Poor performance from SATA2 drive

gaz1971 · 8 Sep 2012 at 23:38

I have just put a Sata3 drive in my pc and now my second drive, a Samsung Sata2 drive is running slowly. I use it as a recording drive for a TV card and when converting the TS files to Mpegs its taking ages, if I move the file to another drive and convert, it takes a fraction of the time, so its the drive thats slow.

Im running XP with SP3 and all latest updates, a Celeron g530 on a Gigabyte z77ds3h MB, my c drive is sata3 and the slow drive is sata 2.

Any ideas?

andy_mk3 · 8 Sep 2012 at 23:44

Run a hard drive benchmark program such as CrystalDiskMark and post the results

wazza300 · 8 Sep 2012 at 23:45

What port is the hdd on? Could keep it on sata3 port along with new ssd

gaz1971 · 8 Sep 2012 at 23:48

Ok using Crystal I get this Read 59.64 Write 58.85
On the second partition on same drive I get 78.04 and 81.89

gaz1971 · 8 Sep 2012 at 23:55

wazza300 said:
What port is the hdd on? Could keep it on sata3 port along with new ssd

Its on a sata2 port, not a sata3

Surveyor · 9 Sep 2012 at 00:52

A SATA 2 or SATA 3 port really isn't going to make any difference to a HDD.

The first partition could be slower as it's on the inner part of the platters where less data can be transferred per revolution.

What HDD are we talking about?

It might just not be a particularly fast one.

gaz1971 · 9 Sep 2012 at 01:03

Samsung Spinpoint 250gb. Are those speeds normal?

wazza300 · 9 Sep 2012 at 01:04

i just suggested the sata3 ports as they will be backward compatible with sata2 and if they were originally on there then you wouldnt of neded to move it,just add in your ssd

id run atto benchmark and post the results,all other benchmarks i find hard to understand or misleading

idk if the partition is important? you might be better off using the whole drive without any partitions

EDIT they look about right for the size 250gb hdd

Surveyor · 9 Sep 2012 at 01:12

gaz1971 said:
Samsung Spinpoint 250gb. Are those speeds normal?

I don't know which drive you have exactly but the results don't look completely out of order.

gaz1971 · 9 Sep 2012 at 09:54

wazza300 said:
i just suggested the sata3 ports as they will be backward compatible with sata2 and if they were originally on there then you wouldnt of neded to move it,just add in your ssd

id run atto benchmark and post the results,all other benchmarks i find hard to understand or misleading

idk if the partition is important? you might be better off using the whole drive without any partitions

EDIT they look about right for the size 250gb hdd

I dont have an SSD, both drives are normal HDD's.