Slow transfer from a storage drive?

[Harry]

There have been two incidents which occurred a week apart where
the second drive has slowed down to a crawl using QuickPar and
extracting archives with WinRar.

Running a SATA2 is my main drive and a SATA1 is being used for
storage. The SATA1 has a couple operating systems in different
partitions but is not affected during the boot process. It's not making
any strange noises and has "passed with inconsistent errors" after
running the Seagate Diagnostic Test.

The same problem happened when this drive was used to boot from
and was first noticed as Windows loaded, with a regular ATA/IDE hard
drive as storage.

The strangest part about this whole thing is that everything
returns back to normal after rebooting or shutting down.

What could cause this and has this happened to anyone else?


Thanks for reading this -

 

[johns]

Seems like a pointless operation. No reason to
be doing all of that. Just don't. Find something
to do with your computer that is normal and
makes sense ... games, coding, productivity
.... and then you'll see problems clearly in terms
of maintaining standard operations.

johns

 

[Rod Speed]

There have been two incidents which occurred a week apart where
the second drive has slowed down to a crawl using QuickPar and
extracting archives with WinRar.

Running a SATA2 is my main drive and a SATA1 is being used for
storage. The SATA1 has a couple operating systems in different
partitions but is not affected during the boot process. It's not
making any strange noises and has "passed with inconsistent errors"
after running the Seagate Diagnostic Test.

See what Seagate support has to say about that.

The same problem happened when this drive was used to boot from
and was first noticed as Windows loaded, with a regular ATA/IDE hard
drive as storage.

The strangest part about this whole thing is that everything
returns back to normal after rebooting or shutting down.

Yeah, that's unusual.