Performance Issues with HM250JI HDD, the new Samsung 250GB SATA drive.

Never had vibrations with any disk. Are you sure it is the disk?

 

Well I got my Samsung 320GB to day, if I find probs ill post info.

 

Congrats! Can you also treat us to an HDTune graph?

John

 

Ooops forgot about my post Ill try doing it this weekend! @work right now.

 

Forgot I brought my laptop to work today.

Here:
XP 32

 

I wonder as well. See how it looks in my system. This is with:
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- AHCI enabled
- Intel Matrix Drivers v7.8 (the newest)
- Firmware 1.08 on the Samsung
- Thinkpad X61s (Santa Rosa Chipset)

I even observe blue screens because the HD driver decides the HD is faulty (timeout and/or parity error).
All is well with AHCI disabled, by the way. Also, the drive worked well for a year in an older, non-Santa Rosa Thinkpad (AHCI enabled).

So I would say there still is a bug in the firmware.

Can anyone test with the 320 drive, or the newer 250 drive (I think it is named HM251JI)?
The bug only triggers with Santa Rosa and Windows Vista, AHCI enabled, by the way.

Regards, Martin

 

Oops, the previous measurement was probably a fluke. Some more HD Tune runs show a different picture, quite a normal one.
I do have the parity errors and blue screens related to hard disk (e.g. whenever I try to play a movie with iTunes), but the performance graph looks ok.
Regards, Martin

 

Vista 64 Samsung 320GB
http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtunebenchmarksamsunghbv3.png

Also read, http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=193601 becasue there may not be anything wrong with the 250Gb as talked about, or at least all of them.

 

Hello

Thank you for the links!
During my first measurement Vista was downloading an update, as I learned later from the Vista logfile.
My experience and the one in the thread you mentioned shows that it is difficult to measure the performance of the system drive ("drive C"). I don't think that Vista is in some sort buggy, only perhaps that it has more processes running in the background accessing the harddisk (the indexer, for example) compared to Win XP.
When I measure a non-system drive with Vista I get a smooth curve.

Anyway, I'll soon know whether the Samsung has anything to do with my blue screen crashes, or whether it is Apple's fault: I have ordered another drive (Western Digital) and will clone my Vista across.

Regards, Martin

 

So here's mine. Don't know which firmware (how do you check and can it be upgraded)

 

Transfer rate is right on par with my WD 250Gb in my 1520, but the access time is really bad.

 

Just ran it again. I had slighty higher and evener performance and lower CPU Usage, but access times was the same. THese test were run with my Antivirus turned on.

 

To not leave this unresolved: I didn't get the new drive (see earlier post), but I found a solution nevertheless.
-> I downgraded the Intel Matrix Drivers from 7.8 to the 7.0 version supplied by the Laptop manufacturer. So far the Blue Screens and parity errors are gone.
Regards, Martin

 

Guys does this drive come with the 1720?

The 1520 comes with the WD Scorpio 250GB.

 

I've got the Samsung 250 GB in my XPS 1210 and it's clunking.

Whatever came of this? Does the firmware fix the clunking?

 

Here are the HD Tune screenshots for both of my 250 HM250JI's (HP 500GB configuration). Left = primary, right = secondary.

 

HEre is my Samsung benchmark, do you think it works correctly?

my laptop is an Asus Pro31J Series

Core duto t2250
MR X1600

Samsung HM250JI bought Yesterday

2x1GB DDR 667 Kingston bought yesterday too.

 

I made a 2nd test and it worked a bit worse:

is it normal?