Very Slow SATA where's the problem????

[ilubombadil]

I bought a MAXTOR 6V160, 186 Gb SATA drive some weeks ago, for disk space, now I've transfer most of my (2) IDE drives data to the SATA and it started to go very slow when I acces large files folders and the last days when I do some Gb acces my PC reboots without explanation or it slows down in a very important way.

Also very slow for music or video playback so I've transfer back and forth my multimedia files.



Is this normal?
Are SATA drives slow as old timers flopy disks?

 

[bpinning]

No,

How is it connected?

Have you got the latest driver for you SATA?

Do you have a RAID controller installed?

Brett

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[ilubombadil]

First, thanks for your time in answering this problem, well it is conected without RAID and to the first SATA conector. Just pluged in and recognized by the BIOS.

I have
*IDE0:
40 GB master boot IDE drive

* IDE1
20 GB Master IDE Drive
DVD Recordfable Slave

SATA
145GB SATA Master SATA BUS

Yes I have the latest driver for my SATA

 

[bpinning]

Ok,

And the SATA controller is on your motherboard not on a separate card? What motherboard is it?

Brett

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[ilubombadil]

Is a P4VM800 and YES is in the motherboard not separate

 

[jurgen36]

Did you format the new HD? It is not just a matter of connecting it. You have to format the drive and all should be ok.
Regards

Jurgen

 

[ilubombadil]

Yep First thing done since it has now 50GB in use with music files of some 400mb in some cases and m ovies of 2Gb in other

 

[bpinning]

Hey,

Are you trying to stream a 2Gb mpeg or a 400mb mp3 with windows media player?

Brett

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[ilubombadil]

JE JE nop just Sound Editing I'm a musician, got Pro Music Software. The point is thst it happens all the time, If I go to a folder it is very slow just to load the file icons even though that I have it in detail listing.

When I play song fron the SATA drive, A normal one MP3 it starts with multiple stops, If I change it to my IDE it plays OK...(how's That)

 

[ilubombadil]

I just left the defrag running all night and still the problem persist.

My diskpart lists appears to be correct and also a chkdsk /R on the disk.

Really beats me up.

Any suggestions PLS

 

[bpinning]

Hey,

You could rebuild your machine with the SATA as you OS/Primary and the IDE as the slaves.

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