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    Windows rates hard drive on replacement 1530 as marginally slower than on initial one - odd...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jon_m, Jun 7, 2008.

  1. jon_m

    jon_m Notebook Guru

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    I had one XPS laptop replaced - a USB port wasn't working properly. The USB on the new one's fine. Oddly, though, on the old laptop the Windows Experience Index rated disk data transfer rate as 5.2 - it's rated as 5.1 on the new one.

    Seems like both machines used the same drive - WD2500BEVS-75UST0

    I know it's not exactly a big deal :D but can't figure out why this is happening, and it's niggling me :p I've tried defragging and running disk cleanup.

    Any ideas why this would have happened?
     
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    You do realize that it is not an accurate benchmarking tool.
     
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    jon_m Notebook Guru

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    ah - face-palm. I'd assumed that it would at least be accurate for things like data transfer rate.

    So - it's just something to put down to the benchmarking, I guess/
     
    jon_m, Jun 7, 2008
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