Root Level of Hard Drive SLOWNESS

Upgraded to Snow Leopard and ever since I did if I double click my Hard Drive to open, it sits and clocks for at least 10min before showing the files. A reboot takes a good 15min of just sitting and clocking and finally rebooting. I've repaired disk permissions and everything else I can think of. Another strange thing is if I open Cocktail or Omnidisksweeper, Cocktail takes 10min and shows my Disk name as "". The name of the drive is MASTER BLASTER, Omnidisksweeper won't even launch and Disk Warrior shows blank as the hard drive name. Disk name shows correctly on the desktop and in Disk Utility.
Ideas?

you should repair disk, not permissions. bot from the SL install DVD and repair the startup disk using disk utility there.

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The name and the root of the hard drive change, how can i reset it?

the name and the root of the hard drive change, how can i reset it?

That sort of thing doesn't happen automatically,. Someone had to change it. Just rename it anything you like. Right click on it and select Get Info then in the Name and Extension are name what you like.

New MacBook Pro Hard Drive Slow

On Monday night I was browsing the internet when my mid 2012 MacBook Pro started running slowly. I have never really had an issue with my Mac running slow and, so, after a particularly long spin of the rainbow wheel of death, I manually shut my computer down. When I tried to restart, all I got was the grey screen with the flashing folder-with-a-question-mark. I looked online with my phone to find a solution and I proceeded to try a number of suggestions from the support community, including trying to manually restart in safe mode, but as I didn't take my OS X installation disk to school with me, there wasn't much left for me to do (especially because I'm just over 3months outside the 1year warranty and live over an hour away from the nearest apple store). The next morning I took it to my college's OIT help desk and was later told my hard drive had failed and I would need to replace it. Thank god I utilize google drive for my work. Thank god. Today, after paying the $122.49 (no pitance on my part-time minimum-wage school salary) for the "apple recommended" hard drive, as opposed to the $55 amazon alternative, I find that my computer is running slowly again. Not even internet slow. 10-minutes-to-adjust-my-dock-preferences-slow. Writing-this-post-took-almost-an-hour-slow. Also, in the middle of writing this the spinning wheel of death reappeared for at least 10mins, and not wanting to manually restart given what happened last time I tried simply shutting my laptop and giving it a little nap. When I opened it I got a blue screen and (after a few minutes of silent sobbing) was forced to manually restart, which luckily brought me to the login. Why is my once-beloved Mac doing this to me? Is it the expensive new hard drive to blame? Has the issue from before held over and may soon kill this new drive? Any explanations or advice would be greatly appreciated as I have final exams and papers due next week and cannot afford to get to the apple store before I need to research and write two 15-page papers.

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What is root level of backup drive

I have instructions to transfer backups from current backup drive to new backup drive. It says to drag the current backup drive to the ROOT LEVEL of the new backup drive. What is the root level?
Thanks,
Kathy

That is not the proper method. Here is the right way to do that:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the New backup drive. Source means the Old backup drive.

Hard Drive Slow (Spinning ball) - but there's hope!

Hi people
I could really use help with this annoying problem. Iv read previous threads but my problem seems to be unique to me (as always!!!).
My MacBook:
MacBook Pro - mid-2009 I believe. A1268, with 2.53ghz processor.
So the problem:
MacBook Pro read and write slow, with constant rainbow ball when ever doing anything slightly intense. E.g. Unzipping files. Copying files. Using final cut. Download files.
It's almost like the hard drive speed is fine but it hangs every so often. For example if I'm unzipping a 700MB zip file, it'll quickly go from 0% to 15% then it'll freeze for 30 seconds or so (with beach ball) then resume from 15-50% and hang again.
What iv tried:
I cloned my HD to a working one iv nicked from my unused windows laptop. I swapped my MacBook pros harddrive with the new clone, and startde it up. But it STILL HANGGED! If anything it was worse.
The unique bit:
While my original HD was out, I attached it'll my MacBook Pro via a sata to usb caddy. I booted into this harddrive by restarting my macbook and holding option key. And voila! The MacBook runs smooth!
So now I don't understand what it could be. It can't be te harddrive as it runs fine when connected via usb. What else could it be?
Thanks in advance! Any suggestions welcome!

