Firewire drive read/write very slow

I have a Western Digital firewire 400 drive which is writing very slowly. 200 mb file took about 4 minutes to copy. I figure it must be a drive issue, but wondered if there is the chance it's some system thing. I used Disk Utility to check and repair it, but to no avail. The data is still there, it's just very slow to write to it. Copying off it is no problem though (which is good!)
Does anyone know if this can be addressed or is it just a bad drive?

Three years seems pretty bad to me. I don't expect drive to fail that quickly. What do you mean by "those WD drives do that"? Do you mean that WD drives are not so good, or those cheaper end ones? I was going to replace it with a WD studio drive, which is formatted for Mac and has FW 800 and a five year warranty as opposed to one year, which suggests to me that it's a better quality item, but at least if it isn't, it has a long warranty.

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G710 hard drive read/write speed

Hello,
I have a brand new Ideapad G710 with 1TB Serial ATA 2, 5400rpm with advertised speed of 3 Gb/s (= 384MB/s).
I am running Windows 7 ultimate x64 with SP1.
When I test hard drive read/write speed (I used CrystalDiskMark) I get results of about 100MB/s, which is 3-4 times slower than it should be.
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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
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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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I am moving from PC to Mac. My PC has two internal drives and I have a 3Tb external. What is best way to move the data from the internal drives to Mac and the best way to make the external drive read write without losing data

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Paragon even has non-destriuctive conversion utility if you do want to change drive.
Hard to imagine using 3TB that isn't NTFS. Mac uses GPT for default partition type as well as HFS+
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Also,
Mac OS X Help
http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/
Isolating Issues in Mac OS
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1388
https://www.apple.com/support/osx/
https://www.apple.com/support/quickassist/
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http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/tour/
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304725
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Help. My ipad will not boot up except to show the following message.
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Hi, my ipad 2 just got the same problem and after reading all relative post, finnally i figrue it out, that is no software issue at alll just hardware,
I did attemp replace the power button cable on my ipad so i must disconnect the back camera cable so there is my problem. Because the connect some how not exact in place, i took the camera out and the issue is gone. So, in your case, if you did try to replace anything look at them again or you just take them out one by one and reboot ipad until it work.
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Hard drive read write speeds are too slow

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Is it just me or do those read/write speeds on the new drive still seem slow?
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Not quite sure if there is in the right section but oh well.
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I've been fighting a slow drive for months and have yet to find a solution. Most recently I installed a 1 TB 7200 RPM drive from OWC, cloned my drive and find the new drive measures about the same read/write speed of 20-25 MB/s. I'm at a loss to find a solution. Interestingly when I test the stock 500 GB drive that is now reformatted and empty I see it measures 50 MB/s read/write.
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I can't comment specifically on your Aperture plan, but with some software it's important to avoid simultaneous access by more than one user.

Western Digital External Drive and a VERY slow computer. Is my HD failing?

Hello, thank you for looking at my question.
First off, I am NOT very tech-savvy, but I'm willing to research and learn, I'm just afraid to make a mistake and blow up my computer.
I have had my Macbook for 2 years. I have not backed up my hard drive during that time. Bad, I know.
Recently I've noticed my Mac getting slow with the "spinning beach ball" showing up more often and everything getting slower. Usually a reboot will help. Yesterday, for the first time, the reboot took about 8-10 minutes! I figured that wasn't a good sign, so I headed down and picked up an external hard drive (Western Digital Essential model, 1TB) and figured I'd back everything up. I formatted the drive according to the Mac partition model (tech support from WD helped over the phone) and got it going. From 1530 to 0800 this morning, of 52 GB it had only backed up 15.3 GB. The fan was running at high speed the entire afternoon and night. That's about one GB per hour. Is that normal?? Then, it froze and wouldn't respond, or back up at all. Just nothing. I held the power button down and restarted it.
At this point, I am concerned that perhaps the hard drive is failing (hence the speed and fan issues) and that maybe I should be taking it in to a repair shop (we don't live anywhere near an Apple store)
Do you think this may be the case? Is there any way to back up my hard drive faster - before it dies? I have two years worth of photos and papers, etc on there, music and such and it would be a tremendous loss if it all crashed.

