Hard drive read write speeds are too slow

I was having an issue with 17inch macbook pro. was getting 4.0mb/s read write speed tops. and smart status failure.
So i replaced the drive. The new drive is a 7200 RPM 500GB WD drive. I'm getting 12.0mb/s on top speed. Computer feels a little quicker but still slow overall.
I ran this test on a fresh install of snow leopard.
Is it just me or do those read/write speeds on the new drive still seem slow?
2007 17inch macbook pro with 2gigs of ram.

That does seem slow - on the other hand, what are you using to measure it?
My 1Tb 2.5" SATA drive performance shows as follows: http://grab.by/7zau
Xbench Stats: http://grab.by/7zau
Anything in System Profiler? http://grab.by/7zaR
Link Speed at 3 Gb?

Similar Messages

  • 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.
    I am not running any resource heavy applications (Resource monitor reports Disk I/O to be 0 most of the time in idle state). I have 3 partitions, each with 16-32GB paging file size and all are >90% empty. All partitions have been defragmented before testing.
    Is this normal? Are there any lenovo drivers or utilities than I might be missing or that can slow/speed this?
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    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.
    Regards
    Did someone help you today? Press the star on the left to thank them with a Kudo!
    If you find a post helpful and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution"! This will help the rest of the Community with similar issues identify the verified solution and benefit from it.
    Follow @LenovoForums on Twitter!

  • Thunderbolt drive Read/Write speeds have significantly dropped

    I got a new Western Digital Thunderbolt VelociRaptor drive. When I did speed tests on it using "BlackmagicDesign" Speed Test software initially (when empty) the drive was giving me read and write speeds of 350 MB/s. Now however I have 90% of the drive occupied with data and the read/write speeds have dropped significantly to 230 MB/s. Any ideas as to why and how I could improve this?
    Thanks

    ishjen wrote:
    Anybody know how fast the read/write speeds are with a USB hard drive and the Airport Extreme Base Station?
    Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
    Apple's AirPort base stations aren't known for fast file serving, but for most purposed they're fast enough.
    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.

  • After updating to 4.3 I can't connect to wi-fi because the "internet speeds are too slow". How much speed does this require?

    After updating to 4.3 I can't connect to wi-fi because the "Internet speeds are too slow". So what speed does it need?

    I called tech support and I got the same **** canned response, backup and reset to factory settings.  Yeah right!  Everything was fine until Verizon shoved the software update down my throat.  I finally unchecked the box in Wi-Fi settings for auto network switch.  However, I still get the "Your Internet connection is unstable" warning no matter what Wi-Fi connection I hit.
    In a related story, I received a new or refurbished phone as my original SIII had AC/charging connection issues.  I called probably three times to attempt to back up my data, went into two stores in attempts to have them transfer the information over, and all were too incompetent and inept to assist me.  Only when talking to someone about this Wi-Fi issue, did someone actually know how to back up everything.  Of course by this time, I had to send the new phone back because Verizon charged me $400 before I got everything squared away.  What a colossal waste of my time!

  • HDD write speeds are suddenly slow...

    Hi, I have a T540p that has a 500 GB 7200 RPM hard drive in it. Previously, it would read and write near 100 MB/sec, which is to be expected.
    However, recently it will only give me 90 MB/sec sequential read speed and 40 MB/sec sequential write. My external USB 3 hard drive is giving me 175 MB/sec read and 150 MB/sec write. Why is my internal hard drive so slow?
    I can't find many tips on the internet but I've tried optimizing my drives, I've ran diagnostics on the hard drive, I've ran a virus scanner, I've done all my windows updates, I've checked the drive for errors but nothing has changed.
    At what point do I reinstall the OS? Will that do anything? Should I send the drive back?
    Thanks for your help.

    Caching shouldn't slow down the drive. It also won't register a speed on a cache-agnostic benchmark like CrystalDiskMark.
    Are there no "reallocated sectors" or "current pending sectors"?
    Spinning hard drives are usually not SATA III compliant because they don't need to be; they're barely exceeding SATA I limits.
    One way to eliminate the hardware as a point of failure would be to run the benchmark with the drive hooked up as a secondary drive to eliminate the interference of a running system. This could also be done using a bootable Linux CD or a WinPE environment.
    W520: i7-2720QM, Q2000M at 1080/688/1376, 21GB RAM, 500GB + 750GB HDD, FHD screen
    X61T: L7500, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD, XGA screen, Ultrabase
    Y3P: 5Y70, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, QHD+ screen

