Sata Question

Is there really no way that i could make my laptop using a sata harddrive actually function as a sata harddrive rather than some crappy emulated IDE thing.

I find this extremely dissapointing as it is decreasing my harddrive throughput e.t.c


My sisters laptop with worse specifications than mine, worse vista scores, more start up processes e.t.c Still boots up faster than mine and applications load slightly more snappier purely because the harddrive is allowed a greater throughput because the system is actually treating it as a SATA harddrive rather than an IDE

I am going to upload 2 videos comparing the boot speed of my laptop and my sisters laptops to show you what i mean.

If anyone knows anyway to make a HP laptop treat the harddrive as a sata harddrive (which it is) please let me know!

 

Ok here is video number one ( sorry about poor quality and bad audio i dropped my phone and videos have been coming out bad since)

Ok

Specs:

Intel1.8 ghz duelcore
2 gb ram
160 GB sata hdd (5400 rpm, 8 mb cache)
Vista Home Premium 32bit

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkSd9HAPl8

 

Here is video number 2

My HP Laptop:

Specs:

AMD 2.2 ghz duelcore
4 GB ram
250 GB Sata hdd (5400 rpm, 8 mb cache)
Vista Buisness 64 bit

Please note: although the other laptops vista base score was higher this laptop is still better all round, the other laptop scored better because it is using a Intel Graphics card which are better optimised for vista than the ATI.

Over all my system scores better and has better componants (sorry the text is so blurry in the videos the auto focus during video seems to have broken when i dropped my phone too )

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QrWd_dZRo

 

Somthing else to backup my point...

Here is a review of the toshiba laptop

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4460

its the same as the one in the video except it has a faster cpu..

Scroll down and look at the "harddrive benchmark" section

That is, much worse that the benchmark of my harddrive

You can see the results of my benchmark by going to this link - http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=138761&page=27 - and going to my post post (#266) and looking at the attachment

 

You're making too many assumptions. The 160GB drive could be faster than your 250GB (higher density platter, not being made by Fujitsu, etc). The other notebook could have less bloatware than yours, different virus scanner, etc. 64-bit binaries are larger than 32-bit so that would slow down boot times a little but would make little to no difference afterward (most apps being 32-bit still and 4GB RAM caching the bulk of the necessary OS components). The latter probably makes the biggest difference. Configuring the BIOS to not waste memory on the X1250 would be a good idea.

Running a HD benchmark program on both machines would give you a more accurate comparison.

 

It isnt faster though read what i said and look at the benchmarks in that review e.t.c and i have already said, that her laptop had far more bloatware than mine, and the bios has no options to change how much graphics memory is been used there is absolutly no way to change that at all the laptop does it its self. and i did a benchmark on boht machines just her laptop scores an average read speed of 48 mb/s Mine (after i just defragmented) scored 61 mb/s

Latency on her laptop 21 ms Latency on my laptop 15.4 ms

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2737834&highlight=gary#post2737834

Try this out on your laptop. It may help.

 

Thankyou, ill have a look at that post and tell you if it helped