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Originally Posted by Socks
I've been buying Seagates for a few years now, they've been reliable.. Question for you Rowan:
Last seagate I have in my machine I SWEAR is muccch slower than the rest.. I can't for the life of me figure out why, it's brand new, and I've copied, deleted, moved, downloaded, extracted hundreds of times to it, never an error message or crc problem.. Even defragged it with Raxco.. But I'm telling you, the thing is a fucking tortoise even doing basic shit.
Any ideas?
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Did you remove the jumper at the rear that forces it into SATA150 mode? I don't think SATA150/SATA v1 supports AHCI, NCQ etc. I had a new server set to IDE/compatibility mode and on boot it was reported as SATA150 with read/write speeds not much faster than 20Mbytes/sec; once I changed that to native AHCI it was identified as SATA300 and speeds went to past 50Mbytes/sec.
I still remain cynical about the difference between desktop and so-called enterprise drives, I think a lot of it is in the marketing. The only obvious enterprise drive that WD manufactures is the VelociRaptor, which has a remarkably different form to all of their 3.5" drives. I have one and it's working hard, the seeking sounds like crackling electricity.
