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- No, the caddy is not lowering your data transfer speeds. The issue you are having is actually very common and is by design. Some laptops, especially in older ones, suffer from this. Manufacturers often use a different SATA controller for the optical drive.
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Jun 8, 2019 · No, the caddy is not lowering your data transfer speeds. The issue you are having is actually very common and is by design. Some laptops, especially in older ones, suffer from this. Manufacturers often use a different SATA controller for the optical drive.
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The HDD powerdown time can be adjusted in Windows Power...
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Wikipedia goes into some depth on the subject but in a nutshell, its the caddy and its interface with the laptop. My guess is the laptop's optical drive uses the older PATA standard to save costs, and cause cd drives weren't that performance sensitive. This results in your drive being slower.
Mar 11, 2023 · The HDD powerdown time can be adjusted in Windows Power Settings. However that might not affect the external drive. One way to keep it spinning with OS tools is by repeatedly writing and deleting a zero-byte file to the drive in short enough intervals that it won't the drive can't spin down.
Jun 15, 2016 · My laptop with only 1 sata port for HDD/SSD (no msata whatsoever) and thinking about replacing the DVD drive with an HDD caddy for that port to mount another HDD. Any thoughts on speed...
Jul 15, 2019 · Keep in mind also the mini-SATA port designed for the DVD drive operates at a slower speed than the main SATA port designed for the hard drive on most models. Therefore you can get serious lagging and even freezing when you try to put a heavy demand on a hard drive or SSD in the optical caddy.
Nov 15, 2020 · The mobo has only two SATA ports (I think) and it's one for HDD and other with a optical drive, that I never use. So if I get a Caddy will it impact with the performance of the 1TB 5200RPM HDD that I currently have?
Apr 27, 2021 · I'm playing tech support for a relative, and her (ASUS K53E) laptop SATA HDD has insanely slow random read/write. Sequential r/w is around 74 MB/s, which seems fine, but random is around 1 MB/s. Hard disk health is fine according to S.M.A.R.T. ...
