Facing the low speed problem about seagate

[shab_2008]

Hello everyone
I've got a new laptop, which I bought one month ago, whose HDD is seagate (500GB@5200rpm). My problem is that its speed is not good at all. I put the HDD under several pieces of software, but they showed everything normal, and the HDD passed every test. The low speed ,although, is felt when running and installing software, or transferring files from one drive into another one; the speed rate is usually from 10Mb to 20Mb ,and at the worst situation, when I want to transfer files between to drives, it is somehow from 200Kb to 5Mb, and for all of them the results ware alike.
I've done several tests by HDtune, HDD Regenerator and SeaTools.
I want to know, with this given info, is everything alright for my HDD, or it has a hidden problem that the software can't detect it.

Thanks in advance

 

[herrwizo]

You can try defragmenting your drive and disk cleanup, but it is very likely that it won't help much. The reason is that the mechanical drives are the slowest component in every computer, and even more so in laptops (only 5200-5400 rpm vs typical 7200 for desktops). If you do not need too much drive capacity, I would suggest you to get an 256 GB SSD drive and install it instead of this slow mechanical disk. This will transform your laptop into a speed demon Of course, you do not need to throw away your current drive, just get an external USB enclosure, put this drive in and you can use it for backups or storage of large files.

 

[snowctrl]

These drives are put in laptops because they are cheap and use less power than faster drives. If Seatools etc shows no issues, then the drive is almost certainly ok. If u've seen some slowdown since u first bought t laptop it will b because of background programs loading at startup, so watch out for those.

The solution is t replace the HD with an SSD, t Crucial MX100 for example would b a good low cost choice, though with almost any SSD u will loose some drive capacity