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butterfly77049 · 08-26-2007, 06:20 AM

40 seconds, thats pretty good boot speed. If you are worry about boot times, the best way to speed up the system is to not shut it down every time, but use stand by (cheap fix).

As far as theorectical speeds go, that depends on whether the motherboard you have supports the latest SATA specs which can only be found in your motherboard manual?

The latest hard drives are capable of enhanced mode if your motherboard supports it, and I believe the methods they use to enable it vary by manufacturer, it could be a jumper or bios setting. They've got warnings that changing the settings can result in data loss or worse, so if it is working now, be careful if you change anything.

The large drives are pretty fast, they have to be, or no one would buy them. If your motherboard does not support the latest specs, then you know what to look for next time you buy.

Also synthetic benchmarks are not always realistic. Depends on what you do with it, if you are copying data from CD, or DVD, speed is that of DVD player, the slowest component.

08-26-2007, 06:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
butterfly77049 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 18 OS: Windows	Re: sata hard drive-is it working properly? 40 seconds, thats pretty good boot speed. If you are worry about boot times, the best way to speed up the system is to not shut it down every time, but use stand by (cheap fix). As far as theorectical speeds go, that depends on whether the motherboard you have supports the latest SATA specs which can only be found in your motherboard manual? The latest hard drives are capable of enhanced mode if your motherboard supports it, and I believe the methods they use to enable it vary by manufacturer, it could be a jumper or bios setting. They've got warnings that changing the settings can result in data loss or worse, so if it is working now, be careful if you change anything. The large drives are pretty fast, they have to be, or no one would buy them. If your motherboard does not support the latest specs, then you know what to look for next time you buy. Also synthetic benchmarks are not always realistic. Depends on what you do with it, if you are copying data from CD, or DVD, speed is that of DVD player, the slowest component.