Hi,
I have a brand new 200Gb 7200rpm IDE harddrive with 8Mb cache. I believe it's a Seagate. I can't remember exactly. I had a big of difficulty getting LBA working but that's sorted now, the partitions are NTFS with one used for Windows, Programs, etc and some recordings and the other used for some recordings and music files. The drive is master on it's own IDE channel.
Basically I've got Mediaportal runnig to a satisfactory level and it's fine except as soon as something access the harddrive it throws Mediaportal off and makes it stutter for a few seconds. This could be as simple as opening a networked folder from the harddrive in Windows Explorer on a different machine.
Is there any reason why this shouldn't be happing or should it be regarded as 'normal'? Is there any tool that will tell me about the performance and usage of my harddrive so I could maybe tell what else is accessing the drive and causing problems?
Thanks
I have a brand new 200Gb 7200rpm IDE harddrive with 8Mb cache. I believe it's a Seagate. I can't remember exactly. I had a big of difficulty getting LBA working but that's sorted now, the partitions are NTFS with one used for Windows, Programs, etc and some recordings and the other used for some recordings and music files. The drive is master on it's own IDE channel.
Basically I've got Mediaportal runnig to a satisfactory level and it's fine except as soon as something access the harddrive it throws Mediaportal off and makes it stutter for a few seconds. This could be as simple as opening a networked folder from the harddrive in Windows Explorer on a different machine.
Is there any reason why this shouldn't be happing or should it be regarded as 'normal'? Is there any tool that will tell me about the performance and usage of my harddrive so I could maybe tell what else is accessing the drive and causing problems?
Thanks