WD5000BEKT Performance issue, or not?

A quick question.
When transferring files from one partition on the disk to another (whether its a lot of files around 10MB size or one 1GB+ plus file) i average around 32MB/s. Is this right or should it be quicker? Because my previous disk which was a few years old, 100GB, 8MB catch and 5.4k rpm, did around the same speed.

 

That is lower than it should be. I just transferred a 532MB .ISO file from one folder to another on my WD5000BEKT and it took about eight seconds (Windows reported 60-70MB/s).

At this point I'm not sure why yours is slow like that though.

How is your hard drive set up? How many partitions, size of each partition, format of each partition, etc.

 

Depends on too many factors, including what specific files you're transferring, what A/V software you're running, the partitions you've set up and even how 'new' the install is.

The older HDD has the advantage of having to do a lot less error correcting and constant head re-alignment/corrections compared to the higher density platters of your current drive.

Could be your platform - is it current or an older one? Also, is it SATA2?

 

I have a few partitions i dual boot win 7 with ubuntu. Heres a sreenshot of the partitions and some benchmarks i did.
[imgw]http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/2097/screenshot5m.png[/imgw]
In case you can't read the one above
[imgw]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1628/screenshot2sm.png[/imgw]

The benchmark tests look ok to me

This HDD is only 4weeks old, i don't run any A/V and yes its a SATA2 and my old HDD was a SATA1

 

The HDD is SATA2 (I knew that!), but is your platform SATA2?

As to the benchmarks - yeah, they never give any indication of real life use.

You don't run A/V? Could you have a virus?

The last time (2 yrs ago?) I dual booted with Ubuntu I re-installed Windows again (I saw no need for the 'lighter' O/S) because of performance issues - I guess this hasn't changed?

The 'grub' bootloader is possibly loading an extra layer over Windows (I think - just a guess though).

Sorry I'm not more helpful.

 

How can i find that out?

No, don't need A/V and this install is only 2 days old.

Everything in ubuntu and win 7 runs fine and feels a lot quicker than my old HDD. Its just the transfer speed, whether its to another partition or on the same partition. The speed is always 30 - 35MB/s

 

To see if your platform is SATA2, you need to know the chipset model and use google to check.

2 day old install? Hmmm... could it be that Windows is still optimizing itself? Also, does it show that WEI completed successfully?

Try to copy files from another physical drive (preferrably over eSATA) to see if it is just an issue of copying to the drive/from the drive instead.

 

yes, copy from another drive(that is fast, not USB) should give more information.

most likely interface capped, IDE mode ?

I have a samsung which is stucked in IDE mode and same drive copy also only yield about 40MB/s whereas HDTune said 100MB/s.

 

Unfortunately my sh!ty laptop doesn't have eSATA :-(
I searched for info on my chipset but couldn't find anything about SATA2
HDparm reports my HDD as in UDMA6

 

Well, most likely it is ATA133 then and would be like mine.

You can go under computer -> system properties -> device manager

and check under IDE to see if it is using AHCI or PCI IDE