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New HDD but computer is hesitating and running slow!!!

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killersoundz

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Got a new 250GB Western digital SATA HDD. It's a 3.0gb/s SATA but my mobo is the older ata 150, but it should still be fast right? This thing has 16mb of cache! its hesitating like hell and as i type right now its having trouble keeping up with that. a defrag would probably help but only for a day or so. AGH!!!

Could it be that it's partitioned? I have a 120gb partition and a 100gb partition or whatever.....sighhhh any advice?
 
I just got the same drive and mine's working fine. I have a Nvidia chipset board and I installed Nvidia drivers. The IDE/ATAPI Controller tab in device manager under the serial ata controller has a speed test under the primary channel tab. Mine is giving a burst speed of 129 mbs and a sustained speed of 64.5mbs. That's about what I expected. Check that the right drivers are installed.
 
It doesn't sound like the drive itself is the problem. The drive won't cause a typing problem. As far as the 3.0 SATA, it doesn't run any faster than 1.5 SATA in real time, so that is not a problem. You must have a memory problem or have too much running in the background, hogging up your resources. Maybe a virus or spyware.

Good Luck
Smitty
 
Originally posted by: killersoundz
Got a new 250GB Western digital SATA HDD. It's a 3.0gb/s SATA but my mobo is the older ata 150, but it should still be fast right? This thing has 16mb of cache! its hesitating like hell and as i type right now its having trouble keeping up with that. a defrag would probably help but only for a day or so. AGH!!!

Could it be that it's partitioned? I have a 120gb partition and a 100gb partition or whatever.....sighhhh any advice?
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So you will type something and the cursor doesn't keep up? Sounds like a completely different issue, that sometimes crops up for me, should be not related to the HDD.

Consider leaving taskmanger open and see what happens, if your CPU is at 100%, find out why, maybe that'll help.
 
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