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    M17 Slow HDD (hard drive)!

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by ltheONEl, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. ltheONEl

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    Hi,

    I have just benchmarked the HD (2x500GB samsung drives configured raid 0) using HD Tune Pro 3.5. I am running a clean install of Windows 7 Pro (Retail)

    79.8MB/s Read

    Access time 47.9ms !!!!

    Burst rate 81.3MB/s

    That's rubbish. I thought it was a vista problem, but the HDDs are sluggish in Win7 too.

    Has anyone got a simillar problem or any thoughts on how I can improve this performance?

    j.
     
    ltheONEl, Nov 26, 2009
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  2. NovaAurora

    NovaAurora Notebook Guru

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    Are you talking about the Alienware M17 or M17x?
     
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  3. ltheONEl

    ltheONEl Newbie

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    M17

    in fact looks that I have the same machine as you. Q9300 2.5GHz and same Gfx card
     
    ltheONEl, Nov 26, 2009
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  4. Shredd

    Shredd Notebook Enthusiast

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    Which Samsung drives are they?
     
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  5. ltheONEl

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    HM500LI

    I've got 2 in a raid 0 stripe.
     
    ltheONEl, Nov 26, 2009
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    Shredd Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe these are 5400RPM, 8meg Cache HD's.

    Average read should be around 58MB/s - so your doing just a bit better.

    If you require more speed - you should look at the Samsung Momentus 7200.3RPM's with 16meg Cache.
     
    Shredd, Nov 26, 2009
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  7. ltheONEl

    ltheONEl Newbie

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    you are correct.

    but what about the 50ms access time, does that seem normal to you?
     
    ltheONEl, Nov 26, 2009
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    yeah on there it says Random access time avg 19ms.

    Thanks for your input dude.
     
    ltheONEl, Nov 26, 2009
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