Extremely high access/seek time for hard disk

After a long wait of 2 weeks I got my Hands on new Samsung NP550P5C-S02IN - Corei7 3610QM, 8GB DDR3 1600, Nvidia Geforce GT650M, and...... a 5400 rpm HDD Seagate Momentus ST1000LM024).....The system was not delivering the expected performance, so i did a benchmark of the HDD using HDtune and Hwinfo32. All parameters except the seek time is ok. HDtune reported seek time as 21.3 ms while Hwinfo32 reported it as 24.17 ms which is higher than a legacy IBM drive -> see pics below. Is there a problem with my hard drive ?? Should I go for a replacement ??
Does anyone out there has the same drive and can perform a benchmark for comparison ??

 

I would advice getting an SDD now that prices are coming down to a reasonable level. I just upgraded to one a few weeks ago and my god does it make a huge difference.

 

but i need something that can store 500GB to 1TB

 

Than I would recommend the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB hybrid drive.

 

Almost exactly 5 years ago in October 2008 Intel said of SSD's that they would be needed to show what then current and future Intel cpu's were really capable of.

See:
Intel Ships Enterprise-Class Solid-State Drives


I have to agree with that statement overall and especially with today's Ivy Bridge based platforms which you have (even if it was said originally about Enterprise SSD's and it took SSD's a few more years to catch up to my more workstation storage subsystem demands).

Running anything less than an XT Hybrid 750GB HDD (properly partitioned and maintained...) on a current platform is simply not caring about performance.

Running a 5400 RPM HDD (especially a slow, DATA (not O/S) optimized drive like the 1TB model you have...) is simply asking for (performance) troubles.

Is anything wrong with your drive? No... it's operating to spec's.

If you want to upgrade your storage subsystem (and your platform) to 2012/13 levels; I would highly recommend a Crucial M4 512GB SSD.

Not the fastest, not the least expensive (???), but a very balanced, reliable and proven SSD with the (minimum) capacity you require and the price and performance to let your platform work as it should.

See:
Crucial M4 SSD 512GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6Gbps


(Note: in the 512GB capacity range, nothing else compares to the M4 - Sandforce based drives take a DIVE in performance (even Intel's 520 Series) and everything else is simply too expensive, too power hungry (under 'load') or too unreliable/unproven imo).

Price match it here:

See:
Crucial M4 2.5in SATA III Solid State Drive, 512GB at Memory Express

See:
Memory Express - Price Protection


and get this SSD for $349.84.


This is what your new system needs (not a HDD replacement or a sideways 'upgrade' to an XT Hybrid).

Hope this helped?

Good luck.