Gerry,
Thanks, this more or less confirms what I found using the hdtach tool. I
compared my results to the ones found on the hdtune website, and it
seems that my 40Gig drive is running at normal speed, the other one
should be about 4x faster.
Here are the results from the info and health tabs for the slow drive.
It fails on "Seek error rate", but I'm not sure how to interpret those
values.
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HD Tune: MAXTOR 6L040J2 Information
Firmware version : A93.0500
Serial number : 662202221736
Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB)
Buffer size : 1863168 bytes
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-5
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 2 (Ultra ATA/33)
S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : no
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes
Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label : windowsxp
Capacity : 20481 MB
Usage : 59.86%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes
Partition : 2
Drive letter : D:\
Label : mirror
Capacity : 14841 MB
Usage : 40.31%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No
Partition : 3
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 2847 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : unknown (F2h)
Bootable : No
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HD Tune: MAXTOR 6L040J2 Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData
Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 253 20 0
(03) Spin Up Time 80 80 20 2506
(04) Start/Stop Count 97 97 8 2131
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 20 0
(07) Seek Error Rate 62 1 23 5
Failed
(09) Power On Hours Count 98 98 1 1871
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 90 60 20 1
(0C) Power Cycle Count 97 97 8 2120
(0D) Soft Read Error Rate 100 100 23 0
(C2) Temperature 83 76 42 44
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 16 1 0 -128810360
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 100 100 20 0
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 20 0
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 253 0 0
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0
Power On Time : 1871
Health Status : Failed
Gerry wrote:
> Try running HD Tune(freeware).
>
> Download and run it and see what it turns up.
> http://www.hdtune.com/
>
> Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
> letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
> and copy into a further message.
>
> Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
> to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface
> scan with HD Tune.
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
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> berend wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two IDE harddrives, both are about 5 years old. Now one of them
>> seems to run at a noticeably slower speed than the other, here are
>> some specs:
>>
>> =========================
>> OS: WinXP sp2
>> =========================
>> disk0, pri. master
>> 40GB
>> 5400rpm
>> Cache: 1.8 MB
>> 2 partitions, C and D, both NTFS
>> Avg Access time: 27 msec
>> Avg read speed: 12 MB/sec <== this sucks!
>> Ultra DMA-mode 6
>> =========================
>> disk1, pri. slave
>> 20GB
>> 5400rpm
>> Cache: 2.0 MB
>> 1 partition, E, NTFS
>> Avg Access time: 22 msec
>> Avg read speed: 28 MB/sec <== Could be faster but hey, it's old
>> Ultra DMA-mode 5
>> =========================
>>
>> I've been through the usual options such as defragging, but that
>> doesn't seem to help. Both drives have about 50% free space.
>> Does anyone have an idea where to go next?
>>
>> Regards, Berend
>
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