First post, by ultimate386
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I recently added a Promise SATA300 TX2 Plus card (two SATA channels and an IDE channel) to a super socket 7 system I'm in the process of building. The ultimate goal is to have a dual boot setup with Windows 2000 on a SATA SSD and Windows 98SE on a compact flash card w/IDE adapter. Now, I already had Windows 98SE installed on the compact flash card and booting through the motherboard's primary IDE channel. Since I had the computer apart, I figured I would benchmark the card on both the on-board IDE and the Promise IDE. The testing was done in pure Windows 98SE DOS mode. I was very surprised at the differences!
Asus P5A on-board primary IDE:
Score 1933.99
Random Access Time: 0.46ms
Buffered Read Speed: 8254 KB/s
Linear Verify Speed: 59,980 KB/s
Linear Read Speed: 8074 KB/s
Promise SATA300 TX2 Plus:
Score 8214.60
Random Access Time: 0.90ms
Buffered Read Speed: 56,571 KB/s
Linear Verify Speed: 17,592 KB/s
Linear Read Speed: 26,430 KB/s
I get that the access time would be slightly slower on the Promise card, but I don't quite get the Linear Verify results. Otherwise: wow! 😲
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