yeah but burst speed is jack crap really... i think the regular random reads suck ***... 6MB a sec!? com on! my freekin NETWORK CARD CAN GO FASTER! no wonder network never seems lagged...
 
I still think something is wrong

Ok...three seperate systems.
 
System #1:
Supermicro P6DBE with dual 700e's @ 933 ATA33 bus
2 IBM 30g 7200rpm ATA 100 drives.
 
Results down the list on Sandra's Disk benchmark are:
30 - 27 - 5 - 27 - 26 - 7
 
System #2
Abit VP6 with dual 600e's @ 900 ATA100 bus
IBM 40g 7200rpm ATA 100 Drive
 
Results down the list on Sandra are:
58 - 37 - 8 - 67 - 31 - 10
 
System #3
MSI 694D with dual 750's @ 750 ATA66 bus
Quantum 26g 5400rpm ATA66
 
Results down the list on Sandra are:
36 - 19 - 5 - 28 - 19 - 5
 
As you can see, my first system has a buffered read of 30Mbytes and my second system has 58.
 
Your results you show of 67 - 23 - 6 - 29 - 24 - 7 show reasonable results, considering that all of my systems are running dual procs. A 67 buffered read is more than twice as fast as my ATA33 bus will transfer, even with an ATA100 drive attached to it.
 
Notice that the random reads on all my systems are 8, 5 and 5 with the ATA33 and ATA66 both being 5? Maybe the type of ATA33, ATA66 or ATA100 doesn't matter for this type of test.
 
I posted this to give you an idea of how "old" technology versus "new" technology in ATA standards compares.

Yes... But shouldn't it go faster? Or is that average?
 
I am not complaining of speed. I just dont see ATA100 on the WD option leads me to think it is having a problem. But the more I talk to you guys and compare it seems to me it is running just fine...
 
I am just confused... LOL.

I would definately say you are running at
ATA100, after looking over what you told me
in the earlier post. I got part of what I said
wrong though, I probably caused you some
undue grief I was typing it from memory though.
The post-BIOS screen says "LBA,ATA100,40022 MB"
and not "UDMA5" like I said before. That's my
bad
 
Also, keep in mind that even ATA66 drives can't
really fill up 66 MB/sec continous data rate.
Burst, yes, maybe. ATA100 scores tend to be
about like the ones everyone else have said
on this thread. Oh, and random access scores
always suck. It takes a long time for the
read/write head to move back and forth across
the platters. The real speed on a hard drive
comes from sequential access, because then
the heads don't have to move and you're using
the 7200 RPM of the drive to move from sector
to sector.

Yeah I figured that...
 
I still think it's a rip off though. If they say 100, it should be 100. Sorry but I think thats BS. Just my opinion.