Comments on: TechBite: How's Your Hard Drive Doing? http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2009/07/01/techbite-hows-your-hard-drive-doing/ Bring your PC back to life Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:05:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Peter Oliver http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2009/07/01/techbite-hows-your-hard-drive-doing/#comment-9979 Peter Oliver Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:22:54 +0000 http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/?p=9480#comment-9979 Hello, I have a Dell XPS 720. It has an nVidia 280 GTX graphics card and 8 GB of RAM. My computer enters Power Save Mode spontaneously - 11 times yesterday! - and it's driving me nuts! Dell does not seem to know what the problem is although it was suggested that there might be a conflict between the GPU and RAM(?). I have a Windows Vista Ultimate as an OS. Lucky me! (Dell's idea, by the way.) Any thoughts? Best wishes, Peter P.S. I have PC Pitstop Optimizer 3 Hello,

I have a Dell XPS 720. It has an nVidia 280 GTX graphics card and 8 GB of RAM. My computer enters Power Save Mode spontaneously – 11 times yesterday! – and it's driving me nuts! Dell does not seem to know what the problem is although it was suggested that there might be a conflict between the GPU and RAM(?).

I have a Windows Vista Ultimate as an OS. Lucky me! (Dell's idea, by the way.)

Any thoughts?

Best wishes,

Peter

P.S. I have PC Pitstop Optimizer 3

]]> By: Darryl Gittins http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2009/07/01/techbite-hows-your-hard-drive-doing/#comment-8775 Darryl Gittins Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:33:12 +0000 http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/?p=9480#comment-8775 Thanks Steve! PCPitstop's overdrive test is also a pretty good indicator of pending drive failure. It will provide s report about the disk IO measured in MB/sec. A healthy drive should be running at about 20 MB/sec or higher. Anything as low as 15 or less is a good sign of a drive that may either soon fail, or that is running so slow that it is likely impacting system performance, and perhaps even causing errors. The overdrive test is a good place to start when troubleshooting system problems, or just for setting a baseline on which you can later gauge the health of the system. Thanks Steve!
PCPitstop's overdrive test is also a pretty good indicator of pending drive failure. It will provide s report about the disk IO measured in MB/sec. A healthy drive should be running at about 20 MB/sec or higher. Anything as low as 15 or less is a good sign of a drive that may either soon fail, or that is running so slow that it is likely impacting system performance, and perhaps even causing errors.

The overdrive test is a good place to start when troubleshooting system problems, or just for setting a baseline on which you can later gauge the health of the system.

]]> By: Andrew S. http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2009/07/01/techbite-hows-your-hard-drive-doing/#comment-8703 Andrew S. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:27:59 +0000 http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/?p=9480#comment-8703 I can see no mention of the word RAID. Does it handle multiple drives? I can see no mention of the word RAID. Does it handle multiple drives?

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