New Hard Drive with Slow Speed

[Jennadi]

I recently got a Seagate FireCuda 2Tb Gaming SSHD.

But I've noticed the transfer speeds are slow, like unusually slow.

 

I purchased this drive brand new from Newegg about a week and a half ago.

I ran Crystal Disk Mark 10 times at different space intervals to average the results.

 

All numbers are in MB/s

 

Settings for the first 5 tests: 5 seconds interval timing, random data, 1 Gb

 

Read                                                 |        Write

Seq Q32T1:    138.42                       |        Seq Q32T1:   110.36

4K Q32T1:       1.3248                      |         4K Q32T1:  0.3762

Seq:         134.42                              |         Seq:  118.5

4K:         0.8314                                |         4K:   0.722

 

 

Settings for tests 6-10: 5 seconds interval timing, random data, 500 MiB

 

Read                                                 |        Write

Seq Q32T1:  138.2                           |        Seq Q32T1:   109.18

4K Q32T1:     1.396                          |         4K Q32T1:  1.5408

Seq:         133.84                              |         Seq:  118.7

4K:           1.3914                              |         4K:   1.032

 

I would have ran the 100 and 50 MiB settings, but I ran out out time.

 

If you would like the spreadsheet or more information, let me know.

 

So, is this normal for a brand new drive?

 

[DrMacintosh]

What are the advertised speeds for that drive?

[Jennadi]

25 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

What are the advertised speeds for that drive?

The datasheet on Seagate's website says 140 MB/s

I should add that when moving a 1 Gb .rar file, it goes at ~150-200 MB/s for the first few seconds then drops down to less than 10 MB/s and stays there.

Edited August 17, 2017 by Jennadi
Additional information

[xGGAx]

That seems about right?

SSHDs have a small amount of flash storage that learns your most accessed files(usually OS files) and places them in that area for faster access. All the other files stay in the platters. Every time you run a benchmark, it measures the transfer speed of the mechanical disks. In other words, if you really want fast access for everything, get a real SSD.

[Jennadi]

Ok,  I  wasn't sure if it was normal, since yesterday, I moved multiple 1 Gb files over to it (Not all at once)and sometimes it crawled at under 10 MB/s , sometimes it flew past at 300 MB/s, and other times it did a combination of the two.

This isn't an external hard drive operating over USB 3.0. It's an internal drive operating over Sata 6 GB/s.

 

So, that's normal, right? I didn't have the money for a full out SSD, so I went with the middle ground. I think the HDD is 5400 Rpm . Might that have something to do with it?

[seagate_surfer]

On 8/16/2017 at 7:56 PM, Jennadi said:

The datasheet on Seagate's website says 140 MB/s

I should add that when moving a 1 Gb .rar file, it goes at ~150-200 MB/s for the first few seconds then drops down to less than 10 MB/s and stays there.

 

23 hours ago, Jennadi said:

Ok,  I  wasn't sure if it was normal, since yesterday, I moved multiple 1 Gb files over to it (Not all at once)and sometimes it crawled at under 10 MB/s , sometimes it flew past at 300 MB/s, and other times it did a combination of the two.

This isn't an external hard drive operating over USB 3.0. It's an internal drive operating over Sata 6 GB/s.

 

So, that's normal, right? I didn't have the money for a full out SSD, so I went with the middle ground. I think the HDD is 5400 Rpm . Might that have something to do with it?

FireCuda with a 2TB capacity comes in two different form factors, 2.5" (model ST2000LX001) and 3.5" (model ST2000DX002). The 2.5" version has a spinning platter speed of 5400 RPM, the 3.5" has 7200 RPM. We can't say for sure without knowing the model number, but where you said you saw a data sheet that said 140 MB/s transfer speed, it appears you have the 2.5" model, and the spec sheet says up to 140 MB/s. Here is the spec sheet for the 3.5" as well. The 5400 RPM would be slower than the 7200 RPM, 2.5" drives are often 5400 RPM laptop drives.

If you'd like, for the sake of being thorough, to check that your drive is healthy, you can download our free diagnostic tool SeaTools here.

[Jennadi]

5 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

 

FireCuda with a 2TB capacity comes in two different form factors, 2.5" (model ST2000LX001) and 3.5" (model ST2000DX002). The 2.5" version has a spinning platter speed of 5400 RPM, the 3.5" has 7200 RPM. We can't say for sure without knowing the model number, but where you said you saw a data sheet that said 140 MB/s transfer speed, it appears you have the 2.5" model, and the spec sheet says up to 140 MB/s. Here is the spec sheet for the 3.5" as well. The 5400 RPM would be slower than the 7200 RPM, 2.5" drives are often 5400 RPM laptop drives.

If you'd like, for the sake of being thorough, to check that your drive is healthy, you can download our free diagnostic tool SeaTools here.

 

I have the 2.5" model. I ran SeaTools and the smart test came back as 100% And it passed the Short Drive Test with 100%...Though as I researched more into this, I found it may be caused by a BIOS setting, so I'll check that and give an update.

 

Update: The BIOS setting did absolutely nothing, It actually prevented me from booting into windows.

I went from UEFI to Legacy.

 

And an addition, sometimes the transfer speeds won't go above 5 MB/s,and sometimes not even above 3MB/s..This is transferring internally from an M.2 SSD to said SSHD, not USB 1.0...This is a new computer too, the Acer Predator Helios 300. I have quite  a fair amount of large files to transfer over it from my old computer, such as games and Virtual Machines..I have one that's 42 GB in size...I attempted to copy that to this drive..I canceled it after a half hour. And installing games? Fallout 3 says over 3 hours...(I have Fallout 4 as well, I like the older titles too.)

 

Second update: I tried taking the drive out and using a SATA to USB Adapter and that did absolutely nothing.