HDD Performance Numbers

HD Tune: HTS726060M9AT00 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 18.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 38.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 14.1 ms
Burst Rate : 76.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 7.0%


Acer 2003Wlci
1.0GB PC3200
Windows XP Pro SP2

I'd like to see a larger drive (80 or 100 GB) @ 7200rpm. I'm surprised no manufacturer has put one out yet.

 

Does anyone know what speed is in Acre 5024 100 GB

 

damn man, I just done tests on my 5024 (80 GB), but I m disgusted...it was maybe coz of big cpu usage but...although...

HD Tune: IC25N080ATMR04-0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 1.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 21.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 13.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 26.9 ms
Burst Rate : 62.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 75.1%

 

I have the same notebook, but your CPU usage is horrible... Check whether you have set the DMA transfer instead of PIO mode on the Disk controller.
Your transfer rates are not very nice as well...

 

Hi fidel, takze kdyz ti napisu cesky, tak tomu budes rozumet kdyz ses z Bratislavy?? )

jj, the usage were horrible..no it s ok

 

Someone wanted to know the results from an Acer Aspire 5024, well this is the 1st run test from mine with the Seagate 100GB 4200rpm 8mb cache drive.

I watched task manager as it ran, the drop in transfer rate was due to Norton kicking in for a moment. Other than that nothing else much was running. Also I changed the default Fat32 formatting to NTFS, why do Acer use Fat32??

I'm sure a 7200rpm drive would really speed this laptop up as it feels like the drive is holding it back. Other than that it's a blinding laptop.

HD Tune: ST9100822A Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 11.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 25.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 24.3 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.4 ms
Burst Rate : 73.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 6.1%

HD Tune: ST9100822A Information

Firmware version : 3.01
Serial number : 3LG0K02E
Capacity : 93.2 GB (~100.0 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Managment : no
Power Managment : yes
Advanced Power Managment : yes
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 2204 MB
Usage : -28142616.56%
Type : unknown (12h)
Bootable : No

Partition : 2
Drive letter : C:\
Label : ACER
Capacity : 46516 MB
Usage : 41.08%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 3
Drive letter : D:\
Label : ACERDATA
Capacity : 46673 MB
Usage : 1.71%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

 

Ano rozumiem ti )

My numbers: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi, HDD Hitachi 80GB 4200RPM 512MB DDRAM, WINXP PRO with SP2:

HD Tune: IC25N080ATMR04-0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 14.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 28.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 21.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 18.0 ms
Burst Rate : 75.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.4%

 

acer ferrari 4005 wlmi
st9100823a (100GB) seagate 5400rpm
minimum .7mb/s
max 38.1 mb/s
average 28.5mb/s
access time 16.9ms
burst rate 69.2mb/s
cpu use 7.8%


is this okay?

 

Hi all!

I have removed my windows xp pro and installed windows xp 64 on my acer 5024 (turion). I ran HDTune 2.10 and here are the results. The performance has increased too much, I can't believe that it is correct! Compare it with my previous results from XP32.

HD Tune: IC25N080ATMR04-0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 32.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 65.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 49.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 8.2 ms
Burst Rate : 171.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.5%

 

OK I think I have the fastest hard drive!

This was run under XP x64 pro....I think that made a difference!

HD Tune: HTS541010G9AT00 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 39.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 79.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 62.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 8.5 ms
Burst Rate : 150.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 6.8%

This is exactly double what I got under 32 bit. Pretty interesting huh!!!

 

Yes and that is my question, why ? Do you think its are real numbers ? I guess it is caused by different disk/cache handling in OS, so let see for example the Burst Rate. It is ATA/100 HDD, it cannot transfer 171MB/s via ATA-100 interface! Results on my notebook with 4200RPM disk are similar with my Desktop with Maxtor SATA2 (300GB) 7200RPM, it is impossible!!!
And I didn't see that disk is twice faster when I compare it with XP Pro 32bit.
XP Pro 64bit is faster, I agree, many of programs starts faster, but not twice. Parhaps we should wait for HDTune64 to see the correct values. Did also someone else tested the HDD and got much faster results ?

 

HD Tune: IC25N080ATMR04-0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 3.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 29.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 22.2 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.9 ms
Burst Rate : 77.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 100.0%


I'm afraid because nobody have been using all CPU processor.
Is it a problem ?

Sometimes i heard a kind of sound from near of my DVD and i don't know what it is. I'm using ACER ASPIRE 1692WLMI.
I save these sound for you try to guess it.
BTW, when i scan my drive this sound stop. And any problem was found in my HD.

Thanks ....

 

Don't be overly worried if your CPU processor is at 100%, it is mostly when you launch a application. It is fine if the CPU usage spicks to 100% once in a while. You can press Alt-Ctrl-Del to monitor the CPU usage. And may i know what codec you use fo your recordings? i can't seem to open it.

 

Huumm ..
Codec: MPEG AUDIO CODEC
I'm using Windows Media Player 10 to hear it.

Thank you for your help.

REgards!

 

Yeah, I'm not really sure why...maybe it's just x64. I haven't noticed any real differences that would suggest twice the performance when loading or copying files.

