Any way to check HDD?

[forthbridge]

Hi all

This may be nothing, but (despite checking task manager and finding nothing untoward running) I have noticed some EXTREMELY slow write times (2-3MB/sec or less on my HDD - particlularly when moving files/extracting/taking from data stick etc. Other times, speed seems normal..... is this a Vista issue?

[Techy111]

Jim i have Vista.....all do to with the speed of your HDD....if its a 7200 RPM then thats getting a little long in the teeth now......

the speed is increasing on these darn things daily....

Tony

[tonymadge]

Have you defraged lately?

[forthbridge]

JUst analysing at the mo. 28 Nov was the last defrag. It's 7200 RPM, but most of the time it's fine - only when it slows down (for whatever reason) it's terrible, in fact I don't think I've ever known a HDD so slow unless you had about 10 operations going at once.....

[RAF_Quantum]

...... particlularly when moving files/extracting/taking from data stick etc. Other times, speed seems normal.....

It is probably your datastick memory read/write speed that is the bottle-neck.

Regards

John

[forthbridge]

I suspect the card reader on the machine is the culprit, but in the main, it's on disk speed I mean - for instance it took 1 minute to move 94mb of files into FS9 yesterday...!

[TSR2]

I suspect the card reader on the machine is the culprit, but in the main, it's on disk speed I mean - for instance it took 1 minute to move 94mb of files into FS9 yesterday...!

Move or copy? A move should happen almost instantly as it doesn't actually move the data, just the pointers to it (kind of)

A copy is re writing of the data to another location.

[forthbridge]

HI Ben

Copy. Usually it starts around the 50mb/s, and ends around 35 for folders up to about a gig. But, for some reason every now and then, it DRAGS at about 2-3mb/s.......

[TSR2]

Just copied 1.19 GB for one folder to the root... average about 25 MB/s (Note the capitals mean Mega Bytes, Mb (small 'b') is Mega Bits) takes about 25 seconds. This is normal. What are you using as a virus scanner? It may well be scanning the files your trying to copy hence the performance being crap.

[forthbridge]

HI Ben
I use Avast. I get decent enough test results on it from PCW 2008 for write speeds...

Perhaps avast does sometimes have a look....