Hi Grant
I took the 2nd harddrive out and put it in the caddy and it was fine. So that has indeed narrowed it down to something internal, either the cable or the SATA port on the motherboard.
Iv been looking on ebay to find a harddrive cable, but there seems to be some listed with a extra part, some listed with the infared diode. Not sure which one to get. Both part numbers are the same. iFixit shows type 2.
Type 1
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OEM-Macbook-Pro-15-A1286-HDD-Hard-Drive-Cable-821-0812 -A-821-0989-A-821-1198-A-/111042391045?pt=AU_Components&hash=item19daa46c05
Type 2
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HDD-Cable-f-Macbook-Pro-unibody-15-A1286-hard-drive-82 1-0812-A-SATA-Interface-/110965222159?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d60aeb0f& autorefresh=true
Also, has anyone bought these cables from china? Comes with warranty. Or is it best to buy from iFixit?
Thanks
Zed

Usb hard drive - slow write speed

Hey all you mac savvy people out in mac land.
I got the airport extreme n edition for christmas and I set the thing up at the 5Ghz N speed (300Mbps) and all is happy. then I connected my external usb 2.0 hard drive to begin using that as a network storage, the airport picks it up and sees it, and I can read/write to it. When I read from it, it reads really fast at about 6 MBps (i can see this speed by using the iStat widget) but the write speed to it is about 2 MBps (again, through iStat). I know that the hard drive itself is not slow because hard wired to it is really fast and i know that the airport extreme is fast for transfers because i transfer about 12-13 MBps to my pc. Why is it that the write speed going wireless to it is slow? any ideas?

hi Daew,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
The results that you got while running CrystalDiskMark is normal. The SATA 2 (3Gb/s) that you mentioned is actually the SATA interface support, not the actual read/write performance.
If you have a Seagate HDD (eg. ST10000LM024), check these specs
From the above specs, the unit has a cache that has a read/write max speed of 145 MB/s but there are environmental factors and power requirements to get this speed (eg. read/write speed on AC power is differente from battery power).
AFAIK, if this is the specs that is design for this drive, there's no way to speed it up.
If you're planning to upgrade in the future though, you can get an SSD for faster read/write.
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My coworker's external hard drive slowing down my computer

Hello,
I have a question. My coworker plugged in his external hard drive to my iMac with a USB, and he has to run its files everyday through network from his computer. The reason he does this is because his old iMac cannot read his newly formate external hard drive. I feel like my computer is slowing down. Is what he's doing slowing down my computer? Is there a way to not let the external drive using my CPU or memory? Is there a way to set it to low priority?
Thanks.

Since your current editing workflow is based around Virtual Copies there are no actual files containing the edit data. Therefore, you'll need to use the 'Import from another catalog' option ( see File menu).

Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive slows or crashes my macbook

I recently bought a Maxtor Mini external hard drive since I work with a number of large files, mostly CS3. Anytime I plug in my external hard drive, my computer slows down (trying to save a jpg, takes 15 minutes, copying a 20MB file from the external to the internal hard drive takes around 20 minutes). Anytime I open ANY application on the macbook, while the Maxtor is plugged in, the macbook crashes.
When I bought the Maxtor, I formatted it for my Mac, with the CD that came with the external hard drive.
Any suggestions?!
thanks!

You shouldn't need any CD provided by the manufacturer to format the drive. I can't see any particular format type causing that problem though. If you don't have anything you need on the drive now... try formatting it using Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
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Try that first and see what happens. Like I said... I don't really see any particular format causing the problem you are having... but since we don't know what the CD you used did, it's best to start clean.
Do you know if you actually installed anything on your computer from the CD?

Hard drive slow down and pixellated screen.

