My laptop HD speed is 2.1 MB/s slow

[Eric Fosterson]

I have an HP envy 17 laptop and when loading Skyrim or chrome or any large program, and opening task manager, I see my disk usage is around 99%, while the program being loaded is doing 2.1 MB/s. I see hard drives like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339 , and they say it can do 6 GB/s, so what is wrong?
please help!!

 

[drtweak]

1) When it says 6Gbps that is NOT the speed of the hard drive but the speed of the hard drive controller. Most hard drives don't even reach SATA II (3Gbps) speed. Most of them are still around the SATA I 1.5 Gpbs or around 150 megabytes per second and that also depends on what kind of drive you have.

2) The drive COULD be failing. If you download and install the crystal disk info in my signature and run it if it says anything but Good report back what is marked with a Yellow Dot.

3) The disk usage could mean a lot of things and 100% doesn't always mean your hard drive is working at it's max it can go since most drives are different. If you look in the disk usage there should be 3 different things in the resource monitor. there could be other things going on.

Now is the laptop slow in general or are you just pointing out this one time you looked at it?

 

[Asdf Fdas]

okay, well I cant install crystal disk info since it keeps giving me error messages but If what you say is true about 150 MB/s, I mean I can load skyrim in two minutes, which is like 17.5 GB, but then my speed must be (17.5/2)/60=145 MB/s, but my disk says 2.1 MB??? so is my computer okay? Are there any HDDs that can load it a lot faster?

 

[drtweak]

You also have to understand most of the time the only way for a hard drive to reach it's max speed is 1) It isn't an OS drive and 2) You are opening, copying, moving, LARGE files. There is where you hear things about Random Read/write speed, sequential read/write speed etc. Moving 1000 1MB files will take longer than moving 1 1000MB file.

A drive running the OS plus other stuff usually next maxes out. Also only some of the FASTEST hard drive can hit 150MBps. Most normal laptop/desktop drives still only hit the 50-100 range.

And what error is it giving you?

And you could go with a 7200 rpm drive IF you don't have one already. Even then that will only give you a small boost of speed. The best thing is to upgrade to a SSD where they get anywhere from 400+ MBps but that is also only if your laptop has SATA III. If you have SATA II 300-350 would be max.

 

[Asdf Fdas]

You also have to understand most of the time the only way for a hard drive to reach it's max speed is 1) It isn't an OS drive and 2) You are opening, copying, moving, LARGE files. There is where you hear things about Random Read/write speed, sequential read/write speed etc. Moving 1000 1MB files will take longer than moving 1 1000MB file.

A drive running the OS plus other stuff usually next maxes out. Also only some of the FASTEST hard drive can hit 150MBps. Most normal laptop/desktop drives still only hit the 50-100 range.

And what error is it giving you?

And you could go with a 7200 rpm drive IF you don't have one already. Even then that will only give you a small boost of speed. The best thing is to upgrade to a SSD where they get anywhere from 400+ MBps but that is also only if your laptop has SATA III. If you have SATA II 300-350 would be max.

after downloading the program, it keeps saying that it is corrupt or that it is not allowed something, but run as admin it doesn't help. anyway i noticed that while loading skyrim, my hd actually goes up to 7 MB/s and back down to 2.