I have a WD Velociraptor 150Gb 10,000 rpm as my system drive and a WD 640Gb 7200 rpm as the secondary. Windows tells me my Disk Data Transfer rating is 5.9.
When I asked my tech guy about this (he built the pc), he said 5.9 is the highest rating he's seen for any drive.
Is this normal? Does anyone else get a higher rating? I'm wondering why one of the fastest drives known to Man would score so low.
TIA
mac
I believe you need a solid state drive to get a higher score.
Ahhhh.... I see.
Thanks for the reply. As long as I know it's not a problem at my end.
mac
Yea it normal.
RAID 0, will give you a bit more ... i want to say somewhere around the 6.2-6.5 range depending on the drives and how many.
Perhaps others know better where spinning raid arrays score
SSDs will exceed 7 as a solo drive (typically 7.2-.7.4ish)
I get 5.6 on my Raptor it's not the VelociRaptor it's first generation with only 8MB cache
I get a 5.9 with a Caviar Black 7200rpm 640GB 32MB cache drive.
the larger cache helps for sure
Thats all I get also, I thought for sure there was something wrong about that rating too... Here's my ratings, and I have the WD740ADFD 74GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s, and just for your info....you have the 150gb 10K at 3.0 gb/s and get a 5.9 rating?...I have the 1.5gb/s drive and get the same rating?:
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