Hi...
I'm banging my head with this one so appreciate any help here.
Situation:
A recent purchase of a Dell Inspiron 5755 refurbished laptop came with a 2TB Seagate ST2000LM003 HDD.
The default OS was pretty slow so I upgraded it to an SSD. No problem there.
I purchased a drive caddy converter to replace my optical bay and use the 2TB as a data drive.
This went all according to plan and everything seems to be okay.... until I write to the thing!
Transferring from the SSD to the 2TB HDD - Whether multiple small files or large files (multiple GB video or backups) the drive starts out well (70-100MB/sec) but then drops to single digits for MB/sec.
Task manager / performance monitor shows the drive's "Active Time" consistently at 100% but the transfer rate in the 1-2 MB/sec.
Transferring the other way (to the SSD from the HDD) is fine. No issues with Read Speeds.
Actions tried;
1) Replaced 2TB drive, in the caddy, with an Older 250GB WD hdd and repeated file transfers.
Drive reports up to 100% Active Time, but transfer speeds consistently 60-70MB/Sec throughout the transfers.
2) Placed the 2TB Seagate drive into a USB 3.0 external drive case.
Transfers to that device (from the SSD) would hit 100MB/Sec and hold steady for the full transfer!
3) Older WD 250GB drive also reported similar write speeds when placed in the external case.
4) Reinitialised the 2TB drive in both MBR and GPT formats to see if any compatibility issue. I need the drive as one, big data drive so no concerns if either format.
After each init and format, ran the above tests again with the same results.
I first assumed that the drive was duff, but I can't ignore the external USB case results that give me 100+MB/sec transfer speeds.
I would really like to have this drive internal to the laptop without having to have an extra USB device.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I'm banging my head with this one so appreciate any help here.
Situation:
A recent purchase of a Dell Inspiron 5755 refurbished laptop came with a 2TB Seagate ST2000LM003 HDD.
The default OS was pretty slow so I upgraded it to an SSD. No problem there.
I purchased a drive caddy converter to replace my optical bay and use the 2TB as a data drive.
This went all according to plan and everything seems to be okay.... until I write to the thing!
Transferring from the SSD to the 2TB HDD - Whether multiple small files or large files (multiple GB video or backups) the drive starts out well (70-100MB/sec) but then drops to single digits for MB/sec.
Task manager / performance monitor shows the drive's "Active Time" consistently at 100% but the transfer rate in the 1-2 MB/sec.
Transferring the other way (to the SSD from the HDD) is fine. No issues with Read Speeds.
Actions tried;
1) Replaced 2TB drive, in the caddy, with an Older 250GB WD hdd and repeated file transfers.
Drive reports up to 100% Active Time, but transfer speeds consistently 60-70MB/Sec throughout the transfers.
2) Placed the 2TB Seagate drive into a USB 3.0 external drive case.
Transfers to that device (from the SSD) would hit 100MB/Sec and hold steady for the full transfer!
3) Older WD 250GB drive also reported similar write speeds when placed in the external case.
4) Reinitialised the 2TB drive in both MBR and GPT formats to see if any compatibility issue. I need the drive as one, big data drive so no concerns if either format.
After each init and format, ran the above tests again with the same results.
I first assumed that the drive was duff, but I can't ignore the external USB case results that give me 100+MB/sec transfer speeds.
I would really like to have this drive internal to the laptop without having to have an extra USB device.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.