carroteye wrote:
Hello, thank you for looking at my question.
First off, I am NOT very tech-savvy, but I'm willing to research and learn, I'm just afraid to make a mistake and blow up my computer.
Good! Better to inquire than leap!
I have had my Macbook for 2 years. I have not backed up my hard drive during that time. Bad, I know.
Yup.
That's about one GB per hour. Is that normal?? Then, it froze and wouldn't respond, or back up at all. Just nothing. I held the power button down and restarted it.
No, not normal at all.
At this point, I am concerned that perhaps the hard drive is failing (hence the speed and fan issues) and that maybe I should be taking it in to a repair shop (we don't live anywhere near an Apple store)
Do you think this may be the case? Is there any way to back up my hard drive faster - before it dies? I have two years worth of photos and papers, etc on there, music and such and it would be a tremendous loss if it all crashed.
As slow as that backup was, anything else will be nearly as bad.
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It's a toss-up; try to diagnose what's wrong, or try to get a backup.
The fastest way to back up, with the least "thrashing" of your hard drive, would be to start up from your Leopard Install disc and use the Restore tab to make a copy of your internal HD on the external.
That will copy any file system problems "as is," but if your internal HD is beginning to fail, at least you'll have a full copy of the data (corrupted or not) on the external HD.
Check this to be sure your WD drive will boot your Mac: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1787 If not, do all the steps below except #4.
Here's what I'd recommend:
1. Start up from your Install disc, per the yellow box in #1 of [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html]
2. Reformat the external HD, with a single partition, per the blue box there. You'll want the +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ Format and either the GUID or +Apple Partition Map+ *Partition Map Scheme* as detailed there.
3. Use the Restore tab to copy your internal HD (almost certainly named +Macintosh HD)+ to the external HD, per #7 in the link above. Note that will copy the name of the internal HD to the external.
4. When that's done, quit Disk Utility, then select +Startup Disk+ from the Utilities menu in the menubar (per the yellow box above). Select the external HD and start up from it.
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The copy may take a very long time. There will be a progress bar, but they're notoriously inaccurate under the best of circumstances. If it completes, and you can start up from the external, post back and we'll see if we can find the problem, and either fix it or confirm that you need to take it to Apple.

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(I posted this in the newbie forum, but got no answer, so I give it another go)
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After a few years alternating between gentoo and debian, feeling they were ok, but not exactly what I wanted, I found Arch, and now I am happy. It feels just right. I am still very new, but I am already quite sure I'll settle here.
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ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
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res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
ata2: soft resetting port
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problem 2 and 3 are probably related, and linked to the new pata system in the kernel, but I don't really know anything about it, and my understanding of the mkinitcpio is very very limited. here is mine anyway, comments stripped.
Code:
MODULES="pata_ali"
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata usbinput keymap filesystems"
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Code:
MODULES="pata_ali ata_generic"
and with scsi in the HOOKS as the result of the install, but the behavior was exactly the same.
Oh, and the machine I am using is a 4 year old laptop. Nothing in there is scsi or sata.
I hope anyone can help me with those.
Thanks

Hi, I'm a "newbie" too. Coming from Gentoo/Debian. Installed Arch this week and I think it could be just the distro I have been looking for.
I too had the same problem and think it's related to the pata modules. ¿Did you have to use the legacy-ide option when installing from the CD? I'm using old hardware (4 year old laptop) and had the same symptoms you are describing. I exchanged pata with ide in mkinitcpio.conf. My MODULES and HOOKS looks like this:
MODULES="ide_disk ata_generic"
HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide keymap filesystems" (deleted scsi and sata also because I don't think I need them).
Then run mkinitcpio.
I also had to change my device names in /etc/fstab from:
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
to:
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
to
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda2 ro
¿Any experienced user can confirm that I'm doing the right thing? I didn't find documentation in the wiki for old systems. Only the mention of an ide-legacy option.
Hope it helps.
Last edited by Malakin (2007-04-29 02:29:31)

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My Mac Pro came with a 500GB boot drive when I ordered it 3 years ago. It has been used most days and now runs
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Use the 500 for a system backup clone then.
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if running "verify disk" helps at all it's definitely not a permissions problem. it's a file system problem. when system detects a serious file system problem when mounting an external drive it will mount it as a read only file system. run "repair disk", not "verify disk" using disk utility on all the drives involved. see if that helps. and are there any errors when you run it?

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