Hard disk query

[HowardKennitby]

Hello all

Further to my earlier question about time taken to defrag

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1125312.html

I have run analysis and have the following data for the 2 drives on my PC.
Disk 0 is the system drive and is OK. Disk 1 is the slave that seems to be slow.


Disk 0

Manufacturer -- Maxtor

Model -- MAXTOR STM3160212A

Firmware -- 3.AAj

Interface -- Parallel ATA

Standard -- ATA/ATAPI-7 | ---

Transfer Mode(Current/Max) -- ULtra DMA-33 / Ultra DMA-100

Features -- SMART, 48bit LBA

Controller buffer size on drive -- 2048KB



Disk 1

Manufacturer -- unknown

Model -- MDT MD2500AAJB-00WGA0

Firmware -- 00.02C01

Interface -- Parallel ATA

Standard -- ATA8-ACS | ---

Transfer Mode(Current/Max) -- PIO - DMA / Ultra DMA-100

Features -- SMART, 48bit LBA, AAM (Disabled)

Controller buffer size on drive -- 8192KB

I would be grateful if some knowledgeable people would have a look at this and advise if this looks OK.

thanks

Howie

[ChuckFickens]

This should give you a clue...

http://www.harddriveb...T%20MD2500AAJB-00WGA0

It's basically a cheap, slow unbranded hard drive, it's be fine for storing data like MP3s and pictures though.

(p.s. defraging is a waste of time)

[ChuckFickens]

OH, I would make sure you keep up to date with backups though...

Your second drive is basically a reconditioned drive with the company that reconditioned it's own firmware on it, they are not the most reliable of drives as well as being slow.

[HowardKennitby]

Thanks Chuck

So I have a cheap, nasty, slow and unreliable drive and nothing can be done short of replacing it.

[VHG]

Could it be the transfer mode on the second drive is PIO?

PIO transfer speeds are very slow.

See if you can change it to UDMA 100. I think you do this in the BIOS