WD3200BEKT Slow Disk performance in Dell E6410

[JozefaI]

I imagine that the primary partition is misaligned, the disk was formatted with 3 partitions, and the first is a partition of the environment of pre-installation. The disk is connected to a regulator of Intel 5 Series, running driver version 9.6.0.1014 Intel and is running on SATA/300 speeds.

My other machines running WinXP and Win7 are much faster. I disabled most of the software performance of suction. I downloaded the utility of advanced hard disk format, also known as Acronis Align Tool. Other evidence of performance troubles come into view in Windows 7:

• Time of initiation of degradation
• Slow suspension and restart
• Application unusual start time
• Time to slow service

[Yitzchak909]

• I was also facing similar problem. I noticed the disc with another activity. C: and D: are partitions 2 and 3 on the disk. I did not like the assignment of relative space, so I used disk management to set these Win7.
• Reduce the C: drive
• Expand D: in the space vacated by C
• Download Partition Wizard and set H: to absorb the space left by removing D:
• Change the drive letter H: to D:
• Create a new partition in the vacated space * Copy the file D: (data) for H:
• Delete the D: partition (with the expectation that they could expand H: in this space.
• D: is now aligned, since it was created by the Disk Management Win7, and extended by Partition Wizard
• The act of reducing the partition tools can be aligned Win7 Jupiter with Mars, but ran too fast for the magic to happen.I'll take a writing test with HD Tune. I found "benchmark files," but not upload the results, which are:
• D: peak of 75 MB / s write, and strangely it reads at 50 MB / s to 256 KB file size
• C: peaks of 110 MB / s write, 95 MB / s read with file size 4096 KB. Best time> 32 KB file size
• O: (the partition PE)> 100 MB / s> file size 128 KB

[pddaugusto]

I downloaded GParted, but decided not to initiate an ISO for this information: We wanted to capture the information in my environment Win7. Just google and download it.

• Partition 0: (O) Top 2048, 20 MB, Last Sector 41936895, 41934848 Total sectors
• Partition 1 (C) Begin 41936896, 110 MB, Sector Last 267,780,095, 225,843,200 Total sectors
• Partition 2 (D) 267782144 Home, 174MB, Sector Last 625,137,344, 357,355,201 Total sectors

[Howitzer]

Every physical sector of 4096 bytes on hard drive Advanced Format spans 8 logical sectors of 512 bytes. Partition 1 starts at logical sector 41,955,896, not 41,936,896 bytes. This means that physical sectors begins to 5242112 (= 41936896 / 8). Its size is 225843200 logical sectors, i.e. physical sectors 2823080. Partitions 0 and 2 also begin and end at the boundaries of the physical sector. Therefore, all partitions are aligned, as long as there is no bridge on pins 7 and 8.

[Benedykt]

So for the C: drive (second partition) and G (WD Elements USB), the first data sector is:

• C: first physical sector: 41936896
• G: first physical sector: 2408

Remind me again: How close these partitions are aligned? Any suggestions on how to fix the settings for the disk containing the C: Partitions, so it is acknowledged as an highly developed format for western digital align utility.

[Mayur_Jain]

Partitions are aligned if they begin and end in a physical sector boundary. Physical sectors comprise eight logical sectors. That is, the drive actually stores information in real time of 4096 bytes sectors, while the operating system still thinks of them as being composed of 8 x 512 byte logical block (LBA).Windows XP disk is usually divided into tracks of 63 sectors. The first LBA of the first partition is usually found in sector 63. This means that the partition starts at LBA eighth last physical sector.

Physical - first 4KB sectors --- --- 4 KB second sector ... - Sector of the eighth 4KB -9-Sector

LBA 2048 and 41,936,896 are divisible by 8. Therefore, the partitions are aligned.

[Eru]

AIUI an advanced disk formatting would be identified as such on the label. There would also be a bridge alignment (pins 7 and 8) for use under Windows XP. The effect of this bridge is to add a section of an offset to the LBA. This way Windows XP creates a partition on the LBA 63, the drive writes transparently to 64 LBA instead.

If the data on disk is not important, you can experience by examining a sector with a disk editor. Sector 0 (LBA 0) be the MBR and partition table, if an LBA is all zeros, then write a short note text as "This is an LBA field when the bridge alignment is absent." Now turn off, install the bridge, and to revisit LBA 0 and 1. If the move is an area effect, LBA 0 will now have the text message instead of LBA.You can also perform a writing test with HD Tune. I do not know if the data is safe.

[Filiberto]

I would suggest to keep all his files on the drive and then try to run "write zeros" (low level format) Data Lifeguard Diagnostic (if you receive any errors during the "Write Zeros" contact WD Technical Support for assistance) .After you initialize and partition the hard drive with Windows 7 - ensure that there is no jumper on the disk (the bridge is only for Win XP).Finally, reinstall the operating system disk.

[Aandaleeb]

Since there is no documentation on the WD site says that this is not a unit of AF, I think I'll stop worrying. For verification of the record, I rely on Gibson's SpinRite .It does a wonderful job of the realignment and recovery of the magnetic structure of a disc. The idle disks, like the idle mind tends to wonder

[mathews]

I do not think any software can see the jumper settings. WD considers having some vendor-specific commands for this purpose, other than would not be openly recognized. In fact SpinRite and HDD Regenerator potentially murderers unit. This is because they repeatedly hammer with a bad sector, with the hope of a good read. If the unit has no head, so it can accelerate its failure. The best approach in these cases is to clone the drive, sector by sector, with a utility that knows how to avoid bumps in the media.

[Erubiel]

SpinRite: You make a good point about the old units. I have recovered data from hard several times with SpinRite, when nothing but work. I have not sought to validate the purchase in a very long time.SpinRite certainly would not be a species in an SSD.