OMG Samsung F1 should this HD Tune concern me?

AnastieByte · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:17

Literally spent 3 hours doing a full format of my new F1 drive. Spent a few minutes with Acronis cloning my old drive. Ran HD Tune straight away and these are the screen shots of my old HDD and my new F1.
Any reason for severe dips?

Not what I expected

ChrisD. · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:18

Vista? If so (judging by the screenshots) and it's your OS drive then it'll be indexing more then likely.

AnastieByte · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:25

Thanks for the reply. Yes it is Vista. Will run a second test. Always paranoid due to mixed reviews of most hardware so if something looks wrong I go into SEND IT BACK mode

bledd · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:33

disable defender real-time scanning, run ccleaner, do a defrag with a good program like o&o defrag, then look at it again

put sp1 on for vista too if you've not done already

AnastieByte · 9 Apr 2008 at 17:06

bledd. said:
disable defender real-time scanning, run ccleaner, do a defrag with a good program like o&o defrag, then look at it again

put sp1 on for vista too if you've not done already

Will do. Cheers. Already have SP1 installed.

HighlandeR · 9 Apr 2008 at 17:10

Vista that bad ?

Sometimes I feel acronis aint quite done right.... and u need a fresh install + latest drivers just to get that "good feel" factor from it you know.

dunno why lol regardless will always love Acronis, but would always reload a fresh copy onto the mobo and then image it... then another with basic drivers.. then another with software..

Richdog · 10 Apr 2008 at 08:48

These HD tests are useless for benching as the HD will be accessed 9/10 while you're running the bench. Just ignore the dips and concentrate on the high parts of the graph (non-dipped) which indicate peak usage.

AnastieByte · 10 Apr 2008 at 09:57

Thanks all much happier now. After reading some problems with F1's and Nforce. I disabled NCQ. Will that make a difference?

ChrisD. · 10 Apr 2008 at 10:45

Depends who you ask. I looked into all this when I was having trouble with a NVidia board, iirc, NCQ will speed up Windows in real time and slow down benchmarks. Saying that I think there's a bit of a hoo haa about it, some people will have different views.

Set it to the settings where you feel you are getting better performance (ingoring the benchmark).