What you need to research are hard disks and zones. As you fill the drive, the speed drops.
Bob
When i bought my system (Gateway P4, 3.0GHz non-RAID)
i was getting 120MB as throughtput according to HdTach. This has been slowly dropping in speed (response time).
When i got the system, before i could get my finger off the
mouse, whatever i had clicked on was on-screen and ready to go. Now, when i click on the same thing, i will get the hourglass icon and it will spin 2/3 times before i see anything on-screen.
The speed reduction is getting worse. I started out with 120 MB (via HdTach), now its down to 54.7MB.
Looking at my config, i see that Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers is being used instead of
something called SATA.
I've tried a clean re-install of winxp (format c:, etc) with
no help.
At my wits end!
Looking for any/all suggestions,
thank you for replying,
savagcl

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