I added a second 120 gig WD SATA drive to my computer and have noticed an interesting habit.
When I first boot up and run HD-Tach it gives a nearly 50mb/s transfer rate at start (if I remember correctly that's the measure) and the burst speed is over 80mb/s. However if I test it again later this does not occur, it has slowed down to 26mb/s or so (average). My main drive is of the same type and stays near 50 all the time (as does my friend's new Hitachi 120gig sata).
I've turned off indexing and other things on the drive thinking somethings bogging it down, although that's a huge difference to me, so I can't see those causing this.
I'm running XP pro on the 2.8ghz system in my sig, I tested the drive on SATA connectors 2 and 3. Using 2 puts it on the same controller as my main drive and 3 is on a separate controller. No difference.
I don't think it's heat because right after a reboot it's fast again for a while. I'm thinking it's defective but if I've missed something I'm open for suggestions.
When I first boot up and run HD-Tach it gives a nearly 50mb/s transfer rate at start (if I remember correctly that's the measure) and the burst speed is over 80mb/s. However if I test it again later this does not occur, it has slowed down to 26mb/s or so (average). My main drive is of the same type and stays near 50 all the time (as does my friend's new Hitachi 120gig sata).
I've turned off indexing and other things on the drive thinking somethings bogging it down, although that's a huge difference to me, so I can't see those causing this.
I'm running XP pro on the 2.8ghz system in my sig, I tested the drive on SATA connectors 2 and 3. Using 2 puts it on the same controller as my main drive and 3 is on a separate controller. No difference.
I don't think it's heat because right after a reboot it's fast again for a while. I'm thinking it's defective but if I've missed something I'm open for suggestions.