Why is my hard drive performance crap?

Feek · 06-01-2007, 20:20

A while ago, I had a nasty on my PC and ended up reformatting the drives and starting from scratch.

Ever since then, I've suffered with poor hard drive performance.

The system is a Shuttle SN41G, all the correct and latest manufacturers drivers are loaded. It has an XP-3200 CPU installed and the drive configuration is thus:

Disc 0 - The boot drive is an Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 [HDS722525VLAT80] 250Gb
Disc 1 - Second drive is a Seagate ST3120023A 120Gb

The CD/DVD is a Samsung SH-S182M which I've just fitted.

I can't remember the exact layout but I think I've got the two hard drives on one IDE channel and the CD on the second

The page file is on the second drive, each drive has only one partition.

Everything is bang up to date. The only thing different from before is that I think I had the drives the other way round with the smaller drive as the boot drive and the larger one as the secondary drive.

But it's just sluggish, it feels slow and sometimes it is actually painfully slow and I have to reboot just to get any kind of performance back in.

Neither drive is fragmented, I have diskeeper running on them both.

The only thing I've just noticed is that both drives are set as basic rather than dynamic. Could that cause performance issues? I can't think of any real reason that it should.

OS is XP Professional, the system has 1Gb RAM.

Any suggestions?

06-01-2007, 20:20	#1
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Why is my hard drive performance crap? A while ago, I had a nasty on my PC and ended up reformatting the drives and starting from scratch. Ever since then, I've suffered with poor hard drive performance. The system is a Shuttle SN41G, all the correct and latest manufacturers drivers are loaded. It has an XP-3200 CPU installed and the drive configuration is thus: Disc 0 - The boot drive is an Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 [HDS722525VLAT80] 250Gb Disc 1 - Second drive is a Seagate ST3120023A 120Gb The CD/DVD is a Samsung SH-S182M which I've just fitted. I can't remember the exact layout but I think I've got the two hard drives on one IDE channel and the CD on the second The page file is on the second drive, each drive has only one partition. Everything is bang up to date. The only thing different from before is that I think I had the drives the other way round with the smaller drive as the boot drive and the larger one as the secondary drive. But it's just sluggish, it feels slow and sometimes it is actually painfully slow and I have to reboot just to get any kind of performance back in. Neither drive is fragmented, I have diskeeper running on them both. The only thing I've just noticed is that both drives are set as basic rather than dynamic. Could that cause performance issues? I can't think of any real reason that it should. OS is XP Professional, the system has 1Gb RAM. Any suggestions? __________________