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    Strange HD Tune result Hitachi 5K320 160GB

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Phil, May 22, 2009.

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    First one is the strange result, than the info page, third one is a normal result in of another drive in another notebook.
    Any ideas as to what is going on?
     

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    Your drive shows to be running in UDMA 4 mode or 66mb/sec max
    You will not get 66mb/sec because of overhead. You should try reinstalling your harddrive driver.
    Go to device manager and uninstall your Primary IDE driver. Once uninstalled windows will install a driver. Restart and than run the benchmark again

    If you are still getting a limitation than you may want to try setting the drive to DMA mode only

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, May 22, 2009
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    Thanks K-Tron I tried that but nothing changed.

    I can select 'PIO' or 'DMA if available'.

    PIO is very slow and 'DMA if available' is capped like above.
     
    Phil, May 23, 2009
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    Is the weird results comming from your "acer one"?
     
    jackluo923, May 23, 2009
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    Yes!

    And the CPU is capped too! At 1.24 Ghz
     
    Phil, May 23, 2009
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    What speed have Hitachi 7200 ?
     
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    I would make big test of all 7200 HDDs ut who's gonna buy all hard drives :D
    I have two..
    I need seagate and hitachi .. what else is on market ?
    all 320GB 7200 rpm ..
     
    Evoss-X, May 23, 2009
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    I'd like to keep this thread on topic Evoss.

    My 5K320 should be doing 52MB/sec average. Somehow it does only 42MB/sec.
     
    Phil, May 23, 2009
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    Perhaps the US15W chipset firmware on Acer 715 only support up to DMA6/UDMA 66. Acer is known to do wierd thing such as turning off AHCI, virtualization..etc.

    I'll look for more info and i'll report back when I find something.
     
    jackluo923, May 23, 2009
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    you could try to run the Hitachi Feature Tool and lock the SATA mode to 1.5 Gbit/s, or change some other settings.
     
    FrankTabletuser, May 23, 2009
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    Thanks. I'll try that tomorrow.
     
    Phil, May 23, 2009
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    Just checked it. Seems like I need a floppy drive or CD drive. I have neither. Too bad.
     
    Phil, May 24, 2009
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    A bootable USB stick does the job, too.

    How?
    As far as I remember you need VFD to create with Windows a virtual bootable floppy disk to have the boot files and then use the HP Format tool to format (try FAT) the USB stick and make it bootable. After this you only have to copy the Hitachi tool on the USB stick, boot from it and run it.
     
    FrankTabletuser, May 25, 2009
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    Phil, I had a similar problem last summer, but my 7K320 160gb drive's speed was being capped at around 65 MB/s (where the flat part of the line on the graph was). Eventually I tried installing Intel Matrix Storage Manager, and that solved it. (This was on Vista SP1.)

    The Hitachi Feature Tool suggestion sounds good and may be a better idea. But... keep Intel MSM in mind as something to try in case the Hitachi tool doesn't help.
     
    swarmer, May 25, 2009
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    US15W chipset is meant to be used on a MID so capped hdd performance is normal.
     
    jackluo923, May 26, 2009
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