External Hard drive Stupidly Slow

[Ender]

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?

 

[Ender]

cant see its smart status, not sure if its just because its on firewire , but it says smart status not supported ?

 

[Ender]

hdd is on its way out then.

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?