Is this a good CrystalDiskMark score and what can I do to make it better?

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Hello, my computer seems to be having poor disk performance, my hard drive is very noisy.

Here are my computers specs:

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Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 @ 2.90GHz 55 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 0GDG8Y (CPU 1)
Graphics
DELL ST2220L (1920x1080@60Hz)
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (ZOTAC International) 42 °C
Storage
931GB SAMSUNG HD103SM ATA Device (SATA) 31 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653J ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio Device

More stuff about my HDD:

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Storage
Hard drives
SAMSUNG HD103SM ATA Device
Manufacturer SAMSUNG
Business Unit/Brand Desktop
Model Capacity For This Specific Drive 1TB
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number S2PFJ90B903901
Firmware Version Number 1AJ10201
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 1978 times
Power On Time 113.6 days
Speed 7200 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None
S.M.A.R.T
Status Good
Temperature 31 °C
Temperature Range OK (less than 50 °C)
S.M.A.R.T attributes
01
Attribute name Read Error Rate
Real value 0
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 51
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
02
Attribute name Throughput Performance
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
03
Attribute name Spin-Up Time
Real value 9267 ms
Current 70
Worst 69
Threshold 25
Raw Value 0000002433
Status Good
04
Attribute name Start/Stop Count
Real value 1,963
Current 99
Worst 99
Threshold 0
Raw Value 00000007AB
Status Good
05
Attribute name Reallocated Sectors Count
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 10
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
07
Attribute name Seek Error Rate
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 51
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
08
Attribute name Seek Time Performance
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 15
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
09
Attribute name Power-On Hours (POH)
Real value 113d 14h
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000AA6
Status Good
0A
Attribute name Spin Retry Count
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 51
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
0B
Attribute name Recalibration Retries
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
0C
Attribute name Device Power Cycle Count
Real value 1,978
Current 99
Worst 99
Threshold 0
Raw Value 00000007BA
Status Good
0D
Attribute name Soft Read Error Rate
Real value 0
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
BF
Attribute name G-sense error rate
Real value 47
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 000000002F
Status Good
C0
Attribute name Power-off Retract Count
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
C1
Attribute name Load/Unload Cycle Count
Real value 1,985
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 00000007C1
Status Good
C2
Attribute name Temperature
Real value 31 °C
Current 64
Worst 64
Threshold 0
Raw Value 00000D001F
Status Good
C3
Attribute name ECC Rate
Real value 0
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
C4
Attribute name Reallocation Event Count
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
C5
Attribute name Current Pending Sector Count
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
C6
Attribute name Uncorrectable Sector Count
Real value 0
Current 252
Worst 252
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
C7
Attribute name UltraDMA CRC Error Count
Real value 0
Current 200
Worst 200
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
C8
Attribute name Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate
Real value 0
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000000
Status Good
F0
Attribute name Head Flying Hours
Real value 113d 14h
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000AA6
Status Good
F1
Attribute name Total LBAs Written
Real value 6,286,777
Current 96
Worst 93
Threshold 0
Raw Value 00005FEDB9
Status Good
F2
Attribute name Total LBAs Read
Real value 9,721,392
Current 93
Worst 91
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000945630
Status Good
FE
Attribute name Free Fall Protection
Real value 1
Current 100
Worst 100
Threshold 0
Raw Value 0000000001
Status Good
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
Size 39.1 MB
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number E41D7CC0
Size 14.8 GB
Used Space 9.14 GB (61%)
Free Space 5.67 GB (39%)
Partition 2
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #2
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number CA1FE791
Size 823 GB
Used Space 566 GB (68%)
Free Space 257 GB (32%)
Partition 3
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #3
Size 93.4 GB

I just got CrystalDiskMark on my computer.

Here are my result from a 50MB test

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 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 : 114.832 MB/s
Sequential Write : 134.758 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 67.383 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 152.849 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.850 MB/s [ 207.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 9.115 MB/s [ 2225.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.292 MB/s [ 315.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 9.305 MB/s [ 2271.7 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [C: 68.3% (562.2/823.2 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2014/06/09 17:36:19
OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

Here are my results from a 4,000 MB test

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 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 : 112.228 MB/s
Sequential Write : 109.560 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 17.229 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 26.753 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.168 MB/s [ 41.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.529 MB/s [ 129.1 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.476 MB/s [ 116.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.628 MB/s [ 153.4 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [C: 68.3% (562.2/823.2 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2014/06/09 17:58:11
OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

Thanks in advanced

 

[bob hays]

Ya that is a normal score for hard drives. You can't really increase it by much unless you upgrade the drive itself.