Have a Gigabyte P35 DS3L board on which I'm running XP SP3. I've noticed inconsistent data rates on a SATA drive as measured with HD Tune. It'll start out fine, say around 75 mb/sec, then will drop to 2 - 5 mb/sec. Same drive in my Win7 machine doesn't do this. Can an aging SATA header/circuitry cause this?
What can go bad on a mobo to cause intermittent slow h/d performance?
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What is in your Win7 machine?
Depends on background processes as well, if your XP installation is pretty old with a bunch of other garbage it might be attempting to read at the same time.
You could also run an Ubuntu LiveCD or similar and benchmark the drive on the same system from there such as here (under 'graphical method'):
http://askubuntu.com/questions/87035/how-to-check-hard-disk-performance
Depends on background processes as well, if your XP installation is pretty old with a bunch of other garbage it might be attempting to read at the same time.
You could also run an Ubuntu LiveCD or similar and benchmark the drive on the same system from there such as here (under 'graphical method'):
http://askubuntu.com/questions/87035/how-to-check-hard-disk-performance
It's a 500 gb WD Green drive with very low hours, maybe a year old. It works fine on my Win7 system.
Presumably you think it means something since you brought up the subject of the age of the drive.
If there's consistently a problem with a drive on one system and not on another, that points to the system where there's a problem. For cooling there's a pusher in the front directly blowing over the drives, big puller in the back. HD tune run on the drive.
