Need Performance: Best Use of SATA Drive?

I bought a SATA drive yesterday to get my paging file off the system disk.
ASSUMING there is a 15-20% increase in disk through put, would I gain more by
mocing my system disk to the SATA and using the IDE for paging?

It probably makes no difference. Put both on fastest drive. But see what photoshop wants.

For windows none of it makes a significant difference. For photoshop who knows. Ask in PS groups.

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"Largelylivin" <Largelylivin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:86E76079-9A29-4C92-A9E1-77555DCCD59B@microsoft.com...
>I bought a SATA drive yesterday to get my paging file off the system disk.
> ASSUMING there is a 15-20% increase in disk through put, would I gain more by
> mocing my system disk to the SATA and using the IDE for paging?

"Largelylivin" <Largelylivin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:86E76079-9A29-4C92-A9E1-77555DCCD59B@microsoft.com...
>I bought a SATA drive yesterday to get my paging file off the system disk.
> ASSUMING there is a 15-20% increase in disk through put, would I gain more
> by
> mocing my system disk to the SATA and using the IDE for paging?
Unless you bought a 10,000 rpm SATA, there is very little difference between
IDE and SATA.
Jim

Jim

Doesn't that depend on their respective read / write speeds? The IDE disk
could be old or not so old etc.


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Gerry


"Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Largelylivin" <Largelylivin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:86E76079-9A29-4C92-A9E1-77555DCCD59B@microsoft.com...
>>I bought a SATA drive yesterday to get my paging file off the system disk.
>> ASSUMING there is a 15-20% increase in disk through put, would I gain
>> more by
>> mocing my system disk to the SATA and using the IDE for paging?
> Unless you bought a 10,000 rpm SATA, there is very little difference
> between IDE and SATA.
> Jim
>

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.


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

> Jim
>
> Doesn't that depend on their respective read / write speeds? The IDE disk
> could be old or not so old etc.
>
>
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>
> Gerry
>
>
> "Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:saklf.28008$7h7.18370@newssvr21.news.prodigy. com...
> >
> > "Largelylivin" <Largelylivin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:86E76079-9A29-4C92-A9E1-77555DCCD59B@microsoft.com...
> >>I bought a SATA drive yesterday to get my paging file off the system disk.
> >> ASSUMING there is a 15-20% increase in disk through put, would I gain
> >> more by
> >> mocing my system disk to the SATA and using the IDE for paging?
> > Unless you bought a 10,000 rpm SATA, there is very little difference
> > between IDE and SATA.
> > Jim
> >
>
>
>

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
news:6D3CAB73-ED6E-4EBD-8A7B-1D10733377E9@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>
>