{"id":17,"date":"2007-04-07T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-04-07T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T23:57:10","slug":"fixing-your-slow-ass-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Fixing your slow ass HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since yesterday my computer seemed to really be chugging along.\u00a0 This seems to happen about once a year.<\/p>\n<p>My primary HD was reading at only 3 MB\/s instead of the usual 60 MB\/s or so!<\/p>\n<p>Why? As crc errors happen over time windows will keep track of the accumulation and will eventually turn off DMA and use the slower PIO mode. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/device\/storage\/IDE-DMA.mspx\">Here&#8217;s a windows article about it..<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Is your drive slowing down?\u00a0 Use the great (and free) utility <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdtune.com\/\">HD-Tune<\/a> to check it.<\/p>\n<p>The fix is very simple, just remove all your IDE ATA\/ATAPI controllers from the control panel and reboot.\u00a0 They will be re-added at full speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since yesterday my computer seemed to really be chugging along.\u00a0 This seems to happen about once a year. My primary HD was reading at only 3 MB\/s instead of the usual 60 MB\/s or so! Why? As crc errors happen over time windows will keep track of the accumulation and will eventually turn off DMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}