Windows 7: New Hard Drive and Windows 7 = slower?

-I'm unsure what the Samsung HDD MB/sec, however, from the last run of HDTune, I can tell you the info on the WD Black. Min: 43.3 MB/Sec, Max: 103.7 MB/Sec, Average: 79.9 MB/Sec with Access Time: 12.6 ms, and Burst of 132.1 MB/Sec

But it could also be windows accessing the disk excessively.
Try to find out if some process or service is accessing the disk constantly.
-Unsure on how to find this information, but hopefully you can steer me that direction?

79.9MB/sec, that is an excellent average. It's at the high end of the range.

12.6ms access time is a bit on the slow side, but shouldn't be really noticeable.

Samsung is about 8.9ms access time. That could explain for a tad of sluggishness on WD's part.

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1. ctrl alt delete to go into taskmanager

2. go to the performance tab

3. at the bottom there's a button "source control" or something like that. (I'm on Dutch OS)

4. In source control click on "Disk" tab.

5. Go fiddle around with the different views to find out which processes are accessing the disk.

It looks a bit complicated at first, but you'll figure it out.

I will check back tomorrow.
4:15 am over here, going to bed.

Greetings

Seems the only thing taking up the write on the HD is System at the moment. It juggles between 7,000 - 30,000 B/Sec (Averaging 18,000 B/Sec).

The chipset is not your mobo manufacturer. It would be from Intel, AMD, or Nvidia.

Hi se7ensmatrix121,

I'm sorry to disappoint you but there's no way in the world you are going to get 3Gbit/s
That is a theoretical maximum for the Sata II standard, but that applies to the controller, not the disks themselves.

3gbit/s = 384 Mbytes per second and there isn't a "platter" disk in the world that can go that fast.

Somewhere between 60 and 80 Mbyte/s is the max sustained throughput you can get with a single platter disk. And about 128Mbyte/s bursts for very short periods when the disk's cache is read instead of the platters.


Why do they make a 3Gbit/s (384Mbyte/s) standard while no disk can reach that, I hear you think.

Well, for starters the controller standard always has to be ahead of the disk speeds,
so the disks have some headroom, and to allow development of faster disks.
there's no point in making a disk faster than the controller can handle.

Having said that,

The Sata II standard is created with SSD disks in mind.
The newest SSD disks are getting very close to that theoretical maximum.
The fastest to date reads and writes at 260 Mbytes/s.

It won't be long before SSD breaks the 384Mb barrier.
Therefore Sata III is already on it's way, that will be 6Gbit/s (768Mb/s)

Soon SSD will become more affordable and platter disks will die a slowly disappear, just like the floppy disk.

I hope this explains it.

I also asked where to find chipset drivers at, and noone was able to give me any help. I appreciate the responses that I'm getting, but if you are saying I need to do something and I say I'm not sure I know how, please help guide me in the right direction.