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HDD Upgrade with before/after results

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by MonnieRock, Sep 26, 2008.

MonnieRock Notebook Consultant

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Hello Everyone,

I have a D900K notebook with FX-60. The original drives were Fujitsu SATA 5400rpm 80GB drives in RAID mode 0. I upgraded to Seagate Momentus 7300.3 320GB drives with the G-Force shock protection. Ran HDtune 2.55 before doing the upgrade as well as after.

Thank you,
Monnie

MonnieRock, Sep 26, 2008

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John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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Impressive transfer rates with the upgrade.

However, the access times aren't the best but are consistent with Tom's Hardware results.

John

John Ratsey, Sep 26, 2008

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

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Very nice upgrade. I too have the D900K, and it rocks for harddrive performance. There is nothing like that Via hardware raid controller.

Out of curiosity, can you post an image of the "info" tab from Hdtune.
I get the same peaks at the beginning, and I think its from a hardware limitation. For some reason my harddrives will not run outside of ata 133 speeds, even though the chipset supports sata 150.

Nice hdtune, would you care to run pcmark 05 with XP or pcmark vantage with Vista, and post your startup scores and such.

K-TRON

K-TRON, Sep 26, 2008

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