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    M1330 Hard Drive Performance

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by marv, Aug 24, 2007.

  1. marv

    marv Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone,

    I was transferring files yesterday from a backup hard drive to my new M1330 via USB. The power on the USB drive went out for a little bit which interrupted the data transfer.

    Now, I know that in XP, if there are too many read/write errors, XP will automatically change the speed of the channel from Ultra DMA 5 for example to a lower speed. Now on the M1330, there's no way for me to see the Primary IDE Channel and see what transfer mode it is using (maybe someone knows and could explain how to see the transfer mode).

    So I ran HDTune on the hard drive (Hitachi HTS541612J9S, 120GB). It came out with the following:
    - Minimum Transfer Rate: 23.3 MB/sec
    - Maximum Transfer Rate: 48.2 MB/sec
    - Average Transfer Rate: 36.9 MB/sec
    - Access Time: 17.3ms
    - Burst Rate: 60.6 MB/sec
    - CPU Usage: 8.7%

    Do these numbers look normal? Isn't SATA suppose to be faster? Or am I missing something here? If someone else could run HDTune to compare that would be great. It comes in a ZIP file too, so no need to install.
     
    marv, Aug 24, 2007
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