SpinPoint F1 1TB HDTune Benchmark

k3wt · 24 Nov 2009 at 19:48

Guys can i see your HDTUne benches for this drive? not sure if mines right?

alex24 · 24 Nov 2009 at 19:48

Mine averages about 100 dead, but yours seems fine at first glance.

k3wt · 24 Nov 2009 at 22:12

doesnt the access look a bit high?

alex24 · 24 Nov 2009 at 22:30

What system spec?

My access shows as around 13 ms, and CPU usage as -1% for some reason.

k3wt · 24 Nov 2009 at 23:21

q9550 at stock ghz presently
8gb ocz platinum ram
asus rampage formula mobo
corsair hx620w psu

i also find it the noisiest HD ive ever had or heard in a desktop. however the samsung disk utility says its fine :\

alex24 · 25 Nov 2009 at 09:21

In what way is it noisy? Mine has a slight hum, but there are no seeking noises or anything like that.

200sx · 25 Nov 2009 at 09:38

Sorry to piggyback off your post but mine doesn't seem right at all...

It's connected to an ICH8 (non R) in AHCI mode.

Any ideas why the drive is underperforming?

miniyazz · 25 Nov 2009 at 12:22

It's connected through SATA I for starters

200sx · 25 Nov 2009 at 15:50

You would think so given the burst rate but the drive is configured as sataII and the ICH8 is also sataII. I get exactly the same performance whether running the ICH8 with AHCI enabled and disabled, and the same when running from the JMB363 controller.

k3wt · 25 Nov 2009 at 15:55

i wonder why my random access is so slow

erm the noise when reading is a dull click click click. unlike other drives which seems a lot feinter and higher pitch read click...

200sx · 25 Nov 2009 at 15:59

Do you know what the acoustic management setting is on your drive?

I have mine set to disabled.

The following link is for the samsung boot cd.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/downloads/ESTOOL300g_CDROM.zip

200sx · 25 Nov 2009 at 16:03

I would love to know how other people have managed to get average speeds of near to 100MB/s. Am I missing something?

Spec

C2D E6600 @ 3.0Ghz
Ga965p-ds3
4GB PC3200
Windows 7 ultimate 64
and the offending HD103UJ

k3wt · 25 Nov 2009 at 16:04

i tired them all but everytime i reboot it resets itself to 'fast'

200sx · 25 Nov 2009 at 16:08

I've tried the following

ICH8 in IDE legacy, windows driver- same
ICH8 in IDE legacy, intel driver- same
ICH8 in IDE native, windows driver - same
ICH8 in IDE native, intel driver - same
ICH8 AHCI in IDE legacy, windows driver- same
ICH8 AHCI in IDE legacy, intel driver- same
ICH8 AHCI in IDE native, windows driver - same
ICH8 AHCI in IDE native, intel driver - same
JMB363 AHCI, windows driver - same
JMB363 AHCI, JMicron driver - same

That's a lot of OS installs!

It seems whatever I try, it's not exceeding 100MB/s at all, let alone average...

200sx · 25 Nov 2009 at 16:09

After changing the setting you need to press enter on 'PROCEED' to store the setting

alex24 · 25 Nov 2009 at 16:09

Every disk is different, and 200sx, you have a fairly old chipset there, so it might account for some of it, but the drive looks fine in your benchmark, I really don't see a problem.

k3wt, which hard disk test did you use? The DOS based tests tend to be the most reliable. You can also check the SMART info.

k3wt · 25 Nov 2009 at 21:47

whats smart info? well lets just hope my caviar black 640 is faster!

i ran a check and bench with hdtune

k3wt · 26 Nov 2009 at 04:58

ive checked the 'health' of my drive in HD Tune Pro and it says OK. ive also tried DISABLING AAM but i get an error

IAmATeaf · 26 Nov 2009 at 10:02

There isn't a jumper on that drive or another that limits it to SATA1 is there? I had something similar on my rig where 1 of my 1.5tb drives was performing much lower then the other. For me it turned out that I had the SATA1 jumper enabled on my 500gb drive which seemed to be affecting it and the next port. Removed this jumper and all has been fine since.

unknownsock · 26 Nov 2009 at 12:08

Every drive is different but i thought the F1's averaged out at 110Mbp/s?
Also that access time seems ridiculously high.