This just can't be right =\

[mobusta1]

Background:

Bought a new laptop HP dv5 (2.4 Ghz, 4 gigs ram, 9600M GT) less than a week ago. I bought a 500 GB fujuitsu HD from newegg (it came with 160 but upgrading through HP would be way to much). I installed vista ultimate x64 a few days and ever since it has be impossibly slow and sluggish to the point where I feel like I am not using a c2d p8600 but a intel pentium 2. It's very aggravating. 44ms response time just can't be right....


I'm thinking about sending this HD back and getting a 7200 RPM one from newegg.

 

[sabregen]

your minimum and your access times are off. I'd suggest looking into your BIOS to see if you have a "32bit transfers" options, and enable that. I would also suggest setting the BIOS for SATA mode, AHCI mode, or something other than allowing the BIOS to run in "Enhanced IDE" mode or jiust "IDE mode. Do you have another blank drive you can test?

Also, not that with this drive, it sounds like you already have put a file system on there, and are likely running this in a one drive setup, and it's running the OS, swap, etc. That never yeilds good benchmarks, but I don't think it should look THIS bad.

 

[mobusta1]

Also, not that with this drive, it sounds like you already have put a file system on there, and are likely running this in a one drive setup, and it's running the OS, swap, etc. That never yeilds good benchmarks, but I don't think it should look THIS bad.

Could you please explain what you meant by this? I didn't quite follow.

 

[nitrobass24]

Show us a bench of the OEM drive
Did you install the chipset drivers?
Might want to run some diags.

 

[mobusta1]

Show us a bench of the OEM drive
Did you install the chipset drivers?
Might want to run some diags.

I don't have an bench of the drive that HP shipped, but the short time I used it it was a lot more snappier than this one. I did install the intel chipset drivers, what other diags should I run?

 

[DonDon]

It looks like something is accessing the drive while the test is running.

Disconnect from the internet. Turn off all virus or malware scanners. While the computer is just sitting at a Windows screen, do you see the hard drive being accessed?

If you are running on a fresh install of Vista, then it may still be indexing the drive. Try unchecking the Index option on the properties page for your drive in My Computer.

When you rerun the tests, are the dropouts in the speed in the exact same places or do they vary?

You can go to Fujitsu's web site in the support section and download their test program. I believe they call it Drive Fitness test. Get the version that runs from a boot CD though. If it is having problems in Windows, then the test Windows test program may not run properly.

Don

 

[mobusta1]

It looks like something is accessing the drive while the test is running.

Disconnect from the internet. Turn off all virus or malware scanners. While the computer is just sitting at a Windows screen, do you see the hard drive being accessed?

If you are running on a fresh install of Vista, then it may still be indexing the drive. Try unchecking the Index option on the properties page for your drive in My Computer.

When you rerun the tests, are the dropouts in the speed in the exact same places or do they vary?

You can go to Fujitsu's web site in the support section and download their test program. I believe they call it Drive Fitness test. Get the version that runs from a boot CD though. If it is having problems in Windows, then the test Windows test program may not run properly.

Don

Yes for some reason I've always had that problem with vista. I ALWAYS see the HD light running intermitently. I ran the test again and what you told me to. I got a little better result, but the seek time is still SO SLOW, and the miniumum is too low as well.

 

[Syntax Error]

You're going to get spikes if the disk that you are benchmarking is the same disk you have booted in to.

The spikes can be expected as there's something, somewhere Windows needed to access the disk for during the benchmark, thus resulting in the dip in performance, as demonstrated by that spike.

If you really want to bench it properly, the ideal method would be to boot into the computer via another method (such as a bootable CD or flash drive) or plug the HDD into another computer and bench it there (making sure not to boot from the bench HDD).