storage drive

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Lately I've become a little more concerned with my storage drive. Clicking on folders to get to a destination, the reaction time of the folder opening is unusually long. I am under Vista 64 U. The drive is a Segate ST3500630NS (network storage) drive. about a yr or two old. No clicking noises, about half full, defragged; nothing to indicate it dying. I once came across this issue and the odd thing was that it was related to the double click time in mouse properties. At slow, a folder would take long to open; fast would be almost instantaneously. I use single click btw...

I have the contents under a software Mirror RAID-1 setup so... but anyone have an idea on whats going on?

This is a long shot but thanks for atleast looking.

 

[TemjinGold]

Your Windows install is probably either messed up (i.e. a bit corrupt) or you've got a lot cloggin up the ol' registry I'm thinking. Either way, a backup -> format -> reinstall might fix it.

 

[Denithor]

Make sure the storage drive hasn't dropped into PIO mode?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

O geez. seems like its big sh*t sandwich and i might have to take a bite


What it seems like is it's coming out of some sort of sleep mode. When i click a directory the address in the explorer shows some sort of green status thing that looks like its loading something up. After that the drive is normally as fast as it should be. What does all that mean?

 

[AmberClad]

I'm not sure if Vista has this feature, but in Windows 7, you go to "Control Panel --> Hardware --> Power Options" and there will be at least three configurations. I changed mine to "High Performance", but there's another one that's the default: "Balanced", and it'll turn off hard drives after 20 min of inactivity.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Yep! There she was.

Thanks Amber :beer:

 

[AmberClad]

np

Hopefully you've got it sorted out now. I had this issue too on my Samsung storage drive, where it'd have to spin back up from idle after not being used for a while.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Yup, changed it! I just hope it doesn't burn out on me. Then I'll get pissed because i didn't leave it on 20min mode, lol

 

[n7]

One of the first things i turn off when i reinstall my OS.

I understand the benefit, but the delay drives me insane.