Why are you using Maxtor utilities to test a Seagate disk?
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Your disk is from what I can ascertain from the Seagate site not a SATA
drive:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...st380021a.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st380021a.html

Try HD Tune (freeware). Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on C:\ under Drive letter
and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.


Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.


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Hope this helps.


Gerry
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"Largelylivin" <Largelylivin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My existing system disk is a Seagate ST380021A 80G. Its never performed
> well
> in comparison to a couple WDs that I have. Its avg read is 36MB/s and
> bursts
> at 74MB/s. The Maxtor SATA test results (from the web) show avg read of 49
> MBs and a burst speed of 111 Mbs. That is a good improvement over my
> current
> disk.
>
>