Seagate Barracuda 1TB Slow Transfer Rate?

Zbornak · 30 Oct 2010 at 18:10

Hey all.

I've just installed a Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB SATA drive as a secondary memory device. Formatted as NTFS. I bought it to store HD video on for editing. Right now as I'm copying some files over, the transfer rate is 51MB/s (it started at around 35MB/s for the first few minutes). Does this seem slow to you?

My host drive is a WD 250gb 7200rpm 250gb SATA drive.

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 3GHz
4GB Ram
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Zbornak · 30 Oct 2010 at 18:18

lmao oh my God. This is so embarassing. Such a noob mistake I've been using computers for 14 years. Please can a mod move this before anyone else see's it.

Thanks stulid, I'll post them soon.

Zbornak · 30 Oct 2010 at 18:54

Seagate
http://img529.imageshack.us/i/64905005.jpg/

Western Digital
http://img221.imageshack.us/i/62504757.jpg/

I'm not a statistician but I think there something amiss about my Western Digital. Or is that normal?

Zbornak · 30 Oct 2010 at 20:28

Duke said:
Try new cable and different SATA port. Also see if its running in PIO mode via Device Manager.

For which drive? The Seagate SATA cable is brand new. Both drives are running in Ultra DMA.

Zbornak · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:39

Just under two years old.

Zbornak · 1 Nov 2010 at 20:19

Tried that program and TuneUp's error scan to no avail

Zbornak · 1 Nov 2010 at 23:07

Cheers.