Brand new but very slow hard drive

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17-04-2007, 08:31 AM

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Brand new but very slow hard drive

Hi,

My PC recently crashed and since I was having to do a total rebuild anyway I decided to ditch the smaller of the 2 drives in my machine and replace it with a brand new Hitachi 500GB IDE hard drive. I have put it into my machine as the master (via cable select) and rebuilt the machine. But it's running really slow.

I installed HD Tune and ran a benchmark of this drive versus the other one in the machine (a Maxtor 300Gb) and the results seem to show that the whole machine is slow because of this new drive. I am getting average data transfer rates on the Maxtor of just over 50Mb per second but on the Hitachi I only get 3Mb per second.

Could this be a configuration problem? Or is it more likely to be a fault with the drive? I'm praying the former or I'll have to replace it and start rebuilding all over again!!

Any advice much appreciated. Thanks!

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