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Hard Drive Extremely Slow

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by KYBoy, Apr 13, 2009.

  1. KYBoy

    KYBoy Member

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    I'm tryin to copy a fairly large file (3.99GB) from my laptop's hard drive to my flash drive but the speeds are rediculously slow(less than 2MB/sec).
    I ran HDTune and came up with these results for the laptop's hard drive:

    HD Tune: ST9250827AS Benchmark

    Transfer Rate Minimum : 1.0 MB/sec
    Transfer Rate Maximum : 2.1 MB/sec
    Transfer Rate Average : 1.5 MB/sec
    Access Time : 58.0 ms
    Burst Rate : 1.2 MB/sec
    CPU Usage : 24.5%

    Looks like the problem is with the computer and not the flash drive

    And whenever I attempt the transer my computer runs slow afterward. Like I'm running DiskDegrag right now and its taking like 15mins just to ANALYZE the C: Drive

    Other random info:
    Vista
    C: 67.7GB free of 225GB

    Any solutions/ideas
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    check in device manager that the ide/sata controller is in dma mode not pio mode.
     
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    Dissable the search indexer.
     
  4. KYBoy

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    It was already in dma, but I turned off the indexing and seems to have speed up, its transfering in the 50-60MB/sec range according to HD Tune.
    Havent tried to actually transfer a file to my flash drive yet tho
     
    Last edited: Apr 14, 2009

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