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Slowdown issues with new SATA drive (technical question)
I don’t have a sata motherboard but bought a new 250gig sata drive with a
sata controller (non raid) that I plugged into a spare slot on the motherboard.I use this drive as a capture drive. Anyway, Vegas is dead slow, so slow it’s almost
unusable. It took almost 20 minutes to put 300 clips from the bin onto the timeline!I did a HD speed test and the results where positive. I replaced the sata controller thinking
that it may be faulty and everything worked nice and quick for a day or so. I defraged the drive
and now everything is running dead slow again. Not sure if it’s cause of the defrag or if that’s just a coincidence.If I move the files I’m working with onto another drive, everything works fine. I’m reluctant to blame the drive because in all other instances it works real quick. For example, I copied 80 gig to this drive just now without problems. File management on the drive is running well, it’s just VEGAS dealing with the drive that’s a real slowdown.
Should I post this question in a Sony forum? If so, which forum?
-Frankie
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If it’s a SATA-1 (First Generation) drive, make certain the cable is plugged in tight. There’s nothing but a little friction to hold them attached, and if the connection is intermittent, then you’ll get a really slow drive.
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