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    Anyone familiar with HD Tune?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by huiman84, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. huiman84

    huiman84 Notebook Consultant

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    I just want to confirm if this benchmark looks correct for my HDD. I was recently told by a Dell rep that this graph is indicative of a bad HDD.

    [​IMG]
     
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    No, looks just fine.
     
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    Looks pretty much like what you'd expect from that drive. What did he say it showed as being wrong?
     
    slickie88, Feb 7, 2011
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    You start off with higher reading speeds because your reading at the edge of the disk where the tangential velocity is the highest. As you move in, even the the disk is spinning at the same rate, you lose tangential velocity because its proportional to the radius of the disk.

    Your results are acceptable for a 5400 drive
     
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    huiman84 Notebook Consultant

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    He told me the trenches should be deeper and that my graph showed a slow response time
     
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    your response time is a little slow, but that can be expected form a 5400 rpm drive. You dont have a 7200 drive do you?

    What did he mean by trenches? If hes talking about the dips then your fine. The larger your dips are, the more your system is using the drive, so if you have small dips, all that means is that your system isnt reading or writing to your drive much, which isnt a problem.

    go to the heath tab and let it scan for damaged sectors ect. But from what i can see nothing looks wrong with the drive at all.
     
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  7. huiman84

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    it's a 320GB 7200 rpm HDD.

    I let it scan for errors and it didn't find any though.
     
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    Looks fine to me.
     
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    is it fine for a 7200rpm HDD though?
     
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    Its a little slower than usual, but that might be because your currently using it as your OS drive (i assume). Its not indicative of a bad drive.

    I did a quick google and the results are close with others.

    [​IMG]
     
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  11. huiman84

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    yea i emailed the Dell rep with what I found and how I thought he read the test wrong, but it seems he ignored me and decided to go ahead with the new HDD anyway.
     
    huiman84, Feb 8, 2011
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    Call them. Email as a means of communicating with support is always a bad idea unless you're sending them files. Call them back and explain that the disk is not bad. Having them send one out when it's not the problem is a waste of everyone's time.
     
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    calling again right now...going to try to get them to cancel the HDD order

    EDIT: They want to send me a motherboard AND a new HDD now. I am going to call back later to see if they will swap out the unit in general.
     
    huiman84, Feb 8, 2011
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