I bought a new Quantum HDD and...

[Helevitia]

this thing SMOKES! I thought I'd let you all know about it because it is absolutely awesome!

Drive: Quantum Fireball Plus KA 13.6GB 7200rpm 512K buffer UDMA2/66

I ran this thing on Wintune a couple fo times because I couldn't believe the original results. I get a massive 21.7MBps unchached!
This is running on an UDMA/33 controller on my Asus P5A Mobo. The difference in Windows is amazing! It is so much faster. Windows pop up like lightning and my computer boots up ~25seconds from "Starting Windows" till it asks for user and pass, then it opnly takes another ~10 seconds to finish the rest. I just noticed that SharkyExtreme gave a review on it today as well adn they highly recommend it, so if your looking for a new drive, this is it! I can't even imagine how fast it would be with an UDMA/66 controller.

Dave

[Antti]

Hello!

Do run HDtach or something, cause my old and sluggish Seagate does Win98 in 35 secs too. Wintune uncached is 2MB/s, don´t laugh! You have a lot of stuff loading with Windows?

About Wintune; earlier version (WT97 ?) gave me 9-10 MB/s results. Yes, the same HD.

Antti

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PII 233@300 (3x100), Abit BX6 r2, Mill.2 "AGP" 4MB, 3D Blaster Voodoo2 12MB, SBAWE64

[neo]

I agree, I trust wintune's ability to tell me useful HD information about as far as I can throw a car. My HDtach(v2.52) #s on my new WD 7200RMP 18Gig are as follows:

11.2ms Random Access Time
28.7MB/s Read Burst Speed
16.353MB/s Average Read Speed

www.tcdlabs.simplenet.com

-neo




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Asus P2B-F, 532MHZ Pentium II (4x133 at 2.4v), Global Win VEK12 hs/fan, 128MB Micron PC133, WD 7200RPM 18Gig, SB AWE 32, Creative DVD 2x, Mitsumi CDR 2x/8x, Sony Trinitron 17", Old Matrox Video Card, and a redhead with a pair of 36Cs (O/Ced to 38Cs)

[Helevitia]

Ok, first off, let me tell you that I tested my old HDD with the same Wintune98 and got 2.3MBps so jumping to 21.7MBps was amazing!
Secondly, I downloaded HDtach(thanks neo, I couldn't find it earlier) and ran it. Her are my results: compared to neo's.:

9.7ms Random Access Time
28MB/s Read Burst Speed
18.23MB/s Average Read Speed

That's still smoking no matter how you look at it! I'd be interested in seeing other peoples results.

Dave

[Antti]

That´s FAST! Congrats!

I´m quite happy, though, that my HD doesn´t smoke. I do.


Antti

[Brent]

I agree with your KA observations. It is superb. SiSoft Sandra gives it faster random read and write benchmarks than my Fasttrack array of two Quantum EX drives by about 9%-they are current UDMA 33 drives and no slouches. The sequential benchmarks are only about 7% slower than the Fasttrack!!! I have reinstalled the operating system and applications to the KA and left my swap file on it and the visible improvement of desktop and application launching is astounding.

[Old Dog]

Interesting, what OS/version are you running? Are you using the native M$ drivers or the one from ALI? If ALI, which version?