  • Make external hard drive read/write

    Not quite sure if there is in the right section but oh well.
    Here's the story:
    SeaGate FreeAgent GoFlex Drive (1.5TB) (THE FOLLOWING INFO WAS TAKEN FROM ITS APPLICATION: ("SEAGATE DRIVE SETTINGS")
    Drive Info
    Model: FA GoFlex Desk
    Firmware: 0D19
    Volume Info
    Format: Windows NT Filesystem
    Capacity: 1397.26 GB
    Available: 1224.35 GB
    Used: 172.91 GB
    Mount point: /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive
    So it seems to slow down my iMac (10.6.8), 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.5GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (memory) (1st Generation 17 inch) a fair bit. Could this be because of the Format? I have no idea why it says that. When I first installed it, it asked what OS I'm going to use it for. Not quite sure if I chose both or just Mac. But those files have somehow dissappeared.
    Now in Disk Utility...the RAID tab, Format says it is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but then in the Erase tab it says Format: Windows NT Filesystem
    Which format is it set to!?!?!?!?!?!?!
    Now to the main point:
    I also have a new 13" MacBook Pro. When I plug it into it, I only have Read Permissions. How do I make it have Write Permissions as well?
    Sorry for the long essay...I hope you can help me. I might have two problems here.
    1. Is the format correctly set up for my iMac?
    2. How do I set it to have Read/Write permissions on different computers?
    Thanks.

    The Format is incorrect for Mac use, as you guessed.  Go into Disk Utility again, highlight the external har drive in the left hamd column by clicking on it and select the "Erase" tab, up and over to the right.  Then select the Format below that will be installed as "Mac OS Extended (Journeled)".  THEN, OK the erasure.  That should clear things up.
    Note: your Windows PC will NO LONGER be able to read the external hard drive.  It will be formatted for OS X use.
    Hope this helps

  • Mac Pro - Boot drive - Read & Write speed differences

    Hi
    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
    Snow Leopard (for scanners and a canopus video box that don't work with Lion) and Lion. 
    I did a write & write test on the drive recently at both were approx 60 - 65 MB/s.  I have another drive in my machine
    I bought last month, replacing an WD drive that failed in less than 18 months.  This new drive (complete same as replacement
    is a WD Caviar (Black) 1TB 64Mb drive. 
    This drive tests at speeds for 110MB/s.  This may seem an obvious question, but will I notice much difference if I swap the drives
    around and have the newer drive as my boot drive. 
    Also, does having two OS on a HD slow the drive down also?
    Thanks in advance
    Matt

    Use the 500 for a system backup clone then.
    If you want to and have $150 then I recommend this for the system actually (you don't need 1TB and even if you did use a 1TB which are now $120, I would 'short stroke' and use just 1/3 to 1/2  for the system anyway.
    Western Digital WD2500HHTZ 250gb Sata 6gb/s 3.5 Hd
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007V5A1BK/
    check reviews of the new WD 10K VR ~200MB/sec

  • Hard drive read/write problems

    I have three external hard drives connected to my iMac that are always on with the computer. Just recently, I started having trouble with permissions. Every day I have to go into disk utility and click "verify disk" to be able to write to the drive, if I don't do that then I can only read the drive. It's the same with all three of them! This just started a couple of weeks ago. What is wrong?
    Oh! My recollection recalls that a couple of weeks ago upon starting the iMac one morning, one of my hard drive's name, as well as a .iso file that I have on my desktop, were totally wacko. Full of numbers and characters, etc. I'm wondering if my HD problem is caused from this?
    I desperately need some help!

    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?

  • Hard drive read/write question

    Hi,
    I purchased this mac pro(2008) with the stock seagate 320gb hard drive (model ST3320820AS_P) and I am interested to know what kind of read write numbers to expect from this drive.
    I am having a tough time trying to find any numbers that aren't in reference to RAID setups, and became concerned that this drive might be working at peak performance due to firmware issues others are talking about.
    (tangent - I would like to add more drives, but am on the fence for WD or seagate)
    System Info
    Xbench Version 1.3
    System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
    Physical RAM 2048 MB
    Model MacPro3,1
    Drive Type ST3320820AS_P
    Sequential 92.82
    Uncached Write 70.70 43.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 110.35 62.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 82.04 24.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 129.89 65.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Random 33.16
    Uncached Write 11.33 1.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 73.50 23.53 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 88.77 0.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 134.04 24.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]

    http://www.barefeats.com/hard94.html
    http://www.barefeats.com/quad07.html
    http://www.barefeats.com/quad08.html
    750GB WD SE16 $168 is hard to beat.
    I saw some systems came with WD 320GB. Guess Apple is using both for now.

  • [SOLVED] Log hard drive read/writes

    Is it possible to monitor everytime a file on the hard drive is read from or written to and to add that information to a log?
    Last edited by Chris Denton (2010-07-25 10:32:57)

    Thanks. That seems to be working quite well.
    One problem though, I notice I have to exclude /dev (otherwise it seems to get stuck in a loop like fukawi2 mentioned). This does raise a question though, I notice that it isn't actually accessing the physical disk when this happens, so I wonder, is there a way to tell it to only include events that occur on the disk?

