Hard drive transfer rate

[revolultrablue]

Hello. I have a really fast computer at home. I5 processor 16gigs of ram. I use hd tune on my hard drive and noticed its getting between 40-61 mb/s. My work compuer gets faster speeds up to 71 mbps. I have a ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX Intel Motherboard. I have it plugged into the intel sata3 drive like I'm supposed to. Any info on this would be appreciated because that hard drive is a major bottleneck. Windows rates my drive 5.3 and the work computer at 5.5. i have no idea why my work computer would have a faster hard drive.

 

[revolultrablue]

I just checked all the computers at my office and they're getting faster data transfer rates.. How can this be?

 

[Hawkeye22]

It would be helpful if you posted the make/model of your hard drive. Offhand, make sure you have your chipset drivers installed and make sure no devices have a yellow exclamation point next to them in your device manager. I have much older drives that get 5.6 on my system.

 

[revolultrablue]

As soon as I get home (about an hour) I'll get u the make and model of the hard drive. Also all drivers are updated. I'll reinstall the chipset just to make sure. Thank you for your help.

 

[popatim]

It sounds like you have a 5400 rpm drive at home, possible a newer (faster) 5400 rpm or 5900 rpm drive at work. Performance drives are 7200rpm's.

 

[revolultrablue]

wdc wd1200js-00mhb0 that is the model number of the hard drive. it's 7200, so im wondering why it's not running up to par.

 

[revolultrablue]

It really doesnt make sense to me that this drive would max at 61 mbps, does anyone know?

 

[Hawkeye22]

These drives were built around 2005. Just looking around there are lots of articles saying this drive is prone to failure. Have you tried running WD's data lifeguard tool to see if it reports any problems?

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=3&lang=en

 

[popatim]

Its a real old drive that doesn't use PMR which boosted drive performance. 60.5 is about right where that drive runs peak. They were a proven design and lasted many years.

If you want better performance you need a newer drive. If you're surviving on 120gb's then your the perfect candidate for a 120/128gb ssd if you're willing to spend the money.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247

bare drive $60 500gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247

Hybrid SSD/Hdd $100 1tb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178381

 

[goldenchris81]

You may get a SSD, which is reading and writing much faster, the speed also depends on cache, cable, etc.

 

[MarcPierre]

It can. You may have a look to this and get the fast performing hard drive. I have seen so many and they are working really very well.

http://www.drivekings.com/

 

[popatim]

if you're going to recommend a server scsi ultra320 drive perhaps you should recommend them a good controller to go with it...