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are my hdtune results normal??

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~Strawberry~
hey this is my hd http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500GB...MB-Cache-11-ms

is this normal?
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Cryptedvick
ware you roaming through windows while the test was running?
because I just did a run and while I was roaming through the HDD I was testing, I got the same kind of dips.
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For a single drive, yes, that looks about right, give or take a few MB's

Ignore the lower spikes, as that will most likely be your OS accessing the drive at that *point. (*really need to speel correctly
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So you can see that's it's normal just run my Samsung F1 (Storage drive) and get the following scores.
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For a single drive, yes, that looks about right, give or take a few MB's

Ignore the lower spikes, as that will most likely be your OS accessing the drive at that *point. (*really need to speel correctly
)

my minimum is pretty bad lol, and everybody seems to have a fast access time..
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looks normal to me.

access time isnt too bad imo, better than my old drives.

my new drives get 12ms.
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my minimum is pretty bad lol, and everybody seems to have a fast access time..

Your minimum can be the OS accessing the disk whilst your running HDTune.

This can be virus checker running in the background, Windows Drive Indexing etc..

* Also, your access time will be affected also when the OS is accessing the drive.
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~Strawberry~
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Originally Posted by IdPlease
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Your minimum can be the OS accessing the disk whilst your running HDTune.

This can be virus checker running in the background, Windows Drive Indexing etc..

* Also, your access time will be affected also when the OS is accessing the drive.

so... these results arent really accurate?
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There pretty much on the ball, but as in all tests, there is a lot that can affect the overall results, lots of factors that can make the results different, as with ANY test.

The results are a ball point figure and can be interpreted as being accurate.

Run the test 3 times, then take an average out of that to give you an average score.
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I run HDTune in safe mode. That way there's no background hdd workload while running it. More accurate that way.
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