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October 16, 2013 11:01:59 AM

Hello Hardware experts.

I just got a "new" computer (believe its from 2008 or so). I want to use it for media center, and file storage.
So i took my 3TB Seagate HDD from my normal computer, and inserted into the "new" computer... Now the transfers from the HDD (to another HDD in the same computer, and also to a network share) is extremely slow!
But if i put the HDD back to my original PC, i get a fine performance of file transfers and such...

Why is this happening? on the "new" computer i got, there is another HDD (where the OS is located), but this disk is not slow at all?

Do you have any ideas?

But computers are HP, but the "new" pc is a AMD and my original build is a Intel Celeron (shouldent matter tho).

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a c 138 G Storage
October 16, 2013 11:07:56 AM

can be a few issues. first it may be the older pc chipset drivers are out of date. the main reasons could be new drives use 4k formating the older hard drives used 512k formating. putting a new drive on older pc make the hard drive have to use some of it speed to convert 512k byte formating to 4k. the other issues is bios issue. most large drives now need efi bios to run right most older bios are used to see 500g to 1tb drives.
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October 16, 2013 1:32:13 PM

smorizio said:
can be a few issues. first it may be the older pc chipset drivers are out of date. the main reasons could be new drives use 4k formating the older hard drives used 512k formating. putting a new drive on older pc make the hard drive have to use some of it speed to convert 512k byte formating to 4k. the other issues is bios issue. most large drives now need efi bios to run right most older bios are used to see 500g to 1tb drives.


Hey. Can a firmware update fix this or is there no way to fix it ?
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a c 138 G Storage
October 16, 2013 1:36:13 PM

you can try updating the motherboard bios if there is one. with the hard drive no it a chipset/formating issues with newer hard drives.
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a c 268 G Storage
October 16, 2013 2:39:19 PM

ksl28 said:
Hello Hardware experts.

I just got a "new" computer (believe its from 2008 or so). I want to use it for media center, and file storage.
So i took my 3TB Seagate HDD from my normal computer, and inserted into the "new" computer... Now the transfers from the HDD (to another HDD in the same computer, and also to a network share) is extremely slow!
But if i put the HDD back to my original PC, i get a fine performance of file transfers and such...

Why is this happening? on the "new" computer i got, there is another HDD (where the OS is located), but this disk is not slow at all?

Do you have any ideas?

But computers are HP, but the "new" pc is a AMD and my original build is a Intel Celeron (shouldent matter tho).


Which OS are your 2 computers using? 32 bit or 64 bit?

Yogi

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a c 971 G Storage
October 16, 2013 3:23:34 PM

And which motherbd?
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October 18, 2013 10:46:00 AM

Y0GI said:
ksl28 said:
Hello Hardware experts.

I just got a "new" computer (believe its from 2008 or so). I want to use it for media center, and file storage.
So i took my 3TB Seagate HDD from my normal computer, and inserted into the "new" computer... Now the transfers from the HDD (to another HDD in the same computer, and also to a network share) is extremely slow!
But if i put the HDD back to my original PC, i get a fine performance of file transfers and such...

Why is this happening? on the "new" computer i got, there is another HDD (where the OS is located), but this disk is not slow at all?

Do you have any ideas?

But computers are HP, but the "new" pc is a AMD and my original build is a Intel Celeron (shouldent matter tho).


Which OS are your 2 computers using? 32 bit or 64 bit?

Yogi



It is 32 Bit :) 

I works now, when i have created 2 partitions on the HDD :S

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