I had to do fresh windows install and I didn't wanted to format my media drive by mistake so I took extra steps and unplugged SATA port from my motherboard which was connected to the HDD. After the OS installation I did a benchmark and noticed my read/write speed went down significantly.
While I was plugging the SATA port back in the motherboard I heard a loud click sound, it was probably came from SATA steel lock. I'm not worried about my HDD drive, I'm worried about if my motherboard SATA port is damaged while I was connecting it back in. While I was connecting, I did my best to connect it gently and w/o force, maybe that's why steel lock sounded extremely loud since there was not enough force pushing it down to lock itself.
The higher speed benchmark was taken when my HDD had 400GB free space left, currently it has only 190GB space but then I don't know if extra available space caused my drive to perform faster.
Before OS Installation read/write-
Sequential (MB/s)
READ- 142 WRITE-142
Random (IOPS)
READ- 181 WRITE-244
After OS Installation read/write-
Sequential (MB/s)
READ-117 WRITE-117
Random (IOPS)
READ- 181 WRITE-244
While I was plugging the SATA port back in the motherboard I heard a loud click sound, it was probably came from SATA steel lock. I'm not worried about my HDD drive, I'm worried about if my motherboard SATA port is damaged while I was connecting it back in. While I was connecting, I did my best to connect it gently and w/o force, maybe that's why steel lock sounded extremely loud since there was not enough force pushing it down to lock itself.
The higher speed benchmark was taken when my HDD had 400GB free space left, currently it has only 190GB space but then I don't know if extra available space caused my drive to perform faster.
Before OS Installation read/write-
Sequential (MB/s)
READ- 142 WRITE-142
Random (IOPS)
READ- 181 WRITE-244
After OS Installation read/write-
Sequential (MB/s)
READ-117 WRITE-117
Random (IOPS)
READ- 181 WRITE-244