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 Member 63 Level 25.06 Mar 2006 
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External drive beats internal =0
So according to nero, my recently purchased external USB2 hard drive actually outperforms my internal IDE drive.
I wasn't expecting that. Both are 7200RPM. My Internal drive is a Hitachi Deskstar thing, and my external is a LaCie 250Gb Porsche thing (USB2).  Also worth noting I guess; adding my music collection in winamp from the internal drive takes about 7 minutes (reading every ID3 tag), wheras it's closer to 2 mins from the external. Sexy. This leads me to beleive perhaps there's something wrong with my internal setup. Both my IDE channels are operating at Ultra DMA Mode 2. My motherboard supports ATA-133 ~ I am using really old (from around 1997) 40-wire IDE cables; so could that be a reason? How ya doing, buddy? |
Member 63 Level 25.06 Mar 2006
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Wow, thanks for all the replies. I can go get some EIDE cables today as a matter of fact, so I'll post results back later.
I'm guessing ocne they're in there that windows won't automatically do anything and I'll have to use Grawl's method ~ Double Post: Ah, thanks guys =D I got some new IDE cables and checked to see that I'm now in UDMA mode 6. Check it out:  It's noticeably faster, such as loading games / huge amounts of music etc =D There's nowhere I can't reach.
Last edited by Roph; May 5, 2006 at 10:13 AM.
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