Crystalmark results

How bad is this compared to other hard drives?

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 90.991 MB/s
Sequential Write : 87.806 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 29.846 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 37.980 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.338 MB/s [ 82.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.717 MB/s [ 175.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.589 MB/s [ 143.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.750 MB/s [ 183.1 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 34.2% (203.7/596.2 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/09/21 21:47:34
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)


Right now a small SSD is very tempting for at least a paging drive as I can't afford to buy a 8gb ddr2 kit to have enough ram to disable the pagefile.

By the way the drive is a 640gb blue edition wd6400aaks

 
Here are two HD Tune results:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2157/640gb1standardwr9.png
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7674/hdtunebenchmarkwdcwd640.png

It appears that your drive is slow compared to other WD6400AAKS drives.

Western Digital appears to use different platter densities in the same model. See these related threads:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Check-hard-disk-motor-speed/m-p/39369
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WD6402AAEX-new-drive-slower-than-older-drive/m-p/37755
 
Out of curiosity I just ran Crystal Diskmark on my Alienware m15x laptop, skullcap model. I have a 256GB Corsair SSD

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 215.867 MB/s
Sequential Write : 153.032 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 175.982 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 83.427 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 16.952 MB/s [ 4138.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 8.362 MB/s [ 2041.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 22.999 MB/s [ 5615.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 4.155 MB/s [ 1014.4 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 72.4% (172.5/238.4 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/09/22 16:33:33
OS : Windows 7 Enterprise Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)
 
Current transfer HD Tune times for the Intel X25-M 80GB SSD w/Windows 7 64 on this machine. Load times are much faster. Accessing and running Apps is faster. Usually strap the user in the seat when letting them try it out.

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/8861/ssdtimer.jpg

ssdtimer.jpg
 
The Blue drives are slow, a Samsung F3 7200rpm drive would improve that big time if your not ready to dive into SSD.

Learning the hard way so I bought a cheap SSD on new egg for $70 to use as a swap drive so I will wait till prices for higher end drives to fall so I can migrate over but 200GB worth of games and other programs isn't an easy fit.
 
Yea, I think I'm still paying for the 256GB SSD on my laptop but it boots up, shuts down and opens all apps and games faster than my big machine and that machine is running dual 150GB WD VelociRaptor drivers in Raid 0 for drive C:.
 
I doubt that it is your board but your drive as my ancient IDE drives bench close to your drive and my 640gb even though it is deteriorating is faster still. I suggest that you look at a faster drive or pair it as I am doing with a SSD. It is the drive that is the slowest part of any system. I got a pair of 10 year old IDE drives that are the same model bench 28mb read/write and that is about 1/3 of the performance of your current drive. So treat your self to something that is quick unless you want to stay with what you got. As for me I will stick with my aging drive for another year with that tiny kingston ssd as a paging drive.
 
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 191.084 MB/s
Sequential Write : 49.939 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 160.221 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 30.831 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 10.482 MB/s [ 2559.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 3.275 MB/s [ 799.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 9.744 MB/s [ 2378.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 4.697 MB/s [ 1146.7 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [I: 14.3% (4.0/28.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/09/27 14:18:01
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)

Much much better