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    New WD SATA II Drives benchmark...

    OH YEAH! I forgot on the XPS that there is settings in the BIOS for harddrive "performance/sound.." I'll report back if any good news... Update.. Looks like that did it... Thanks so much for reminding me of that setting.. I'm getting 13's now on the seek.. So not bad... It was set to...
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    New WD SATA II Drives benchmark...

    I have the WD1600JS which is their SATA II drive.. Everything looks great in HDTACH except the seek times.... I ran it multiple times.. And it always come up in the 18ms range... The Seagate I have does 12ms.. But only 44 megs/sec throughput..
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    WD1600 or Seagate 160 w/NCQ

    I got ym Dell XPS Gen 5 in the other day and it was ordered with a 160 gig drive with NCQ.. But shipped with a WD 160 SATA drive without NCQ... Should I hold on to the WD or is the 7200.8 w/NCQ going to be any better performing? Thanks a bunch!
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