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Is this HDD usable (benchmark)?

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DiaNo

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Please see the benchmark. Is this HDD usable?
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it should be 150mb/s(max)
so yes, but whys it so slow?
youd be better off usings wd's tool too....
 
It’s USB 2 speeds. Can stream media no problem at that speed. Getting it on to the drive will be frustrating and it won’t hold that much. But ya, that’s was where the hard drive world was 23 years ago. It took a while before we saw 100MB/s in HDD’s.
 
pendragon1 said:
it should be 150mb/s(max)
so yes, but whys it so slow?
youd be better off usings wd's tool too....
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Thank you.
The HDD was originally on Acer Aspire M5700 running Windows Vista. I replaced Vista with Windows 7 and used it until Windows 10. I kept this HDD and threw everything else of that PC away.
Slow? It does not matter much since it is going to be a store and backup disk.
Thanks.
DiaNo
 
westrock2000 said:
It’s USB 2 speeds. Can stream media no problem at that speed. Getting it on to the drive will be frustrating and it won’t hold that much. But ya, that’s was where the hard drive world was 23 years ago. It took a while before we saw 100MB/s in HDD’s.
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Thank you.
The HDD is now mounted on a USB external hard drive case. Used as an external hard drive.
A few weeks ago, I installed Linux Mint 21 Xfce on it. It was connected to SATA cables on motherboard. Ran a few time, but then it would not boot.
Does the benchmark reveal anything why is refuses to boot if any OS is installed on it?
Thanks again.
DiaNob
 
For that, you are going to want to use a program that checks the integrity of the disk, not the through put. You are definitely pushing your luck using a drive that is so old. Not to say the specific drive is bad, but the odds are starting to be very much against you.
 
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westrock2000 said:
For that, you are going to want to use a program that checks the integrity of the disk, not the through put. You are definitely pushing your luck using a drive that is so old. Not to say the specific drive is bad, but the odds are starting to be very much against you.
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Thank you for the good advice.
I'll use the HDD for temporary savings and non-important files.
Diano
 
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