RE: VIA VT8251 low performance (was: ASUS A8V-MX)

["Ziborski KEG" <office@ziborski.net>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:55:56AM +0200, Zrin wrote:
> > Well, I am getting about the same with Asus A8V-VM (and 
> > VT8251). It is that I was expecting more...
> 
> Well the specs on the WD 160GB drive says max buffer to disk 
> speed of 748Mbit/s, and I imagine there is some CRC and ECC 
> and other overhead, so getting around 60MB/s seems pretty 
> decent for that model.  And of course max means at the 
> outside of the disk (usually the start on most drives), so 
> the further in you get the slower it gets.  Also seek time 
> and other such things take time too, which add more delays.
> 

Thank you for this information - where did you get it?

... I'd like to find out if there are faster drives
available.

regards,
Zrin