Poor read/write speeds

[greengolftee87]

I wasn't sure if this should go in networking or data storage, its kind of both. Anyway I just got a new seagate 1.5TB and put it in my file server. A P4 2.8Ghz 1Gb ram running vista. The original mobo did not have sata ports so I got a 4 port pci sata card (1.5Gb/s). However when transferring files to and from my laptop i see no noticeable improvement over IDE hard drives. It runs at about 26 MB/s which seems low. The laptop is connected w/ gigabit and has this hard drive. The only two things I can think of is that the card is only pci, or that a lan cable is bad. I think 1 of the lan cables is only cat5 while the other is cat5e.

edit: or could running vista with 1 G of ram be choking something?

 

[greengolftee87]

Im and idiot and didnt think if using hdtune to check if the card was the bottleneck. It wasnt. Im getting a glorious 90 MB/s through the whole test. any ideas on what could be causing the slowdown now?

 

[RogueTrip]

Your working at the speed of the laptop drive, its probably a slow 5400rpm drive with slower read and writes.

 

[criccio]

Your working at the speed of the laptop drive, its probably a slow 5400rpm drive with slower read and writes.

QFT

Your read/write is limited by the laptops HDD. If you really want more speed, look into a 7200RPM laptop drive.