(Repaired) Toshiba Laptop Satellite L670 performing poorly (No HD Speed Information ?!? Weird IBM stuff)

Hallo,

A few days ago I was at my mother's place. I noticed her laptop was
infuriatingly slow.

It was a Toshiba Satellite L670.

It used to be fast, I was also under the impression that it was a kinda fast
and expensive laptop.

One day the harddisk apperently died or crashed, not 100%.

My mother brought it to a repair shop.

What they did to the machine is unknown.

I installed World of Warships on it... It took forever it felt like... many
hours.

While it was installing this game I observed/monitored the system.

I believe the slowness might be caused by other the internet connection (KPN
wireless adsl crap/thick walls) and/or the harddisk.

My impression was the harddisk was limited to just 10 MegaByte/sec. It was
even far worse than this. Only a couple of kilobytes.

I tried to research what the original speed was of the harddisk of this
toshiba model.

However toshiba REFUSES to publishize there harddisks speeds properly ! The
only give out crap like: rounds per minute and other useless crap.

It's like specifieing that a car produces 3000 rounds per minute for their
wheels... Utterly fokking useless.

I explained this to my mother.

What we want to know is simple things like: X Bytes/Sec read and X Bytes/Sec
written.

That's only thing that matters and toshiba completely FAILS at this to
specify this properly !!! SHAME ON TOSHIBA... may you get cancer and rott
and die and burn in hell !

FOKKING WORTHLESS COMPANY !!! =DDDDD

Though many websites and specifications do not specify the HARDDISK SPEED in
BYTES/SEC.... I hope this changes FAST and that people start to notice THIS
LACK OF INFORMATION.

Harddisk speed is actually very important for operating systems like
windows. People expect a certain performance from their harddisks and assume
it's natural. Well apperently it's not.

Perhaps a slow harddisk was put back in. I will find out the thruth some
day, hopefully some people one the internet/usenet can help with that.

Anyway... on with the story.

There was also some F-Secure and CCleaner running and something strange IBM
software... to intercept the entire BROWSER.... it would prevent screenshots
and ROUTER configuration.

Green screens... It looked kinda advanced... and my mother is paying 5 bucks
per month for this security... to secure her internet banking.

I wonder if this is perhaps running in some kind of management mode... I'd
guess not... but not 100%... maybe there is an operating system below the
operating system.

For now I will assume there is not... I think I remember now... I did see
something callled: Rapport or RapportService or something.

I think this was actually the IBM component somehow integrating itself with
the system like a cancer.

Anyway... next time I visit my mother's place.... I will benchmark the
harddisk to see what it's performance is: Bytes Read/Sec and Bytes
Written/Sec.

I would like to compare that information with the original harddisk that was
supposed to be in that Toshiba.

So does anybody have the same laptop and can perform this test ?

Or can somebody else retrieve this performance information from somewhere ?

Perhaps I will also try contacting toshiba myself but I expect very little
from them.

They may be hiding their poor harddisk performance specs.

Bye,
Skybuck.