Slow Transfer/Burst Rate on Hard Drive

[KrispyKreme50]

I bought an HP desktop with a Seagate 7200.11 750GB hard drive and the desktop occasionally freezes for a split second. I ran HDTune and the results I got seem to be the problem:

Transfer Rates
Minimum: 40.2 MB
Maximum: 105.6 MB
Average: 80.3 MB

Access Time: 16.9 ms
Burst Rate: 78.7 MB
CPU Usage: 2.4%

Based on the low burst rate and access time, I thought the hard drive was running in SATA 150 mode but the jumper was not there in the first place. The motherboard itself is an AMD 780G with the bios set to RAID right now.

 

[KrispyKreme50]

Ok I did some more digging and it turns out the 7200.11 line had cache issues due to bad firmware when they came out. Seagate still has a page describing this problem. Could this be the reason why the burst rate is so low?

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-...ther_downloads/cuda-fw

 

[Elixer]

Hmm, I guess it is possible.
Then again, it could be a faulty SATA cable...

For the freezing, check your event viewer, and take note of any warnings/errors that have to do with the disk.

 

[Blain]

TechReport: "Seagate offers fix, free data recovery for bricked Barracudas"

 

[H Allen]

Not sure if this is proper, so please excuse and direct me. My system is raided but not of great performance. Has anybody used Highpoint Rocketraid cards?