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    Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hehe299792458, Dec 16, 2006.

  1. hehe299792458

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    What is the best setting to use for hard-drive speed in the BIOS of the XPS1210s?
     
    hehe299792458, Dec 16, 2006
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    I prefer silent becuase it gets kind of noisy when it's on performance.
     
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    I know. Performance is a bit noisy, but will there be a significant increase in performance if I choose "performance" mode? What is default anyways?
     
    hehe299792458, Dec 16, 2006
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    I'm on campus a lot, and seriously, without the silent option, I don't know what I'd do in the silent study rooms/library. I mean, the constant revving up of my 80 GB HDD is pretty darn loud, despite what I've heard about the M1210.

    I don't know if setting it to Performance is significantly faster, but I doubt it'd be worth it in my case.
     
    Aspyred, Dec 17, 2006
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    I noticed something very strange when I use HDTune to do test to see whether silent or performance is faster... It turned out, if I read the results correctly, that silent mode is actually faster...
     

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    CPU utilization is much lower on Performance mode it seems.
     
    lixuelai, Dec 19, 2006
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