Slow HDD is recent build

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montosaurous

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Last week I built my brother a computer. It runs fine, other than boot and other operations that rely heavily on the HDD. I ran Crystaldiskmark on it, and it showed the read at about 30 mb/s and write at 50 mb/s, extremely slow for any modern drive. I've already tried switching around sata ports to no success. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 paired with an FX 4100 and 8GB of DDR3 1333 RAM. I'd like to figure out the cause of this, and all the possible solutions. Thanks.
 
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popatim
yeah, somethings very wrong.
What mode is the sata ports set to in the bios, IDE/compatability, ahci, or raid ?

Have you run error checking on the drive with both options enabled?
if so what were the results?

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Well, I ran a chkdsk and it returned no errors. I tested the drive in my system and it had significantly higher results, read speed of 120 mb/s and write speed of 115 mb/s. I also tested the sata cables and they are fine (for Sata II) as well. I'm starting to wonder if it's a controller issue, or possibly even Windows. I just formatted and reinstalled Windows, so I'll run crystaldiskmark once I get it up and running. Thanks for any help thus far.
 
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