Hi,
something really strange has just happened to my iMac G5.
I had installed a new widget today, the free sms one that is No1 in the dashboard top 10 and I have been modifying a tonne of album artwork in iTunes from Amazon, I also allowed sharing in iTunes. It was whilst doing all this that I noticed things really beginning to slow down. I had Skype, Mail, Safari and iTunes open. Alternating between them, things were not as fast as normal.
So seeing as the Mac has been on for about 3 days without a turn off, I thought it be time that I restart it.
The restart time was about ten minutes... it took about 4 to turn off and the rest to come back up again. It took a further five minutes before I could do anything once Finder was up.
First thing I did was go to disc utility to repair permissions. It got stuck.
I have since turned it off and unplugged at the mains. I have left for a while.
Rebooting continues to take an age, along with the fact that the hard drive sounds under major duress... it is chugging along and constantly whirring, sometimes getting very loud.
But now the icing on the cake, my screen has gone all haywire, there are black blocks everywhere and it is all pixellated, the dock is just grey and white.
Help me please!

"and unplugged at the mains."
Why?
"the pixellated screen was caused by a build up of dust within the Mac."
If the area where your computer is sittiing is that dusty and/or you have pets (dogs or cats) then maybe you should keep it covered when not in use. Use a pillow case if you do not have an old fashion computer cover-->

"private" folder on root directory of hard drive???

Ever since I resored my system using TimeMachine I've noticed now I have a "private" folder on my hard drive that wasn't there before? Is it safe to delete it, because whatever it is, I don't want it where it is. - I want it like before when whatever "private" is was not there.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Scott

Hi There
Under no circumstance should you delete the private folder, it contains vital operating system files. It is usually hidden by the system but for some reason it has become visible in the course of the Time Machine restore. You can use a utility like MacPilot to hide this folder again.
J.C

Early 2009 Mini's internal hard drive slow after sleep

I'm posting this in the hope that somebody else may have the same problem, and may have a fix. My Mac Mini doesn't go into full sleep, usually it just shuts off the monitor. And that doesn't bother me, because I know it's on account of my third-party mouse and keyboard.
What does bother me is that after waking from sleep, the mini is very sluggish. Anything that requires you access to the internal hard drive results in a spinning beach ball and bouncing Application icons in the dock. A quick check of the activity Monitor showed very little going on CPU–wise. If one application that might have been able to shed some light on the subject, Drive Genius, was unable to work on the internal drive because it was the boot drive. I would've had to reboot, regarding new would have solved the problem.
At that point I gave up and decided to restart the machine so I can get some work done. As soon as I selected the “restart” from the Apple menu, got a kernel panic. At this point I'm concerned about the integrity of the internal drive. The mini is only about a year old, and I have AppleCare, but I'm hoping it is not that serious. The drive checks out in Disk Utility, BTW.
Any ideas?

The keyboard is a Macally Bluetooth (full size) keyboard. I bought it because I didn't like the little Apple BT kbd. No special drivers for the kdb.
The mouse is a Targus BT mouse, and it does have a System Preferences pane because it has 2 programmable buttons on the side (besides left, right, and center/scroll).
The system is set up as a server as well as my personal machine, so it has "wake for network access" checked in Energy Saver settings. It never goes to sleep fully unless I turn off the kbd and mouse and then push the power button. Then it pulses. Otherwise, it just turns off the monitor and stays awake, I assume.
Often I leave Safari and Mail running, and I know Mail is constantly getting stuff because both accounts are IMAP accounts. But even when those apps are closed, it still doesn't fully sleep. I have it set to display sleep in 5 min, complete sleep in 10, and to put HD to sleep when idle.
Hope those answers help, thanks for taking the time to respond!
K.

