【 Weak current College 】 improving hard disk performance skills to explain

No matter what type of hard drive, the default settings in the system, may not be the best working state, so if you want to make your own hard work in the best State, learn to drive a set of related parameters are not to be missed. This does not, this article below on the operating mode from the hard drive, to commend both you can improve the performance of your hard disk, hoping you will help!

1, hard disk performance improve interface transfer rate

There is a computer motherboard is based on the Foxconn 865A01-PE-6LS i865PE chipset, using a hard drive is Seagate Kuyu 7200.7 120GB, when using a professional hardware test software to test the system hardware information, I came across your hard disk in this mode should have to UDMA5, instead of the standard SATA150 and work in this mode, the performance of the hard disk transfer rate is not expected that fast, this is why? we how to solve?

In fact, the hard drive is in different operating modes, hard disk performance data transmission speed is not exactly the same, while SATA interface, transfer rate should normally be than ordinary IDE interface transfer rate to be significantly faster; whereas in this case the SATA hard drive is not achieved expected in transfer speeds, is most likely that the computer motherboard SATA channel mapping has become a common IDE channel, in which case the SATA interface will be forced to consume computer motherboard IDE2 channel, SATA interface hard drive can only be treated as normal IDE hard drives to use, this is SATA hard drive transfer rates have not imagined so fast. To the SATA hard drive interface transfer rates revert to the normal state, we need the system's BIOS parameter sets the interface, the hard work performance mode adjustment to the appropriate State, the following are the specific adjustment steps:

First restart your computer system, the startup process must be timely and press the del key, to enter the system's BIOS parameter sets the interface; the interface after, find the corresponding settings for the SATA option, check the option value is set to "CompatibleMode" or "EnabledMode", if set to "CompatibleMode", SATA hard drive will be treated as ordinary IDE hard disk, in this mode the hard drive interface transfer speed will naturally be affected, so we must adjust the SATA option value as "EnabledMode", the only way to SATA channel is mapped into a separate IDE3 or IDE4 channel, in this mode SATA hard drive interface transfer rate to revert to normal; adjust parameter settings for the SATA option, you must perform the save operation, and then restart your computer system, to make the settings take effect.

2. hard disk performance is the correct viewing mode

We all know that, if the hard disk works in inappropriate work mode, the data transfer speed will be greatly reduced; that's how you can know what work you hard drive in what mode State? in General, we only through the Device Manager can easily view your hard disk performance recovery current working mode:

First click the "start"/"settings"/"Control Panel" command, open the System Control Panel window, double-click the system icon, go to the System Properties window, click the window's "hardware" tab and then the corresponding labels page, click the "Device Manager" button, open the system's device list interface;

Then in the interface found "IDEATA/ATAPI controllers" project, and then double-click the project following the "primary IDE channel" option, then the pop-up option settings interface, click the "Advanced settings" tab, and then in the corresponding tab page we can clearly see the hard disk performance current mode.

Of course, if you follow the above methods do not see the hard work mode, most of your computer system has been installed the driver VIAIDEMiniportDriver; in this case we only in the system tray area found "VIABusMasterPCIIDEUtility" control icon and use the left mouse button, double-click the control icon, and then in subsequent pop-up interface can view to hard disk mode. Once you find that hard work performance mode is not in standard mode, the hard disk transfer performance is significantly impacted, in which case we will need to enter the BIOS parameters settings interface, the hard work mode resize properly in order to let the hard disk performance in top working condition.

Small Tip: as the hard drive capacity gradually increases, operating mode settings are more and more important. Typically, large-capacity hard drive work performance tends to support the work of DMA transfer mode, in this mode the hard disk transfer rate and work performance is slightly more than the normal state, so the number to confirm your hard drive supports DMA mode, then you'd better use DMA mode instead of conventional PIO mode. Replace the work mode, as long as in Figure 1 interface will transfer mode to "DMA".