I just built a complete new computer including a motherboard with SATA 3 ports and a brand new 2 TB harddrive 7200RPM, 64mb cache, and Sata 3 capable.
I'm working with some large files and it's taking FOREVER.
I pulled up the Windows performance monitor and during transfers, disk activity hovers around 6-8 MB/sec Disk I/O.
Is this normal? I seems way too slow.
I've never done much relevant HDD troubleshooting so I'm not sure what information about my setup is relevant. If you need more information, please comment and I'll update it.
I ran CrystalDiskMark at 100MB and got the following results: (Read/write)
Seq 208.6 181.2
512K 75.70 143.9
4K 1.123 1.318
4k QD32 1.820 1.137
Also possibly worth noting, I installed the Seatools utility that came with the drive and it does not seem to detect the drive at all.