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| Ultimate 64 | Poor Hard Drive Performance? System Specs: AMD 64 x2 6000+ Abit AN9 4GB RAM GeForce 8800GT SLI 250GB WD SATA HDD Vista 64 Ultimate with SP1 Forceware version 15.01 version 177.79 gfx drivers not sure what else would be helpful for hardware/drivers Ive been having some serious performance issues with hard drive xfer speed and performance, but I am not sure if I can narrow it down specifically to the HDD. The primary time where I get bad performance is when downloading files. It all started when I first installed vista and was downloading all of the updates and SP1. After a brutal night of waiting around for the files to download and install (I'm talking hours), performance did a huge jump, but was still sub par from before I reinstalled. Currently when downloading files from EA store, bittorrent, or any large file, say Vista SP1, my computer slows down to a halt. I defrag weekly, used an external defrag program for >64MB files. I used the tutorial to increase SATA drive performance, tried a few other tweaks on the tutorial forums, but nothing seems to work. It seems to be much worse when I try to unzip/unrar or otherwise process large amounts on my HDD. Ive done virus scans, spyware scans, used system optimizers, but I think im missing something. If anyone has any idea, your help would be much appreciated. |
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| Vista Ultimate 64 bit | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? I aways tell people to check for bad SATA contacts and bad SATA cable. Other then that, you can get a super fast HDD or raid 0 two quick HDDS. On top of that, over clock you cpu would help. Good luck and keep us up to date. |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? Blitz, try this software out for diagnosing HDD problems: HD Tune The software will allow you to run several low-level tests on your drive including benchmarks and error scans, and also allows you to monitor the temperature. You can compare your results to what is standard for your drive. It will also give you S.M.A.R.T. data, if your drive supports it. Hopefully this will get you closer to your solution... |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? Hi Blitzgp, You might see if these can help you improve the performance. Hard drive speed boosts and Speed Up the Performance of Vista Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? Perhaps your problem is network related. How are you connecting to the internet? |
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| Ultimate 64 | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? i found a work around and im not sure how it got messed up in the first place, but... in device manager, i went to my sata controller, went to verify that dma mode was selected and decided to uncheck the block that says let the bios decide. works like a champ now |
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| Windows 7 Professional 64-bit | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? hmm useful tip, wonder why its set as default like that. |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? Thank you, Shawn |
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| Windows 7 Professional 64-bit | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Poor Hard Drive Performance? Umm, how interesting. I have not seen this before. Must be something proprietary for NVIDIA brand motherboards. |
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