Larger HD, but internet running slower?

Question

I have an iMac G5 which was purchased last year with a 160 GB hard drive. A few weeks ago, the hard drive failed, and I sent it in for repair. There were some delays and problems and ultimately we ended up getting a larger hard drive in compensation for the trouble: 250 GB. I was excited about this, until I turned my computer on. I had to make several software downloads and iTunes downloads, and they took up to ten times as long as they had on the previous hard drive. I don't know if this is an internet thing or something to do with the new hard drive, but any help would be appreciated. Why do downloads which previously took 20 minutes now take five hours?
Message was edited by: Skenariste

Answer 1

Skenariste wrote:
The vendor is Intel, I'm assuming this is also the manufacturer-
I believe the SATA bus controller chip is Intel. AFAIK, they don't make drives.
the model information simply says "ST3250824AS Q".
OK, that's a 250 GB Seagate Barracuda (7200.9 series) 7200 rpm, 8 MB cache.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c2be99f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04 090aRCRD&locale=en-US
I'm hesitant to offer advice on G5's -- but there was recently a case of a similar
"running slower" problem with a CoreDuo iMac (much like G5 in many respects).
The solution was to remove a jumper on the drive -- it was also a Seagate, and
Seagate appears to be shipping new drives with the unwanted jumper installed.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1257086
As far as firmware ID... there's no specific listing for one, is there another
name for it? I'm not very proficient in the inner workings of the computer.
That's OK, the firmware ID (a.k.a. "Revision") won't mean anything to me for
that drive (there's a known 'issue' with some firmware revs on other models).
However, it might be helpful if you could copy & paste the entire "Serial-ATA"
information listing into a post. It should look something like the listing below.
I'm not looking for anything in particular -- just fishing for possible clues.
Looby
Intel ICH7-M AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ICH7-M AHCI
Speed: 1.5 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Model: WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0
Revision: 20.06C04
Serial Number: WD-WCANY32xxxxx
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
iMac HD:
Capacity: 232.57 GB
Available: 218.79 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
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