About a month and a half ago, I related a problem I was having with a new Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB SATA II drive. Transfers to the drive seems very slow. I moved the drive around between several adapters on 2 different computers. Finally, I put it in an external drive and it worked fine, so I moved on to other problems. Yesterday, while trying to re-install WinXP (another problem/post) I placed the WD 750 in the computer case. It immediately started exhibiting the slow transfers.
On a hunch, I switched out the power supply connection for the external power for this drive only, and lo and behold, the transfer times returned to "normal." Have any of you seen this problem where a single drive has problems with the PS and exhibits slow transfers, but otherwise operate normally? I will just use the drive in the external case, but am curious as to the reasons. This is a Sparkle Power FSP550-60PLN-B 550 Watts EPS12V Switching Power Supply purchased June of 2005. No other signs of problems. Thanks for your input. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
