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[Kwokuen]

I recently installed a 120GB (7200rpm Western Digital HD with 8 MB cache) as a slave drive, and I've noticed a couple weird things... What's with the slow write/seek time on large files? When copying my music (Approximately 50 to 100 mb per artist) from master to slave, the process takes approximately 2-5 minutes. Also, when skipping ahead in my Seinfeld TV rips, it results in a slow pause before playback begins. This buffer wasn't present when the episode was on the master drive (60 GB 7200rpm WD 8 mb). Is this normal, or just a fluke that I'm experiencing?

 

[SyNapSe]

Well, if you HD is a good drive (as it seems you say it is).. then I would question your controller card... Not a lot of people install secondary HD's.. maybe they cheaped out

 

[Kwokuen]

No controller card here. The Slave drive is linked directly to the master drive (Which is directly connected to the motherboard) via ribbon cable.

 

[The Shadow]

Check to see if it's running in the proper transfer mode in Device Manager as well as in the BIOS. It's possible it's set for a slower mode like PIO instead of UDMA.