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AceHigh:
Never had one of those before to be honest. Got it on my newer hard drive 2 days ago, the damned thing makes my entire computer go so painfully slow that I just disconnected the damned thing.

I googled for some I/O error fixes and there are multiple solutions, but what I wonder is: does anyone know of any quick way to fix it so that I plug it in and repair it as fast as possible, because that will still take a while since that damned hard drive makes everything go slow, including write/read operations on other drives.

Any experiences?

kitamesume:
fastest solution? buy a new one, other than trashing the drive? RMA the drive. yea sorry for the bad jokes =P

have you tried plugging it on the other sata slots? which rig are you using btw? if you're using the non-B3 sandybridge motherboards then it'll all make sense.

Lupin:
Have you checked:
1. hard drive (SMART status)
2. SATA cable
2. power cable
4. drivers
5. disk accesses that can cause the entire system to crawl
6. drive temps
etc

How did you determine it was an IO error? Slowing down can mean alot of things, not just IO errors. Too many variables to consider. Isolating each variable is the first thing you should do. Have you tried using the drive on a different computer? Used different sata/power cables? Different sata ports? Maybe the drive falls back PIO mode?

NaRu:
A lot of times it's the sata cable. Just switch out the cable and if it's still giving you errors then check "Smart Status"

AceHigh:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 23, 2011, 02:34:53 PM ---fastest solution? buy a new one, other than trashing the drive? RMA the drive. yea sorry for the bad jokes =P
--- End quote ---

I want to salvage the stuff on it first.


--- Quote ---if you're using the non-B3 sandybridge motherboards then it'll all make sense.
--- End quote ---
I am not sure, but that is interesting, since I upgraded my rig with i7 and a new mobo. Can you please give me more info/your reasoning on this?


--- Quote ---How did you determine it was an IO error? Slowing down can mean alot of things, not just IO errors. Too many variables to consider. Isolating each variable is the first thing you should do. Have you tried using the drive on a different computer? Used different sata/power cables? Different sata ports? Maybe the drive falls back PIO mode?
--- End quote ---

Disc management (control panel > administrative tools > computer management > Disc management tab). Then I plugged in SATA back and did a hardware rescan so my rig detected it and so did the disc management. It showed me that it was an I/O error. Furthermore if I try to access the hard drive it will take like 15 minutes before it tells me that access failed because of that I/O error. (don't want to waste my time like that again)


--- Quote ---A lot of times it's the sata cable. Just switch out the cable and if it's still giving you errors then check "Smart Status"
--- End quote ---
new SATA cable, but I will switch it to see if thats the problem, also have yet to check the SMART status, silly me.

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