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Slow Hard drives
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I am running Windows XP SP2 . I have a problem with both of my Hard Drives, they are running at 3 MB/s uncached speed, where they were running at 49 MB/s last week. This is not a problem with SP2 as I have had SP2 for several weeks. Any ideas on what the problem could be and any ideas on how to test the Hard Drives to see what is causing the problem. thanks Daniel |
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"Daniel" none@none wrote in message ... Hi I am running Windows XP SP2 . I have a problem with both of my Hard Drives, they are running at 3 MB/s uncached speed, where they were running at 49 MB/s last week. This is not a problem with SP2 as I have had SP2 for several weeks. Any ideas on what the problem could be and any ideas on how to test the Hard Drives to see what is causing the problem. thanks Daniel Did you try the free diagnostic program that you can download from the disk manufacturer's site? |
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Daniel wrote:
Hi I am running Windows XP SP2 . I have a problem with both of my Hard Drives, they are running at 3 MB/s uncached speed, where they were running at 49 MB/s last week. This is not a problem with SP2 as I have had SP2 for several weeks. Any ideas on what the problem could be and any ideas on how to test the Hard Drives to see what is causing the problem. thanks Daniel First, see if the problem is with the HDs and their paths to RAM, or a software problem. Download and run HDtach, and run it as close to standalone as you can get under XP, then compare HDtach's results with the HD vendor's specs. If HDtach shows performance way under the specs, then you should start checking hardware; else, look for bad drivers or bad params. Note that Sandra and many other benchmarks that report HD data run within the OS and report HD data as filtered through the caches and other trappings of that OS. HDtach bypasses most of the OS and so shows you near-raw HD performance. You can find HDtach at www.simplisoftware.com; I trust nothing else. And no, I am not paid by the HDtach gang. -- Cheers, Bob |
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