How to make sure if I'm running SATAII?

[Wreckles]

I think both my motherboard and Hard disk drive support SATAII. But Intel Active Monitor reports the max UDMA transfer mode as UDMA-7 and active transfer mode as UDMA-5. Everest Home reports the max UDMA transfer mode as UDMA-6 and active transfer mode as UDMA-5.

I did some googling and found this:

Senator wrote:
I have two WD HDs that are SATAII w/16MB Cache.

However, Intel desktop Utilities Version 2.1 Light is saying
Max transfer mode = UDMA 6(ATA/133)
Active Transfer Mode = UDMA 5 (ATA/100)

They don't seem to be transferring as fast as possible.

What do I need to do to optimize these drives? Thanks!

You don't have to do anything. They are already either transferring at 150MB/s if you have them set to run on a SATA1 bus, or at 300MB/s if it's running on a SATA2 bus... the BIOS and all programs that report these specs just read the active transfer mode as UDMA 5 instead of (what should technically be) UDMA 8 (UDMA 7 being the SATA1 spec of 150MB/s and UDMA 8 being the SATA2 spec of 300MB/s). This is perfectly normal, you do not have to do anything.
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardw...ict185797.html

But is there a way to make sure whether I’m running UDMA-7/8 or UDMA-5?
If I’m actually running UDMA-5 how can I change it to UDMA-7/8?

[Shinma]

According to Intel,
The G965 Express Chipset supports SATA II.

Take a look in Device Manager.

[DanceMan]

It's useful to keep in mind that big numbers are often there for sales purposes. In the IDE era, boards and hdd were listing ATA100 when the actual transfer rates were only ATA66, if they even achieved that.

It's a male thing, this measuring...................

[Wreckles]

Take a look in Device Manager.

I did. it also reports the active transfer mode as UDMA-5.

It's a male thing, this measuring...................

male thing? I didnt get that..

[DanceMan]

male thing? I didnt get that..

It was a joke. "Mine's bigger than yours."

[jimbo1763]

It's a male thing, this measuring...................

Yeah...

[Wreckles]

It was a joke. "Mine's bigger than yours."

lol got it..

But Im still unsure about the actual speed. Is there a way to measure harddisk read/write speed?

[ThePerson98]

Perhaps reviews? Just google the model number and pop the little review word after it and you'll probably get some results.

[Midknyte]

http://www.sysopt.com/features/softw...2030_3604341_7

try h2benchw then compare here:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

[Wreckles]

Ok I ran all the tests. Unfortunately toms hardware does not list benchmarks anything similar to my HDD.
These are the results I got: