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BetterRed · 03-05-2014, 04:34 PM

@z.nina - Move the library to the USB3.0 HD, it could well be faster than your 'good' internal SATA 2 drive - I know mine is.

What model WD - right click drive, Properties->Hardware, look up specs at WD to see cache specs. If its not last century, it's almost certainly enough. Unless WD made some disks with very small cache for some special purpose. What's the provenance of the disk. I don't trust brand box builders to not use the cheapest discontinued stock they can lay their hands on.

Have you looked at the BIOS for whether the drive is configured IDE, AHCI or RAID. Again if its not last century, then IMO it should be AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface), I've seen drives misconfigured as RAID misbehave in mysterious ways.

If everything 'checks out' then you should run some disk health checks on that second drive - you can download some from WD. Also have a look at the Windows Event logs to see if its been generating lots of read or write retries.

BR

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BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,836 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@z.nina - Move the library to the USB3.0 HD, it could well be faster than your 'good' internal SATA 2 drive - I know mine is. What model WD - right click drive, Properties->Hardware, look up specs at WD to see cache specs. If its not last century, it's almost certainly enough. Unless WD made some disks with very small cache for some special purpose. What's the provenance of the disk. I don't trust brand box builders to not use the cheapest discontinued stock they can lay their hands on. Have you looked at the BIOS for whether the drive is configured IDE, AHCI or RAID. Again if its not last century, then IMO it should be AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface), I've seen drives misconfigured as RAID misbehave in mysterious ways. If everything 'checks out' then you should run some disk health checks on that second drive - you can download some from WD. Also have a look at the Windows Event logs to see if its been generating lots of read or write retries. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-06-2014 at 05:11 AM.