WD400BB on a go-slow

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Hi all,

Had a WD400BB with SA problems. Basically it took about a minute to become ready, and PC3000 would not read any modules.

Used Salvation WD Doctor to fix the bad modules.

Now drive is ID'd OK and working, but REALLY slow.

Gonna take weeks to image at this rate.

Even taking stuff off with DE is slow, about 2 or 3 minutes for a Word doc.
Dread to think how long the photos are gonna take?

Any suggestions welcome

Sean

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Wow!

Just been extracting some files with DE, and it's suddenly speeded up big time.

I did nothing.

It's now imaging normally on DeepSpar DDI, absolutely fine.

Nothing amazing, 2Mb/sec. But good enough!

I wonder why?

EDIT: Now it's stopped again

Doesn't matter though, as I got the data off the client wanted, 5 years of family photos!!!

Now it's doing what it did to start with, taking forever to become ready. And if I listen close, I can hear head "retry" noises. So I guess either the heads and/or SA are flakey.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hi ,
Sure Its 100% With The Heads [ Which You Can Test ] .Also It Could Be the SA .Just Test That Are You Able To Read SA Properly