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Old April 7, 2009, 07:31 PM
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I just picked up one of these drives a couple weeks ago. I am pleased with it but I am not getting the same speeds as you did in your review.

For example in CrystalDiskMark my scores where as follows:


And results from HD Tune Pro 3.5:


As you can see they are across the board lower than your results. Do you have any ideas why? I do believe that I should be getting better speeds from this drive but for the life of me can't figure it out. What kind of bios settings do you have for that drive?
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