Lower than average HDD Speeds?

[TMothy]

Every now and then I'll test the speed of my HDD just to see how it's doing and the last few times I've done it, I seem to be getting some pretty slow results.

Right now I'm getting:

62.8 MB/s Write and 57.1 MB/s Read.
(Tested with Black Magic Designs app)

63.0 MB/s Write and 72.0 MB/s Read.
(Tested with AJA's App)


That's not right is it?

I've been contemplating getting an SSD. Should I start looking into to that?



MBP Specs:
17" Mid-2010
2.66 Core i7
8GB of RAM
MacBook Pro 6.1

HDD:
Stock Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm

 

[Irock619]

I've been contemplating getting an SSD. Should I start looking into to that

Yes

 

[TRAV9614]

That is pretty much normal my hdd is about the same.

 

[EmeraldEyes29]

I have the same specs but a 13" and that's pretty much what I'm getting from BlackMagic.
But I know nothing about speeds or what should be running. That's why I'm searching lol.

 

[throAU]

If your drive is getting full the test may be getting run on the slower inner tracks.

spinning disks aren't the same speed through the entire disk.

 

[TMothy]

If your drive is getting full the test may be getting run on the slower inner tracks.

spinning disks aren't the same speed through the entire disk.

That might be it, I have about 100GB's of free space.

I'll start looking at some SSD's.