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Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 14:25
by 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?
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 14:55
by 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
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 15:07
by tonymadge
Have you defraged lately?
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 15:12
by 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.....
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 15:42
by RAF_Quantum
forthbridge wrote:...... 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
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 15:56
by 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...!
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 16:11
by TSR2
forthbridge wrote: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.
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 22:11
by 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.......
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 22:35
by 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.
Re: Any way to check HDD?
Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 22:44
by 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....