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HP dv6408nr support sataII transfur rate?

post #1 of 17
6/3/09 at 12:46pm
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I have a HP dv6408nr that needs a hard drive. I have found a Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB. I have searched on Google for days and i have yet to find a definitive answer if my computer actually supports the 3GB/s transfer rate that new hdd is capable of. I do know that the drive i have is a 1.5GB/s however i have not checked it for a jumper. The hdd that my lappy shipped with has the 1.5GB/s transfer rate. Any help is appreciated, thx in advance.
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post #2 of 17
6/3/09 at 2:29pm
System transfer rate is pretty much determined by how good the hardware controller performs. Even with the "old" 1.5gb/s that you have, I doubt that your comp currently takes full advantage of it.

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post #3 of 17
6/3/09 at 4:42pm
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thx for the quick reply. Well i have done some reading about other ppl putting this hard drive in a dv6000 and in there experiance they noticed faster system scans like virus, defrag, and movinging large amounts of files. But i think that is really do to the 7200 rpm
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post #4 of 17
6/3/09 at 4:49pm
Yep!

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post #5 of 17
6/3/09 at 10:18pm
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is there anyway to see what the trans rate is right now with some kind of bench mark software?
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post #6 of 17
6/3/09 at 10:33pm
Actually I find that Vista WEI is a good general benchmark to see how a drive performs.

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post #7 of 17
6/4/09 at 3:37am
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well currently its sitting at 4.8 but i read earlier that hitachi has an "unlocker" type program that will enable the 3.0 side of the drive. Its called Feature Tool heres a link maybe you've heared of it.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
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post #8 of 17
6/16/09 at 5:22pm
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Ok here is an update on this; I bought the Seagate 7200rpm 500 GB. I used the Seagate clone utility on my desktop to copy my old drive. Right off the back I noticed a large increase in performance. WEI set the new drive at 5.9 which I believe tops the scale. HOWEVER the next day I noticed just the opposite. The drive tends to almost time out. So having my data still on my old drive I wiped out the new on and put a fresh install of vista with all the updates drivers. It is still doing the same thing. I have a program called siw that recognizes the drive as a SATAII/300 device. Any input appreciated. thx
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post #9 of 17
6/16/09 at 6:33pm
Can you clarify "almost time out"?

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post #10 of 17
6/16/09 at 7:49pm
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
Can you clarify "almost time out"?

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ok well i wasn't sure how to describe it but it like say im copying a 500 mb file to another folder windows will start to move the file then at say around half way it will pause for about 10 secs then continue and finish copying. Like when you internet lags or times out. but it didn't do what its doing the first day. everything was for lack of a better word flawless. 102 mb rate in HDtune. I have used chk disk and other chk disk style programs and have found no errors at all. Oh and i put my old hard drive in and it dosn't do it.
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post #11 of 17
6/16/09 at 10:06pm
Try disabling disk indexing and search indexing?

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post #12 of 17
6/17/09 at 1:51am
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to be honest i can't remember see the computer in question is at my house and i am out of town ot the moment. but i will be back tommarrow to look and check to see. How much would that effect a fresh install though? also if my comp didn't support sataII it would even show up right and in device manager the drive is displyed as a scsi drive, but i have looked at google and this is "normal" but anyway I also experiance slow boot times.....
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post #13 of 17
6/17/09 at 9:16am
I would just review startup processes and services, disabling whatever I don't need. Use a free antivirus like Avast, turn off disk indexing then let the comp "flies" :-)

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post #14 of 17
6/17/09 at 12:19pm
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what im really trying to figure out is why this is happening. it was a directs clone of my old drive then a fresh install, is don't make any sense. Also I checked my computer and disk indexing is turned off on both new and old drives
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post #15 of 17
6/17/09 at 6:04pm
You are saying that you cloned the old drive onto the new one, then you made a fresh install - meaning wiping out the new cloned drive and reinstalling it?

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post #16 of 17
6/18/09 at 11:30pm
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Originally Posted by Viper_182 View Post
is there anyway to see what the trans rate is right now with some kind of bench mark software?
Yes HDTach and HDTune will give you the read transfer rate. If Vista HDTach must be run in compatibility mode for XP. They are both free for this.

Also no mobile HDD goes beyond the theoretical bandwidth of SATA 1.5 so not like it matters SATA 3 or 1.5.
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post #17 of 17
6/19/09 at 6:44pm
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yes. gdn thats what i did. however some how i have fixed it so now all is well. thx for yalls help
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