Quick look at my HD Tune results

KelDG

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My dads laptop seemed really slow so I did the usual uninstall the rubbish, disk cleanup, checked to make sure it was fully updated and the drive was not fragmented.

It still feels sluggish, can you have a quick look at my HD Tune results, i'm not sure weather it is actually slow or I am too used to working with machines that have an SSD now.



Cheers for any input.

Kel
 
Pretty average for a mech drive, especially a laptop one. A couple of very low dips but nothing I'd consider major.
 
Those dips could indicate something in the background i.e. anti-virus, malware, etc. thats hogging a lot of CPU time.
 
do error scan, uncheck quick.

dips are defo not right.

I'd guess there would be warnings in health tab and also bad sectors present.
 
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Thanks guys. It does seem awfully slow especially getting everything loaded at startup, takes about 4 mins on desktop before it starts responding properly, even then its still sluggish.

I really want to drop a 500gb Samsung SSD in there as that is a decent price at the moment. But he needs the extra space (1TB) that is already in there, currently at 600gig and I cant convince him to part with that extra space :/.

Shame this thing cant accept 2 drives.
 
kefan77 said:
do error scan, uncheck quick.

dips are defo not right.

I'd guess there would be warnings in health tab and also bad sectors present.
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It says the health is OK, dont know what to make of the rest of the information through, I did a quick scan in HD Tune it was all green, will have to run the long one tonight.


 
kefan77 said:
it probably can. just replace DVD with a caddy.

but tbh 500GB is plenty, I'd look into deleting unneeded files.
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Think i might have to set him up some network storage and replace the HD with an SSD, unfortunatley he uses the DVD drive quite a lot.
 
Comparison of the 2 drives in my 5 year old laptop, 128GB SSD and 500GB 7200rpm drive.

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andy_mk3 said:
Comparison of the 2 drives in my 5 year old laptop, 128GB SSD and 500GB 7200rpm drive.[/img]
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Cheers Andy, thanks for the comparison. SSDs are just so good. There may be something wrong with this drive but mechanical drives makes PCs feel like they are steam powered now I am used to the snappy performance of SSDs.
 
I'd say its perfectly normal. All my machines, from netbook to server have an SSD in them now. If I use anything with a mech drive it's painful. Like going back to 56k, it's like how did I ever cope?!

A fresh install would probably speed things along a bit. Other than that, only way is an SSD in there.
 
How many processes running once it's booted?

Probably just filled with junkware.

If it's over 50/60, clean it up.

CCleaner startup tab is a great way to do it
 
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