sarcan

My problem are not as much the HD Tach results, but more the real life lack of speed feeling. It can't be normal that I have to wait 4x as long before the hibernate blue bar fills up? Starting every day progs like Paintshop pro, firefox, Acrobat are all equally slow. My old Seagate Cheetah hit the market around the turn of the millenium, 7 year old technology, not even SCSI U320. My brand new Barracuda 500GB SATA/300 should be faster according to several reviews.

I'm not the type of person to get bothered by a little bit less performance than reviews promise. But the presence of a bottleneck is in my case so self evident that it's really worrying.