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Strange HDD Throttling

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  • 22-06-2008 5:01pm
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    conzy
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    I'm using a Dell Poweredge SC440 as a File server / Folding box and I sometimes notice poor performance when copying files, I just assumed it was my network but today I was copying files between two drives on the server and it took maybe 6 minutes for a 350mb file!

    So I downloaded HDtune and ran it for every drive, 3 drives performed as expected, but two drives ( one of them IDE and one of them SATA ) were capped to exactly 2 MB/s

    I ran some diagnostics on the drives and they appear to be fine so I think they are being throttled for some reason, The server has 4 sata ports but only 2 drive bays, I have the other drives in caddies. Could it be a Dell "feature" to cap the drives to encourage people to go for a more expensive controller or something?

    Anyone encounter this before? Any solutions or will I have to buy a sata controller? Its probably cheaper buy a 1TB drive to replace 3 of the drives :/


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