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New Seagate 2TB drive, writes and reads incredibly slowly

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I just got a 2 TB seagate drive and have initialized it and all that. However, when writing files to it it writes at around 6 MB/s. Does anyone have an explanation?

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Model number and maybe the specs for your rig would help a little.

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The drive in question is a Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM.

The rest of the computer is:

Core2 Quad Q8200

WD Green EADS 1TB boot drive.

WD Green EURS 2TB storage drive

Nvidia GT520

No idea what the motherboard is, the computer was bought at retail in 2009. It's an HP pavillion p6140f.

When writing to the drive from my main drive, it runs about 6 MB/s, but when transferring something off an SD card it runs faster. Haven't tested writing from USB sticks. Trying to use files on it runs incredibly slowly (like playing a movie).

I don't think the drive is dead, it initialized and formatted just fine. If it is indeed dying I'll just RMA it, but I'd like to be sure that's the case.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
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I had this same issue as well and it's the factor of 2 things, one being the sector size and the other what your doing with it. The reads and writes are based off of writing and reading very large files, when you start moving lots of smaller files it can't move as fast which results in slower speeds. The other thing is what sector sizes you selected when formatting, you chose something other than default your speeds are going to vary a little. Try copying over one very large file, you should notice a drastic difference.

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I definitely did format it with the default option in Windows disk manager, and I was using a 2.2GB file when transferring. I got high write speeds at first, then it dropped to the low speeds.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

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I benched it with HD tune and am getting between 160 and 195 MB/s, but still am having trouble sending data to it regularly. Will try a few things.

Edit: I solved the problem by forcing it to format to a given sector size. This can be closed.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

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