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Maxtor hard drive suddenly has very slow read speeds

Asked by DominoTabitha in Computer Hard Drives, Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: Maxtor, Hard Drive, 6L200P0

Hi,

I'm not an experienced fault-finder, so please treat me gently!

I installed a 200Gb Maxtor hard drive at Christmas as a secondary drive on one of my IDE channels. The primary drive on that channel is my "c:" drive. It has worked fine since installation, and I have put my music collection on it.

Over the last week, my mp3 player (MediaMonkey) has experienced slight stuttering while playing an mp3. This is made worse if I'm browsing (Firefox), and virtually grinds to a halt if I do anythging more intensive like open a rar file. I used to do all of these things previous to the last week with no problem.

Running SiSandra, it suggests that my read speed for the Maxtor drive is around 3MB/s and very steady at that speed. My c: drive runs at around 30MB/s to 45MB/s depending on the track position across the disc.

Here is some hopefully relevant  background on my PC. The Maxtor drive has been partitioned into logical drives P: and Q:

Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
Speed : 2.17GHz
Cores per Processor : 1 Unit(s)
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
Mainboard : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6734
Total Memory : 2GB DDR-SDRAM
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Home 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 2)

Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : Maxtor 6L200P0 (190GB)
Hard Disk : ST3120022A (109GB)
Hard Disk : HDT72252 5DLAT80 USB Device
CD-ROM/DVD : PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-111D (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd, 5X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD : SONY DVD RW DW-D23A (CD 48X Rd, 48X Wr) (DVD 6X Rd, 6X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD : AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device (CD 32X Rd) (DVD 4X Rd)

Logical Storage Devices
TDM01-T4 (C:) : 109GB (31GB, 29% Free Space) (FAT32)
Maxtor 1 (P:) : 95GB (21GB, 23% Free Space) (NTFS)
Maxtor 2 (Q:) : 95GB (26GB, 28% Free Space) (NTFS)
CD-ROM/DVD (D:) : N/A
CD-ROM/DVD (E:) : N/A
CD-ROM/DVD (F:) : N/A
3.5" 1.44MB (A:) : N/A
FC NTFS (N:) : 209GB (7.5GB, 4% Free Space) (NTFS)
FC FAT32 (O:) : 24GB (11GB, 44% Free Space) (FAT32)

Please let me know what other information you may need :-)

Robin
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