Seagate 5400.3 PATA surprisingly fast?

So at work I have an old Dell D810 that has been extremely slow because I'm use to a fast machine at home and they run a bunch of scripts at work. Budgets are tight these days so I'm not getting a new machine anytime soon so I was considering upgrading a few parts.

I looked at the cpu, but theres not much better then 2.0Ghz Pentium M that can go into this thing. I think the 2.16ghz is the best this laptop can offer.

Looked at ram, but it wouldn't recongize more then 2GB.

So I was thinking Harddrive, but when I ran HDTune I found the performance looks better then my 7200rpm WD Scorpio Black. Of course this is just synethic, but it was surprising.

 

That is indeed surprisingly fast. Other results from Google don't even get half that...

I'd try another HDD benchmarking program... your figures are almost certainly off?

 

Yeah its pretty crazy. This is before I defragged the HD. It has 37% file fragmentation.

http://home.comcast.net/~johnlemvp/images/seagate.png it still put up 63mb/s avg.

The laptop doesn't feel at all fast, so I was really surprised to see those results.

The harddrive is the only thing I can replace to make this thing faster. If those crazy results were true there wouldn't much that I could do to make this thing faster outside of SSD.

I'll try another benching program when I get the chance. I found the results to be pretty funny.


BTW anyone know the fastest PATA 2.5" HD non SSD?

 

Its probably a misread.
there is no mechanical 2.5" notebook harddrive which even comes close to that so called speed.
Other hardware tests may not pick up the proper readings either.
For example, on my D900K, I would get 250mb/sec average read speed out of a 7K200, which is normally 53mb/sec
Regardless of ATTO, HDTUNE, HDTACH, SANDRA, they all picked up the drive speed wrong.
Try taking the drive out of your laptop and benchmarking it in another laptop or in a desktop

The fastest PATA 2.5" harddrive is tied between the Samsung HM080GC, Samsung HM160HC and the Western Digital WD3200BEVE, all score 53mb/sec average.

K-TRON

 

I sure didn't find my 5400.3 160GB fast at all.

 

LOL 4.4ms seek time? Uh huh. That bench is bunk.
Well maybe the Seagate 7200.4 500GB drive can hit near 100MB/s on the out edge STR but that is the only one I've heard that can achieve that much throughput. There may be other 7.2K 500GB laptop drives out that I don't know about though.

 

It's probably a glitch in HD tune. I tested my 4GB flashdrive with ATTO, i got over 900MB/s read/write and 0.1ms seek time. It's normal for benchmark to report errors.