I am not getting anywhere with Western Digital forums/customer support, and since I have always gotten great advice from the folks in this forum, I thought that I would take my problem to you all - even though it isn't MC10-specific (it does have to do with my music, though).
This looks like an algebra word problem, but can be boiled down to the fact that one of my internal hard drives transfers at 1/10 the rate of the other:
I have two WD2000JB internal 200GB Caviar Special Edition Internal EIDE Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drives with 8MB Cache drive - C:/ and F:/. My computer is a Dell 8300, running Windows XP, with a 3GHz P4 processor.
I am having a problem with the performace speed in transferring data from the second drive (F:/) to an external drive (M:/). The first drive (C:/) transfers at a rate greater than 1000 MB/min, but the second drive (F:/) transfers at ~ 120MB/min. How can I optimize the transfer speed of the F:/? (Both drives are set to "Optimize for Performance in their respective Policies sections.)
The F:/ drive is on the same data cable as the C:/ drive. I used "Cable Select" to set up the drives (per the WDC customer service rep), and so that cable is connected to the motherboard. The data cable that is being used is the data cable that came with my Dell, and I haven’t tried a different data cable. The BIOS is the latest – as are the drivers. Also, both drives are set to "Optimize for Performance” in their respective Policies sections.
Not sure if this is relevant, but I just checked Device Manager>properties>advanced tab of IDE primary channel, and the current transfer modes say "Device 0: Ultra DMA Mode 5" and "Device 1: PIO Mode" - but both have option "DMA if available" selected. I checked secondary IDE channel, and the current transfer mode is "Ultra DMA Mode 2" for both Device 0 and Device 1.