my velociraptor 300gb is making a lot of noise and i think is slow or maybe im wrong??
HD Tune Pro: WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 Benchmark
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Transfer Rate Minimum : 45.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 118.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 103.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 7.2 ms
Burst Rate : 122.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.6%
Doesn't look slow to me.
looks decent to me.
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It depends on the file size of the transfer. When you read benches indicating 130Mb/s rates, it's not a very big file size.
what about the clicking noise that the velociraptor makes.. is that something normal?
"clicking noise" is kind of a subjective term and really depends on how loud it truly is, i cant hear it so i couldnt tell you if its abnormal or not, maybe you could give us something to compare it to like a pen tapping against something, or a baseball bat against a metal sign post (if the drive is really wreaked lol). i read that the raptor drives are loud seekers by nature. i have two raptors and they can get pretty noisy (not so much of a ticking noise but like a low audible rumbling noise).Originally Posted by lester01
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seems fine to me.. what controller? ur min is only low cause of that one-of spike - nothing to worry about there
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Looks on par for a Raptor. I don't mean this in a sarcastic way but rather in a serious one: What exactly were you expecting from the drive?
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That clicking noise seems to be something alot of the Raptors do - mine did it for ages before I got an SSD.
After doing alot of googling it doesnt appear to be anything serious; you're not alone with it.
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hmmm ... i recall clicking sound ... or maybe grinding sound (i cant remember which) supposely is the harddisk re-adjusts itself due to the heat expansion of the physical disk slides
try testing by placing a fan and run an application which uses a lot of virtual memory (or replicating file) ... i sure hope it's just the heat ...
my old harddisks clicks a lot above 47°C
my 300GB Velo makes the same noise:
1. Upon startup and going into Windows
2. Upon Shutdown right before the machine finally powers down
It is a "loud" click-click noise
I do not notice it during use inbetween those two times.
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