My notebook 4200rpm hdd is very slow.
All About Harddisk Thread V3, Discussion for Good Harddisk
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 Oct 24 2011, 08:49 AM
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Hey guys if Hardisk is very slow, slow until it stalls my computer, is that a sign of Hardisk failure soon?
My notebook 4200rpm hdd is very slow. |
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Oct 24 2011, 11:15 AM
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The thing is I got only 1 ZoneAlarm security suite running and it is a lighter weight WinXP. Not win7. It takes like almost 3-4mins to boot the system until the HDD activity finally settle down. This is way slower than an average computer.
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Oct 24 2011, 12:26 PM
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its an old laptop IBM thinkpad R50e,
Celeron M 1.5GHz 512MB RAM DDR 333MHz(256 build in + 256 module) 60GB 4200rpm model is ic25n060atmr04-0(showed in Device manager) I google I think its a hitachi drive. I used winXp check for defragmentation, it is 9%, file fragment is 18% only. It is a fresh install a few months old only. I have my windows swap drive(virtual memory) on a diff partition(swap partition). Logfile for hijack this. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « those zzz I think is a product key i replaced it for censoring.But despite all that I didnt think a 1.5GHz machine can be this slow given winXp are running fine on old system. This post has been edited by Boldnut: Oct 24 2011, 12:35 PM |
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Oct 24 2011, 12:56 PM
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I added speedfan SMART test here are the result
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Oct 24 2011, 03:29 PM
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trust me I did defrag, and I did it again just now, and it is still slow. I have another similar speed laptop Centrino 1.73GHz, a smaller 40GB HDD it is a miles stone faster than this silly IBM laptop.
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Oct 31 2011, 10:17 AM
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Damn my 3rd 1TB 103SJ almost full, now 103SJ RM300? lol thats gonna take almost 6-12months to recover back to RM160.
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Oct 31 2011, 01:44 PM
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QUOTE(C-Note @ Oct 31 2011, 12:25 PM) Is thailand the only place in the world that produces harddisks......? well some of the company supply 70-80% of the Hardisk parts so if those fall, hardisk will face shortage too. I wonder if earthquake destroy TSMC fab plant, will we have ARM cpu + GPu shortage.  |
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Nov 2 2011, 07:27 PM
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At these kind of price range its gonna take 6 months to recover back to old level.
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Nov 15 2011, 12:59 PM
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QUOTE(newuserex @ Nov 15 2011, 11:31 AM) I'm visiting shop today to buy new HDD & new price I saw it is going to take a very long time for it to recover back the OLD price.my Optimic estimate is min 6 months.  Regret not buying one earlier  500GB price near RM300? I rather clear some space on my HDD & download them again later. |
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Nov 19 2011, 09:14 AM
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QUOTE(kanabalize @ Nov 19 2011, 06:30 AM) Really HDD price is causing people not to buy new rig... They can continue charge high price, I will never buy SSD until the drop their minimum price which is around RM150+.meanwhile SSD price still -.-! |
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Dec 18 2011, 08:36 AM
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QUOTE(jinaun @ Dec 18 2011, 07:58 AM) Hard Drive Makers to Significantly Reduce Warranty Periods In otherwords I guess they admiting they are reusing the "semi broken" parts the salvage from the disaster? ewww. thats bad, really bad. Western Digital is dropping the distribution warranty period for Caviar Blue, Caviar Green, and Scorpio Blue drives from 3 years to 2 years (Caviar Black and Scorpio Black will still carry 5-year warranties). Effective December 31, 2011, Seagate will be changing its warranty policy from a 5 year to a 3 year warranty period for Nearline drives, 5 years to 1 year for certain Desktop and Notebook Bare Drives, 5 years to 3 years on Barracuda XT and Momentus XT, and from as much as 5 years to 2 years on Consumer Electronics. http://hothardware.com/News/Weaksauce-Hard...rranty-Periods/ |
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Dec 18 2011, 06:44 PM
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QUOTE(lingloong @ Dec 18 2011, 04:28 PM) HDD Drive industry is having a hiccup this quarter Definitely gonna hold off a lot people from buying PC.  That's why "potong" warranty service / cut costWell those are MAX speed you can get based on manufacturer specification / under their most optimal/best Other factor varies thus effect the overall performance which we can expect is slower then rated spec when it come to end-user People dont mind reusing old rig if it isnt too old. *should have buy my 4th HDDs when I heard the flood news. |
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Dec 19 2011, 06:19 PM
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QUOTE(hengguowei @ Dec 19 2011, 02:54 PM) Do they mean by manufacturing using water-logged components or water-logged equipments? The heck I know, but most likely it is the case like what u said. Looks like I am not going to buy a new HDD for 2 years time since i have enough to use for now, as long as I try to conserve my capacity usage, or burn some of my media/movies files to DVD-R. |
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