Well my HDD is SATA 2 3.0 GB/s and his is 6.0GB/s. And I believe his has a 64mb cache where as mine only has a 32mb cache I believe.
Please note:
OEM and REFUBISHED WD Blues and Green are white and black...
Yeah, like the Caviar Black.
Also, Caviar Blacks where out at the same time Raptor drives came out... circa 2000.
Ok, I am home and this is what device manager shows as my HDD
WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA0
That would be a BLUE drive for sure. I highly doubt that you're running into bandwidth issues on a SATA II connection, or that the 48Mb of cache are making that much of a difference. None the less, BLACK drives are supposed to be considerably faster than BLUE and GREEN. Don't ask me why but I'm sure theres a good reason.
Besides malware/bloatware and registry/system errors, I'd say it might just be poor distrubtion of data on the plattors. When is the last time you defragged the drive? Have you ever run a drive optimization tool? Also, you should check this out, as I found it immensely informative on the subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA2kEoXpI3s
This is a 1 week and 4 day old install of W7 on the HDD and I have run CCleaner and Smart Defrag. I think my HDD is just slow and am looking to buying a newer faster one. After all I purchased this HDD in March/April of 2008 so it is probably safe to get a new HDD before this HDD dies. And yes I have created a backup :) And Anonymiter I will watch that video when I get back from lunch and movies. Going to see the new Die Hard film!
Yeah idk what to tell you. If the drive is still working I'd rather recommend you get like a 90-120GB SSD. I'm not sure AMD offers it, but SSD caching can also be an easy, affordable speed boost to your HDD as well.
If you suspect your drive is going bad though you're probably going to have trouble with more than just the boot time. Most of the time its due to bad sectors, which more offten then not, spread at exponential rates. This will lead to inconsistent write/read times as well as corrupted files. If this sounds like whats going on, find some software to run a thorough test like WD Data Lifeguard. You may have to find something that will run from a boot disk if the OS is installed on the drive.
If nothing is wrong with the drive though, keep it as a backup or storage drive. If it does have bad sectors, just toss the thing... or take it apart and through the plattors at people! Thats always fun.
Have you gone into MsConfig and enabled you PC to use all 8 cores on bootup ? and make sure theres no memory limit when its booting.
How do I do that BeyondNight? And are there any known issues/bugs in doing that tweak?