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by var1016

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Hello all.

I am trying out Windows 7 64 bit and largely enjoying the experience.

Today I ran the performance information tool and was disappointed to find that my hard disk received a rating of only 2.9 for its transfer rate. Now the HDD is a new Seagate 5AS 160GB disk with 8MB cache. I am surprised that it should receive such a low rating; what sort of disk is required to get a decent rating? (not that it's important!)

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Paul

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by older mycroft

Whichever incarnation, 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows7 is a BETA release and as such is full of bugs. ;)

by rob miners

Paul that I haven't been able to test as yet. I think that you can increase hard drive performance in Windows 7 by using a Raid setup. Most of the newer Motherboards these days support Raid out of the box. I will see if I can test the theory later in the day.

by var1016

Funny you should mention RAID.

I did ask about this a while ago: apparently one must have at least two identical HDDs to make RAID work.

Well SIW says it does not support Win 7, but on going to the hard disk section I found that apparently my disks (which are different) are running on a RAID bus...

A glitch I suppose!

Paul

by rob miners

in a raid setup.

I don't think that you can take too much notice of Windows 7 Performance stats on the hard drives and my theory didn't work. This is the 32 bit version of W7.

3.4 Ghz Dual Core 1GB RAM 80GB Sata HD Performance HD rating 3

3.2 Ghz Dual Core 4GB RAM 2x500GB Sata Raid Performance HD rating 3

On my old clunker which is a

2.4 Ghz Celeron 1GB RAM 40GB IDE HD Performance HD rating 5.2

2.4 Ghz Celeron 1GB RAM 300GB Sata HD Performance HD rating 5.6

by oh smeg

This is a External USB Drive

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=dbb3eba5e672c110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US&reqPage=Model&modelReqTab=Features

If that is the case a Rating of 2.9 is fantastic as the slowest part is the USB Interface which slows down the data Throughput drastically from any HDD.

Ideally you should be using a Internal SATA HDD with one of the 16 MEG of Cache fro best performance provided that the M'Board can support this type of drive fully of course.

M$ also need room to grow here as new hardware will be faster then the current generation hardware so if they where to give a higher rating this utility which is already widely used elsewhere would be useless when new faster hardware becomes available. It may still be useless depending on what is developed but if existing technology gets faster it allows the Hardware to still be tested with this Utility and actually give meaningful readings that mean something. :)

Col

by var1016

Hello.

My Seagate HDD is internal and runs on SATA II. In fact I think it does have a 16MB cache - I cannot remember! My motherboard is a Gigabyte M55+ which is supposed to run SATA II.

Incidentally, the performance scores are:

Processor 6.1 AMD 5600+
Memory 5.9 4GB 667MHz Dual
Graphics 4.9 (GeForce 8600GT 500MB)
Gaming 4.9
HDD 2.9

Rgds

Paul

by oh smeg

So that way that the OS looks at them isn't really that Important it can mistakenly say that you have something that you don't particularly when it is a Beta Release. These are not even supposed to be good enough to work correctly. Maybe you could Report this to M$ and leave it to their Engineers to fix for the RTM Release.

Col

by rob miners

A reinstall on the 3.2 Ghz Dual Core 4GB RAM 2x500GB Sata Raid Performance HD rating 5.9

The pagefile has been moved to another drive.

It is also interesting to note that W7 freshly installed on a blank hard drive will create a 200Mb recovery environment. You don't get it with dual booting.

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