New WD Blue drive runs slow

[SonLeechNoA]

I currently have a WD Blue 500 GB drive (WD5000AAKX) which is 6Gb/s (~750MB/s) on WD site. But when I tried transfering files from my D drive to my C drive the speed was only about 40MB/s. I'm using the MSI H81M-P33 motherboard with the SATA III cable plugged into the SATA III (SATA1 on motherboard) port.

Also, the boot time is very slow compared to my old 160GB Seagate Barracuda 3Gb/s (SATA II) which is 4 seconds and mine is 11 seconds. The transfering speed of the old drive is also at 40MB/s too.

Thanks everyone

Old boot speed (now is 11 seconds):

 

[Ketchup]

Hard drives can get nowhere near the SATA 3 speed spec (or even SATA 2, or SATA 1 for that matter). The spec on the WD sight is just the connection it will support.

If you want a drive that gets you to the max for that port, you need to be looking an SSD. The Samsung 850 EVO should get you pretty close.

The comparison is interesting. A hard drive will not boot Windows in 4 seconds. It might resume from Hybrid Sleep in 4 seconds, but not a full boot. Was your original Seagate a Hybrid drive?

 

[OlyAR15]

Agreed, that is pretty much the expected speed of a mechanical drive. Not sure what you were expecting.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I currently have a WD Blue 500 GB drive (WD5000AAKX) which is 6Gb/s (~750MB/s) on WD site. But when I tried transfering files from my D drive to my C drive the speed was only about 40MB/s. I'm using the MSI H81M-P33 motherboard with the SATA III cable plugged into the SATA III (SATA1 on motherboard) port.

Are both C and D partitions / volumes on the same physical drive? If so, 40MB/s is normal.

If not, then that drive should be getting 80-100MB/sec.

 

[C1]

Ensure that your drive has been formatted AFT/NTFS.

Also ensure that the HDD shows a valid disk check (for MFT).

Check the status of the SATA controllers for the drive in Device Manager.

 

[Auric]

Boot drive should typically be on SATA0 but that should have no effect on speed given same controller.

If boot is slower then it may be due to fragmentation and/or the OS data was not copied to the beginning of the drive.

Also concur with VirtualLarry.

 

[tweakboy]

blue = slow black is faster then blue. It's a color things.