> "Sh*t" really only begins to describe this. So let me get this > correctly: your Hitachi hdds weren't mounted in a very stable manner to > the mobo chassis and vibrations from the fan caused them to fail writes > and retry a _lot_ leading to the write performance drop? The HDD's _was_ mounted very tight and stable, so the FAN vibration is propagated to HDD without the problems, next the internal accelerometer founds this vibration and lowers all the HDD operations ! If I get out the HDD from the case and mechanically isolate it from the FAN vibration the speed momentally grows to the max value ! > And the WD ones don't have a problem with the vibrations? The desktop WD do not have this issue as it has much more mass than mobile one. As you can see by tests made by me - the mobile WD behaves nearly same as Hitachi one - it lowers the HDD operations by -20Mb/s value. > Wow! Looks like some idiot was saving on production material/design to > make the drives cheaper. Talk about a major serious FAIL. This idiot is me ;) I do not take this issue in account. Rus -- Rus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html