hey guys. its been a while since i have posted on here. im curious about something and im looking for some opinions. i have a WD black 1TB drive as my OS drive. i have about 700GB of data on a WD 2TB drive which consists of my music, photos, games, ect, that im tranferring in the appropriate folders in my user folder (my music, my pictures, ect..folders). when im not transferring data to my C drive, my computer runs great. but as soon as i start to do my tranfer, my computer slows down big time when navigating through programs. it takes a while to launch anything, and there will be lag for a bit when i type sometimes. i noticed that when i start the tranfer, the tranfer speed says about 100mb a second, then after 5 min or so it drops down to 50mb a second or so. when i cancel the tranfer, everything is snappy and fast.
what im wondering is, since im writing data to the C drive, and the data is large (700GB), and since the drive is also reading data at the same time in order to run windows and any other program i attempt to launch, could it be a limitation to the drives bandwidth in this type of scenario? or not. i know when i transfer data between 2 other drives that are just data drives (drives E and F), i dont have this problem since drive C is not being used other than to read windows and whatever programs im using.
any suggestions to remedy this problem? any advice on how to set up my drives to make them more productive when transferring data and using programs at the same time, as far as speed is concerned?
these are the drives that i have to work with, so if someone could give me a good configuration or thoughts on my situation, that would be great:
1 x 320GB
2 x 1TB
3 x 2TB
2 x 40GB ssd
i have 5 sata ports, and 1 of them are used by a dvd drive, so that leaves 4 available, plus an e-sata. i also have 3TB of data and growing, that needs to be placed somewhere after i reconfigure the drives according to the suggestions i get from you guys.
sorry for the legth, but i really could use some opinions and help. thank you
what im wondering is, since im writing data to the C drive, and the data is large (700GB), and since the drive is also reading data at the same time in order to run windows and any other program i attempt to launch, could it be a limitation to the drives bandwidth in this type of scenario? or not. i know when i transfer data between 2 other drives that are just data drives (drives E and F), i dont have this problem since drive C is not being used other than to read windows and whatever programs im using.
any suggestions to remedy this problem? any advice on how to set up my drives to make them more productive when transferring data and using programs at the same time, as far as speed is concerned?
these are the drives that i have to work with, so if someone could give me a good configuration or thoughts on my situation, that would be great:
1 x 320GB
2 x 1TB
3 x 2TB
2 x 40GB ssd
i have 5 sata ports, and 1 of them are used by a dvd drive, so that leaves 4 available, plus an e-sata. i also have 3TB of data and growing, that needs to be placed somewhere after i reconfigure the drives according to the suggestions i get from you guys.
sorry for the legth, but i really could use some opinions and help. thank you
