Storage Are these figures right for a Samsung F3

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  1. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    I have recently fitted my F3 1TB and installed Win 7.

    I have ran HDtune (several versions) and the scores seem rather erratic, can anyone tell me if they look okay. They seem all over the place to me.

    I have set the bios to AHCI and I have installed the chipset drivers.

    Thanks

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  2. Cupboard

    Cupboard I'm not a modder.

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    lolol -1.0% CPU usage!
    I can't be much help but I do agree they look odd. Speeds are usually different towards the edges of the disk (as for the same RPM they need to move faster than the inner parts) but you have only shown the first 40GB.
     
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  3. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    Ah those scores were when I chose the short stroke option.

    The graph below was after I defragged and ran the test again.

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  4. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    Access time is a bit high... and burst rate very low. Your sustained read speed is healthy however.
     
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  5. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    The burst score that bit tech got was around 220 if I'm right but was that done testing an empty drive as I'm testing with the OS on the drive. Does that make a difference.

    The actual drive seems a little slower than my present F1 which shouldn't be right at all.

    Would it make any difference that I'm running it in AHCI as I read somewhere that it can lower performance slightly.
     
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  6. yakyb

    yakyb i hate the person above me

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    having your os on the drive will indeed impeed performance of this bench as the os will be doing various reads etc on it whilst the bench is running (i think this may be what your seeing on the fist bench)
     
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    krazykid035 Entrepreneur

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    I just ran this today on my F3 drives, both are 1TB and the first one has my OS and files, the 2nd one I didn't use yet as it is going to be my high def video dump hard drive.

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    Hmm seems to be behaving the same....interesting.
     
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  9. Jipa

    Jipa Avoiding the "I guess.." since 2004

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    The numbers are just fine.
     
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  10. kenco_uk

    kenco_uk I unsuccessfully then tried again

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    Are you running AHCI or ide/sata? Chipset drivers up to date?
     
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  11. CrapBag

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    I have tried it both ways, AHCI and IDE/sata, at present I have gone back to IDE/Sata but haven't decided which would be better to use.

    I know AHCI allows the use of NCQ(I believe) but I couldn't find anyway to see if it was being used or how to activate it. If someone could clear that issue up for me as well it would be good :)
     
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