hard drive speed

[dontban]

I just got fibre internet and I was downloading movies,tv shows etc on bittorent and just would just crawl down to 100% disk write error in my utorrent program, someone said its because I'm using a external hard drive

so i ordred a 7200rpm drive its either Seagate or WD ,whatever is in stock.

would like help my problem?

download speed: 47.97Mbps
Upload speed: 5.83Mbps

here is my motherboard: http://us.msi.com/product/mb/A55M-P33.html#/?div=Detail

 

[corkyg]

Depends on how it is connected. If it is external with eSATA or USB 3, you should see definite improvement. If it is USB2, that is your choke point. Just about any drive will be strangled by it. If it is internal, it will make a big difference.

 

[Cerb]

eSATA or USB 3 would do the trick, or using an internal drive.

The external drive could also be bad, so it wouldn't hurt to run diags on it, but USB 2 and random access don't go well together.

 

[razel]

47.97Mbps equates to under 6 MB/s. That's about 1/6 of typical max speed over USB 2.0. However it's probably because you are downloading a bunch of different files or chunks of a file at a time. HDDs without NCQ (like over USB) will drag when writing lots of tiny bits all over the place. You probably will get better performance writing to a USB flash drive.

However, my youngest cousin ran into a similar issue. I ended up introducing him to a different torrent program, uTorrent. That did a better job over USB. I get a feeling that uTorrent caches all those tiny multiple writes essentially 'imitating' NCQ. I'd check bitTorrent's disk cache settings and enable or increase it's the write cache.

 

[dontban]

just got a 7200rpm 3TB hard drive and still does it!!!

help

 

[Cerb]

just got a 7200rpm 3TB hard drive and still does it!!!

help

Connected to an internal SATA port, configured AHCI?