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Hey guys

Need some help here.
Ive just bought myself a second HDD. Ill just be using it for storage etc. The model number is ST31000524AS ATA device.
In short - a 1TB seagate drive.
When copying from anywhere (Other HDD, external, or USB) to my new HDD - I get a maximum speed of about 5mb/s.
The rest of my rig is pretty new (less than 5 months). Not sure if it helps - Asus P8P67 M-Pro, Proline 600W PSU, i5 2500k, 2 x 4GB DDR3 RAM - and im running windows 7.

Have read far too many forums and havent gotten a concrete answer - so if anyone could suggest how to deal with this issue, or what it might be, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help! :)
 
Make sure that you have formatted the drive as NTFS with the Allocation unit site being set to 4096 bytes or larger (if you're storing like big files. eg. videos/compressed backups).

I would also suggest that you download HDTune and then perform HDD tests on that drive if formatting the drive like I've suggested didn't fix your problem.

BIG EDIT:
Do you have a B3 revision motherboard!? If not, then you should get it swapped out for free IMMEDIATELY!
 
File format is correct - used your above recommendations. Still no luck though.

I had some issues with it going to sleep - it would dissapear from my computer, but I managed to fix that, by never letting it go to sleep :) and I unchecked 'enable writing to cache' on the drive. That wouldnt make a difference would it?

Will get back to you tonight re the HDTune results.
Not sure if Ive got the the B3 either :/ will double check that as well.
 
_Maximus_ said:
Hey guys

Need some help here.
Ive just bought myself a second HDD. Ill just be using it for storage etc. The model number is ST31000524AS ATA device.
In short - a 1TB seagate drive.
When copying from anywhere (Other HDD, external, or USB) to my new HDD - I get a maximum speed of about 5mb/s.
The rest of my rig is pretty new (less than 5 months). Not sure if it helps - Asus P8P67 M-Pro, Proline 600W PSU, i5 2500k, 2 x 4GB DDR3 RAM - and im running windows 7.

Have read far too many forums and havent gotten a concrete answer - so if anyone could suggest how to deal with this issue, or what it might be, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help! :)
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Make sure in the BIOS that the drive is set to SATA mode and not IDE or COMPATIBILITY.
 
Pada said:
Make sure that you have formatted the drive as NTFS with the Allocation unit site being set to 4096 bytes or larger (if you're storing like big files. eg. videos/compressed backups).
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Sorry abit off topic but can you explain why? Normally when I format a hard drive I just select "Default Allocation unit size"

To the OP you need to find out of your motherboard is B3 or not, get CPU-Z and see if it says B3 under revision, if not you must have your motherboard swapped out from where ever you bought it.
 
I'm guessing that this issue is going to be due to the motherboard not being a B3 revision - or at least that would make the solution much simpler from my point of view :D
 
Pada said:
I'm guessing that this issue is going to be due to the motherboard not being a B3 revision - or at least that would make the solution much simpler from my point of view :D
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Yeah agreed I also believe this is the issue, I have a friend who had the same problem.
 
Tested the HDD in another PC, turns out it works perfectly. Read speed, write speed etc.
Checked my motherboard - it is the B3 revised edition. So its not that either.

Ran some tests using HDTune, and it showed a steady decline in read speeds - as the test went on. Spiked in the beginning, but dropped drastically. I would upload pics, but then I ran into another problem.
My PC wont even turn on anymore :( Duno whats happened, been trying to fix it most of today. Turns out its either the PSU or the motherboard that has given up. Getting that tested tommorow. I dont understand how a 600W PSU can give up after 3 - 4 months. Then again, it is Proline.
Anyway will report back once my PC actually starts up again. Thanks for the help so far!
 
If you disconnect that HDD from the PSU and it boots up again, then you should replace your PSU, and it should hopefully fix your issue :)

I completely misread the Proline PSU in your first post. I have a 650VA Proline UPS and it is a piece of junk - it can't even switch over from Eskom to batteries fast enough.

What kind of graphics card and other power hungry hardware are you running?
Are you overclocking your CPU?
 
Disconnected the HDD, still nothing. Tested my PSU with one of those elec meters - nothing. PSU is blown. I actually laughed.

4 months with this PSU and its blown - and just by adding in one extra HDD! Makes me wonder what treatment my other hardware has been getting.
Anyway Im taking it back to Pinnacle today/tommorow. Either getting it replaced with another - and selling it - and buying something far better, or, keeping the store credit and buying a better PSU from Pinnacle. They seem to only have these 'Cougar' gaming PSU, ones that I havent heard of.
So I think ill be getting a replacement, and selling it on gumtree/carbonite, and getting myself a Corsair 750W or so. Gives me room to SLI when I want to.

Pada - havent OCd anything. Im running a i5 2500k, 460 GTX hawk, Asus P8P67 M-Pro - all at stock settings, along with a DVD drive and 1 TB seagate HDD.
Hopefully the new PSU should fix my issue. Although, Ill be without my rig until further notice.... sigh
 
Jeesh, that PC won't even be using 350W peak, so that 600W PSU was really terrible.
 
Would leaving it to run 24/7 make much of a difference on the PSU? Obviously it was not under load 95% of the time.
 
Leaving it on 24/7 would make a difference, but it should've still lasted at least 3 years when running at full load.
 
Issue sorted. Got myself a Corsair 750W - more than enough for SLI later. HDD working perfectly well. Find it shocking that power a supposed '600W' produces is not enough for an additional HDD.

Im not one to complain normally, but WOW, dont waste your money on any sort of Proline PSU!
 
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