Well if your problem is anything like mine, I recommend trying another SATA cable!
Samsung Spinpoint F3 slow or normal?
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Well if your problem is anything like mine, I recommend trying another SATA cable!
I Might do, my bluray drive has been experiencing a similar issue or at least the issue i would assume that could be cause by read speeds dropping so low i will try swapping them both for different cables. i will give it a shot tommorow thanks.
Are you using AHCI Mode as well? I only really noticed it since switching to AHCI Mode when i reinstalled Windows.
Wow now theres something, I've not got AHCI mode enabled in my bios.. I tried enabling it but I couldnt get into Windows... So if I were to reformat the drive while in AHCI mode would I see any performance increase?!
Well you're meant to use this on all ssds I've heard so give it a go. Get another 2gb of memory too though it's super cheap these days.
RAM won't help hard Drive Benchmarks :S Can't say i dont agree to More memory though
Do you have loads of files or have the drive partitioned? I came to the conclusion that that's why mines drops suddenly. Ordered a F4 for Storage so i will try Benchmarking the F3 with Only my Windows Installation on it, Tommorow.
Hey Duderooni.
Hard drives are made using CD looking disks. The maximum in terms of storage these (Platters) tend to get is around 350-400mb.
As a result, you typically see 500-750gb drives with two or three of these Platters, and 1TB drives with three or four or five, and more as the the size increases.
Due to a larger amount of moving mechanical parts, and the fact data may be spread across several platters, this will impact speed. Typically you'll find 500-750gb drives slightly faster than larger drives as a result.
Hope that helps mate
You're a bit behind the times.
Platter size is up to 1TB now.
And the most platters you can fit in a 3.5" HDD is 4.
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There aren't any drives out with 1TB platters though, also some disks contain5 platters.
Drives with 1TB platters are iminent.
Perhaps you can physically fit 5 platters but I don't recall seeing a drive with more than 4 platters for several years.
Yeah I did a lot of searching around on a few forums and the amount of people who recommended the sammy F3 was more than convincing enough for me to drop the 30 odd quid to get one. I'm sure the one I have has 2 500Gb platters. I've reformatted and have a new sata cable and still getting strange readings using HD Tune lol but it seems harmless so I'm not quite so hung up about that now.
One question I do have regarding the HD tune benchmark software though, I'm interested about the burst rate graph in particular. On my older drive the seagate, the yellow dots all go up in a rather orderly fashion from bottom left to mid right without ANY stray dots. The samsung does the same, but has quite a lot of stray dots all around.. Whats that all about?
One question I do have regarding the HD tune benchmark software though, I'm interested about the burst rate graph in particular. On my older drive the seagate, the yellow dots all go up in a rather orderly fashion from bottom left to mid right without ANY stray dots. The samsung does the same, but has quite a lot of stray dots all around.. Whats that all about?