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PostPosted: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:42:38    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
I should also note before the defrag:
- c drive: 40% free (and before deleting all these files)
- j drive: 1% free
- g drive: 64% free
- p drive: 69% free
- z drive: 9% free
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PostPosted: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:07:29    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Crap, I did all of this work to get these results:
Random access: 17.0ms
CPU Utilization: 10% (+/- 2)
Average Read: 84.2MB/s
Burst Speed: 111.7MB/s

Blah!!!
This is really starting to tick me off....
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PostPosted: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:11:56    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Have you tried updating your RAID drivers? Also, what is the hardware/os this is running on?
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PostPosted: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:20:43    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Dr. EvilCheeze wrote:
Have you tried updating your RAID drivers? Also, what is the hardware/os this is running on?


Windows Xp Professional is the operating system.

Hardware:
- AMD Athlon 2400 Mobile Processor @ 2.41GHz (FSB: 240)
- HighPoint RocketRAID 454 PCI ATA133 Controller RAID-0 Maxtor 80GB ATA133 with 64K block size
- DFI Infinity Ultra 400 nForce 2
- Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB

I haven't had luck with updating my RAID drivers. I tried upadting the BIOS of the RAID controller but the software reported it didn't detect the correct hardware on my system. I did update the drivers to the latest version in Windows however....

I did a full defrag.

I should mention it looks like the test is looking at the entire array when doing these speed tests. So, its not just testing the speed of partition c:\ it jumps from partition to partition when judging speed.....
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PostPosted: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:48:58    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Hmmmm... have you checked to see if you have an IRQ conflict?
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PostPosted: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:56:23    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Dr. EvilCheeze wrote:
Hmmmm... have you checked to see if you have an IRQ conflict?


No, what's going to be the best way to do so.

I'm using onboard sound.... onboard network card... only pci item should be the harddisk controler.
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PostPosted: Sat, 14 May 2005 10:24:33    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Right Click on My Computer -> Proprieties -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager -> View -> Resources by Type -> Click on + by IRQ
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PostPosted: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:07:44    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Also how much physical ram do you have? how much is free? and do you have a disk cache/virtual memory setup?
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PostPosted: Sun, 15 May 2005 01:06:54    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Dr. EvilCheeze wrote:
Right Click on My Computer -> Proprieties -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager -> View -> Resources by Type -> Click on + by IRQ


omg so many,
What exactly should I be looking for here?

My RAID setup is on (PCI) 16 (both disks)
Vid Card (PCI) 19


I have 1GB of Memory in this system.
Right now my page file is "custom size" 1536-3072MB on C:\
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PostPosted: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:21:13    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Updated the controller BIOS, still have a random access time of 16.9ms

I guess the next thing I'll check out is the cables.... what more could it be???
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