Hitachi 7k500 500GB displaying very poor performance and terrible HD Tune benchmark

I bought a hitachi 7k500 a few months back and was happy with performance. However recently I re-installed windows 7 64bit and now boot up time is incredibly slow and response time seems to have decreased noticeably. The drive is regularly defragmented while I run CCleaner at least once a week. Also 417GB are free on the drive. I have also as I always do disabled all non-critical start up programs and services.

I ran a HD Tune benchmark and noticed very low minimum transfer rate of just 5.1mb! Here is a screenshot. What is wrong with it or my machine? Specs in sig.



I do intend to get an SSD but waiting for the launch of the next generation. Hopefully this drive will last me until then but not with such terrible performance. Can't stand it lol.
Perhaps I should pull the trigger on an OCZ vertez 2 but I have read that the reliability isn't as good as the intel drives. Personally I want the speed of the OCZ vertex 2 and the purported reliability of Intel's drives having already experienced 4 SSD's failing within 2 years.

 

Here's the results from my 7K500 [attached].

Yours look normal. Don't worry about the minimum transfer rate; if some program requests disk I/O while the benchmark is running, it will affect the results. The same thing happened during my benchmark as well.

There is something else affecting your drive performance. Try reinstalling your chipset drivers and see if that fixes anything.

 

yea yours looks just fine. Actual quite nice ^^


EDIT: if you want to make it fgaster in latency you need to get crystal marc info and set the AAM to performance and leave crystal marc info open 24/7. For crystal marc or HD Tune to keep AAM maxed it has to stay open...sucks it has to stay open but whatever

 

Well there's a discrepancy from good benchmark scores to actual system responsiveness. As stated above, I would update your Windows to the absolute latest drivers, as the default Windows 7 ones are up to a year old now.

 

Which drivers are you refering to? Windows update is fully up to date but I think you are refering to something else?

 

Intel chipset drivers.

 

there is some background program affecting the score.. i've done HDtune benchmark and nver had sucj spikes.. might be a virus. Try chipset drivers but if doesn't work must be some process..

Panther214

 

go to the performance thread in my sig. it'll show you where to get the newest IRST drivers

EDIT: btw nice fan set up...thats awesome

 

My results are similar to yours, but I don't experience any degradation in performance. Vista boots up for 45 secs and we all know it's slower than Win 7. I have Win 7 on my Intel SSD and it boots for ~20 secs.