500gb Caviar 16mb ... 10mb transfer rate ???

guys i am facing a very unique problem.

few days back i bought a WD500gb Caviar16mb from lammy.
gave it my friend for formatting and puttin stuff in it.
he did it via windows Partition thingy ( i aint aware about it ).

in his PC the transfer rates were great … 72MB/s between the HDD`s

but after bringing the HDD`s at my place .. they seem to be runnin tad slower… gettin inter-transfer speeds of as low as 6MB/s and high as only 20MB/s.

please help me guys… tried a few things but it aint working for me.

my older HDD`s were working very good. my hitachi desktar gave me transfer rates of 52MB/s and my old Samsung Pata used to give 34MB/s.

what can i do ??? plz suggest !

Its Just toooo F*in Slooooow and its irritating me like hell . tranferring between partitions from same HDD can be so FUD up sometimes

just try a different sata slot if its a sata

and try a different slot and a diff cable if its pata

Can you please post a screenie of this drive as shown in Windows Disk Management.

If you are using M$ Vista, you know who the culprit is :slight_smile: Its a well-known fact that copying/moving/deleting files in vista is quite slower than on XP!

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tried the above solution but … NO GAIN…

BTW… its a SATAII

@ eazy
now where is DISK management in VISTA ??

is this wat u wanted to know !

^^ Try any linux live cd/dvd and check the transfer speeds on it..You will get an idea whether the culprit is Vista or your disk!

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management (Local) !!!

Thers your culprit , transfering between SAME hdd partitions is always slower bro coz its random read write ,try copyin between 2 hdds n check the transfer speeds:tongue:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ but as slow as 10mb/s ???

No way it can be 10 MB/s even on the same partition. Most likely a configuration issue either at the BIOS or OS level.

Edit: Why don’t you try this

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as I’d earlier suggested?

what dma mode is ur hdd running in currently? udma mode 5 or 6?