Sluggish hard drive performance

[jetjaguar]

I have a 1tb and 2tb caviar black hard drives installed in my mac pro that are a few years old. I test them in disk utility and they come out fine but when I go browse the drives it takes awhile before the files show up.

The drives aren't even close to being full. Sometimes I have to close finder and keep reopening it a few times and then I can see the files. Are my drives dying? I was planning on replacing them with 3tb seagates anyways.

 

[crjackson2134]

I have a 1tb and 2tb caviar black hard drives installed in my mac pro that are a few years old. I test them in disk utility and they come out fine but when I go browse the drives it takes awhile before the files show up.

The drives aren't even close to being full. Sometimes I have to close finder and keep reopening it a few times and then I can see the files. Are my drives dying? I was planning on replacing them with 3tb seagates anyways.

The drive is spinning down and in sleep mode. It takes a few seconds to spin the drive up. You can go to the energy saver applet under settings and turn off spinning down the drives.

This is probably recent behavior you are seeing after an update to 10.8.5. If that's the case then turning off this behavior probably won't fix your issue. It's a bug that Apple with have to fix.

I think others are turning off all power saving options to compensate for now.

 

[monkeybagel]

The drive is spinning down and in sleep mode. It takes a few seconds to spin the drive up. You can go to the energy saver applet under settings and turn off spinning down the drives.

This is probably recent behavior you are seeing after an update to 10.8.5. If that's the case then turning off this behavior probably won't fix your issue. It's a bug that Apple with have to fix.

I think others are turning off all power saving options to compensate for now.

If this is indeed what is happening, I am not sure how this missed even the high-level internal build testing...

 

[jetjaguar]

The drive is spinning down and in sleep mode. It takes a few seconds to spin the drive up. You can go to the energy saver applet under settings and turn off spinning down the drives.

This is probably recent behavior you are seeing after an update to 10.8.5. If that's the case then turning off this behavior probably won't fix your issue. It's a bug that Apple with have to fix.

I think others are turning off all power saving options to compensate for now.

Thanks..forgot about that setting. Turned it off. Hopefully it will stop that from happening.