Is this good,bad or average ? HD

Using HD tach i ran the test on my 40 Gig western digital HD,it gave
the following results

Random access time 14.6 millisecs
Burst read speed 57 MB/sec

Read speed max 26.9 MB/sec
min 16.4 MB/sec
Average 24.7 Mb/sec
cpu utilisation 15.8 %

If this is bad,how can i improve it? Im using xp pro with about half a
gig of memory and a pentium 3 500Mhz processor

thanks

"tarquinlinbin" <fleagle DeleteThis @myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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 > Using HD tach i ran the test on my 40 Gig western digital HD,it gave
 > the following results
 >
 > Random access time 14.6 millisecs
 > Burst read speed 57 MB/sec
 >
 > Read speed max 26.9 MB/sec
 > min 16.4 MB/sec
 > Average 24.7 Mb/sec
 > cpu utilisation 15.8 %
 >
 > If this is bad,how can i improve it? Im using xp pro with about half a
 > gig of memory and a pentium 3 500Mhz processor

FWIW...

RAT 15ms
Max read 53.4MB/sec
Min read 33.7MB/sec
Avg read 44.2MB/sec
CPU 3.3%

This is a single 80gig Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 connected to a Promise IDE
port on a P4 2.6Ghz clocked at 3.25Ghz.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->