Is there some problem with my drive?

The drive has passed the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics quick test but do you think the benchmark is slow?


CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo

                          Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/


* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

          Sequential Read :    18.490 MB/s

         Sequential Write :    21.798 MB/s

        Random Read 512KB :    14.018 MB/s

       Random Write 512KB :    16.071 MB/s

   Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     0.346 MB/s [   84.4 IOPS]

  Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     0.618 MB/s [  151.0 IOPS]

  Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     0.516 MB/s [  126.1 IOPS]

 Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     0.615 MB/s [  150.2 IOPS]

 Test : 1000 MB [C: 96.3% (287.1/298.1 GB)] (x5)

 Date : 2014/09/28 11:31:09

   OS : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

Hi Dinis,

Do you have any additional information that may help users repond, such as the model of drive, type of system/motherboard, etc?

thanks for your reply.

the drive is a SATA WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0, my OS is Windows 7, my mb is an Asus with Nforce4.

Meanwhile I benchmarked it with a boot cd and the sequencial transfer speed was over 3 times as fast.

Can you show us a HD Tune read benchmark graph? Numbers on their own aren’t very helpful.

Windows slows down to a crawl accessing the hard drive.

Here’s what you requested:

The curve looks excellent to me. There doesn’t appear to be any scatter in the access time data points, so that suggests to me that there is no problem with “weak” sectors.

Sorry, but I don’t have an answer for you.