20GB WD 7200rpm w/ 8mb cache

[razor_ro]

120GB WD 7200rpm w/ 8mb cache

I just replaced my 80GB 7200rpm Maxtor with a 120GB WD 7200rpm w/ 8mb cache and for some reason it runs a little slower.... i dunno why but my maxtor felt more responsive, now everytime i click on something its like it takes a few secs to think about it then does it,.... i can also hear it working more oftne then my 80gb.... hmmm i wonder if i have a setting wrong or something cause i am almost sure that this WD should be faster than my maxtor..... anyone have any ideas?

RaZoR

ps... could it be that my MAXTOR was ATA133 and this one is ATA100?

 

[Mainframeguy]

Do you have the old drive still in there as a slave? If so you can bench mark them side by side - there's a utility called quickbench here - http://www.rundegren.com/

Oh and of course they are both fully defragged and sorted, yeah?

With a slave do think about moving your page file and print spool over there - if it is truly slower just make it your secondary drive and move data there keeping your original drive as primary - no sweat 😉

 

[razor_ro]

no...

i was thinking about benching them but its too late... originally i had the 120GB WD in my XBOX and the 80GB MAXTOR on my pc, then i did the switch-a-roo so the xobx has the 80 and my PC has the 120, ... too bad 🙁

btw, they were both formatted in NTFS and had indexing off

 

[razor_ro]

ummm...

i just checked my model number and i have this one

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=12

i kinda made an error on the CACHE 😱 , it only has 2MB buffer 🙁 , will that be an issue also?

 

[toretto]

yes that would be an issue. the 8mb cache would make it faster hands down.