Reply 20 of 22, by gerwin
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Solved it, after reading the clue on a german forum: The 'Halt' power saving CPU state causes the harddisk's poor performance. Disable Halt with the BIOS or with CBid and the disk's transfer rate doubles. But because 'StpGnt' power saving CPU state can still be enabled the CPU seems to remain cool..
A somewhat related issue: Soundblaster Live Soundfont midi rendering gets audible interference when enabling Halt state.
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