1.5MB/s SATA drive speed. I have Western Digital 500GB SATA drive (WD5000AAJS) that is spec'ed as 3Gbps 8MB buffer, and it consistently writes around 1.5MB/s speed for 500MB zeros. The thing is, it is that slow even in the manufacturer's own Diagnostics...

Does an additional high speed hard drive help?. I've heard that installing an additional high end hard drive will speed up my machine. I bought a Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB and installed it, and used windows 7 storage utility to make a simple partition...

Hard drive speed Windows 7 + Page file. Keep in mind we are talking about 64 windows 7, so I do not know if the page file or other things are changed compared to xp and vista. I run my windows on a 32MB cache hard drive--- the WD Black 1TB to be exact. I have...

How important is cd drive speed anymore?. When playing a game or what have you, is there really a difference anymore between say, a 40x and 52x cd drive?. When playing a game or what have you, is there really a difference anymore between say, a 40x and 52x...

Is this Process to increase hard drive speed Safe? I. I have windows vista ultimate 64 bit, 4gb ram, WD 320gb HDD 7200rpm, Quad Core Q9550 @ 2.8ghz. I found this article that says how to speed hard drive speed in win vista but i want to know if this is safe...

Hard Drive Speed Options. I'm going to be building a computer for Photoshop. I'm thinking of separate partitions for the OS and Photoshop/Lightroom. Would I get the best speed from two 7200 drives, one for each, or one 10,000 drive with two partitions? Data...

drive speed. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () Few days ago I noticed my LG dvd burner (x12) is much slower. Using different brand's disks my max burning speed is x4 for dvd's and CD's x8. All disks are speed rated at least x8...

to the >speed of a slower drive connected to the same IDE channel. >> Conversely, the transfer speed from a fast hard drive to a slow hard drive, > whether on the same IDE channel or not, can never be faster than the speed> at which the slow drive...

As you know, many applications demand frequent access to the harddrive. A 7200 RPM drive will deliver almost twice the speed of a 4200 rpm drive and will speed up a lot of things: Loading times will be shorter, boot up will be faster, applications will start...

I have a 160GB drive to put into the 5040, but since the Ethernet port on the 5040 is blown, I would like to put it in the 5080, instead. Can I move the 80GB drive to the 5040 without having to use RTVPatch? 2) Is 370KB/s a proper speed for downloading...