Hard drive problems

[lostforever]

Hello,

I am new to this site and if this is not the right place to ask this sort of question please point me in the right direction,

In my current system I have the following 2 HD and they seems work fine,

• Segate ST3320620AS 360 GB (SATA) - Main disk, windows, apps and data here
• WDC WD1600JB-00EVA0 150GB (old IDE) - just used for backup

I added an old WD Raptor WD360 36 GB (model: WD360GD-00FLA0) to my system and my Segate hard disk started to slow down.

Its easy to notice with copying large files and windows in general is slow too. When I double click on icon to start an app it seems to take ages to load. Also lot more noise from the Segate HD.

If I remove the WD Rapator from the system the Segate HD is fine and seems to go back to the old speed.

Any ideas why the WD Raptor my slow down the Segate HD?

I think WD Raptor is an old SATA 1 drive and the segate is "new" SATA 2 drive.

I have 6 different SATA ports in the MB and Segate is connected to SATA1 port. I tried connecting the WD Raptor to remaining SATA ports (2 -6) and same issue.

Thanks

My system

• Win Xp Sp3
• Intel Dual core e660 2.4GHz
• MB Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
• 2 GB Ram
• HD Segate Barracuda ST3320620AS 360 GB (STAT)
• WDC WD1600JB-00EVA0 150GB (old IDE)
• Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT

[mightymouse]

If I remove the WD Rapator from the system the Segate HD is fine and seems to go back to the old speed.

I think WD Raptor is an old SATA 1 drive and the segate is "new" SATA 2 drive.

i think you might have answered your questions there, maybe just maybe when you install the raptor i change the speeds to 1.5 rather than 3Gb/s

[lostforever]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I did think of that but the slowness is huge for example,

I have this 4GB DVD and it takes about 4min to copy without the Raptor and about 10minutes with the raptor.

I have an 4 year old laptop and i bet the HD on it is running lot less than 1.5Gb/s but that seems faster compared to my desktop when I add the raptor.

Any help is greatly appricated.

thanks

edit:

To add, if I copy the 4GB DVD file within (for example from folder 1 to folder 2) the raptor its fast. Its the segate drive that seems badly affected