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I downloaded and run the free one. The benchmark results are the same for what I posted so I don't see any difference.

According to the HDTune manual, "Both read and write transfer rate can be measured. To prevent accidental data loss, the write test can only be performed on a disk with no partitions." That's using the Benchmark settings, or must I use the file benchmarks instead? Anyway, I proceeded to use...

Update: I did change the settings back to "enable write cache" and there's no difference. I'll just have to change the drive. Thanks for the help though.

I don't think so. Some SMART aware programs tell me the disc is good, others say it's faulty. I don't know. I have decided to replace it in the upcoming months although this is a drive I hardly used; used it mainly to do offline backups. I did the low level format to fix some bad clusters that...

Hello, I low-level formatted a hard drive and since then, it won't copy any faster than 8mb/s. It's a SATA I hard drive. Any ideas?