I’ve googled and search this board as well and found quite a few threads regarding slow transfer rates on the newer WD 1.5-2TB drives, and in some cases where the drives were RMA’d, the problem seem fixed so I’ve put in a support ticket to see if I can get a RMA or hopefully some firmware patches. The last time I had a drive this slow was when it was a floppy disk drive. Turns out the customer just wants to store his anime, home video/etc, but I’m rather worried as to other issues.
Other operations like formatting/etc also take an abnormally long time, 12 hours to format a 2TB drive versus a few hours for a drive, half the size?įrankly, I can live with this issue. There seems to be a transfer rate cap on the drives. Try two file transfers to the same 2TB drive and the TOTAL transfer rate is still 1.5-1.8MB/s. All diagnostics show nothing wrong with the drives (LCC count seems normal for about 3 months of usage? A couple of hundreds?) They are just slow at transferring files to and from these drives. Swap the drive out and put in an older 1TB drive and the transfer rate jumps back up to the high 40s. The transfer rate seems is always around 1.5-1.8MB/s. Typically any file transfers are unattended so I did not notice the problem until recently.
WESTERN DIGITAL WD10EADS SLOW ARCHIVE
These are internal SATA drives in an Intel system where they serve mainly as file archive storage drives.
I’ve built a few systems with WD drives and had no problems until I installed two 2TB GP drives a few months back.