WD320 Low Benchmarks

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Limp Gawd
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I just put together a new system,

Pro 2 Duo E4500
MSI P35 Neo 2
2Gigs G-Skill

I just decided to run a benchmark on my WD3200AAKS and see how its running. The results are low compared to other benchmarks I've found.

HD Tune 2.55 (free)
HD Tune: WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 3.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 75.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 59.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.0 ms
Burst Rate : 128.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 53.3%


HD Tune: WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA Information

Firmware version : 12.01B02
Serial number : WD-WMARW0246223
Capacity : 298.1 GB (~320.1 GB)
Buffer size : 16384 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-8 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 149997 MB
Usage : 42.38%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 2
Drive letter : E:\
Label :
Capacity : 155246 MB
Usage : 7.54%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No
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Anandtech, for example, did a benchmark here and shows a lot better results.

HDTech shows similar results. I'm going to keep investigating. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to share them.
 
I did not see anything about what motherboard/cpu anand used. it can be the difference. also you have the chipset drivers loaded or controller drivers
 
CPU usage is so high, it makes me wonder if your computer is doing something in the background like indexing or automatic updates?
 
You should turn off other programs while benchmarking--it appears your disk is being accessed heavily during the benchmark, crippling your results.
 
Ah, yeah... I guess I did have something running. I tried again but still am getting the same results, even after a defrag.

HD Tune: WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 34.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 73.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 59.3 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.3 ms
Burst Rate : 122.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.6%

HD Tune: WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA Information

Firmware version : 12.01B02
Serial number : WD-WMARW0246223
Capacity : 298.1 GB (~320.1 GB)
Buffer size : 16384 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-8 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 149997 MB
Usage : 43.08%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 2
Drive letter : E:\
Label :
Capacity : 155246 MB
Usage : 7.54%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No
Click to expand...
 
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