Scammer access and drive problem

[nerd2u]

Your stuck on the power of suggestive thought.

Either you believe it was faster before or the customer is telling you they think it was. Thus these suggestions are making you believe the new drive is slower without any actual evidence to back up the claim.

Now it is entirely possible you got a bad batch of drives.

Like I said you can try tweaking the windows settings. Are you testing on the battery or plugged in? What are the power settings set to? Performance or battery life?

Is something slamming the drive causing it to be slow ? You can try disabling windows search and prefetch and see if that helps.

At the end of the day your only going to get so much out of the drive no matter what you do.

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[thecomputerguy]

I'd never ever replace a hard drive in a computer with a 5400rpm or 7200rpm drive. If a client is actually going to pay me to backup all their data and do a full reinstall it's either SSD or I won't do the job. All of the work is already an expensive time consuming process, why waste it on a mechanical drive.

If she doesn't want to pay the cost for a 1TB SSD then split it into a 250GB SSD + 1TB Data drive, that combination is still significantly cheaper than a 1TB SSD.

 

[mikeroq]

I wouldn't say significantly cheaper.

A 256gb ssd + WDBlue 1tb is about $79. And that is with the cheapest SSD.

A 1TB SSD can be had as low as $90. $90-$120.

If you used a WD Blue 250gb SSD that's $45. So $94 total.
For instance the WD blue 1TB SSD is $110.

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[thecomputerguy]

I wouldn't say significantly cheaper.

A 256gb ssd + WDBlue 1tb is about $79. And that is with the cheapest SSD.

A 1TB SSD can be had as low as $90. $90-$120.

If you used a WD Blue 250gb SSD that's $45. So $94 total.
For instance the WD blue 1TB SSD is $110.

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Ah ... you are right ... my god how prices have dropped so quickly. Granted I only use Samsung SSDs so they are a little pricey but goodness I remember paying for a 250GB what a 1TB costs now.

 

[mikeroq]

My 500gb Samsung was $150 in 2016. Now a 1tb Samsung is $150.

Samsung has a 1TB QVO for $108 I think
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[sorcerer]

Sorry guys, health-related issues meant I didn't get any work done yesterday but here's the details you requested:

Acer Aspire F5-571
Intel Core i3-5005 @ 2.00GHz
4GB RAM
Windows 10 Home 64-bit

And yes, you are all correct in the assumption that I don't have any hard figures for how it performed previously, just "a feeling" that it's slower than when I've done work on it in the past. This "feeling" is even more prevalent because I tested the drive with nothing on it except a completely clean and fresh install of Windows, so no 'windows rot' or accumalated crud to contend with.

My back is a bit better than yesterday but still getting a fair bit of pain so I've decided to just send it out as it is. After all, it only came in for a nuke and pave because some scammers got remote access, not because the customer thought it was running slowly - that was just my own feeling about it, having dealt with this machine before.

I'm sorry if I upset anyone or seemed ungrateful for the advice you gave me, but in my defence I did only ask for opinions on the results of the HDD Tune tests and/or my interpretations of them. Anyone who suffers with chronic pain will know that as pain levels increase, so does your frustration, and tolerance of anything else takes a nose-dive.

Thank you to everyone who took the time and trouble to reply, I really do appreciate the help, even though it may seem otherwise.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

And yes, you are all correct in the assumption that I don't have any hard figures for how it performed previously, just "a feeling" that it's slower than when I've done work on it in the past. This "feeling" is even more prevalent because I tested the drive with nothing on it except a completely clean and fresh install of Windows, so no 'windows rot' or accumalated crud to contend with.

No superfetch built up though, the access time of the first drive is pretty bad but I don't know why the benchmarks look like that for the other 2, I havent done an hdd tune benchmark in a while but I recall them looking more like the first picture as a slope than the 2 images that followed.

 

[Markverhyden]

Sorry guys, health-related issues meant I didn't get any work done yesterday but here's the details you requested:

Acer Aspire F5-571
Intel Core i3-5005 @ 2.00GHz
4GB RAM
Windows 10 Home 64-bit

And yes, you are all correct in the assumption that I don't have any hard figures for how it performed previously, just "a feeling" that it's slower than when I've done work on it in the past. This "feeling" is even more prevalent because I tested the drive with nothing on it except a completely clean and fresh install of Windows, so no 'windows rot' or accumalated crud to contend with.

My back is a bit better than yesterday but still getting a fair bit of pain so I've decided to just send it out as it is. After all, it only came in for a nuke and pave because some scammers got remote access, not because the customer thought it was running slowly - that was just my own feeling about it, having dealt with this machine before.

I'm sorry if I upset anyone or seemed ungrateful for the advice you gave me, but in my defence I did only ask for opinions on the results of the HDD Tune tests and/or my interpretations of them. Anyone who suffers with chronic pain will know that as pain levels increase, so does your frustration, and tolerance of anything else takes a nose-dive.

Thank you to everyone who took the time and trouble to reply, I really do appreciate the help, even though it may seem otherwise.

I guess that's an iCeleron. LOL!!! Over here it was/is sold in big box stores for a 200-300. So it's a dog no matter how you look at it. And you're not the only one who "mis-remembers" machine performance. I've certainly been guilty of that as well.

 

[fincoder]

Nothing wrong with that CPU's performance. The i3-5005u was 2-3 times faster than the laptop Celeron of that time, and not far off the laptop i5 of that time:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...eron-N3060-vs-Intel-i5-5200U/2484vs2762vs2440

 

[lan101]

My 500gb Samsung was $150 in 2016. Now a 1tb Samsung is $150.

Samsung has a 1TB QVO for $108 I think
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My samsung 500gb drive was $369.99 from Newegg in April 2013 lol.

Amazing how much prices have went down. That's one example of how I get customers to upgrade to ssd's.