 

TravelMate 4021NWLCi (Pentium M 725, 256 DDR2, Seagate 60GB 4200rpm 8MB cache, WinXP Pro)

HD Tune: ST960821A Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 16.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 28.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 23.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.3 ms
Burst Rate : 69.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.7%

 

Hey, i have the exact same problem. From what i have researched.. my google , this seems to be a inherent problem with the Hitatchi Travelstars, where the HD will make a clicking and high pitch humming sound when it's idle. I have e-mailed Acer tech support about this and am waiting for their reply, however, if they already gave you an answer, can you e-mail me what they told you at edmondbbad _at_ hotmail dot com

thanks!

 

My latest test, I've had my 3003WLCi since June 05.

HD Tune: IC25N080ATMR04-0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 14.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 29.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 22.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 18.1 ms
Burst Rate : 84.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.1%

 

AS1804WSMI

ST9100823A

Transfer Rate Minimum: 18.4 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum: 28.9 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average: 26.5 MB/s
Access Time: 17.0ms
Burst Rate: 29.3 MB/s
CPU Usage: 2.0%
Heat: 37C

UDMA Supported: UDMA Mode 5
UDMA Active: UDMA Mode 2

 

edit: running arround 38C on an ST9100822A also added test 2

I knowticed my max read is arround 4-5mb lower than most other 4200rpm drives (even the 21s). Anything I should check into?

 

HD Tune: HTS541010G9AT00 Benchmark (Hitachi 100GB, 5400RPM, 8MB buffer)

Transfer Rate Minimum : 13.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 39.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 30.0 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.8 ms
Burst Rate : 70.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 9.1%

 

Acer ferrari 4005
HD Tune: ST9100823A Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 13.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 38.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.9 ms
Burst Rate : 73.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 5.5%

 

Acer 3003WLCI Sempron 3000+, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD.

HD Tune: HTS421260H9AT00 Benchmark 4200 RPM 2MB

Transfer Rate Minimum : 8.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 34.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 25.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 20.1 ms
Burst Rate : 85.9 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.4%
HD Tune: HTS421260H9AT00 Information

Firmware version : HA2OA70G
Serial number : HKA210AJGAX0AB
Capacity : 55.9 GB (~60.0 GB)
Buffer size : 1608192 bytes
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : yes
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

 

that's on fujitsu-siemenss amilo 1667G model. they told me that the hdd is on 5400 rpm(according to their fujitsu-hdd manager-something) but i think they lied to me. it seems like an ordinary 4200rpm hdd

HD Tune: FUJITSU MHU2100AT Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 7.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 30.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 24.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 20.1 ms
Burst Rate : 64.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.0%

HD Tune: FUJITSU MHU2100AT Information

Firmware version : 00000008
Serial number : NQ0CT5B26VHL
Capacity : 93.2 GB (~100.0 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : no
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : yes
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label : Windows XP
Capacity : 10001 MB
Usage : 35.52%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 2
Drive letter : D:\
Label : Working
Capacity : 14998 MB
Usage : 0.43%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

Partition : 3
Drive letter : E:\
Label :
Capacity : 70386 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : Int13
Bootable : No

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi, HD Tune 2.52

HD Tune: ST9120821AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 18.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 38.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 31.2 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.5 ms
Burst Rate : 99.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.2%

 

Here some results from a Fujitsu-User, by the way...risslerp best Burst Rate I've seen here so far (except for the probably wrong Vista x64 results)! What HDD do you have?

Fujitsu S2110 (1,5GB RAM)

Hitachi Travelstar 80GB 7200rpm

HD Tune: HTS721080G9AT00 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 4.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 45.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 34.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.0 ms
Burst Rate : 75.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 9.5%

I am pretty happy with the Transfer Rate Average. Only I figured the Burst Rate would be a little higher. And sometimes the transfer rate sinks to a minimum (see the low transfer rate minimum) and stays there for a couple of seconds before it goes back up. I also notice that when I load programs, it just takes forever sometimes to load, let's say, the Internet Explorer window. It shouldn't be like that with a 7200rpm drive and 1,5GB RAM, right?

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi (T2300)

HD Tune: ST9100824AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 8.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 34.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 27.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.4 ms
Burst Rate : 83.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 8.0%

HD Tune: ST9100824AS Information

Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)

 

It's the hard drive that came with my Acer. It's a Seagate 120GB, 5400rpm, Serial ATA drive formated as a single NTFS partition running Win XP SP2.

 

Dell M170 Hitachi 100GB, 7200RPM, 8MB buffer

HD Tune: HTS721010G9AT00 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 8.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 51.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 40.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.9 ms
Burst Rate : 70.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 7.3%

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi - SE Asia spec, 1GB 533 RAM, 80GB Seagate HD.
HD Tune: ST98823AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 18.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 36.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.2 ms
Burst Rate : 98.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.3%

 

Risslerp and Intensecure:

What is your cluster size? (ie. 512bytes or 4KB or larger)

Thanks,

sibelius

 

512 bytes/sector, 8 sectors/cluster = 4kb clusters.

