HGST 4tb NAS drive seems slow. Benchmarks show low numbers.

[decko9999]

I just installed the drive recently on Win10 as a single storage drive (no RAID) but when I run any benchmarks on it, it seems slower than what I've seen online. I'm getting somewhere around 110 MB/s for both read/write speeds. Any ideas what might be going on? I used AS SSD, ATTO, and CrystalDiskMark and they all reported the same.

Here's my system info:

Core i7-2600k overclocked to 4.3ghz
Gigabyte z77x-up5th motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws 8gigs ddr3 1600 ram
Windows 10 64bit
Geforce GTX 670

 

[kanewolf]

That motherboard has both 6Gb and 3Gb SATA ports. See the specs page -- http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4279#sp My guess is you have it connected to a 3Gb port.

 

[decko9999]

That motherboard has both 6Gb and 3Gb SATA ports. See the specs page -- http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4279#sp My guess is you have it connected to a 3Gb port.

No. I have it connected to the 6gb port.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there decko9999,

Is that your OS drive? If this is the case, then the benchmarks would not be that indicative.

The things you can do are:
- Try a different SATA port with different cables.
- Update your MOBO's drivers.
- Test the drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

In case you still get similar results, you can attach the drive as a secondary one to another machine and run some benchmark testing.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[decko9999]

Hi there decko9999,

Is that your OS drive? If this is the case, then the benchmarks would not be that indicative.

The things you can do are:
- Try a different SATA port with different cables.
- Update your MOBO's drivers.
- Test the drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

In case you still get similar results, you can attach the drive as a secondary one to another machine and run some benchmark testing.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

Thanks for the reply. This is not the OS drive. It's just used to store media. I've tried different SATA ports without any change in the results. I used the HGST provided diagnostic software and there are no errors with the drive. Drivers are all up to date and I tried the Intel Rapid Storage drivers as well with no change. I currently don't have another machine to try this on so I can't test it out unfortunately.

 

[decko9999]

So I've tried changing the cable and changing the SATA port (even tried the Marvell controller), but nothing has changed. Drive is still benchmarking slow. Any other ideas?