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Raptor X hard drives speed issues?
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    Raptor X hard drives speed issues?

    Hi Everyone,

    I was doing a routine check on things today and I noticed that My RaptorX 150gb hard drive only has a maximum transfer rate of 9mb/sec...according to vistas Reliability and Performance monitor. This is the result when saving a large file in Photoshop ( 1.5gb ).

    Can this be right?

    I haven't installed any drivers for the Raptors as I just let Vista install what it needed when I installed it. Any way to boost performance on this drive?



    Many thanks

    Chris

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    Re: Raptor X hard drives speed issues?

    Are there drivers for the Raptor hard drive?..I can't seem to find anything.

    please help if you can..

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    Re: Raptor X hard drives speed issues?

    In message <damocles.37pxxz@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> damocles
    <damocles.37pxxz@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:

    >
    >Are there drivers for the Raptor hard drive?..I can't seem to find
    >anything.
    >
    >please help if you can..
    No specific drivers are needed for the hard drive itself, just the SATA
    controller. With most controllers, to get any sort of performance
    you'll probably want AHCI mode, with NCQ enabled.

    However, older SATA controllers simply don't perform as well, and may
    actually perform worse then EIDE, especially if the EIDE controller is
    part of the Northbridge and the SATA controller is attached to an
    already overloaded portion of the PCI bus.

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    Re: Raptor X hard drives speed issues?

    I tried AHCI mode but windows BSOD while it loaded.....which is a little annoying

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