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What can I say? Before the patch I tested @ 1700 kb/sec. I just ran the test
below (31030 kb/sec). In my case I felt I had nothing to lose: my old ATA 33
6 gig drive was testing out around 8000 kb/sec. on the same system, so
clearly something was wrong with my new drive's set-up. I'm just passing on
the info I found.
********************5/27/2001 7:47:11 PM********************
Disk: c: [] Read speed: *****31030 kb/sec*****
Read mode: 65536 blocks - Test file size: 10Mb
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>From: "Jim Bronke" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>
>To: "Wynne, Bill" <tradewynne@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "E" <eckho@xxxxxxxx>,
><omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Off topic: HD tweak
>Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:17:33 -0700
>
>I just experimented with this hotfix install. I hadn't visited the MS 2000
>web site in quite a while. soI first decided to install the SP2 upgrade.
>That was my first mistake. As it turns out the hotfix predates this upgrade
>and won't install afterqwards. So, I uninstalled it. Simple enough with the
>Add/Remove programs. Installintg the hotfix then had no effect in my
>system.
>My speed is slower to write to the hard drives with this system which does
>have the ATA 100 hardware. My oder computer is twice as fast. Specifically,
>the write speed to my C drive is 5000kb/sec
>
>Any ideas? Let me know. I'm sure I'll get by as is. I do appreciate that
>benchmark program. It works pretty good.
>
>
>Jim Bronke
>Phoenix, AZ
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "E" <eckho@xxxxxxxx>
>To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:30 PM
>Subject: Re: Off topic: HD tweak
>
>
> > 1800% is phenomenal, for any endeavor.....hard drive performance.....and
> > especially trading stocks and futures! <G> So this got my attention,
>for
>sure!
> >
> > But seriously I went to the MS link and what they said raised more
>questions
> > than answers:
> >
> > 1. There was no date on this hotfix......so we don't know whether it
> > predated sp1 and sp2.
> > What dates that were there:
> >
> > English version of the fix was dated 04/27/2000
> >
> > This page was last reviewed May 16, 2001.......whatever that
>means!
> >
> > 2. MS further recommends that, unless the user is *severly affected*,
>to
> > wait until the next service pack. This sounds weird.....they don't
>sound
>very
> > confident about their fix at all. Of course, the question is, again,
>when
>this
> > document was created and therefore whether the problem has been
>addressed
>by
> > sp1 or sp2.
> >
> > Bill, perhaps you can enlighten.............did you get sp2 for your
>W2K.
>It
> > was released in the last couple of weeks.
> >
> > But thanks for the info anyway. I'm gonna have to run the test when I
>get
>my
> > W2K system next week.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Wynne" <tradewynne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 15:49
> > Subject: Off topic: HD tweak
> >
> >
> > > Win2K / ATA 100 HD users:
> > >
> > > Found my "fast" new hard drive was running slower than my old "slow"
>one
> > > with this free utility Mpower 1.1:
> > >
> > > http://www.mindbeat.com/utils.shtml
> > >
> > > Turns out Win2K was missing a patch:
> > >
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/2/33.ASP
> > >
> > > This "minor" tweak increased my HD performance 1800%...yeah, 18X.
> > >
> > > BW
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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