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Amraam

Amraam

Amraam

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OK, my Seagate ST332062 320GB has been playing up. I have a 30GB partition on it for Windows, with the rest for my documents.

When installing a game, or copying large files, it is VERY slow causing the whole system to lag and stutter etc. In Vista when copying a file, on the "more info" panel of the "copying..." screen, I get anywhere from a few hundred KBps, to 15MBps, usually hovering on the 7MBps mark. Why so slow? I should be getting nearer 70MBps, yeah?

This is my drive layout:

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This is the HDTune Result:

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Any ideas why my drive could be so slow in real world scenarios? I have ran checkdisk, all clear on all drives, disks have been cleaned up and defragged, all fine.


Thanks!
 
Did you set the C: and D: drives up that way on purpose? (It's saying C: is the boot device and Active, yet D: is also Active and has the System files on it as well as your PageFile). Obviously it works but maybe it's causing problems...

Edit: Are you running XP by any chance? and did you recently add another drive and wanted to make that the boot drive, so installed XP again? I've seen this happen on install of XP myself, you tell it to install on the new Drive C: and it insists on putting system files on the original drive (now drive D).
 
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Did you move swap page file to D:? dont think there is any point of that unless you have a 2nd drive not partition.
Try to make it default

if its raid 0 did you install the proper drivers for it
 
In Vista, go to Control panel->Programs & Features->Turn Windows features on or off, make sure "Remote Differential Compression" is UNticked...
 
OK that was checked, and I'ved unchecked it. What exactly does that option do?

EDIT: After doing that, transferring 14GB in ISOs starts off at ~100 and slowly decreases. Is that normal?
 
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It's to do with moving files over a network. RDC is used by default for computers and devices that supports it. May slow transfers down a tad between supported devices if disabled, but I have no idea what it's got to do with disk-disk transfers in one host. Nothing I suspect. (unless there is some bad side-effect I'm not aware of...)
 
Amraam said:
OK that was checked, and I'ved unchecked it. What exactly does that option do?

EDIT: After doing that, transferring 14GB in ISOs starts off at ~100 and slowly decreases. Is that normal?
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Has unchecking it helped?

Also, if you look at your HDTune bench, you will see that your cpu usage is 13% which is quite high, normally this is around a few %

but after SP1 was released it was OK. If you read the update on that article it confirms this...
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So it would appear....
 
jbloggs said:
Has unchecking it helped?

Also, if you look at your HDTune bench, you will see that your cpu usage is 13% which is quite high, normally this is around a few %



So it would appear....
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Yup, when installing a game such as DCS Black Shark or STALKER: Clear Sky (big games) my computer is unusable; it hangs for ages.

I'm about to order one of the HD103UJ 1TB drives, so I'm gonna fiddle around with RAID0 next week. :D

BTW, where in Vista do I find Robocopy? :confused:
 
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