bad hdtune results? (WD320gb 7200rpm)

so i kinda dropped my HDD be4 i put it in my laptop and this is my result in hdtune. is that bad? lol well if anything i bought it off amazon, i could send it back and have them send me a new one right? I order it on jan 30th got it feb 6th.



those results looks bad..real bad..lol but nothing is wrong with my laptop.

 

I cannot see anything bad... You mean those sudden drops are bad?

Those are perfectly fine. Those drops mean that another program (such as an update service, search indexer, backup etc.) is accessing the drive in the mean time while hdtune is measuring the performance... If you shut down those programs, you will decrease the amount of those drops. If you would like to get rid of them fully you need to connect your drive via eSata port as an auxiliary drive (i.e. it should not be your system drive that has the OS in).


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If you think the drive might be damaged, you can run an 'Error Scan' from HD Tune for surface damage.

If the drive was not powered when it was dropped, it is probably fine, as the read/write heads are parked into a safe area when the drive is turned off.

 

yeah it was dropped be4 i powered it, wasn't that bad of a drop but yeah like two foot drop lol... running error scan.

 

I can't see anything wrong.
Why you get lower performance than you should is because you probably is running alot of other applications at the same time while benchmarking (the drops indicate that you have alot of other applications accessing the harddrive at the same time), so i'd say that's why you only get 60MB/s, otherwise the graph seems fine.

 

okay i finish the error scan last night its PROBLEM FREE :] thanks guys.

 

If you want to get a proper result for the hard drive you need to turn off all exessive processes and let your computer sit for awhile untill it stops trying to access the hard drive then run it so you dont get the sudden drops. At least this has worked for me.