How slow is for a HDD?

Hi,
I am running a HDD in the DVD-caddy of my Thinkpad (T440P). The MB/s seems really low.

Is this because I have the drive in a DVD-caddy? Would it be faster in the main drive bay?

C:\WINDOWS\system32>winsat disk
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 1'
> Run Time 00:00:15.03
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 1'
> Run Time 00:00:09.09
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -write -drive C:'
> Run Time 00:00:08.13
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -seq'
> Run Time 00:00:08.02
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -ran'
> Run Time 00:00:18.78
> Dshow Video Encode Time 0.00000 s
> Dshow Video Decode Time 0.00000 s
> Media Foundation Decode Time 0.00000 s
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 1.28 MB/s 3.6
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 91.48 MB/s 6.4
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 102.89 MB/s 6.6
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 8.219 ms 4.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 57.845 ms 1.9
> Latency: Maximum 453.667 ms 4.1
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 14.207 ms 3.6
> Total Run Time 00:01:03.03

Massarelda said:

Hi,
I am running a HDD in the DVD-caddy of my Thinkpad (T440P). The MB/s seems really low.

Is this because I have the drive in a DVD-caddy? Would it be faster in the main drive bay?

I'll tell you a relevant story, and then talk about possible factors.

My computer has 2 sata ports, both 6gbps, my SSD was on the MAIN sata port (thick shielded cables where an mechanical hdd was placed). Removed the DVD and placed instead an hdd caddy (brand new) with a 7200RPM hdd. After months and for whatever reasons decided to make some changes and swap this. My SSD is now on the dvd caddy and guess what? it's FASTER despite the thin cables, and guess what? (again), I made the new hdd caddy replacing the previous one. Yes I like to recycle and often make this caddys out of broken DVDs.

You might want to explore using a diff caddy, or changing sata ports, like I did.

Now let's talk about factors:
1. Speed can be impacted by type of disk (mechanical vs ssd) I don't see you explaining if your hdd is mechanical or ssd.
2. The quality of the cables might matter
3. Check the ports specs, some computers come with SATA III for the main hard drive, but SATA I or II for the DVD (meaning limited speed)
4. Check the health of your hdd

Ghot said:

Get Crystal Disk Mark, here... Download - Crystal Dew World [en]
Download the ZIP (portable) version. Run Crystal Disk Mark on the hdd in question and post a screenshot of the result.

Hi

Here's the result of my Seagate 500-GB HDD drive. Is this good or bad?

Yes, this is a 5400-rpm drive.


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Megahertz said:

Believe me. It is good.
For a 2.5" 5400 RPM drive it is normal. Changing to the main SATA port won't significant change the speed.
I suppose you have a SSD for windows and programs and use the HDD for data only.

The HDD is the only drive in my Thinkpad. It is slow to load Windows, but that is okay with me. Once it boots Window, the HDD performance is acceptable to me.

That was, until this week. This week I noticed apps were slower to load. The Photos app is alot slower: like it take almost 10-seconds to start up the first time. Before, it would take like only 2 seconds.

My Thinkpad got alot of Windows Updates this week. Maybe WU screwed something up.

That is a standard Laptop type HDD and your result is typical, nothing is wrong.

I have a Toshiba 1 TB laptop drive and it is virtually the same result.

Ghot said:

You could get something like this instead... it's twice as big and over 5x faster.

Samsung 870 EVO 1TB

I am upgrading RAM first. Samsung 16-GB DDR3L RAM is on the way.

Then, from dual-core to quad-core CPU.
Then, from HDD to SSD.