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    HP Compaq 8510w Harddrive seriously under-performing

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by Zullie121, Jun 8, 2011.

  1. Zullie121

    Zullie121 Newbie

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    Hi,

    So I have noticed a bit of a sluggishness in my notebook. I have applied a few of the mods in the different forums and works like a charm.

    1. Loaded the Nvidia Geforce 8600 drivers on the current Quadro FX 570 + a little bit of overclocking on it with no heat issues.

    2. I also flashed the modded bios and I am using throttlestop to gain an extra 200mhz. Its more just for the sake of doing it.

    Eventually I found a very nice benchmarking utility. PerformanceTest, it has a large database where you can download results from other people who have tested.

    I have downloaded the results from quite a few 8510 users, and it seems my hard drive especially is under par, graphics is a bit over theirs, but ya i tweaked it a bit.

    Can someone please have a look at the results and maybe give me a few ideas as to what could cause the drive to be so extremely slow in comparison?

    After this test, I have cleaned up the drive a lot, defragged it using smart defrag and deep optimization, I have downloaded and applied the HP drivers again.
    I have run scandisk checking for bad sectors, which came back negative, there was nothing wrong with it.

    Anyone please have some ideas for me?

    Thanks and Kind Regards,
     

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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Try uninstall and let the computer re-detect the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager.

    Also, check the temperature of your hard drive with HWMonitor or other similiar program.
     
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  3. Zullie121

    Zullie121 Newbie

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    Hi Namaiki,

    Thanks I tried that, had to reboot of course after I removed it from Device Manage, and no joy with that.

    According to HWMon, my drive is running between 29-34 degrees celcius... that shouldn't be a problem though?

    Do you or anyone else have an idea that I could try? It really seems like the sequential read and Sequential write is seriously under-performing if you look at the .pdf on the first post?

    Oddly enough the random seek doesn't seem to be that far off?

    Thanks in Advance
     
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  4. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Thankfully, the temperature is completely normal.

    Maybe you could try Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring or other program to check your HDD's S.M.A.R.T. attributes.
     
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    jerry66 Notebook Deity

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    try a different Hard drive . I get better results using a samsung 640 gb 7200 rpm drive
     
    jerry66, Jun 10, 2011
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