Slice Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 My HDD is toooo slow. It gives 100kb/s. So, for example, 10.6.5 update requires 4 hours, XCode 3.2.5 installed during 8 hours. It is not possible to work! Is there any hint to speedup HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 5, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 5, 2011 hmm... have you tried using the EDP package and see if that makes a diffrence, the dsdt.aml from dsdt contains some stuff for the HD Btw.. what HD model did you buy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 On 2/5/2011 at 1:26 PM, Leon said: hmm... have you tried using the EDP package and see if that makes a diffrence, the dsdt.aml from dsdt contains some stuff for the HD Btw.. what HD model did you buy ? I use the EDP dsdt with my additions so the ATA stuff already hear. (else KP at startup, I know). I think the problem is not in HDD model, and not in slow CPU. The problem in Powermanagement when HDD became energy-saving slow mode. Don't know where it is. Today, after some tuning it works more or less fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 5, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 5, 2011 Check bios settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 On 2/5/2011 at 6:59 PM, Leon said: Check bios settings? It was the first I did. See no any usefull about. HDD: [b]SAMSUNG HS12YHA:[/b] Capacity: 120,03 GB (120 034 123 776 bytes) Model: SAMSUNG HS12YHA Revision: 3AD10-00 Serial Number: S1QRJQSZ901949 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Protocol: ATA Unit Number: 0 Socket Type: Internal Low Power Polling: No Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: [b]MacHDD:[/b] Capacity: 100,09 GB (100 085 637 120 bytes) Available: 57,73 GB (57 726 676 992 bytes) Writable: Yes File System: Journaled HFS+ BSD Name: disk0s1 Mount Point: / [b]OtherHD:[/b] Capacity: 19,73 GB (19 733 446 656 bytes) Available: 10,96 GB (10 958 864 384 bytes) Writable: Yes File System: Journaled HFS+ BSD Name: disk0s2 Mount Point: /Volumes/OtherHD As you see I already occupied 40Gb, so 30Gb is impossible for me to work. May be here [b]System Power Settings:[/b] AC Power: System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0 Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0 Zero is wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 6, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 6, 2011 Formatted capacity : 120GB High Speed Digital Signal Processor Based Architecture Low Power HDC Advanced Power Management Control Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle Motor Technology SATA S.M.A.R.T Compliant SATA 48-bit Address Feature Set Multi-Burst On-The-Fly Error Correction SilentSeekâ„¢ Capacity * 120GB Interface PATA/ZIF Buffer DRAM Size 8 MB Byte per Sector 4K Rotational Speed 4200 RPM .... 4200 rpm.. that explains why its slow.. you can get both 5200 and 7200rpm for zif pata.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thund3rbolt Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 uuugh 4200 is dog slow. Make sure you also do a quick smart check too. That drive is kinda old. http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 It is slower by 20% but not 5 times as I have. The problem is in PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 7, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 7, 2011 hmm.. i noticed that in bios for your model there is setting for configuring if you want the machine to be "quite" or have "performance" .. did you fiddle with that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 On 2/7/2011 at 9:24 AM, Leon said: hmm.. i noticed that in bios for your model there is setting for configuring if you want the machine to be "quite" or have "performance" .. did you fiddle with that ? Yes, I set "performance" and now it works more or less fine. May be another changes in my system gave me effect... dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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