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    Help with hard disk.

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by SirWinsalot, Feb 8, 2008.

  1. SirWinsalot

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    Hi, first post here. I just got a Sager 9262 from XoticPC. I got 3 200GB hard drives in raid-5. Now the problem is that my windows experience index base score is 3.1 because of my "disk data transfer rate." Is this normal? Is there a fix?
     
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  2. Vedya

    Vedya There Is No Substitute...

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    Welcome to NBR SirWInsalot!

    well, first of all, dont trust WEI. It is a very inaccurate benchmarking tool. It gives completely different scores to different computes, although the two maybe exactly the same. If you are worried, I suggest you bench mark ur HDD Speed using HDtune. Much more accurate that WEI.

    What are the individual drive speeds?

    Regards,
    hkman
     
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    SirWinsalot Newbie

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    Thanks for the quick response. I'm running 200gb SATA300 drives. I'll try and HDtune.
     
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    Yea, but are they 5400 or 7200 RPM?
     
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    They're 7200. I ran HDtune. HD Tune:

    HD Tune: Intel Raid 5 Volume Benchmark

    Transfer Rate Minimum : 65.5 MB/sec
    Transfer Rate Maximum : 109.5 MB/sec
    Transfer Rate Average : 93.1 MB/sec
    Access Time : 14.5 ms
    Burst Rate : 104.8 MB/sec
    CPU Usage : 3.8%

    Is that good or bad? Also, the temp for the hard drive doesn't show. Anything I can do about that?
     
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  6. Fade To Black

    Fade To Black The Bad Ass

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    That's great man.
     
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    Thanks. I guess Kudos to Microsoft for making such a great benchmark.
     
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    Refresh it.
     
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