External Hard drive Stupidly Slow

Ender

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Hey there, I have an external harddrive that I mainly use for backup's and the like, not sure on model number but its a maxtor 80gb in a Lacie D2 Firewire enclosure. Anyway I tested the hard-drive in xbench today and found its getting around 1-2mb/sec writing speed, even had a random read of 0.5mb?

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong with the disk?
 
cant see its smart status, not sure if its just because its on firewire , but it says smart status not supported ?
 
I wouldn't worry about the XBench random read.

I'm also assuming it's a PATA drive? Although that write performance is a little low.
 
I dont know apples very well so the following statement might be as much use as balls on a mermaid. Could the hdd enclosure be usb 1.0 and just poort quality?
 
brendy said:
I dont know apples very well so the following statement might be as much use as balls on a mermaid. Could the hdd enclosure be usb 1.0 and just poort quality?
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He said it was a FireWire drive..
 
brendy said:
hdd is on its way out then.
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yea i was hoping it wasn't the case, i'm a student so tend to be skint ;)

If it makes any difference i found out that the hard-drive model is a :Maxtor 6 Y080L0, it was taken from an old machine after the old external hard-drive in the enclosure died so is there any chance that i didn't connect up the (IDE I assume) cables right and its stuck on a low speed?
 
remove it from the enclosure and SMART test it in a desktop PC,


don't have anything on it you can't afford to lose!
 
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ender, one thing you could try if you hit a brick wall is to obtain an identical logic board and replace the existing one, Ive done this a few times on 40gb maxtors last year when one of my home pcs decided to play up and as it was holding a backup of my family pics, rather than remake my backups I swapped the board and its back to 100%
 
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