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Re: Hard drive runs like crap
12/10/12 12:01 AM


> WD Caviar black 2TB internal sata, less than a year old, less than half full,
> recently defragged, tried multiple sata ports and restarts. If I copy something from
> it to another drive it starts fast and then slows down to like 7 MB / sec. I used to
> use it for video recording and now it's not able to do it anymore, just gives
> constant frame skip. Loading stuff from is is slow as hell. I would think it's on its
> way out but it's not even a year old. Faulty?

What OS? XP through 7 will kick a drive down to PIO mode after a number of errors or timeouts.

Check your system logs for timeout or crc errors on that drive. Could be a bad cable, could be the controller board. WD has a great diagnostic suit too. Could just be a bad sector that you can eliminate with the tools







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* Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator 12/09/12 11:14 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Lord Nightmare  12/10/12 07:15 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 07:19 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Lord Nightmare  12/10/12 09:26 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap DMala  12/10/12 07:24 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 07:25 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap DMala  12/10/12 08:41 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 08:44 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Lord Nightmare  12/11/12 06:01 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap redk9258  12/11/12 12:00 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Naoki  12/11/12 01:51 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap redk9258  12/10/12 06:21 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 06:28 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Dullaron  12/10/12 04:00 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap redk9258  12/10/12 12:57 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Sune  12/15/12 11:40 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap redk9258  12/10/12 12:59 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 06:05 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap italieAdministrator  12/11/12 06:57 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap B2K24  12/11/12 07:16 AM
. * That's not fair URherenow  12/11/12 04:44 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 04:46 AM
. * Re: That's not fair B2K24  12/11/12 04:55 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 05:00 AM
. * Re: That's not fair Dullaron  12/11/12 08:18 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 08:21 AM
. * Re: That's not fair URherenow  12/11/12 08:06 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 08:13 AM
. * Re: That's not fair redk9258  12/11/12 05:18 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 05:29 AM
. * Re: That's not fair Sune  12/15/12 11:31 PM
. * Re: That's not fair B2K24  12/15/12 08:22 AM
. * Re: That's not fair B2K24  12/11/12 05:18 AM
. * Re: That's not fair URherenow  12/11/12 04:49 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 04:51 AM
. * Re: That's not fair Sune  12/15/12 11:35 PM
. * Re: That's not fair jeremymtc  12/11/12 05:37 AM
. * Re: That's not fair SmitdoggAdministrator  12/11/12 06:05 AM
. * Re: That's not fair krick  12/11/12 09:26 AM
. * Re: That's not fair B2K24  12/11/12 06:36 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap italieAdministrator  12/10/12 07:06 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 07:10 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap italieAdministrator  12/10/12 07:23 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 07:27 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap italieAdministrator  12/10/12 12:01 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap jopezu  12/10/12 06:15 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 12:04 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap B2K24  12/10/12 04:12 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 04:21 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap Sune  12/15/12 11:45 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap B2K24  12/09/12 11:49 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 05:51 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap B2K24  12/10/12 06:05 AM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 06:39 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap B2K24  12/10/12 07:14 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 07:27 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap SmitdoggAdministrator  12/10/12 07:30 PM
. * Re: Hard drive runs like crap lharms  12/11/12 03:18 PM

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