Slow SATA II Speed?

[glent]

Well I recently made the switch from IDE to SATA II While upgrading my system.

The hardrive is a Western Digital 250 gig SATA II With NCQ

The motherboard has 8 SATA sockets. there are 2 controllers according to the Manual onlly one of them supports SATA II. I have it connected to the right socket and this is what it says in device manangr

http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=device7hy.gif

This is results of the Speed test

http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tet5ae.gif

Now in my Bios there are 2 SATA controllers which can be enabled or disabled. If I enable the 2nd controller and connect by Hardrive it wont boot . Using My uADVD with all bashrats driverpacks and enabling the 2nd controller and connectign the Dirve It doesnt find any hard disk..But while Booting it says something like Silicon 3114 controller then the name of my Hardrive...Sorry if this is confusing but im a bit of Noob with SATA/Raid ..So basiclly is the score to low and why cant I hook my dirve to the other SATA controller?

Link to Motherboard

Hard Drive

WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0

http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tet5ae.gif

[Ideas Man]

I recently purchased a new computer too, I looked at SATAII drives, but there is no speed improvement ATM over standard SATA drives from all the tests I saw, so I just stuck with SATA drives. So don't be too concerned if the performance of them isn't too good because it should be on par with SATA, considering it's very very new (Hell, SATA drives originally were the same if not slower than their PATA counterparts when SATA was released).

[ripken204]

there is a speed improvement, most people go over 220mb/s

just make sure that its in the right connector, the sataII mobo connector. and if you think it is then check again.

[The-VOICE]

But while Booting it says something like Silicon 3114 controller then the name of my Hardrive.

The Silicon Image 3114 controller is only SATA, not SATA-II. Perhaps you have the drive connected to the wrong port?

According to the driver list from the link you provided, I would guess that you need to connect your hard drive to one of the Nvidia CK804 ports, not the Silicon Image 3114 ports, for compatibility with SATA-II. Make the floppy disk containing the 'F6' driver, and provide it when prompted by Windows during installation.

BTW, I looked at your speed test. A STR (sustained transfer rate) of 60MB/s is good performance for a single 7200RPM drive. If you want it to be faster, you'll need to add more drives in a RAID-0, RAID-1, or RAID-10 configuration. I wouldn't recommend RAID-5 because you would need a true hardware array controller with its own XOR processor so as not to overutilize your desktop CPU.

For what it's worth, I have an Asus P5AD2 Premium mobo which has both the Silicon Image 3114 array controller and Intel Matrix RAID. At least in the case of the P5AD2, the Sil3114 is connected to the PCI bus, and the Intel Matrix RAID is connected to the PCIe bus. If you have a choice with your mobo, choose the array controller which is connected to the PCIe bus for faster throughput and lower CPU utilization.

Edited November 25, 2005 by The-VOICE

[glent]

Thanks for the replys guys, Guess im gonna test it in the other port

[cyberloner]

http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-283-1.htm

here is the answer for all ya question why slow... cause it is same speed in real drive speed....

transfer faster... but drive is not that fast....

but it worth cause the performance is there for sure...

Just like PATA and SATA drive... u do see the performance change between 133mb/s and 150 mb/s transferate