mb/s and 14ms Random Access What gives ?! I thought UDMA66 was supposed to enhance your HDD Speed! Mine dropped, along with my Proc speed!?!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jsgolfman 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2006 Does your hardware support UDMA66? I assume you edited the regidstry to enable it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bruceleeon 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2006 Maybe I missed something.... why would you want to enable UDMA66 on a drive that is most likely ATA 5 or 6 (100 or 133)? Is there some type of performance secret that I didn't know about? Also, you want your "ms" lower... the lower the better. That is your response time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tomek 0 Report post Posted December 21, 2006 Maybe I missed something.... why would you want to enable UDMA66 on a drive that is most likely ATA 5 or 6 (100 or 133)? Is there some type of performance secret that I didn't know about? Also, you want your "ms" lower... the lower the better. That is your response time. HOLY CRAP! What was I thinking! you are SO right! Sorry, I lost my mind ! You are correct, the ms should be lower and I achieved that editing the UDMA66 in the registry! I have this HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive However, since after enabling UDMA66, I gained 4ms, I'll do that again and let it go! Woohoo! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
