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Microsoft Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
IDE hard-drive with DMA enabled (DMA Explained)
"DMA (also referred to as bus mastering) is a technique that some components and devices use to transfer data directly to and from memory without passing through the Central Processing Unit (CPU). DMA reduces CPU overhead by providing a mechanism for data transfers that do not require monitoring by the CPU." (description by Microsoft Corporation)
Lack of DMA usually results in occasional loss of system responsiveness, and excessive processor usage during hard-drive and CD-ROM transfers. Most hard-drives manufactured after 1998 support DMA.
Depending on your operating system, please choose one of the following links for more information:Benchmarks
The following chart represents the time taken to transfer a 700 megabyte file on the same physical hard-drive on different systems.
The benchmarks represent the following systems:
| Hard-Drive | Motherboard | RAM | Processor | |
| 1 | Maxtor 60GB ATA100 / 7200 | ATA 100 | 384 MB | Intel Pentium 4 |
| 2 | Maxtor 80GB ATA133 / 7200 | ATA 100 | 256 MB | AMD Duron |
| 3 | Western Digital 40GB ATA100 / 7200 | ATA 66 | 256 MB | AMD Athlon |
| 4 | Seagate 40GB ATA133 / 7200 | ATA 100 | 256 MB | AMD Athlon |
| 5 | Maxtor 40GB ATA100 / 7200 | ATA 100 | 128 MB | AMD Duron |
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