Samsung 160giga SATA-II HD160JJ

i||uSi0n^ · 01-06-2006, 07:57 AM

hi,

i got this new hdd, sata-ii and its really fast and quite like i have never seen before...b'4 i had a seagate and im really impressed with samsung's drive...well the question that i have is that the drive i got supports NCQ, what i want to know is that how to turn it on? or how to check if its on or off ?

thanks,
i||uSi0n^

P.S HDD specs:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...es_HD160JJ.asp

BombTek · 01-06-2006, 08:44 AM

If that board supports NCQ (which I am pretty sure it does) you should be able to turn it on in the controller utility or bios depending on where it is connected. Just watch the screen on boot and hit the appropriate key. BTW, if you are using this rig as anything but an enterprise server etc.. you might not see the benifits of NCQ. You can benchmark and see, but performance boosts in single-user environments have been marginal if not worse that with NCQ disabled.

HTH,
BT

i||uSi0n^ · 01-06-2006, 05:34 PM

thanks but i have be unable to find any option what so ever regarding NCQ in the bios or in windows, i even tried to get " Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Installation Utility" its strange but it wont seem to install on my pc says required hardware not found...which is very strange...

i||uSi0n^

i||uSi0n^ · 01-11-2006, 07:40 PM

hi again, looks like i just found the problem of why i cant get intel matrix storage manager to install on my pc and why i cant see NCQ info on the SATA controller in device manager, acutally its a question ? in bios i have set SATA -> standard IDE , after look on web since dayz i found that it should be set to ACHI ? well i got 0606 bios on mb, when i change SATA from standard IDE to ACHI i get BSOD? so i have really no idea of what is going on? for SATA drives ACHI is the right setting ? or standard IDE, so if some'1 could explain it all to me please? and i see ppl using f6 to install SATA drivers during winxp install...i never used to do that? does that change somthing ?

thanks,
i||uSi0n^

Acid8000 · 01-11-2006, 08:02 PM

If you enable AHCI you'll need to install the SATA drivers from a floppy when installing Windows. Once Windows is installed, this setting cannot be changed in BIOS, nor can RAID, as it screws up how Windows attempts to access the drive (incorrect drivers for the SATA controller). Using AHCI does enable NCQ. I have't noticed any real benefit from doing so, although moving files between partitions on my Seagate drive and defragmentation seems speedier.

i||uSi0n^ · 01-11-2006, 08:06 PM

so means at this point to enable AHCI i will need to reformat windows and reinstall everything back ? oh well in that case its for some other day, just formated everything week ago...