 

I have Acer Aspire 5024wmli

hard disk: Samsung MP0804H

resluts are:
transfer rate:
- minimum: 8.5 MB/sec
- maximum: 33,4 MB/sec
- average: 25,8 MB/sec

Access Time: 18,5 ms
Burst Rate: 63,0 MB/sec
Cpu Usage: 8.1%

firmware ver: YS200-5
capacity: 74.6 GB (~80,1 GB)
Buffer: 8182 KB
active/suppoerted standard: UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra Ata/100)

Disk gets very warm. Its between 55-60C deg (usually 57C deg.)
Today it reached 63C deg while playing NFS Most Wanted
ISN'T IT A BIT TOO MUCH???

 

Was 512b in 15 GB partition1, and 4K clusters in remaining 60GB partition.
(Disc subsequently resized to remove the Acer back-up partition, and now 20GB/60GB all in 4K clusters. )

 

5003 WMLi

Seagate ,ST9100822A 100 gig 4200rpm, 8192 KB buffer
Transfer Rate Minimum: 8.4 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum: 27.5 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average: 25.6 MB/s
Access Time: 16.8ms
Burst Rate: 83.5 MB/s
CPU Usage: 2.0%
Heat: 43C

UDMA Supported: UDMA Mode 5
UDMA Active: UDMA Mode 5

 

Acer 5672 107 GB NTFS Partition

HD Tune: ST9120821AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 8.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 41.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 31.3 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.7 ms
Burst Rate : 97.0 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.7%

 

Acer Aspire 5672Wlmi
100 GB HDD 5400rpm SATA (2 NTFS partitions)
HDTune: HTS541010G9SA00 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 7.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 40.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.6 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.3 ms
Burst Rate : 76,7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.3%

 

HD Tune: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 2.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 27.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 22.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 19.8 ms
Burst Rate : 66.7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 6.1%

 

Acer Aspire 5502ZWXCi 1GB PC4300 + 256MB PC3200 DDR2
(Hitachi Travel Star?) HTS421260H9AT00 60GB (real:55.9GB) 4200rpm, 2 MB cache (PATA?)
Transfer Rate Minimum: 14.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum: 34.9 MB/sec
Average: 26.1 MB/sec
Access time: 19.9 ms
Burst rate: 71.9 MB/sec
CPU Usage: 8.2%
43ªC
Standard: ATA/ATAPI-0
Supported: UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Active: UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

 

Acer Aspire 5000 (5002WLMi)

Toshiba MK1031GAS, 100GB, 4200RPM, 8MB Cache
Transfer Rate Min: 13.1MB/sec
Transfer Rate Max: 28.1MB/Sec
Transfer Rate Avg: 22.4MB/sec
Acess Time: 19.2 ms
Burst Rate: 77.1MB/sec
CPU Useage: 2.0%
Heat: 36C
UDMA Supported: Mode 5
UDMA Enabled: Mode 5

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi - 2GB RAM, 120GB Toshiba MK1234GSX HD.

HD Tune 2.52

Temp = 41C

Transfer Rate Minimum : 18.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 34.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.6 ms
Burst Rate : 69.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.9%

 

test was conducted running on battery.

HD Tune: ST9120821AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 11.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 40.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 30.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.8 ms
Burst Rate : 83.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 9.2%

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi - 2GB RAM, 120GB Seagate 5400RPM

HD Tune: ST9120821AS

Xfer rate min: 20.7 MB/s
Xfer rate max: 41.0 MB/s
Xfer rate ave: 32.4 MB/s
Access Time: 16.0 ms
Burst rate: 99.5 MB/s
CPU usage: 2.6 %

Using Lapcool2 at 33 C

 

HD Tune: ST9120821AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 9.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 40.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 30.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.1 ms
Burst Rate : 91.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.3%

 

ST9100824AS 100Gb 5400rpm

Transfer Rate Minimum : 6.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 36.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 27.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 18.2 ms
Burst Rate : 95.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.3%

42 C

 

HD Tune: HTS726060M9AT00 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 4.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 37.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 27.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.6 ms
Burst Rate : 76.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 5.7%

Heat:44 deg

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi - 1GB RAM, 120GB Toshiba MK1234GSX HD

HD Tune 2.52

Temp = 36C

Transfer Rate Minimum : 2.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 34.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.0 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.8 ms
Burst Rate : 67.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.9%

 

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi - 1GB RAM, 120GB Toshiba MK1234GSX HD

HD Tune 2.52

Temp = 39C

Transfer Rate Minimum : 9.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 34.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 28.2 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.2 ms
Burst Rate : 57.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 11.6%

 

Acer Aspire 5102WLMi
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50
1GB RAM
ATI X1100
Seagate Momentus 5400.2 (ST9120821A) (120GB)

....

HD Tune: ST9120821A Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 15.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 41.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 31.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.2 ms
Burst Rate : 68.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 5.9%

 

Fujitsu MHK2060AT (6GB)

Transfer Rate Minimum : 0.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 15.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 10.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 21.6 ms
Burst Rate : 22.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.1%