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The Results
Well, for the test I spent about an hour and a half one night swapping cables and all kinds of stuff like that. I think my motherboard no longer likes me now.
The Tests:
First I ran the Flat ATA-33 cable just for kicks to see how it'd perform in the test. No reason or anything, I just had one around and wanted to test it out.
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After than I rounded the flat ATA-33 cable just so nobody could say it was a different cable used for testing. This is the hand rounded one's results.
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As far as I know, nobody makes machine rounded ATA-33 cables, and even if someone makes them, I don't have any so they were left outta this test.
Then I swapped in the flat ATA-100 cable that came with a WD Hard drive. According to the other test run by somebody else, this should have been the fastest one of all. This was run twice.
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After the flat one, I tested out a hand rounded cable I made a few months back from another WD Hard Drive, so while the cables are slightly different colors, I'm assuming they're close enough to the same cable.
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Then for the final test I had purchased a machine rounded ATA100 cable just for this test from FrozenCPU.com. Its a nice cable and I liked it.
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For those of you who prefer numbers in writing, here's the results of the tests:
| Cable Type |
Random Access Time |
Burst Speed |
Minimum Read |
Maximum Read |
Average Read |
Minimum Write |
Maximum Write |
Average Write |
| 33 Flat |
13.6 |
30.1 |
18170 |
27410 |
22714 |
12949 |
27243 |
19836 |
| 33 Hand |
13.6 |
29.9 |
18170 |
27270 |
22541 |
10929 |
24632 |
19568 |
| 100 Flat 1 |
13.7 |
75.9 |
18181 |
33262 |
24369 |
12962 |
26538 |
19730 |
| 100 Flat 2 |
13.6 |
75.8 |
18181 |
33256 |
24368 |
14124 |
26658 |
19745 |
| 100 Hand 1 |
13.7 |
71.7 |
18191 |
33256 |
24339 |
12957 |
26215 |
19870 |
| 100 Hand 2 |
13.6 |
72.4 |
18180 |
33259 |
24347 |
14335 |
26542 |
19751 |
| 100 Pro 1 |
13.7 |
76.0 |
18178 |
33287 |
24372 |
13699 |
26593 |
19689 |
| 100 Pro 2 |
13.6 |
76.2 |
18183 |
33263 |
24372 |
12971 |
26590 |
19823 |
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The Second Gen Test:
DVD & CD-RW drives stationed on my ATA-66 controller
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB alone on Primary Master on ATA 100 controller
WD 30GB ATA-100 Secondary Master on ATA 100
Testing the IBM drive as it has a higher transfer speed, so it'll show more as far as cable quality possibly. Ended up re-testing the WD drive just for kicks when I was doing this.
OS: Win2K, with same setup as before
ATA-100: Onboard Promise ATA-100 controller with Driver v 1.0.0.0
Test Software: Once again HD Tach will be run, only this time I will NOT do write tests, as it can only be done on a non-partitioned drive, and I'm NOT about to reformat my system for this test. Deal with it ;)
IBM Deskstar test results:
| Cable Type |
Random Access Time |
Burst Speed |
Minimum Read |
Maximum Read |
Average Read |
| 33 Flat 1 |
13.7 |
30.3 |
11360.0 |
30177.0 |
26856.1 |
| 33 Flat 2 |
13.7 |
30.3 |
15014.0 |
30157.0 |
26723.1 |
| 33 Flat 3 |
13.2 |
30.3 |
6005.0 |
30145.0 |
26642.7 |
| 33 Hand 1 |
15.4 |
30.3 |
12102.0 |
30125.0 |
26856.3 |
| 33 Hand 2 |
12.9 |
30.3 |
9558.0 |
30129.0 |
26614.5 |
| 33 Hand 3 |
12.9 |
30.3 |
11303.0 |
30136.0 |
26797.5 |
| 100 Flat 1 |
12.5 |
77.3 |
11434.0 |
38663.0 |
28913.5 |
| 100 Flat 2 |
12.5 |
77.2 |
9159.0 |
38668.0 |
28832.2 |
| 100 Flat 3 |
12.6 |
77.4 |
9618.0 |
38658.0 |
28981.1 |
| 100 Hand 1 |
12.6 |
77.4 |
14604.0 |
38675.0 |
29079.7 |
| 100 Hand 2 |
12.4 |
77.2 |
12602.0 |
38658.0 |
28987.9 |
| 100 Hand 3 |
12.9 |
77.1 |
11004.0 |
38661.0 |
28987.7 |
| 100 Pro 1 |
14.8 |
77.5 |
13622.0 |
38670.0 |
28905.6 |
| 100 Pro 2 |
12.6 |
77.4 |
14606.0 |
38671.0 |
28995.5 |
| 100 Pro 3 |
15.4 |
77.6 |
11390.0 |
38667.0 |
29054.3 |
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WD Results:
| Cable Type |
Random Access Time |
Burst Speed |
Minimum Read |
Maximum Read |
Average Read |
| 33 Flat 1 |
13.9 |
30.2 |
1817.0 |
27532.0 |
22752.8 |
| 33 Flat 2 |
14.0 |
30.2 |
18177.0 |
27563.0 |
22808.9 |
| 33 Hand 1 |
13.8 |
30.2 |
18179.0 |
27520.0 |
22797.0 |
| 33 Hand 2 |
13.8 |
30.2 |
18180.0 |
27508.0 |
22838.9 |
| 100 Flat 1 |
13.8 |
76.3 |
18179.0 |
33254.0 |
24370.5 |
| 100 Flat 2 |
13.9 |
76.4 |
18177.0 |
33263.0 |
24369.9 |
| 100 Hand 1 |
13.9 |
76.2 |
18181.0 |
33253.0 |
24371.1 |
| 100 Hand 2 |
13.9 |
76.4 |
18174.0 |
33266.0 |
24372.3 |
| 100 Pro 1 |
14.1 |
76.2 |
18186.0 |
33250.0 |
24371.4 |
| 100 Pro 2 |
13.8 |
76.3 |
18185.0 |
33262.0 |
24371.5 |
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