Uhmm. When I was scanning the drives with HDTach, I had Paint, two IEs, MEdia Player Classic and Skype on. I think those might have been the cause for the bumps. I'll try again tomorrow. Too tired now.

About the Loading times, they're about 60-90 seconds when it's not the first load. Fastest I got was 65 secs, slowest 80 something.

Fridi : I think I would have done the same, except I don't have any homework now.
1 minute isn't enough for the dishes since it already takes 15 secs to get to the kitchen