My laptop has 2 drives, a 120gb SSD in the "normal" hard drive location (SATA3), and a 750gb HDD in a hard drive caddy where my optical drive used to be (SATA2 I believe that is). It's an Alienware m14x r1.
The HDD appears to be the problematic drive, transfers go seemingly fine for a few seconds then the rate just plummets to 0-700kb/s. It may shoot back to up a reasonable speed, and then fall back down again. Launching any files or programs installed on the HDD is also incredibly slow. Chkdsk revealed no issues. Programs and files on the SSD run normally.
The 2 drives are:
- 750GB Seagate Momentus 7200RPM 2.5" SATA HD 16MB Cache
- Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
Is anyone familiar with this or have an idea what the cause could be?
Thanks for your help.
edit: Fixed the title
**FIXED** If you stumble across this same problem, check your drivers. I was missing the storage controller driver, and intel RST driver. Installed those, and now it works perfect.
The HDD appears to be the problematic drive, transfers go seemingly fine for a few seconds then the rate just plummets to 0-700kb/s. It may shoot back to up a reasonable speed, and then fall back down again. Launching any files or programs installed on the HDD is also incredibly slow. Chkdsk revealed no issues. Programs and files on the SSD run normally.
The 2 drives are:
- 750GB Seagate Momentus 7200RPM 2.5" SATA HD 16MB Cache
- Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
Is anyone familiar with this or have an idea what the cause could be?
Thanks for your help.
edit: Fixed the title
**FIXED** If you stumble across this same problem, check your drivers. I was missing the storage controller driver, and intel RST driver. Installed those, and now it works perfect.