is my sata cable making my hdd slow

waaedalqraan · Oct 3, 2017

i have a wd green 500gb hdd ,64m cache and i noticed that its slow from downloading using steam, disk usage was only 1 or 2 mb so i did a search for it and results with the same hdd was very good with most people at the same ( exact same) hdd but when i did a benchmark 4 times using diskmark it wasnt good enough and i think its my sata cable its an old sata 1 cable and i think that is the problem i did optimize the hdd using windows tool with no effect my hdd is brand new and i dont know what to do

kanewolf · Oct 3, 2017

It is possible, but more likely your motherboard.

lperreault21 · Oct 3, 2017

It might be what the problem, i would get a new cable (they are a couple of bucks for a pack of them on amazon) and see if that changes anything, what mobo/cpu do you have, there my, if it is ol it may not have sataIII

TJ Hooker · Oct 3, 2017

What speed do you pay for from your ISP? What download speed do you get if you run a speed test?

Pretty sure SATA cables haven't changed between different SATA revisions. If you're not getting a SATA 3 connection between to your HDD, likely your mobo doesn't support SATA 3.

waaedalqraan · Oct 3, 2017

TJ Hooker :

speed test say download 29mbs and am sure its the hdd cuz the download speed on steam is the same as disk usage which is 1mb i can download games on laptop with full speed

waaedalqraan · Oct 3, 2017

lperreault21 :

ryzen 3 1200 oc to 4.0
2*4 gb ddr4 2400 ram
450w 80+ psu
msi b350 tomahawk
rx 460 gpu (amd fan lol)

TJ Hooker · Oct 3, 2017

You should have got two SATA cables with your mobo, why don't you use one of those?

waaedalqraan · Oct 4, 2017

TJ Hooker :

i didnt care about em in the first place tried them and things are normal now thank you

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