I have updated from Mint 7 to Mint 8. In Mint 8 the file transfer between SATA disks is about 30MB/s. In Mint 7 (and in WinXP) it is about 70-80MB/s.
I use 1st SATA 500GB (Seagate ST3500320AS) partitioned for Mint and Win XP, 2nd SATA (WD1.5TB WDC WD15EADS-00S2B0) as storage.
hdparm says this:
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sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 698 MB in 2.00 seconds = 348.62 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 214 MB in 3.01 seconds = 71.04 MB/sec
$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 662 MB in 2.00 seconds = 330.91 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 218 MB in 3.02 seconds = 72.17 MB/sec
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sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00006c56
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9803 78742566 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 9804 60801 409641435 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 9804 35335 205085758+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 35336 60427 201551458+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 60428 60801 3004123+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x273b13db
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 182401 1465136001 7 HPFS/NTFS