I have put in a help ticket on this subject. Hopefully I get a response tomorrow. I did some decent analysis and cross compares to see that this performance is WAY out of whack. I am beginning to think it might have something to do with the drives “Intelliseek” feature. I heard some things about a program called wdidle3 that I might investigate if I don’t get a good answer back from support. If all else fails I’m returning the drive. It took me about 20 Hours to transfer 136 GB (38,000 files) of data from my Raptor Drive to this WD15EADS. 1MB/sec is about the speed I was getting. This is unacceptable in my opinion. Good to know I’m not the only one seeing the issue. I’m not sure if the issue is only on writes or if it is also on reads? I have been looking at data inside the Windows 7 drive speed tests.
-Tony
