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    New 500GB Notebook drive, cloned partition, very high access times

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pro101, Jul 3, 2009.

  1. pro101

    pro101 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi All: I just got a new Western Digital 500GB and am pleased with it. But doing an HD Tune, I am finding unusual, very high access times on the drive. Last test was 76ms (vs. 12 ms for my 2-year old drive).

    I cloned the disk with Acronis True Image, did a defrag and disk checkup... any idea what can cause such high access times?
     
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  2. goofball

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    are you running in PIO mode?
    it's possible the drive was being accessed while you were running the benchmarks.
     
    goofball, Jul 3, 2009
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    Please post screenshots of page 1 and 2.
     
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    Thanks all. Goofball, you were likely right. Even though I gave the laptop time to load and complete its tasks prior to HD Tune, running it again 2 days later gives access times that are close to normal (16ms). I guess the whole cloning process worked!
     
    pro101, Jul 6, 2009
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