Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB 16MB Crystal Mark Results

[tweakboy]

I booted into safe mode and ran this 3 times and took the best score. Fishak is this a good benchmark score for me ?

 

[Blain]

Where did you get the idea this benchmark should be run in safe mode?

 

[CurseTheSky]

Where did you get the idea this benchmark should be run in safe mode?

Less services and programs possibly taxing the hard drive, I'd guess. I'd suspect it makes a negligible difference.

 

[Blain]

Also no drivers. :$

 

[sub.mesa]

Scores look fine to me. You filled the drive already, so it's not testing the fastest portions of your disk.

You can also try HDTune on the disk in safe-mode (if that works?) to see what raw speeds you get on the outer tracks on your HDD. The outer tracks give you the fastest throughput, while the inner tracks would have roughly 50% of the performance of the outer tracks. Server-drives short-stroked by design have lower degradation; thus the inner tracks are still 70% of the outer tracks, for example.

 

[sub.mesa]

Also no drivers. :$

I don't know Windows well, but i think Safe-Mode also includes storage drivers. Else people using onboard RAID couldn't boot into Safe-Mode; in absence of the proprietary RAID drivers, there is no system disk to boot from.

So i would assume that also applies when you use no RAID but the Intel drivers (iastor.sys) instead. You could check this with AS SSD; another benchmark similar to CrystalDiskMark but let's you see the storage driver and partition alignment as well. For Intel that would be 'iastor.sys'.

 

[FishAk]

Hmmm... I can't see any benchmarks.

 

[tweakboy]

Thanks for reply Sub Mesa and the info. Good Stuff!

 

[tweakboy]

Here is how my drive looks. Data is in the outer part is that how it should be ?

 

[xenolith]

What program is that, tweakboy?

 

[tweakboy]

Hey xenolith this program is called.

Ultimate Defrag

You can download a fully working 30 day trial. Or do serial key if you wanna use more then a month.

 

[Campy]

the outer part is the fastest so that's good and the way it should be.

 

[tweakboy]

Thanks campy yes I realized. Also here is my before and after Crystal mark
When I was using SATA I cable from 6 years ago. then I got SATA II cable and here is before and after