thanks a lot for info tho,
i||uSi0n^

01-06-2006, 07:57 AM	#1
i\|\|uSi0n^ Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 225	Samsung 160giga SATA-II HD160JJ hi, i got this new hdd, sata-ii and its really fast and quite like i have never seen before...b'4 i had a seagate and im really impressed with samsung's drive...well the question that i have is that the drive i got supports NCQ, what i want to know is that how to turn it on? or how to check if its on or off ? thanks, i\|\|uSi0n^ P.S HDD specs: http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...es_HD160JJ.asp __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 ASUS P5W DH Deluxe G.Skill 2GBHZ DDR2-800Mhz (Dual Channel) XFX Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DDR-III XXX Edition SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Seagate 500GB 7200.10 S-ATA-II 300 NCQ 16 MB Cache Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D Antec P180 Casing Zalman CNPS9500 LED Antec True Power Trio 550W Power Supply Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 32-Bit Samsung 206BW 20" Widescreen LCD
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01-06-2006, 08:44 AM	#2
BombTek Good to be home... Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Ft Walton Beach, FL Posts: 2,246	If that board supports NCQ (which I am pretty sure it does) you should be able to turn it on in the controller utility or bios depending on where it is connected. Just watch the screen on boot and hit the appropriate key. BTW, if you are using this rig as anything but an enterprise server etc.. you might not see the benifits of NCQ. You can benchmark and see, but performance boosts in single-user environments have been marginal if not worse that with NCQ disabled. HTH, BT __________________ Click those ads, give what you can, keep AbxZone alive! Or I'll blow you up!!
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01-06-2006, 05:34 PM	#3
i\|\|uSi0n^ Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 225	thanks but i have be unable to find any option what so ever regarding NCQ in the bios or in windows, i even tried to get " Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Installation Utility" its strange but it wont seem to install on my pc says required hardware not found...which is very strange... i\|\|uSi0n^ __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 ASUS P5W DH Deluxe G.Skill 2GBHZ DDR2-800Mhz (Dual Channel) XFX Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DDR-III XXX Edition SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Seagate 500GB 7200.10 S-ATA-II 300 NCQ 16 MB Cache Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D Antec P180 Casing Zalman CNPS9500 LED Antec True Power Trio 550W Power Supply Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 32-Bit Samsung 206BW 20" Widescreen LCD
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01-11-2006, 07:40 PM	#4
i\|\|uSi0n^ Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 225	hi again, looks like i just found the problem of why i cant get intel matrix storage manager to install on my pc and why i cant see NCQ info on the SATA controller in device manager, acutally its a question ? in bios i have set SATA -> standard IDE , after look on web since dayz i found that it should be set to ACHI ? well i got 0606 bios on mb, when i change SATA from standard IDE to ACHI i get BSOD? so i have really no idea of what is going on? for SATA drives ACHI is the right setting ? or standard IDE, so if some'1 could explain it all to me please? and i see ppl using f6 to install SATA drivers during winxp install...i never used to do that? does that change somthing ? thanks, i\|\|uSi0n^ __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 ASUS P5W DH Deluxe G.Skill 2GBHZ DDR2-800Mhz (Dual Channel) XFX Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DDR-III XXX Edition SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Seagate 500GB 7200.10 S-ATA-II 300 NCQ 16 MB Cache Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D Antec P180 Casing Zalman CNPS9500 LED Antec True Power Trio 550W Power Supply Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 32-Bit Samsung 206BW 20" Widescreen LCD
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01-11-2006, 08:02 PM	#5
Acid8000 Acid8000 aka. phildee Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,408	If you enable AHCI you'll need to install the SATA drivers from a floppy when installing Windows. Once Windows is installed, this setting cannot be changed in BIOS, nor can RAID, as it screws up how Windows attempts to access the drive (incorrect drivers for the SATA controller). Using AHCI does enable NCQ. I have't noticed any real benefit from doing so, although moving files between partitions on my Seagate drive and defragmentation seems speedier. __________________ CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz with HT (540) [Zalman CNPS9500 AT] Motherboard: Intel D915PBL Memory: 2 x 1 GB Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7900 GS 256 MB (ASUS EN7900GS/2DHT/256M) [Zalman VF700 Cu] Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4; Sennheiser HD 555; Pioneer SA-5300 Stereo Amplifier; Pioneer SCS-12 Speakers Storage: Seagate 160 GB SATA 7200.7; Seagate 250 GB SATA 7200.9; Gigabyte i-RAM with 4 x 1 GB Geil DDR RAM; Western Digital 320 GB Caviar SE16 in Antec MX-1 eSATA Optical drives: Pioneer DVR-108 DVD RW; Lite-On LTD163D DVD ROM Power: Antec TruePower Trio 550 Monitors: Dell 2007FP 20.1" LCD (S-IPS version); Hansol E14AL 13.5" CRT Networking: Linksys WRT54GL [Tomato firmware]; Netcomm NB6 ADSL2+ Modem Other hardware: Panasonic 3½" Floppy; 3 x 80mm Case Fans; A-Link ATX Case; Canon LPB 3000; Canon CanoScan N340P; Logitech Media Keyboard; Logitech MX 518 Optical Mouse; Logitech Dual Action Gamepad; Logitech QuickCam Family Operating system: Windows XP Professional Edition Service Pack 3; Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Hardy Heron
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01-11-2006, 08:06 PM	#6
i\|\|uSi0n^ Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 225	so means at this point to enable AHCI i will need to reformat windows and reinstall everything back ? oh well in that case its for some other day, just formated everything week ago... thanks a lot for info tho, i\|\|uSi0n^ __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 ASUS P5W DH Deluxe G.Skill 2GBHZ DDR2-800Mhz (Dual Channel) XFX Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DDR-III XXX Edition SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Seagate 500GB 7200.10 S-ATA-II 300 NCQ 16 MB Cache Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D Antec P180 Casing Zalman CNPS9500 LED Antec True Power Trio 550W Power Supply Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 32-Bit Samsung 206BW 20" Widescreen LCD
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