Just looking for some general imput on this, which may not even be a problem but thought id ask anyways.
AMD1300 on an Asus A7V
512MB Ram
pri channel
WD 40GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache
IBM 40GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache
sec channel
Pioneer A06
WinXP Pro
4.51 Via Chipset Drivers
NAV 2k4
HDTach shows each drive averages about 45MB/s throughput at 4ish percent CPU.
symptoms are this, creating a DVD at 4x (5MB/s) my system pretty much becomes unusable until the burn is done (ie it takes internet explorer 8-10 seconds to open)....or copying files from another computer to mine just slows my system down to a crawl again, very unresponsive etc. CPU stays around 4%.
Question...is it normal for a drive to kill a system like this you think? CPU doesnt appear to be a factor, granted im only running a 100FSB, my IDE runs at DMA5 (100mb) with hard drives as fast as they are im just fishing to know if its just time to put this to bed and upgrade the system or is there something im missing...
Thanks for any imput all
