Re: Capturing to SATA



Look at the SATA drive properties. Set everything to default. For IDE
default is slow, but it seems to make SATA drives a lot faster. Mine are
faster than similar IDE drives.

"Newbury" <Newbury@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:RKydnV1MEuKL18LeRVn-iQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is anyone here capturing to a SATA drive? I need to know if there are any
> problems. I have a Maxtor that is failing the test according to Pinnacle
S8.
> It is unusable with a fraction of the speed of the same IDE drive. The
> Maxtor 300 Gig IDE is showing a read of 63411 and write of 32902 while the
> SATA shows 3657 read and 3795 write. Anyone know of another way to do the
> same test?



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