[jeeptjs]

I justed added a seegate 160g internal hd to my powerbook and i have been having problems with it running slow. This is a 5400rpm drive which i beleive is the same as a what comes from the factory. I notice this the most when transfering one of my movies into my itunes using handbrake. This used to take 4-5hrs and now between 12-14hrs! Anyone else having problems with this drive?

thanks,
mike

[SSharon]

handbrake is used for encoding and should be limited by processor speed way more than HD speed. Are you sure you are performing the same action on the same computer?

[onlyone-jc]

Was your previous drive the 80/120GB 5400RPM drive? Or, the 100GB 7200RPM drive? If it was the latter, then that would explain your perception of a performance-drop.

onlyone-jc.

[peeb]

Absolutely - there's no way that drive speed is going to be the bottleneck for handbrake - the processor is always going to hold it back more. Now, if you were talking about the speed to COPY the file, that might be a drive speed issue, because that's where you're going to notice the 5400/7200 difference the most.

I'd think about whether there are any other changes to the machine (more programs added etc) that might be causing it. Also, check that the processor is running at full speed.

[jeeptjs]

My old hard drive was a 80gb 5400, and I used carbon copy cloner to transfer all my files from the old to the new. I am going to reinstall the old one and see how it works.

[peeb]

An easy way to do this would be to put the old drive in a fw800 enclosure, and boot from that.