In message <MPG.239f6c006bd9f649989ad4@localhost> Bill
<> was claimed to have wrote:
>In article <>,
> says...
>> I have had vista up and running for months but my score is held back by the
>> HDD. When I had it on a 160GB Maxtor it scored 5.2 so the advice I was
>> given was to go to SATA from IDE. I purchased a 500GB Hitachi SATA2 drive
>> but the score only improved to 5.3. After a bit of research I discovered
>> that the drive normally sets up at SATA1 speeds and needs to be reset using
>> the software provided at the Hitachi website. I did this and made a
>> bootable CD and used it to set the drive up at it's maximum throughput but
>> this made no difference. It still reads at 5.3. I put up with this until
>> now because I am running out of free space and need some more.
>
> The only way I know of to get a high <5.9> reading with Vista is to
>run two fast SATA II drives in RAID 0, if your MB can do that.
Seagate's 7200.11 32MB 500GB (or larger) drives can score a 5.9 if your
controller is fast enough, assuming you run in AHCI mode with NCQ
enabled and remember to pull the 1.5Gb speed limiter jumper.
The 320GB version of that drive will only score a 5.8 on the same
system.
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