Brand name computers, why buy them?

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Wrong again.
I am sure if you check what drive is in that pc, it is NOT running at those speeds. In fact, it will be a drive from one of the majors running at least 7200.
Just check for yourself. In fact, tell us the model number, and we will tell you. But, the drive is important, and, if after a complete wipe it is still running that slowly, you should check the drive with the manufacturers diag tool. Use the "advanced" test rather than the quick one, just to be sure. If not that, it could be a couple other things, so let us know.

OK maybe it is a 7200 rpm, but if it is, it's a VERY slow one compared to the 7200rpm maxtors Ive used.

I alsohave a SATA RAID 0 with 16 MB buffer which will by very far beat even a 10k drive, but still, his PC didnt seem to have a 7200 rpm, and if it was, it was slow and noisy compared to Maxtors.

And I hope you arent saying Im wrong about the hard drive being the msot important part for overall performance, because over experience, I've upgraded a lot of stuff, and I never notice any difference at all after a cpu or ram upgrade, but after a hard drive upgrade, the performance skyrockets. My dad's P450 is at least 10 times faster since I replaced the 5400 rpm garbage (which literally was the worlds slowest hard drive, I'm not just saying that, I've read reviews, it's the #1 slowest drive benchmarked) with a maxtor 7200 rpm.

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Indeed. HDD tech has come a long way. What was in the pc? A Quantum Bigfoot or something?
A HDD is important. Reread what I posted, and do the tests.