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danielbw   09-22-2009 at 09:29:19 AM

I have a SeaGate st3320620as 320Gb sata2 hard drive on a gigabyte 8ipe1000 rev 1 main board and it is running very slow do i need a driver or anything to speed it up abit?

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jsc   09-22-2009 at 10:40:36 AM

It sounds like you have something misconfigured.

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outlw6669   09-22-2009 at 11:23:23 AM

Welcome to the forums!

Could you be more specific as to exactly what is running slow?

A quick look at Your Motherboard shows that your system is prety dated.
Perhaps whatever apps/games you are running simply require a better CPU or GPU to give adequate performance.

Please post back the specifics of your issue along with a complete list of your systems hardware.

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Bronze Storage badge evongugg   09-22-2009 at 08:17:54 PM

^+1 on the oldness. It's a socket 478.
You might also want to check for viruses, malware and trojans and defragment to get a little more speed.

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danielbw   09-23-2009 at 10:44:20 AM

It isn't really really slow its just my old IDE hard drive was nearly as fast and i only recently brought this hard drive, I just want to speed up the transfer rate heres my current speeds from HD Tune 2.55

Transfer Rate
Minimum: 10.3Mb/sec
Maximum: 76.6Mb/sec
Average: 61.2Mb/sec

Access Time: 14.1ms
Burst Rate: 104.0Mb/sec
CPU Usage:28.9%

Main board Gigabyte 8ipe1000 rev 1
CPU Intel Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz
RAM 1.5Ghz (1x 1gb, 2x 256mb DDR)
Graphics Nvidia GeForce 6200 (256mb)
Hard Drive SeaGate st3320620as 320Gb sata2
running on windows xp professional Sp3 5.1.2600


Message edited by danielbw on 09-23-2009 at 10:51:05 AM
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jitpublisher   09-23-2009 at 04:16:54 PM

Those results from HD Tune are not bad at all considering the board you have the drive connected to, but your CPU usage is really, really high. Now, it could be that old CPU just needs to work that hard, or you could have a lot of background processes running.....which on your system with the amount of RAM you have, is going to really have a slowing down effect on everything.
Defrag, see if you can shut down some of your background processes.

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Bronze Storage badge cjl   09-23-2009 at 07:51:33 PM

Those numbers are a bit slow, but not too far off given the drive and board.What were you expecting with a 2-gen old (actually 3-gen, since the 7200.11 series spanned two generations internally at Seagate) hard drive?

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