Solved Checking Sata Drive Speed

[Rockit]

I have the sata drive installed but when trying to check for Sata 2 Speed I cannot find a way to verify I am getting the full 3 Gbit/s? I have used differant programs but none seem to give me a direct answer. Is there a way to verify the speed without disturbing the current data?

Thank You

 

[Brink]

Hello Rockit,

You could use the program HD Tune as in the first post at the link below to see what you HDD's performance is. I would doubt that your HDD is actually using the full 3Gbit/s bandwidth of the SATA 2 port. That's just the maximum speed (bandwidth) that SATA 2 provides. You'll have to check the HDD's specs to see what it's read/write speeds actually are.

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/4269-show-us-your-hard-drive-performance.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[essenbe]

Shawn is right. ATTO is another good program to rate the speed, but there is no mechanical hard drive that can do 3 Gb/s. Only in the last year or so have SSDs been able to break that barrier.

 

[GeneO]

It will be hard to distinguish between 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s by measuring the hard drive speed. 1.5 Gb/s can do top of 150 MB/s so you may see 100 MB/s on it, but that is also around the speed of ordinary SATA disk drives, so how can your tell?

In any case, as already mentioned, you won't see the 3Gb/s, but if you still want to know what transfer mode the drive is using, CrystalDiskInfo seems to be able to distinguish the mode. I have a 6 GB/s SSD and hard drives on SATA 6Gb/s ports and 3GB/s hard drives on 3Gb/s ports.. CrystalDiskInfo shows the transfer mode for the 6GB/s drives as SATA/600 and the 3 Gb/s drives as SATA/300.

Crystal Dew World

 

[Rockit]

Thank You Everyone !

I finally ran HD Tach after setting it up to be run as XP 3 compatible and was the easyest one for me to understand. I will try the other programs later.

Thank you again !