Hey All,

Almost 2 years ago I bought the newly released revision (WD740GD-00FLC0):

http://www.storagereview.com/article...-00FLC0_1.html

And I love it every day. Then I went out and bought the new 150GB (16MB Cache) and installed Vista.

It seems a bit "slower" compared to my older, smaller version which also has 1/2 amount of cache. (8MB).

Now, before you all blame it on Vista, let me tell you that I have installed the same Vista (Ultimate) on an IDE Caviar version (80GB model) and that one seems faster than my 150GB.

To be honest, since I would like to overclock my system, I have reset everything in my BIOS to default settings, so for example my Opteron146 is set to the default 2GHz instead of 2.6GHz when I did this comparison. Could the CPU be factor for this "slowness"?

Right now the Vista Rating reads every components 5.9, instead of CPU and RAM of course which are 4.1. (when I OC'ed my CPU, RAM, they read 5.9)

Your insights and comments would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!