Hi all. I have this drive & have read all I can on the issue of it being slow. The drive is used as a slave drive containing data/movies in a XP Pro system. I used Acronis Align Tool & confirmed that the drive is optimally aligned. However, it is very slow compared to my other (older ATA) slave drives in the same system. I am not very technically inclined & don’t know what to do next. I used PC Wizard to extract the following drive info. Would REALLY appreciate if anyone can tell me how to make the hdd work as it should. Thanks.
General Information
Disk Type : Hard Disk
Peripheral Type : SCSI
Manufacturer : WDC WD10
Model : EARS-00Y5B1
Free Space : 88%
>> Drive Information
Volume Name : 1TB
Serial Number : 9ADD-2662
Files Name : 255
File Management : NTFS
Volume is Compressed : No
Case Sensitive Search : Yes
Preserves Filename Case : Yes
Unicode Filenames : Yes
Access Control List : Yes
Named Streams : Yes
Object Identifiers : Yes
Reparse Points : Yes
Sparse Files : Yes
User Disk Quotas : Yes
Individual File Compression : Yes
Encryption : Yes
Share : Unspecified
>> Logical Features
Sectors per Cluster : 8
Bytes per Sector : 512
Cluster size : 4 KB
Free Clusters : 213692344
Total Clusters : 244190207
>> Physical Features
Cylinders : 121601
Heads : 255
Sectors per Track : 63
Bytes per Sector : 512
