If you installed the nVidia storage drivers, it wont say "standard primary IDE controller" etc.
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If you installed the nVidia storage drivers, it wont say "standard primary IDE controller" etc.
It does it in 3 1/4 bars lol.. but that is on a severely cut down installation with nlite. I also sampled XP64 and it loaded in 2 passes, but didn't support my network card..
Anyway I have installed the nforce4 drivers :confused: Do you have to install the IDE part?? On dfi-street they always say to NOT install the IDE drivers.
Here is my Raptor 36 GB and Seagate 250 GB
I have had some problems with the Maxtor drives, but they stopped about a week ago, because the drive set on fire :slap:
:lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Leverpospade
Anyway just installed the IDE drivers, no difference. Except windows did load in 2 bars :woot: probably just a one time thing though.
Anyway looks like at least my drive isn't TOO bad, 15.4ms compared to 18.6.. though that 22ms, ouch.. I will keep looking for solutions, let me know if you find anything
would having a partition on the drive slow it down a lot?Quote:
Originally Posted by Repoman
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/show...8&postcount=25
did you install using the floppy? I didn't...
I'm going to load a backup software, move image over to my seagate, write 0's to my disk (never done that before but restores it to factory) using TMod's bios CD and then format and copy the image over... TOMORROW lol :p:
I don't know, I have 3..Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
What do you mean by "install by floppy?" the firmware? If so I used a bootable flash drive for that
And LMK if the write 0 thing works OK, If I were you after you write the 0's, do a fresh install with just one partition, test, see how it does.. rewrite the 0's and then put your image back on, retest.
I don't know if that's worth the trouble though, seems to be a problem with maxtor drives in general :confused:
PS what drive do you have? I have 6B250S0 diamondmax 10
I think what he is refering to is using the floppy as in F6 to load drivers for chipset...as if you were going to raid or something? :toast:
Maxtors are the spawn of evil.... I just lost my third last weekend :slapass:
I will never ever buy another Maxtor in my life.... ever! :fact:
Got a WD and used it to recover some of my data from the Maxtor and I'm loving it already... I'll get the Maxtor replaced by a WD tomorrow too... :)
And this new WD responds a hell of a lot better then the bloody Maxtor.. so if you can.. dump it..
Yep, you are correct :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grinch
yeh but whilst I was sieving through google results, there were also tons of issues with WD Caviars and Hitachi 16mb drives.. The only brand I fully trust atm is Seagate.. but this drive is 4 months old (yes it has been like his ever since I switched it from my P4C800-E (ICH5))Quote:
Originally Posted by NightCrawler
I got a reply bak from Maxtor and GUESS WHAT!, the usual "run Powermax", like jesus christ how stupid are these tech support, cmon... they must know it doesnt support NF4 by now!! :slapass:
not sure if it counts for anything but heres my maxtor score
and my DFI eXpert has some problems with it at times.
ok, I re loaded my image and wrote 0s. (one big partition now)
still the same, although my PCMark score increased :confused: ( XP startup went from 8.2mb/s to 9.2mb/s)
Well just for comparison I just ran the quick tests on my drives, max200 sata, max250 pata, wdraptor74gb, all on the same system, nf4 ultra-d.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6605/max2006yl.th.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5...x2505gy.th.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9024/rap745oh.th.jpg
Diamond Max 10's are known drives to be a lemon on the NF4 chipset :(
And I`m hearing it just after byuing couple Maxtors :(Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonDTM
Well actually I haven`t experienced any speed looses with them in RAID0.
btw if`ll use third party HD controller will this help me to skip NF4+Maxtor issue ? Anyone tryied it ?
not sure tbh, after reading through tons of threads, its not just NF4..Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooper
apparently it's EVERYTHING APART FROM ICH5!!!!???? :mad:
Hmm
So you mean Intel has some influence on HD manufacturers to make them develop products which are faster on Intel`s chipsets ? Or they just don`t open something Intel knows to other players ?
Now what I just sayd doesn`t mach with whole IBM PC architecture. :confused:
My Maxtor was also 4 months old.... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
So far my WD2500 Caviar SE16 runs great... although I'm questioning the temps.. Everest reports it as 50+°C :confused:
Well considering they got bought out by Seagate, you'll never really have a chance to buy another "Maxtor", although if you buy a Seagate, you essentially will be. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by NightCrawlerâ„¢
Strangely, I've had more luck with Maxtors in the past than with anything else. The only decent WD drives I've ever had are my 74GB Raptors, which have been flawless.
I also suffer from this stupid situation, i have 3 maxtors in my PC, 2 in RAID and they are running like a turtle....
seagate 4 teh pwn...
This is what my WD pushes through....
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/722/hdtach1ve.th.gif
I have one more graph to add, just installed a new Seagate 7200.8 300gb drive to test it, nothing changed system wise other than adding the new drive:
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/5687/sg3000te.th.jpg
So my drives are as follows:
Maxtor 200gb SATA - 120.4 burst, 13.9ms ran access, 54.8 MB/s avg read
Maxtor 250gb PATA - 122.5 burst, 13.6ms ran access, 49.2 MB/s avg read
Raptor 74gb SATA - 126.9 burst, 7.7ms ran access, 64.8 MB/s avg read
Seagate 300gb SATA - 136.7 burst, 15.3 ran access, 57.7 MB/s avg read
So for Random Access the Raptor wins hands down followed by the Maxtors with Seagate having the highest random access out of my drives.
For Burst speed the Seagate wins followed by the Raptor with the Maxtors coming in last.
For Average read the Raptor performed the best followed by Seagate with the Maxtors coming in last.
Not sure if the Seagate being a fresh installed drive with nothing on it making a difference with fragmenation or something but thats the results on those drives from my system.
Why do several drives have these really odd peaks going up and down?
We all know about the result, but is there any solution yet ?