Slow Harddrive

[AndrewPMS1234]

Hello

I have a western digital 74 gig that spins at 10,000 rpm, and also have a samsung 160 gig that spins at 7200 rpm, my question is why is my samsung hard disk 4 times faster than the western digital, i ran a bench mark on both drives, here are the results.

Western digital

Drive Index = 46

Buff Read = 29 meg/sec
Seq Read = 45 meg/sec
Ran Read = 33 meg/sec
Buff Write = 41 meg/sec
Seq Write = 25 meg/sec
Ran Write = 22 meg/sec

Average Access Time = 13 ms

Samsung 160 gig

Drive Index = 62

Buff Read = 133 meg/sec
Seq Read = 72 meg/sec
Ran Read = 47 meg/sec
Buff Write = 129 meg/sec
Seq Write = 69 meg/sec
Ran Write = 45 meg/sec

Average Access Time = 10 ms

Ok, now on the western digital hard disk it should have an access time of 4ms or round that figure, that value is way out, i paid a lot of money for that hard disk and it does not work as they claim it should, i have been cheated again. Also this is some other information you will need to know.

MainBoard = ASUS P4P 800 VM
Windows XP is installed on the western digital, and there is 44 gig free at the moment
I store my music and games on the samsung, i am using about 52 gig at moment, i have over 100 games installed as well.
Processer = Intel Pentium, 2.4 Ghz, FSB 800 Mhz, memory is 2016 meg, runing at 400 Mhz.
CDROM = ASUS, DRW-1608P2

Regards

Andrew

[Choupolo]

Hey Andrew,

I dont have a WD drive or anything so sry I cant help much, but perhaps its a mobo driver issue? Have you tried updating the bios?

Maybe google (or someone else) will have more answers... :bucky!:

[Talidan666]

Is that the Raptor that you are having problems with?

[mendel]

defrag? :P

[64705]

Originally posted by Talidan666@Jan 15 2006, 07:19 AM
Is that the Raptor that you are having problems with?

Must be a raptor yeah.

It could be the IDE/ SATA cable plugged into your HDD to Motherboard, its something worth checking.

The drive could also be faulty, you should not be getting transfer speeds like that. I'd suggest contacting Western Digital and asking for their advice. In my opinion I think your HD might be fornicateed.

[Magus]

go to the bios and set it up good

[Talidan666]

Check your cables. Maybe they are backwards or something lol. Go into your control panel / system / hardware / device manager / IDE ATA ATAPI and check the properties, and see which mode the drive is set at. I had a problem with one of my drives running in udma66, but it supported ultra dma 133. Took some fiddling with the cables, put my cdroms and such on a seperate channel and whallah.

[markkleb]

This may sound dumb but check to be sure its a 80 pin ide cable.
One of my customers used a 40 pin and it made his comp slow!

I use 2 raptors in raid 0 , THEY ROCK!!

[GT@Ultra]

Replace the sata cable for a new 1

If the cable is breached inside or damaged or curved it can cause severe dataloss and speedloss!

Hope helped ya out