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  1. 16th December 2006, 03:32 PM #1
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    Default Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    What is the best setting to use for hard-drive speed in the BIOS of the XPS1210s?
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  2. 16th December 2006, 05:57 PM #2
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    Default Re: Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    I prefer silent becuase it gets kind of noisy when it's on performance.
  3. 16th December 2006, 09:24 PM #3
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    Default Re: Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    I know. Performance is a bit noisy, but will there be a significant increase in performance if I choose "performance" mode? What is default anyways?
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  4. 17th December 2006, 02:19 AM #4
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    Default Re: Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    I'm on campus a lot, and seriously, without the silent option, I don't know what I'd do in the silent study rooms/library. I mean, the constant revving up of my 80 GB HDD is pretty darn loud, despite what I've heard about the M1210.

    I don't know if setting it to Performance is significantly faster, but I doubt it'd be worth it in my case.
  5. 19th December 2006, 01:29 AM #5
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    Default Re: Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    I noticed something very strange when I use HDTune to do test to see whether silent or performance is faster... It turned out, if I read the results correctly, that silent mode is actually faster...
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  6. 19th December 2006, 04:34 PM #6
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    Default Re: Hard drive BIOS setting on XPS1210

    CPU utilization is much lower on Performance mode it seems.
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