External hard drive slow to mount, seek, etc

This happened just recently with my migration from Slack to Arch. Basically, anytime I use my 500 GB external hard drive it takes about 10 minutes to finally appear on my desktop. Once I click on the icon it takes another 10 minutes or so to finally display its contents. Once I click on a folder, it is another 2-3 minutes...etc. I'm wondering if there is something I could optimize, or if it is something with my install of arch.
dmesg output
usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST350032 9QM1 SD35 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
INFO: task nautilus:20113 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
nautilus D 7329f2f6 0 20113 2140 0x00000000
f6b3e720 00000082 c1106174 7329f2f6 f3d5de1c f68ea480 c10fc740 7329f2f6
f3d5de08 f5140540 00003193 c1489140 c1489140 f6b3e8c8 c1484744 d044eb37
00003193 f6b3e8c8 c1489140 c1489140 f4985950 00000000 c10ff00b 000000b8
Call Trace:
[<c1106174>] ? dput+0x94/0x150
[<c10fc740>] ? __follow_mount+0x30/0xa0
[<c10ff00b>] ? __link_path_walk+0x6db/0xd50
[<c13069c2>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x112/0x2e0
[<c1306ba8>] ? mutex_lock+0x18/0x40
[<fb9b5d51>] ? fat_count_free_clusters+0x31/0x2d0 [fat]
[<c10ff8f1>] ? do_path_lookup+0x41/0xb0
[<c110061b>] ? user_path_at+0x5b/0xa0
[<c110dba3>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x23/0x100
[<fb9b8ba5>] ? fat_statfs+0xe5/0x100 [fat]
[<c10f199d>] ? vfs_statfs+0x7d/0xa0
[<c10f1b63>] ? sys_statfs64+0xb3/0x100
[<c1078166>] ? sys_futex+0xd6/0x180
[<c106e666>] ? getnstimeofday+0x56/0x110
[<c1003cb3>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
INFO: task nautilus:2196 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
nautilus D d8a6fd1d 0 2196 2140 0x00000000
f64d9ce0 00000082 c1106174 d8a6fd1d f6463e1c f68ea480 c10fc740 d8a6fd1d
c13115c0 f5140540 f6463e78 c1489140 c1489140 f64d9e88 c1484744 f4985950
c110dba3 f64d9e88 c1489140 c1489140 00f8e230 00000000 c10ff00b f64d9ce0
Call Trace:
[<c1106174>] ? dput+0x94/0x150
[<c10fc740>] ? __follow_mount+0x30/0xa0
[<c110dba3>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x23/0x100
[<c10ff00b>] ? __link_path_walk+0x6db/0xd50
[<c13069c2>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x112/0x2e0
[<c1306ba8>] ? mutex_lock+0x18/0x40
[<fb9b5d51>] ? fat_count_free_clusters+0x31/0x2d0 [fat]
[<c10ff8f1>] ? do_path_lookup+0x41/0xb0
[<c110061b>] ? user_path_at+0x5b/0xa0
[<fb9b8ba5>] ? fat_statfs+0xe5/0x100 [fat]
[<c10f199d>] ? vfs_statfs+0x7d/0xa0
[<c10f1b63>] ? sys_statfs64+0xb3/0x100
[<c1078166>] ? sys_futex+0xd6/0x180
[<c106e666>] ? getnstimeofday+0x56/0x110
[<c106e739>] ? do_gettimeofday+0x19/0x50
[<c104bf9c>] ? sys_gettimeofday+0x3c/0x90
[<c1003cb3>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
INFO: task nautilus:20113 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
nautilus D 7329f2f6 0 20113 2140 0x00000000
f6b3e720 00000082 c1106174 7329f2f6 f3d5de1c f68ea480 c10fc740 7329f2f6
f3d5de08 f5140540 00003193 c1489140 c1489140 f6b3e8c8 c1484744 d044eb37
00003193 f6b3e8c8 c1489140 c1489140 f4985950 00000000 c10ff00b 000000b8
Call Trace:
[<c1106174>] ? dput+0x94/0x150
[<c10fc740>] ? __follow_mount+0x30/0xa0
[<c10ff00b>] ? __link_path_walk+0x6db/0xd50
[<c13069c2>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x112/0x2e0
[<c1306ba8>] ? mutex_lock+0x18/0x40
[<fb9b5d51>] ? fat_count_free_clusters+0x31/0x2d0 [fat]
[<c10ff8f1>] ? do_path_lookup+0x41/0xb0
[<c110061b>] ? user_path_at+0x5b/0xa0
[<c110dba3>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x23/0x100
[<fb9b8ba5>] ? fat_statfs+0xe5/0x100 [fat]
[<c10f199d>] ? vfs_statfs+0x7d/0xa0
[<c10f1b63>] ? sys_statfs64+0xb3/0x100
[<c1078166>] ? sys_futex+0xd6/0x180
[<c106e666>] ? getnstimeofday+0x56/0x110
[<c1003cb3>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

