Low Benchmarks On Newly Purchased Seagate Hard Drive?

[12twelve12]

I just received my new notebook hard drive from Newegg. After installing windows, updates, drivers ...etc...I installed and ran HD Tune 2.52 benchmarking utility. The numbers seem to be lower than I expected (see pic).

If someone else has this drive, it would be great if you could run this benchmard for comparison purposes. I need to know if I should RMA this thing.

Seagate Momentus 5400.2 100 GB 2.5" Notebook HD (ST9100824A)

http://kanda.typepad.com/photos/techcomp/hdtune_benchmark_seagate_st9100824a.png

Thanks

[glc]

What kind of scores were you expecting? That looks pretty good to me for a laptop drive.

Here's a similar drive - yours looks fine compared to it.

http://hdtune.com/results/Seagate_ST9100823A.gif

Just goes to prove that an ATA100 speed rating is just a theoretical dream.