Major performance issues with T60p (vs T41p)

[nxman]

I think a format will do the job!

[Pascal_TTH]

Hi,

I recently bought an T60p (2007-93G) to replace my trusty old T41p, and the first few days it looked really good and well. But after a short period of time I cannot belive how slow this new SATA built laptop is compared to the T41p. Loading up more than one application that uses the harddrive at the time in XP makes it cripple to death and any subsequent hdd access after loading up any application which uses a bit of memory makes it crumble. Even trying to run games on this laptop vs the T41p seems to be below par.

Even now with just Firefox (5 tabs), 4x downloads (windows benchmarks software) and MSN up the system crawls.

From IBM/Lenovo's webpage the laptop is supposed to have an "100GB 7200rpm HD" but doing several tests show's it's not really performing like that at all. My old T41p had an 7200rpm ATA100 disk and it was alot faster.

Anyone else had similar experiences with these new laptops?

HD Tach benchmarking show's it's doing appx:

Random acces: 21.8ms
Cpu utilization: 4%
Average read: 40.7MB/s

I just have the same *issue*. I was wondering how a T60p with Core Duo 2,16 GHz and 2 GB can be slower to load even a clean Windows then my T41p with Momentus 7200.1 100 GB. I run some benchs, 7K100 SATA is really not great drive. Longer access time and lower transfert rate. I update my T60p with a Momentus 7200.2 160 GB and now, it rocks.

[seeplus]

2. Just to make sure, make sure you have SATA mode selected in the BIOS (not compatibility).

I get faster performance in compability mode with NO matrix storage drivers installed. (T60p 7200rpm 100gb)