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WD10EARS 32Buferr size instead of 64!

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hey guys...i bought a new HDD from WD....
Model: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (WD-WCAV5C738415)

am suffering slow speed transfer avg @ 15M/s, while it transfer or installing a game/program my computer hangs and lagging with little freezes

this model has 64 buffer size but wt i have on seatools here not the same!, i used Everest and it says Unknown, i talked with the guy who i bought it from....and tellin me that hes sure about 64Mcache.....

am confused here who to believe... plz guys help me out!

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You have a misaligned partition, if you run XP align your partition with some utility (like MagicParted). If you run Win7 / Vista SP1+ then reinstall cleanly and do not use cloning programs which may give you a misaligned partition.

These are 4K sector drives; thats likely causing your issue.

thnx for the replay sub mesa,

am runing win7x64, am gonna try to make a fresh install.....but about the clone programs, like wt? i dont think am using those :S, and how it suppose to make misaligned partitions?

It could be something else, but the most common cause for poor performance on 4K sector "advanced format" harddrives is that your partition is not 'aligned'. Installing Windows 7 fresh should give you aligned partition; do a quick format on your harddrive to be sure so do not reuse the existing partition.

AS SSD can detect whether your partition is properly aligned; says OK or BAD depending on whether its aligned or not.

Good luck. :) 
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thnx for feedingback again sub mesa :D 

ok today am goin to make a fresh install for my windows and give ya the status later..
btw am hearing weird noises form my machine...am not sure it from HDD...i'll do quick chk on it........ thnx again

ok heres the report:

-fresh install of windows7 x64 did not help.
-programs installed is the latest drivers only (sound and gpu).
-problems i had still facing me after the format.
-the buffer size did not change, still 32.

so....RMA?

my specs:
AMD Phenom x4 955 BE
4 GB DDR2 @800MHZ Ramz
Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H revv1.0
WDC WD10EARS 1TB
Gigabyte 720w PSU

Download CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, and post both the SMART information and benchmark here for analysis.

It would be really great is you could also post a screenshot of AS SSD, this checks other things as well.

Do you have anti-virus or other protection technology installed? This can also reduce your I/O performance.

I do have the same drive and I'm having no props at all, hdtune says buffer size unknown but still I'm having no problems whatsoever , the drive is running as is should.

Try to run the SMART tests....

sorry for the late feedback....
thnx for the replay sub mesa ,darkchazz....

@sub mesa:
-i've downloaded the CrystalDiskMark,CrystalDiskInfo heres the results



Quote:
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 108.470 MB/s
Sequential Write : 107.260 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 42.274 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 69.454 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.583 MB/s [ 142.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.106 MB/s [ 270.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.595 MB/s [ 145.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.863 MB/s [ 210.7 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 40.6% (23.7/58.5 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/12/21 16:31:02
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)


and i have made another test on seatools:
Quote:
--------------- SeaTools for Windows v1.2.0.4 ---------------
12/20/2010 9:04:12 AM
Model: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1
Serial Number: WD-WCAV5C738415
Firmware Revision: 80.00A80
Identify - Started 12/20/2010 9:04:12 AM
SMART - Pass 12/21/2010 4:35:29 PM
Identify - Started 12/21/2010 4:35:37 PM
SMART: Supported and enabled
48-bit Address feature set supported: True
Max LBA: 1953516911
Host Protected Area features: Supported and enabled
Mandatory Power Management: Supported and enabled
Security Mode: Supported not enabled
SET MAX security extension: Supported not enabled
Advanced Power Managment: Not Supported
Download Firmware: False
SMART self-test supported: True
SMART error logging supported: True
Drive Temperature(C/F): 30/86
Power-On Hours: 1196
SMART: Supported and enabled
48-bit Address feature set supported: True
Max LBA: 1953516911
Host Protected Area features: Supported and enabled
Mandatory Power Management: Supported and enabled
Security Mode: Supported not enabled
SET MAX security extension: Supported not enabled
Advanced Power Managment: Not Supported
Download Firmware: False
SMART self-test supported: True
SMART error logging supported: True
Drive Temperature(C/F): 30/86
Cache Size: 32MB
Power-On Hours: 1196


-i made the benches without the anti-virus....it is not the reason iam sure....btw am using Avira AntiVir.....i removed it to chk if it from it....but obviously not.

-S.M.A.R.T test is passed

-still making benchs on AS SSD....



@ darkchazz:

as u can see the S.M.A.R.T test is passed.....the benchmarks not it seems like the performance i dealing at transferring :S....
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