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Hard drives running slow

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thebruiser

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I put my pc through the pcpitstop tests. Tests indicate hard drives are running slow. My system constists of XP home, 768 mb pc2700 ram, 2.66 P4, Seagate 120 gig 7200 and WD 120 gig 7200. Tests says the drives are only running at 3 mbs, while similar rigs run around 13 mbs. I checked the dma settings, performance settings, defragged, and deleted or burned off several gigs of data. Still slow. The last time I ran the tests, there were no problems. That was about a month ago. What could have happened to slow things down?
 
Is it slow when you use the system? Have you noticed before or after the test?

If you really care go and get a scsi card and some scsi drives.
 
I haven't noticed any slowdown while using the pc for the usual stuff: surfing, downloading, burning discs, etc. I haven't been playing any games, so don't know if I would notice any difference. Maybe I should try Return To Castle Wolfenstein or Call of Duty or something, eh? Or maybe it doesn't matter? Could the IDE cable go bad?
 
Are you using the 80 pin ide cable for the drives? also, are they on the same channel? try another benchmark like sisoft sandra and see if its slow as well
 
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