Have you got a small HD or try partitioning one 80Gb into say 20Gb for a test and just let other 60gb spin. Maybe for some reason the partition is a bit whacky???
Ben


Lyle Chapman wrote:

I posted a message a couple of weeks ago about sluggish HD performance on a new computer - it is a 3ghz P4, Gigabyte MB, 1gb ram and 2 brand new 80gb Seagate 7200rpm drives.

Even with this setup I am still getting sluggish performance, when I do a copy I am getting a burst of 45meg/second then it slowly dwindles down to around 20meg/second average but will jump up and down between 3.5meg/second and 20meg/second until the end of the copy.

Any ideas anybody as I do a lot of DV editing and it is really defeating the purpose of purchasing a new ubeat go faster computer.

cheers,

lyle



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