Hard disk access times and burst speed

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

Switched the cables....
- Random Access: 16.0ms
- CPU Utilization: 7% (+/- 2%)
- Average read: 84.3MB/s
- Burst speed: 111.4MB/s

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

Not sure if this is relevant....
I brought my FSB down from 240 to 200 (cuz I'm OC'ed) and got slightly better

- Random Access: 15.8ms
- CPU Utilization: 10%
- Average Read: 82.8MB/s
- Burst Speed: 110.6MB/s

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:32:10 Post Subject:

Have you benched these two drives separately?

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:42:45 Post Subject:

With out doing that... my guess would be... it's the drives.