Hi
I'm new to the the forum so hello all..
I have a Imation Apollo 2.5" Portable HDD (250GB), which has run great for about 2 years now. It was always formatted as Fat32 as was used on both Mac and PC. Recently i have dumped the Mac on the misses and so decided to format the HDD to NTFS (before i did this i formated it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to reinstall OS X to the mac.
Now i have a NTFS formatted HDD that runs extremely slowly, taking about 7min to write a GB, even on my USB 3.0 it is only reaching speeds of Avg. 18mb/s
I have tried it on Windows XP & 7, Linux and OS X on 3 different machines, so it defiantly the HDD
Have i killed my poor old HDD with over formatting or have i merely injured it?
Thanks for any help
Info below....
Field Value
Device Properties
Driver Description TOSHIBA MK2552GSX USB Device
Driver Date 6/21/2006
Driver Version 6.1.7600.16385
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File disk.inf
Disk Device Physical Info
Manufacturer Toshiba
Hard Disk Name MK-2552GSX
Form Factor 2.5"
Formatted Capacity 250 GB
Disks 2
Recording Surfaces 4
Physical Dimensions 100 x 70 x 9.5 mm
Max. Weight 102 g
Average Rotational Latency 5.55 ms
Rotational Speed 5400 RPM
Average Seek 12 ms
Track-To-Track Seek 2 ms
Full Seek 22 ms
Interface SATA-II
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate 300 MB/s
Buffer Size 8 MB
Device Manufacturer
Company Name Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Product Information http://sdd.toshiba.com
I'm new to the the forum so hello all..
I have a Imation Apollo 2.5" Portable HDD (250GB), which has run great for about 2 years now. It was always formatted as Fat32 as was used on both Mac and PC. Recently i have dumped the Mac on the misses and so decided to format the HDD to NTFS (before i did this i formated it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to reinstall OS X to the mac.
Now i have a NTFS formatted HDD that runs extremely slowly, taking about 7min to write a GB, even on my USB 3.0 it is only reaching speeds of Avg. 18mb/s
I have tried it on Windows XP & 7, Linux and OS X on 3 different machines, so it defiantly the HDD
Have i killed my poor old HDD with over formatting or have i merely injured it?
Thanks for any help
Info below....
Field Value
Device Properties
Driver Description TOSHIBA MK2552GSX USB Device
Driver Date 6/21/2006
Driver Version 6.1.7600.16385
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File disk.inf
Disk Device Physical Info
Manufacturer Toshiba
Hard Disk Name MK-2552GSX
Form Factor 2.5"
Formatted Capacity 250 GB
Disks 2
Recording Surfaces 4
Physical Dimensions 100 x 70 x 9.5 mm
Max. Weight 102 g
Average Rotational Latency 5.55 ms
Rotational Speed 5400 RPM
Average Seek 12 ms
Track-To-Track Seek 2 ms
Full Seek 22 ms
Interface SATA-II
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate 300 MB/s
Buffer Size 8 MB
Device Manufacturer
Company Name Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Product Information http://sdd.toshiba.com