A7V Promise ATA100 slower than onboard Via ATA66?!!

[Raptor^]

Gurm - notice the lack of any ATA 66 controller on my comp

imnsho SCSI is the only way to get a real increase in performance in this area. I'll just keep saving the pennies I guess

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P3-700E@933, Abit BF6, G400 MAX, 8.6 gig Seagate, 8.6 gig WD, SBLive 1024, 256Mb PC133... Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse, Keyb, Stuff

[Gurm]

Even SCSI isn't that much faster under normal operation. Seriously, I have been playing with these Ultra-160 LVD drives, and the drives themselves still only have a 26.5MB sustained transfer rate. They're just better at concurrency because the seek times are lower... and the SCSI protocol is more robust.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Sir Hitech]

Raptor^:

This is what I am saving my quarters for:

<a href="http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl/http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200006/20000601ST318451LW_1.html">Seagate X15</a>

3.9ms seek time... I'll take three..

[DentyCracker]

I've never had a problem with my Maxtors. I've had IBMs and Seagates develop bad sectors, never with Maxtors. (OK so they don't play nice with some other HDs boohoo).
Seagates are slow, I never trusted Quantums (had a 4GB and its replacement both go bad, still have the replacement and use it to store stuff that I can afford to lose [and have btw] on it like mp3s and shit), Fujitsu --just say now and I will not comment on Samsung *yikes* *ew*.

[Gurm]

This is the noise a Quantum makes:

Tick-tick-tick-tick-ticka-ticketa-whirr.

This is the noise an IBM makes:

.....

This is the noise a Seagate makes:

Ticktickticktick-whirr-whirr-tick.

This is the noise a Maxtor makes:

SNAP!SNAP!SNAP!SNAP!GRIND!GRIND!SNAP!

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I rest my case. After working in a computer shop and seeing the percentage of DEAD drives, the winner is... NOT MAXTOR, since their drives fail in a rather spectacular manner. 75% of our returns were Maxtor. Ick.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Hein]

No problem for me with Promise ATA66 controller and a Maxtor 27Gig drive.

I'm using Maxtor for 4 years now, never had any problems with them!

Hein.

[The PIT]

This is the noise my slegdehammer makes

CCrrrrrrrrrunnnnnnnch?

No more hard drive problem

[alessandro]

Why are you referring to the Promise ATA/66???
My A7V has a Promise Ultra100(TM)IDE controler?!"

[alessandro]

Werewolf read this article from tomshardware:

<A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/00q3/000821/index.html" TARGET=_blank>Fastest IDE Hard Drive Ever:
IBM Deskstar 75GXP</A>

ATA100 IS faster than ATA66 but there is no UATA100 drive than can get to the limits of UATA100 YET.....

[The PIT]

Ooops Tomshardware never say that around here!!!!!!!

[Gurm]

Alessandro:

A promise Ultra100 _is_ a Promise Ultra66. It's the same controller (I'm oversimplifying, but it's largely the same darn thing...), so it's a non-issue.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[WayneHu]

There is a beta driver for Linux...

<a href="http://support.promise.com/Support/All.asp?product=ultra66">Promise Driver</a>

But I have never tried it...


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PIII-550E@733/1.65v, P3B-F, G400DH/32MB@140/186

[Technoid]

The worst drives that i ever encountered is:

WD Caviar <4GB!

I think we hawe about twenty headcrashed WD Caviar drives in the junk box at my work.

Everytime i encounter a WD drive in a 'puter i tell the customer to take frequent backups!


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Intel PIII-800/133MHz MSI 6337
G400Mill 32MB SGRAM + RRG
SBlive
256 MB RAM CAS2
43GB HDD Space!(Actual 60GB) (30+30 IBM DTLA 30GB drives)
Pioneer 104S DVD 10x CD 40x SLOT IN
SONY CRX140E 8/4/32 CDRW

[Gurm]

WD Home PC class drives are now made by IBM, so they are safe once again. Actually they're a bit faster than IBM due to WD's being a teensy bit more aggressive with the timings.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Raptor^]

Technoid - thats probably because there was a bug on the controller of WD drives of that sort of age that could cause a head crash under certain circumstances