Hard Drive random access time went up?

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grayprint

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Hi all,

I'm using HDTune to benchmark my HD which is a Samsung T166 HD501LJ. The Access time used to be 15ms, but now its 16.5ms or so. I don't remember changing anything hard drive related. What could be the cause of this?

Edit: Well the hard drive is filled up more now since I've ran the last test (15ms) but it has been defragged. Could this be it?

Edit2: ok thats not it. I moved all files to a seperate physical drive and its still the same.
 
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grayprint said:
Hi all,

I'm using HDTune to benchmark my HD which is a Samsung T166 HD501LJ. The Access time used to be 15ms, but now its 16.5ms or so. I don't remember changing anything hard drive related. What could be the cause of this?

Edit: Well the hard drive is filled up more now since I've ran the last test (15ms) but it has been defragged. Could this be it?

Edit2: ok thats not it. I moved all files to a seperate physical drive and its still the same.
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Have you recently updated drivers to your motherboard perhaps? These may also include drivers for your IDE/SATA/RAID controllers that could be affecting the HDTune results.
 

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No I haven't updated any drivers. I've only installed SP1. I'm not sure if it occurred before SP1 because I don't remember if I benchmarked it or not.

I have updated the Intel INF chipset drivers and its still at a higher access time.
 

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I believe that I read somewhere that SP1 can/does install some driver updates. Read so much the past couple weeks I can't remember where.

Gary
 

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