Observed speeds are normally slower since they include the time for the
drive to physically seek to the location to be written to before the actual
transfer from the drives cache to its physical platters can occur. If there
is any other disk activity taking place the drives heads may need to reseek
to the proper location on each transfer. A small file obviously will always
include at least one seek since the heads will never be at the location that
the small file is to be written at.
"sigmund" <sigmund@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have an internal Seagate SATA drive that has a good read speed and a
> terrible write speed. If I write small files to the drive, Windows reports
> that the transfer rate is less than 1MB/sec. Large files have a high speed
> of
> about 13MB/sec. I have enabled write caching and advanced performance in
> the
> hardware tab. I don't think that my antivirus is the problem, because the
> drive's read speed is great.
>
> The Windows Experience Index rates my hard drive at 5.5, but I feel that
> the
> drive is the slowest part of the system.
>
> I see on websites that hard drives generally have write speeds that are
> 40MB/sec and higher.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion about how to increase the write speed of the
> drive?