Speeding up my Maxtor HD

[gmoreno]

I have a:

Maxtor 52049U4

In rc.local I have this:

hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda

hdparm -t /dev/hda I get something like 4.65mb/sec

I believe that MKSuppraII has this same drive but I think he gets something like 65mb/sec

How can I speed up my hd. I bought it this last summer so its pretty new. I know its 7200rpm.

My HD's Specs (http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/DiamondMaxPlus/QuickSpecs/42076.htm)

Thanks

[BobjoB]

haha 65mb/sec for ANY ide drive is utterly laughable!! maybe for the cache reads but for any sequentiial reads will mostly bax out at 20-~30 mb/sec. anyways make sure your using at least a ultradma (ata2 or 4+) spec'd controller and make sure you set it up right in the bios. also some maxtor drives have some quet setting enabled on them by default, get the dos utility from maxtor (setacm.exe) and make sure its turned off.

[MGP]

Not exactly true...

The newer IBM GXP75 7200RPM 2MB ATA100 drives will do a sustained throughput of ~58MBps when connected to an ATA100 controller and proper cable. They are now getting low end SCSI performance out of these drives. They are really quiet too.

The benchmarks I've personally seen are with HDTach running on Win98 and Win2K systems. HDTach is quite reliable as far as actual throughput testing goes. I have not personally seen any Linux systems tweaked to get these kinds of numbers yet, but that doesn't mean no one has done it.

[BobjoB]

where are thous ebench marks? 50 something mb is peak burst thoutput usually and sustained stays around 30mb at most from what ive seen