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sarcan · 04-16-2007, 06:48 AM

Seagate ST3500630NS3 SATA/300
Controller Sil 3112
Computer Dell Precision 530 Dual Xeon 2.4GHz 2GB Rambus

Sequential Read max 82 MB/s (read from graph)
Burst 102.7 MB/s
Random access 13.6 ms
CPU 2%
Average read 65.4 MB/s

This drive should, according to several reviews, be the fastest thing my money can buy. But it is MUCH slower than my old 32 GB SCSI ultra160, for example going into hibernate on the old drive takes about 3 seconds while on this new one over 12 seconds!
I'm aware that this is just a place to exchange test results but please allow me to ask if anyone has any suggestion what the bottleneck might be and / or how to solve it.

04-16-2007, 06:48 AM	#29 (permalink)
sarcan Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 5 OS: xp sp2	Bottleneck obvious? HD Tach Scores Seagate ST3500630NS3 SATA/300 Controller Sil 3112 Computer Dell Precision 530 Dual Xeon 2.4GHz 2GB Rambus Sequential Read max 82 MB/s (read from graph) Burst 102.7 MB/s Random access 13.6 ms CPU 2% Average read 65.4 MB/s This drive should, according to several reviews, be the fastest thing my money can buy. But it is MUCH slower than my old 32 GB SCSI ultra160, for example going into hibernate on the old drive takes about 3 seconds while on this new one over 12 seconds! I'm aware that this is just a place to exchange test results but please allow me to ask if anyone has any suggestion what the bottleneck might be and / or how to solve it.