Slow Harddrive?

Well, just for fun, I dled Crystalmark and ran it. When it finished some numbers looked really low. I just want to make sure my 7.2k HDD is working correctly:

Seq - 85.71 - 83.63
512k - 26.8 - 37.39
4k - .319 - .654
4k QD32 - .688 - .689

 

Take benchmarks with a grain of salt. If your HDD's every day performance is fine, then there are no problems.

 

"looked really low"??

Compared to what, exactly?

The only benchmark that counts is your perception of how things are running.

Synthetic benchmarks, taken in isolation and certainly taken outside of a lab environment involving a lot of machines (for comparison), don't mean much.

 

Compared to the WD640GB 5400rpm they do look quite low, especially the 4K random scores.



The above benchmark was run with Intel RST driver. You could try that.

 

The boot up times and loading times were never really impressed me on this laptop. Fastest boot is 1 minute 10 seconds...

How do I get the Intel RST driver.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...20325-new-intel-rst-10-0-0-1043-beta-out.html

 

Seq scores went up but the 4Ks went down. o.o

 

Your scores are fine for a mechanical hdd.

All hdds are rubbish at small random read/writes but your exact numbers will vary depending on alot of things. Modern hard drives with the 500gb platters have very high data density so it is not as important for the platter to spin so fast, just in case you were wondering why some 5400rpm drives beat out some low capacity 7200rpm drives. Other things that affect speed would be the mechanism by which the read/write head moves (as in the mechanical process) which is why seek times can vary greatly from drive to drive. You can also get measurable differences depending on where the data is physically read off or written onto the platter (you will get better transfer rates on the outer tracks).

Other than that there is nothing glaringly wrong with your benchmark results. Things like using page file and browser caching where theres lots of random read/write patterns are still going to be slow on a hdd compared to any second generation ssd. HDDs are cheap as hell to RAID though so if you are doing something like lots of straight file copy then you can get a massive boost by slinging a few of them into an array.

 

Oh wait a minute, the WD 640GB result has a 100GB first partition.

You may have to make a smaller first partition to get a similar result.

 

Still doesn't improve it significantly. I might just get a Momentus XT sometime though.

 

+1 for those or a MP4 Hdd works

 

If you are interested, heres what a WD 500gb Scorpio Black looks like:



Its connected via EsataP.