Significantly poorer Momentus XT benchmark results?

Hi all, I'm a little worried because my benchmarks are significantly lower than what other people are experiencing. Also the spikiness of the graph worries me a bit. Wondering what's the cause of the issue.

Firmware: SD28
Model: ST95005620AS (500GB 7200rpm)
OS: Windows XP Professional (32-bit)
Computer: Macbook Pro Early-2008

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.








Kinda worried because it's much weaker than the results of someone else: Benchmark reference

 

Normal performance because you're running in the second partition.

The spikes in HDtune are also quite normal.

 

Hmm sorry, could you explain a bit about the running in 2nd partition thing and why it causes slower speeds?

Also do you know if there's anything I can do to make my Windows partition the first/main partition? I mostly use Windows 99% of the time so I think I'd definitely appreciate faster speeds in Windows.

Thanks so much for your help

 

The outer edges of a hard drive deliver the highest transfer rates. That's where the OS X partition is situated.

I wouldn't worry about it, the speed boost will not be noticeable.

If you do want to run your Mac Windows only that is possible. Probably best if you try find a guide. I think it's done by removing all Mac partitions during the bootcamp install procedure. Don't take my word for it though.

 

My XT has also been having problems been too busy with school to really fully do all the work. I used the dos seatools to reformat everything and tried to force reflash and still nothing still i have end to end to error detection 98 99 something like that.