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Okay! Much better results now. I changed the cables and plugged it into the same SATA port. The cable that I had didn't seem to lock in properly so I used one of the cables that the motherboard came with and those seem way sturdier. I managed to complete some benchmark tests on the HDD using crystal disk that wouldn't even run properly last night since it was so slow. I also tried to load into Fallout 4 which is a game that is very resource intensive. Waited on load screen for about 10 minutes last night and didn't even manage to load into game. Today after replacing the cable I managed to load in in about 45~ seconds or so which is a massive difference. Here are the results of the benchmark. I believe these speeds are normal for a 5400 RPM HDD. I also did the copy paste of a 1 gb folder from the same HDD to another location in the HDD and watched the range of the write speed. It averaged between 20-30 mb/s and occasionally dipped down to 10. It still takes a little while for the disk to go back down to 0% after the copy operation is over, but this probably isn't an issue I think.
How does this look?
Running the tests again produced slower results, but I think it mirrors how my disk is actually performing compared to the original test. This is a 2.5" laptop HDD so I don't think I can expect higher output?
After a restarting the computer and performing a couple more test runs, the numbers seemed to hover in this range. Will perform more tests when the computer has been running for a few hours.
Last edited by Cmp21; 18 Sep 2016 at 22:06.