No hanging
dmesg |tail -n 20
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

Folders on the root level of boot drive

Hello. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if there are long-term or detrimental consequences to keeping a folder called "C/" located on the root directory of my boot drive in Snow Leopard.
An explanation: I work at a television station, and one of our video distribution systems is switching from a satellite-based system to a web-based client and download distribution. The online Java client for this distribution method defaults to setting a download folder of "C:/Downloads" which is clearly more suitable for Windows than OS X. If the default remains unchanged when a mac user begins a download, a folder is created on the boot drive called "C/". Inside that folder is another folder called "Downloads".
If there are no ill effects to be had from keeping this folder structure on the boot drive permanently, I'll likely create a folder action that will simply move the mpeg files from "Downloads" to a server that will automatically convert the mpeg files to something more suitable for Final Cut Pro. The editors in my shop won't have to worry about changing the download folder EVERY TIME and manually moving the downloaded file to our conversion server.
Thank you to anyone who can provide some input on this. For the moment, I've gone ahead and set this up on a test machine, and I'm waiting to see if it blows up...:-)

Boy would I ever love that!
Since the distribution is being handled by a company that also has an integrated editing/playout system for video, I imagine it was designed to favor that system rather than our current Final Cut setup. I'll make it work either way, it's just whether I'll be happy about it or not.
I'll keep this thread open for a couple days, see if I can get some feedback on it. If at the end of a week, I haven't found any problems of my own, and can't get a definite yes or no from anyone else, I'll leave a follow-up and mark it solved.

New hard drive slower than old one

Hello, my Seagate 120GB 5400rpm drive crashed 6 weeks ago and I made use of the warranty to get a replacement (refurbished) drive. I think this drive is no good because I have noticed a marked decrease in performance:
-Upon coming back from sleep mode the screen turns on but it pinwheels for several seconds, showing the time it was when I put it to sleep.
-My battery also lasts considerably less now. The battery is about a year old and had been lasting me up to two hours. It now doesn't last much more than one.
-I also tried to rip a dvd today and had to stop because it was going 5x slower than it had even on this drive when I first got it.
Is there anything else that could be causing me this decreased performance besides a subpar drive?
I have been in touch with Seagate again this weekend and they suggested I send it in for another replacement, which is fine, but is there a way I can copy all of this drive onto my replacement when it gets here? Or should I need to start fresh and reinstall everything on the new one?
Thanks.

You might want to check that you have selected a startup disk as "Macintosh HD" so the OS x knows where to boot from. If there is no selection under startup items in System Preferences then boot up is delayed by a few seconds as OS X would look for a functional startup disk.
Check and see if this works for you in bringing down boot times.
PS> Also check what login items you have in the lisr under Account.

Root level Tags on Drives ?

How can I manage tags on Drives, Internal/External and Network Drives ?
I have used the labeling of a Drive Icon in the OSX 10.8 and earlier, and now this has become a non-removeable search tag !
Can anyone help with a Terminal Unix command or tricks ?
Best regards
Morten R

Perhaps the speed difference is in the computer. I'm running a 1.25 PowerPC, you have a Mac Pro.
I'm glad to hear the Mac Pro is running OK. We have a installation upgrade disc waiting for our Mac
Pro but was not happy with the problems we encountered with the older machine. On the Mac Pro we have a ProMax RAID that can not be down if possible.
This RAID problem is a big ($) problem. Is there a location to report these bugs to Apple?
Thanks

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