SATA II HDD reads & writes 25 Mb/Sec Max... That right?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by ExOxE, Dec 22, 2012.

  1. ExOxE

    ExOxE Corporal

    Hi Geekers,

    I have been trying to work out basically what my systems hard drive should be performing at, I am currently using Windows 8 Pro, and if I copy a file to or from my OS drive I peak at 25 Mb/Sec MAX, but it hovers around 23 Megabytes a second on the Transfer Graph when I hit the "More Info" option while its copying, moving, etc

    Now dont get me wrong, thats alright, sort of, but in the advertisement for my laptop, it said up to 3 Gigabytes Per Second, now if my maths is correct, then the performance is WAY off!

    I remember 10 years ago my old ATA hard drives were getting 20 Megabytes Per Second transfer rates on ATA66!

    Is their something wrong with my system? have I forgot to install something? is there additional software available to speed up data transfer speeds? My laptop is an Asus K53E Intel HD 3000 edition, 2.5GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB DDR3, 640GB Hitachi HDD, etc

    I have tried my best to speed it up, ie: Using Windows 8 Pro "Optimizer" aswell as Ashampoo Defrag tool, etc and nothing seems to let it increase past 25 megs a second, in the BIOS its set correctly, and its definately SATA II...

    Please Help
     
    ExOxE, Dec 22, 2012
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    What application are you using to measure data transfer?
    Never really use optimizer tools as they can cause more issues than enough.
    What are you transferring data to and from, is it HDD to HDD or HDD to USB/CDR etc?


    Could do with testing your speeds using HDTune (free trial) HERE

    My readout on speed of C: drive is below as a guide, its a SSD so will be quicker than a HDD. I'm using Win8 Pro also

    http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4062/92002813.jpg

    May need to update drivers and mainly chipset and reboot and see if that helps, also change cables to new ones.
     
    DavidGP, Dec 22, 2012
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Don't know if your have tested your HDD yet but also while I'm thinking of it as dealing with similar issue also run this test from the same app as above.

    Click File Benchmark tab and run that test on the default 500mb test file and take a screenshot and attach it so we can see.
     
    DavidGP, Dec 28, 2012
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