something wrong with powerbook harddrive
I don't know what the deal is with my hard drive, the powerbook is new, got it from apple store in August. but lately the computer has been slowing down. I copied a music file from itunes directory to desktop, it was 155mb (a mix) and it was only copying at 2mb/s. right now i'm importing the music file into Audacity, a music editor, and it's taking forever. using IPulse, it tells me that writing at 1mb/s and it's peak was 3mb/s, is there something wrong with my hard drive? I have SMARTreporter running and it's green. i also ran a battery of tests with Onyx, MacJanitor and MacSweeper. i don't k now what else to do.. maybe format the hard drive?
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doesn't this seem awfully slow? my hard drive is 5400rpm btw
I assume you first tried Disk Utility before mucking with the other tools, and maybe even a single-user boot with direct fsck check? Perhaps booting from the CD that came with it, to run the tools from there?
and what can I do ? I ran everything i could. i guess i'll try running from the cd, maybe i should go to the apple store and see what they can do?
The only thing I would recommend is to clear the caches using OnyX. Then restart twice. (Once to rebuild the cache, the other to use the hopefully fast system.) Oh yea, I would run the maintenance scripts after that too. It might be repetitive, but it might help and it just takes a little more time.
I just don't know what to do
Any suggestions?
here are the results
http://www.mikeberlyand.com/tests.zip
there are 4 images in the zip file, bar graphs. my computer is the red bar
the graph compares my computer to other computers