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    HDD Bench

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Matt is Pro, May 29, 2008.

  1. Matt is Pro

    Matt is Pro I'm a PC, so?

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    I have a 200 GB Hitachi SATA 7k200 Travelstar 7200 RPM HDD that I just slapped into my notebook.

    Here are the HDTune results:

    The starting temp. was 38 C, and ended at what you see in HDTune.

    View attachment 19083
     
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I told you it would work.

    Matt, try shutting off some background processes, via msconfig. It seems that something is trying to use the harddrive in the background. This is why the benchmark shows so many spikes. After shutting off something like background virus scans or whatever you should be getting about 52mb/sec average.

    I hope you are enjoying the performance gain

    K-TRON
     
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  3. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    or try the test in safe mode for optimum results
     
    jisaac, May 30, 2008
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    Pascal_TTH Notebook Geek

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    Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB :
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  5. Matt is Pro

    Matt is Pro I'm a PC, so?

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    Yeah, I should've done the test before I installed NIS 2008.

    In any case, it's a definite improvement to the old HDD. I'll pop it in later tonight and bench it, to compare. It's the same setup as my new HDD, so the comparison will be valid.
     
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