HD Tune Spikes? Normal?

[Muel]

Hey, I have two Samsung F3 1TB hard drives. (No raid or anything, it's all witchcraft to me, and they're full of stuff so I can't set raid up anyway as far as I know).

I just ran HD Tune (free version) to see whats what, and they're both spiking in the result, which I haven't seen on any images of this bench on this HDD?

HD One is my OS drive, and it partitioned with 120gb for windows and the rest for docs.

HD Two is just purely for video, and only has one partition taking up the full HDD.

Is it alright for them to spike like this? I'm using a Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H motherboard, they're connected to the SATA3 ports but with SATA3 support disabled, (trying to find the source of some lockups I've been having).

If correct, what these do show is that the promise of an 8.9ms access time is a total lie, unless seek time and access time are two totally different things and I'm getting confused?

Cheers guys.

 

[Muel]

Blimey no replies yet guys? That's not normal, usually there's someone to comment virtually straight away.

 

[Muel]

Cheers dude, seems plausible. I've spotted two accessing fairly regular that it could be. Dropbox, and the Search Indexing thing. There's nothing wrong with them running as they should be though, so the scan results are as they should be IMO. If I stop them, it won't give an acurate reading of my everyday speeds anyway.

In real world tests like moving large amounts of video from one to the other, it always gets speeds of over 100mbps, so it'll be reet I guess.