New hard drive with very slow HD Tune speeds

[BlitzPuppet]

Hey all,

I have a WD Caviar Black 32MB Cache 1TB that I use as my gaming disk, I was running out of room so I decided to upgrade. After shopping around I found this HGST fit my needs well: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HHAJU7K/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I noticed that once I cloned everything over to this new HGST drive I noticed that things didn't seem very quick at all...so I installed HD Tune 2.55 and did some testing.

Some comparison tests are a WD Green 1TB that I use for Windows Backup images only vs this HGST drive. The results are a little odd and I can't figure out what the deal is. I noticed that the burst speed on the HGST goes up to over 300MB/s sometimes, but does generally show burst results in the 120MB/s. I'm on the Z97 chipset again with the HGST and all other hard drives. Nothing other than optical media are on the Asmedia controller (2 ports).

Any input is appreciated. Lots of pictures since they have a lot of data.


Pictures:

HGST Usual averages on Z97 chipset

HGST Avg on Asmedia:

WD Green 1TB Averages on Z97

Oddball Results with HGST on Z97:

System Specs:
4690K
16GB Ram
MSI Z97 Gaming 7
SSD Boot Drive

 

[XavierMace]

Get it off the Asmedia controller and try again. The "addon" controllers are known for being slower than the onboard Intel ports.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Get it off the Asmedia controller and try again. The "addon" controllers are known for being slower than the onboard Intel ports.

I'm back on the Z97 controller, sorry should have specified that in the original post.

 

[XavierMace]

That update screenshot looks pretty normal to me. It's a "NAS" drive to it's not designed for performance.
Edit: That said, I see it's reporting 2199GB. That's low for a 3TB drive. Is the drive formatted properly?

 

[BlitzPuppet]

That update screenshot looks pretty normal to me. It's a "NAS" drive to it's not designed for performance.
Edit: That said, I see it's reporting 2199GB. That's low for a 3TB drive. Is the drive formatted properly?

That was an absolute outlier and didn't stay that way. I'm running various tests/tools/benchmarks comparing it to a WD Green and I'm getting really odd results showing that the WD Green is a lot more flat lined in it's results compared to the HGST which seems to be bursting. More than one tool also indicates that the HGST writes faster than it reads.

A WD Green should not be outperforming this drive in my opinion, it should also be noted that others stated in their reviews that they were getting 150MB/s read and writes with this drive where I am not.

The 2199GB report was incorrect, I think that's just due to HD tune being so old. Windows reports the 3GB just fine.

Other tests:

HGST:

WD Green:

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Ended up calling support. They talked to the engineers and were told to wipe the drive completely and do a speed test over again. If I'm still getting the same results I've been seeing I need to RMA the drive as they are much lower than what I should be getting.