Ive taken an Adaptec 29320 LPE PCIe X1 up to 320MB/s and a Seagate Cheetah 146GB 68 pin continous read wright average 110 MB/s i got Vista 64 benchmark ends at 5.9 more is not possible from the Microsoft calc it has to be something like 8 but benchmark comes to an end ;-) at 5.9 :-)!!! after youve plugged in the Adaptec card put in Vista 64 inst.DVD than Hdisk not found put in the Adaptec driver Disk and istall the driver you need! than back to Vista DVD ;-)
Thats it! -If youve installed the Vista go and make a 3.5" Bootdisk with a "mini" DOS on the same disk copy the newest Adaptec 29320LPE BIOS 3.14 ! Than the complete U320 will go faster and more stabel! or try to get the Adaptec 29320 LPE with the newest bios ask your
PC Discounter ! -or order at Adaptec direkt! ...with a 45 EU SCSI Kabel you gut 130 MB/s terminated with an end resistor! -so SATA ends at 300->1000MB/s many telling us its fast but what are you doing with a fast bus and slow diks?? ;-) fastest SATA Disk ends at 80 MB/s average speed ;-) its a WD RAptorX haha! I hope that ive helped you to make youre workstation running ...try on Vista64 ...Virtualbox its a fine SUN Microsystems tool giving you a fast 2nd virtual pc ...so that you can run Linuy under Vista the same time without speed drops ;-) ...