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Hard Drive read speed below 2 MB/sec. Normal? How to improve?

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Mar 15, 202666636 views
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I have a relatively new Western Digital 1TB EADS hard drive (SATA) as my secondary drive. I've always found that accessing certain folders with lots of content (e.g. /Music/) was slow. I ran a few diagnostic tools (chkdsk, HD Tune, HD Tach, HDDScan) and haven't found anything. The drive is defragge…

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That is very strange indeed. I have a WD1001FALS that has an average transfer rate of 91.5 MB/s. Your average of 1.8 is crazy slow. Its normal to see a strait line like yours for solid state drives, sd cards, or flash cards. Usually it is a bit high…

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