It seems my SATA ports on my motherboard are slowly becoming broken. I have four ports, the first port initially worked for a while, then stopped working, that is it would only transfer at 3 mb/s, then it started to work again, now back to its slow transfer rate.
Now, it appears I am having another port go away on me with the same problem. I am not done ruling out the cause, but without any sort of discernible warning, my SATA C: drive is now exhibiting the same 3 mb/s transfer rate. I only first noticed it when trying to copy a dvd and the read buffer would not stay filled up and a 5 minute copy took over thirty minutes, HD Tuner is telling me its at 3 Mb/s and Acronis is telling me it will be 1.25 hours to backup 16 gb of data.
What could be causing the SATA ports to be failing? Is this just a symptom of a bad motherboard, or something I might be doing? The C drive has been hooked up for almost 2 months without any problems. I am asking now because I am doing virus scans and other things that will now take a long time.
Now, it appears I am having another port go away on me with the same problem. I am not done ruling out the cause, but without any sort of discernible warning, my SATA C: drive is now exhibiting the same 3 mb/s transfer rate. I only first noticed it when trying to copy a dvd and the read buffer would not stay filled up and a 5 minute copy took over thirty minutes, HD Tuner is telling me its at 3 Mb/s and Acronis is telling me it will be 1.25 hours to backup 16 gb of data.
What could be causing the SATA ports to be failing? Is this just a symptom of a bad motherboard, or something I might be doing? The C drive has been hooked up for almost 2 months without any problems. I am asking now because I am doing virus scans and other things that will now take a long time.
