Segate Barracuda 1tb Slow write speeds

[frankie47]

Hi , I have recently installed a new seagate barracuda 1tb hard drive. I want to use it for storage for my game recordings but the write speed when I test it is coming in at 20 mb!, I have exact same model of hard-drive as my primary one and get write speeds of 150mb. Is it because my primary is connected to a 6gbs sata where as my new one is connected to 3gbs sata?. I only have one 6gbs sata available on my motherboard , any help would be appreciated

 

[i7Baby]

Run Checkdisk on it.

Download and run Seatools to check it.

 

[neon neophyte]

switch em and find out ;p

 

[ingtar33]

sounds like you might have the seagate plugged into an eSATA plug. I made that mistake once upon a time.

 

[frankie47]

Run Checkdisk on it.

Download and run Seatools to check it.

Ran all the checks on Seatools and passed them all.

 

[frankie47]

sounds like you might have the seagate plugged into an eSATA plug. I made that mistake once upon a time.

oh rite , how do i tell what cable i should plug it into?, I'm new to upgrading my own pc

 

[ingtar33]

what mb do you have?

 

[frankie47]

what mb do you have?

Asus P8B75-M LX

 

[ingtar33]

use SATA3_1 and SATA3_2 if at all possible for your hard drive; i learned depending on the south bridge asus sometimes will make the last 2 eSATA ports... that's not what they put on the motherboard, but it happened on my ASUS board (they're all labeled SATA3, like yours are), yet it turned out my SATA3_7 and SATA3_8 ports were both eSATA.

 

[frankie47]

use SATA3_1 and SATA3_2 if at all possible for your hard drive; i learned depending on the south bridge asus sometimes will make the last 2 eSATA ports... that's not what they put on the motherboard, but it happened on my ASUS board (they're all labeled SATA3, like yours are), yet it turned out my SATA3_7 and SATA3_8 ports were both eSATA.

Oh rite thanks very much for the info dude. I hope it's the two above you mentioned and not eSATA . So if i's only eSata that's left then i would need to buy a new motherboard if i wanted more storage for games recording?

 

[ingtar33]

nope. $20 will buy you a pci-e x4 card that will have some SATA ports on it.

 

[frankie47]

nope. $20 will buy you a pci-e x4 card that will have some SATA ports on it.

Thanks for the info

 

[frankie47]

Also meant to say. I noticed the firmware of the two hard drives are different, The old one is cc46 and the new one is cc49. Would that make any difference?