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Possible problem with HDD
Hello to all,
I have recently experienced a strange problem and would like to read opinion from you guys. It's about possible HDD failure. I have recently bought used computer that was previously used as an office computer. It was pretty cheap and I bought for my parents since they don't do much than usual (e-mail, surfing news, youtube and similar). The motherboard is Fujitsu Siemens and the HDD is SATA 500 GB Seagate 7200 rpm, 2 GB RAM, CPU INtel Pentium 4 3.6 GHz. After few weeks of using they started complain that computer works slow. I have checked for viruses and it is clean. I have discovered that the speed of copy large file from partition to the another is in average 1 MB/sec which is rather slow. On the forums I have found that it is either problem with motherboard or with HDD. That's why I have downloaded Seagate Seatools for windows and performed different kinds of tests, all were successful. I have used then one older HDD (IDE) 80 GB made image of C partition of old HDD and restored partition on new (IDE) HDD.
I copied the same file (1 GB) again and this time average speed was higher than 15 MB/sec (sometimes even higher that 20 MB/s). The computer works significantly faster. So somehow the problem is with SATA 500 GB disk. I wonder what could it be since scan disk tool in windows 7 returns no error and seagate (manufacturer) checking tools also say that the HDD is OK.
What could that be. The only thing I didn't change is SATA cable but I doubt that problem can be cause by 15 cm of cable.
Do you have any possible explanation what could be the cause for this behavior. I have made a back of all data from the HDD,
It is interesting that older HDD (IDE) works much faster than newer SATA. I have newer used computer in the beginning but parents told me it worked faster in the beginning.
Thank you.