HDD writes slowly

Hi - I have a 120GB Samsung drive which writes very slowly (max 3MB/s).
Read speeds are normal. Could this be a hardware fault? From the
software point of view, I have checked the current transfer mode is
Ultra DMA mode 5. What other software problems could cause this?

Thanks, Jim

check if you have bended pins on HDD, replace 80 pin cable, try on another
computer

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Hi - I have a 120GB Samsung drive which writes very slowly (max 3MB/s).
Read speeds are normal. Could this be a hardware fault? From the
software point of view, I have checked the current transfer mode is
Ultra DMA mode 5. What other software problems could cause this?

Thanks, Jim

Almost same problem here.

I have a 250 GB WD Caviar that reads and writes about that speed.
I checked the pins and they're not bent, but I did just notice that I
have a jumper stating the drive is set as master, but I was using it
on a cable-select cable (80 pin). It was on the second IDE channel
and I think I had the BIOS set at Master also.

Because it was so slow, I bought a 300 GB WD Caviar SATAII drive and
got a SATAII card. Now I'm up at 60 to 80 MB/sec. Nowhere near the
advertised 300 MBps, but it's still 20 times faster than what I had
and it's 50 % faster than the two 120 GB IDE drives I have installed.

Anyone wanna buy a WD 250 GB HD cheap?

The reason I tell you this is that maybe you have a Master/Slave and
Bios problem, even thought I doubt that's what my problem was. Just
something to double check on your machine.

Good luck.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:57:30 -0400, "Alan Kakareka"
wrote:

check if you have bended pins on HDD, replace 80 pin cable, try on another
computer

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Alan Kakareka
Data Recovery Service
786-253-8286 cell
http://www.247recovery.com

Do you have write behind caching enabled on that drive? Are you
running an intel chipset