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    Very Odd Drops in HD Tune

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Adam24367, Feb 5, 2009.

  1. Adam24367

    Adam24367 Notebook Consultant

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    Somthing odd is going on here? Faulty drive? I Just installed it so that might possibly be it...
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    Adam24367, Feb 5, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Is that the drive you are currently running Windows off of?

    If so, it's probably just the computer loading stuff and breaking consistency with HD Tune's access to the drive.
     
    namaiki, Feb 5, 2009
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  3. Adam24367

    Adam24367 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah it is.
     
    Adam24367, Feb 5, 2009
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    It usually just means there's another program or Windows accessing the disk while you do the HDTune bench. Nothing to worry about, really.
     
    Commander Wolf, Feb 5, 2009
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  5. Adam24367

    Adam24367 Notebook Consultant

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    Hmm, I pretty much stopped a bunch of services..
    I will run it again
     
    Adam24367, Feb 5, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Connect via eSATA and try again. :p











    Just kidding/
     
    namaiki, Feb 5, 2009
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  7. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Even if you stop a bunch of services, there's almost no way you can completely halt disk access unless you have a clean install or something. If you really want a clean bench, connect it via eSATA as namaiki said. Seriously, there's only two spikes, I wouldn't worry about it.
     
    Commander Wolf, Feb 5, 2009
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  8. Adam24367

    Adam24367 Notebook Consultant

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    Alright. I turned off my Antivirus and no drops this time :)
     
    Adam24367, Feb 5, 2009
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  9. Michel.K

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    Those drops are fully normal, specially when using the drive with the OS on it.
    Because windows does some read/writes to the disc even if you stop every service possible, it has to do it, in order to run the OS, so when it does and you're doing a benchmark you'll see those drops happen when windows read/writes something else at the same time.

    You get more drops the more things you got running at the same time on that same specific harddrive no matter what partition it is. :)
     
    Michel.K, Feb 6, 2009
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  10. Tippey764

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    Generally the windows vista UI at the top means hes running windows :rolleyes:.
     
    Tippey764, Feb 6, 2009
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  11. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    But it could be a second drive rather than the drive Windows boots off of. Don't be snitty.

    I agree with the posters above... it looks normal. If it dropped and stayed down I'd be worried, or if it drops in the same places every single time you run HDTune. If it doesn't, then it's a transient drive access that's just throwing off your results. If the graph always looks identical with drops in the same place every time, you may have a scratched drive or something going bad in a specific area of the drive.
     
    Pitabred, Feb 6, 2009
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  12. mullenbooger

    mullenbooger Former New York Giant

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    Access time seems pretty high. Is that the 7200rpm?
     
    mullenbooger, Feb 6, 2009
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  13. Michel.K

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    It's teh 7200rpm one. So yeah, i agree with you, seems pretty high, but it could just be a coincidence.





    Generally when someone asks if he RUNS windows on that specific harddrive, it means that he's running windows on that 320GB harddrive he's benching and not on any other harddrive. Don't try to be a smartass. Smartass.
     
    Michel.K, Feb 6, 2009
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  14. Adam24367

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    Yeah. its 7200. When i ran it again, I got a 16 ms.
     
    Adam24367, Feb 6, 2009
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  15. Michel.K

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    Good, that's normal :)
     
    Michel.K, Feb 6, 2009
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