  • Read/Write speeds with Airport Extreme and USB Hard Drives

    Anybody know how fast the read/write speeds are with a USB hard drive and the Airport Extreme Base Station?
    My Setup
    I have a 17 MBP (2010) and a 13 MBP (2011) - no SSD's
    MBP generally connect via 802.11n 5Ghz with a very strong signal
    Gigabit connection on a Windows Desktop
    I have a variety of external drives (7200, 5400, Drobo) at varying capacity (320GB, 2TB, 5.6TB)
    Goals
    Backup: Time machine
    Backup: File copies of pictures and home videos (greater than 1GB files)
    Backup: Crashplan
    File sharing: Aperture libraries--not sure if that is possible or practical. That is something that I need to research further...but on the off chance people have experience with it.
    Thanks!

    ishjen wrote:
    Anybody know how fast the read/write speeds are with a USB hard drive and the Airport Extreme Base Station?
    Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
    Apple's AirPort base stations aren't known for fast file serving, but for most purposed they're fast enough.
    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.

  • Are my read/write speeds up to snuff?  MacPro Octo 2.26

    What are typical and good read/write speeds I can expect on my MacPro Octo 2.26 10GB Ram.
    According to iStat, on a simple copy, I get about 65-70 MB/s read from a WD 640 caviar black internal bay, and 65-70 MB/s write to a WD 640 caviar black internal bay. Are there any apple docs that explain what we can expect, how to enhance? You can skip RAID talk, this is just basic stock computer and best operating procedures I'm speaking of. Thanks!
    The OS is on a WD 74 Raptor drive.

    Drives keep evolving.
    It depends on what you copy, and what matters, or, where if any place is there a bottleneck?
    Newer 10K VR drives maybe, boot drive is important.
    SSDs definitely boost system.
    Isolating I/O between drives (system, scratch, media, etc) really helps so all the work and I/O is spread out.
    Newer 1TB and above drives with 500GB platters and higher density, too.
    Best differs from video editing, to mild editing of files, to very heavy work in CS4.
    Also, keeping your drives to 50% free space, or what I do for some drives is short-stroke so I really only use one outer partition to work with and use the rest for junk and inactive archive/backup and storage.
    iStat - never used it and definitely not for benchmarking drives.

  • Toshiba SSD vs Samsung SSD and inconsistent read/write speeds

    I've heard that some of the 2011 Airs are shipping with Toshiba SSDs where others have the Samsung SSDs. Apparently the Toshiba ones are considerably slower and are more likely to be in the 13" models where the Samsung SSDs are more likely to be in the 11" models. I was curious if anyone out there has an 11" model with the 256GB option, and if so, which SSD did you get in yours? See here: http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/25/2011-macbook-air-ssd-speeds-are-not-consistent/#mo re-85182
    Thanks

    Trey992 wrote:
    I'm really disappointed, considering I spent $1200 on a portable laptop, I expect it to be pretty much perfect, and it's a let down knowing I didn't get what a lot of other people paying the same price might be getting. Anything on this Apple?
    Are you looking to get a response from Apple here? If so you're going to be left wanting. This is a user-to-user discussion forum, if you wish to communicate with Apple you'll need to get on the phone with AppleCare or bring it into the store.
    You can also return the machine and buy a new one, it's a 50/50 chance.
    I have the Toshiba drive in my 13" MBA with the 128GB SSD. A co-worker has the same model machine with a Samsung drive.
    As Apple doesn't promise a minimum SSD read/write speed I don't really see any justification for them to offer an exchange on a unit unless it's defective (which this would not be considered defective in their eyes). Thus my recommendation for the return. The other problem is there's no discernible markings on the outside of the box that indicate which drive is in the machine, plus Apple doesn't let you "try before you buy."
    Even given the slower Toshiba speeds, I'd be really curious to see someone max out the capabilities of either drive.

  • Required read write speeds

    hey
    i'm currently in the process of building a NAS and have been previously working with a firewire hard drive box..
    my question is simple (at least i think so).....what are speeds that are typically seen when editing with firewire boxes....i was using a 800 firewire box and i know real world situations you don't get 800 mb/s....
    i edit HD footage (captured AIC 1080i @ 60fps) and this new NAS box that i'm building says it can achieve anywhere between 22-45mb/s read/write speeds
    will this be fast enough?
    thanks for your time guys!
    Thanks
    ~Will-i-am~

    it can achieve anywhere between 22-45mb/s read/write speeds
    will this be fast enough?
    If all you deal with is DV.
    x

  • Macbook pro 2011 HD read/write speed

    My 2 and half year old macbook pro seemed little slow so i did read/write speed test and it shows about 45MB/sec read/write speed. It is normal for a old  5400rpm hard disk. I have mountain lion.

    Yes, that's probably about normal for an older, slow drive.

Maybe you are looking for