is my WD3200AAKS performance good enough?

[BIG$pender]

Is my Western Digital WD3200AAKS running as fast as it should? the reason im asking is the results i got in sisoftware sandra lite, and HD Tune.

Sandra

5400 RPM? this is a 7200 RPM drive.

HD Tune

ATA/133? i thought that was around back in the 90's. is this the correct mode? if not how do i change it?

Heres some benchmarks i just did on the drive.

ATTO with 4 and 32 mb length

the 5400 RPM reading from sandra is troubling, what should i do? RMA it? anybody else benchmarked this drive?

 

[Cyrilix]

And what makes you think these results are bad?

 

[ALL4AMD]

And what makes you think these results are bad?

ya rly?

 

[unhappy_mage]

Ignore Sandra.

 

[LunchboX3904]

And what makes you think these results are bad?

because numbers are relative and if you have nothing to compare them to, they mean absolutely nothing.

OP: yes those are very good numbers from what I can see. you actually just answered a question i've had, so thank you

 

[BIG$pender]

And what makes you think these results are bad?

bah i was just going by what sandra read as the rpm, and i thought maybe i wasnt getting all the potential performance.

because numbers are relative and if you have nothing to compare them to, they mean absolutely nothing.

indeed

 

[Cyrilix]

indeed

'tis true, but if you look at any hard drive review out there with HDTach, you will see that speed is outstanding.