The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    G1Sn HDD wont turn cache on

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Jaguar, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. Jaguar

    Jaguar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    185
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hey,

    Just recently got my G1 replaced with a G1Sn, which is all good, but I noticed that it's HDD is actually not that fast and was getting only ~2,9 from windows 7 experience score from hdd. Its a 5400rpm 250gb hitachi. Other windows experience 5400rpm scores for G1Sn i've seen are usually 5+.

    So, when I go to device managed and to the hdd properties, the box for caching is unticked. When I try to turn it on, it says the drive won't let caching to be turned on. I've never encountered an internal hdd that wont let the caching to be turned on (and even have external usb drive with caching on) :confused:

    Could this have something to do with the installation of asus g1sn chipset drivers and turbo memory drivers ? After those, I had a popup saying "a new device found & installed (the HDD)".

    e: more specificly, the hdd is hitachi travelstar 5k250 hts542525k9sa00
     
    Jaguar, Mar 5, 2009
    #1
  2. Jaguar

    Jaguar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    185
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hmm, I got the cache on by unsinstalling "intel matrix storage manager", which apparently comes with turbomemory install.. well, my experience score still didn't improve at all :confused: Its still 2,9-3,0 and I can't figure out why.
     
    Jaguar, Mar 5, 2009
    #2
  3. Jaguar

    Jaguar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    185
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Did some researching and turns out this might actually just be a bug of windows 7 ? Lots of people scoring low on the hdd.
     
    Jaguar, Mar 5, 2009
    #3
  4. Jaguar

    Jaguar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    185
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Just replaced the hdd with a 320gb scorpio black. Got a 5,9 rating from windows 7. Odd. Need to do something bout the temps tho, 54 for the hdd is a bit high
     
    Jaguar, Mar 5, 2009
    #4