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    7811 Hard drive issues

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Tapakidney, Sep 18, 2008.

  1. Tapakidney

    Tapakidney Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys, been having some trouble with my second hard drive. I put in a WD 320GB 5400 RPM Scorpio. Ever since popping it in, I get stutters regularly, about once every half hour of video watching or gaming. I can hear a hard drive accessing each time this happens, and I assume it's the new one... Any ideas? New HD a dud? Need to change some settings?

    Everything is defragged, Pagefile is 6GB. With the new hard drive out, the stuttering is gone.
     
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    mistargill Notebook Consultant

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    oh man... it might be related to what I was having.
    I had raid0 on my 7811fx and would frame drop every second or so... but when I came back to just runing one hard drive... its gone... maybe 2nd hard drive bay is slower?
     
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    Or..maybe the 5400rpm drive isnt as fast as the stock 7200RPM that came with the computer. mista, urs both 7200 rpm?
     
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  4. mistargill

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    yeah
    Identical to stock
     
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  5. Tapakidney

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    I'm not doing raid or anything...unless maybe it automatically set up as raid? Should I go into the bois and check settings there?
     
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    Open the Intel Matrix Storage Console and see it they are both running SATA 2
    [​IMG]
     
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  7. Tapakidney

    Tapakidney Notebook Evangelist

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    Yep, both SATA 2. Anything else?

    Am I correct in placing the paging file on my OS partition, since my secondary hard drive is slower?
     
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    I'd say yes only because you suspect problems.

    Have you turned off indexing of the drives?

    Run HDTune and see the performance.
     
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    Yeah, indexing is off. Hmm...actually, maybe indexing of the new one isn't off yet. There, off now, let's see if that helps.

    What's this HDtune program? will it reference any possible errors?
     
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    I still haven't gotten this problem fixed. Any more advice?

    HD Tune shows no errors on either drive, indexing is off on both, nothing I can do in BIOS, both are running SATA2...

    Oh, and HD Tune performance shows similar results between the 2, with a max of 65.2MB/sec, min 45ish. Is it weird that a 7200 RPM and 5400 are showing similar performance in HD Tune?
     
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    If both drives have the same number of platters then the greater areal density of the larger drive can make up a lot for its slower rotation; unequal amounts of cache memory can also impact performance.
     
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