Envying Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 After kernel panic of updating 10.4.9, I re-installed 10.4.8. But in Xbench seems my hard disk test score dropped quite a lot. Please give me some hint on this, mean while I had HD SMART verified. Thanks in advance... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/52428-how-to-speed-up-hard-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I have similiar problem, but my disk is slow when after installation of 10.4.8. Is it possible to speed up by update to 10.4.9? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/52428-how-to-speed-up-hard-disk/#findComment-374576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxboroman Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Is this a typical hackintosh harddrive benchmark? I followed the guide to enable AHCI, but now "about this mac" shows that I have 4 hard drives. My configuration: MB= Gigabyte Ga-965g-ds3 Processor=E6600 Memory=1Gb HD=2 Western Digital 80GB optical drive=DVD sata Video=Nvidia 7600 My general impression is that the HackinTosh seems much faster than my MacMini(Intel 1.6) and it is much faster than my other MacMini(PPC-G4). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/52428-how-to-speed-up-hard-disk/#findComment-381526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 You can't directly increase the speed of your HDD. It is a set RPM (such as 7200 or 15000), and that can't be changed. However, your motherboard, cables, etc can affect the speed of transfer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/52428-how-to-speed-up-hard-disk/#findComment-381537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxboroman Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 RAMM, Thanks for responding. I have read your posts all over this site and you are obviously brilliant! Specifically, my perceived or real problem is that after turning on "AHCI"; I now have two extra drives. My hard drive should be faster than the ones install on my MacMini, but the transfer speed doesn't indicate that fact. And, actual through put is slower. My picture above shows the "Generic AHCI" and "Serial-ATA" with the two hard drives attached. Each "Generic AHCI" has a device attached, like expected; but the "Serial-ATA" controller shows two harddrives attached also.... Should I delete the "Serial-ATA" controler and force the "Generic AHCI"? If so, how? Of coarse, If the problem is just perceived than what hard drives do you recommend that will achieve at least "100" in Xbench? According to the Western Digital site my drive..... Spec's below. Performance Specifications Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM (nominal) Buffer Size 8 MB Average Latency 4.20 ms (nominal) Start/Stop Cycles 50,000 minimum Seek Times Read Seek Time 8.9 ms Write Seek Time 10.9 ms (average) Track-To-Track Seek Time 2.0 ms (average) Full Stroke Seek 21.0 ms (average) Transfer Rates Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 3 Gb/s (Max) Buffer To Disk 748 Mbits/s (Max) Thanks in advance.... -Foxboroman- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/52428-how-to-speed-up-hard-disk/#findComment-381580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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