I recently assembled my HTPC with an E5300 and MSI G31TM-P21 mobo. I’ve got a 320 GB WD 3200JS hard drive. I notice very low transfer rates like 25-30MB/s…
When i look up in the device manager the drive shows up in the ATA Channel 0 with UDMA Mode 5 listed in the current mode.
I have a PATA DVD writer which shows up in another option listed as ATA Channel 0 (there are two) with UDMA mode 4.
I’ve hooked the HDD to the third SATA port on the mobo since with the first one the wire was getting bent owing to other cables right beside it.
As far as i know both the mobo and the drive support 3Gbps transfer rates… which should have landed me somewhere around 200 to 300MB/s (or am i wrong??)…
What could be the problem…
Thanks
i’m running Windows 7 Home premium.