New Seagate 250gb

PC Hardware & Gaming PC Building
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Hi guys

bought a Seagate 250gb PATA HDD for rs.3600

Here is the HD Tach score.. is it ok?

Long Bench

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6020/capture03032007203337qp5.th.png

Random Access: 15.1ms

CPU Utilization: 5%

Average Read: 15.2 MB/s

Quick Bench

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/394/capture03032007204414vi8.th.png

Random Access: 14.8ms

CPU Utilization: 4%

Average Read: 15.7 MB/s

Heres the HD tach score of my 5 month old Seagate 120gb USB HDD

Quick Bench

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/410/capture03032007204545yx3.th.png

Random Access: 16.8ms

CPU Utilization: 12%

Average Read: 29.5 MB/s

Heres the HD tach score of my 3.5 year old Seagate 40gb HDD

Quick Bench

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5314/capture02262007120158gp9.th.png

Random Access: 14.8ms

CPU Utilization: 8%

Average Read: 37.8 MB/s

could someone please tell me if they are ok? :expressionless: my PC is a 3.5 year old P4 with a mercury mobo BTW..

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use it as primary or secondary master if that does not help get a high quality IDE cable

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^^ Thanks Udit..i need to get a newer Cable actually.. thanks to Masky for his help too :slight_smile:

BTW HDTune temps show my 40 giger is at 41 C while my 250gb (which is placed about 3 cm below my 40gb one) is at 46 C :expressionless: this is even when its not being accessed..