Hard Drive speed questions

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vvilliamm

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hmm im on windows 7 and i did that bench mark thing and it shows my hard drive having an 5.9 0.0 so im curious is there something i didnt do to make sure its going at its full speed?

current maximum transfer rate is 106.2 MB/sec is that good or bad?
tested using HD tune.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...n_digital_caviar_black-_-22-136-284-_-Product

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drives
this is my current hard drive.
 
109MB/s read is perfectly respectable.

and when I click on your link it asks me to log on to akamai.... thats gotta be bug-of-the-month.
 
One of the biggest miconceptions with hard drive speed is that you need huge throughput. That simply is not true depending on what you do. If you have a workstation, editing 25MP pictures, or editing GB upon GB worth of film, than you need a fast hard drive and a ton of memory.

If you browse the web and play games, than a drive that averages 40-80MB/s is going to be fine. There's a reason why a normal user doesn't get an improvement from raid or super fast hard drives; you just don't need 200MB/s transfer speeds and the applications don't use/need that much anyways.
 
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