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Dittoz · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by lelouche

Which hard drive are you extracting from and to? Are you running something like RAID5? Are you running any antivirus? Any bad processes in task manager?

Try another program like 7-Zip for archives instead of WinRAR.

I am not running any RAID. I am not running any antivirus. Interestingly, 7-Zip takes just as long as WinRar to extract.

Here's what I'm doing:

WinRar installed on C: which is my 64GB SSD that I posted the chart for.

I have moved the RARs to c: and tried to extract from c: to c:. Same problem.

I have moved the rars to e: (a 7200.11 Seagate 500gig hd) and tried to extract from e: to e:. Same problem.

I have moved the rars to f: (a different 7200.11 Seagate 500gig hd) and tried to extract from f: to f:. Same problem.

I have tried to extract from f: to e:. Same problem.

All other benchmarks on this PC seem to be fine. I'm now running at 4.0Ghz.

It just screams out it is a HD problem, but I really think I've done everything I can to rule that out.

T D · 2 Weeks Ago

A shot in the dark but try memtesting your RAM. You never know, even though I doubt it... depends on how much the programs use the RAM, like for buffering etc.

And also, try extracting a non-passworded archive if that one's passworded.

Dittoz · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by T D

A shot in the dark but try memtesting your RAM. You never know, even though I doubt it... depends on how much the programs use the RAM, like for buffering etc.

And also, try extracting a non-passworded archive if that one's passworded.

I'll try memtesting the RAM. The archive already is non-passworded. Now that I'm thinking about RAM, this problem does seem to have occurred after I received 3 new sticks from Corsair after RMAing my last 3.

I have tried memtest yet, but it is stable under Prime95.

corky dorkelson · 2 Weeks Ago

Have you tried re-installing Winrar?

Dittoz · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by corky dorkelson

Have you tried re-installing Winrar?

Yep, I've tried different versions of winrar. And now my discovery that 7-zip does the same thing, I've ruled out the extraction software. So it is down to a setting with Windows 7, or a hardware issue I believe.

Clockadile Dundee · 2 Weeks Ago

Highly bizarre.

Try both HCI memtest, and memtest86+. Also custom Prime Blend of 8k-4096k.

Bazmecc · 2 Weeks Ago

do you have write-back cache enabled on your drives? from your SSD benchmark, it doesn't look like it to me, to high of a spike there and it's all over the place

Dittoz · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Bazmecc

do you have write-back cache enabled on your drives? from your SSD benchmark, it doesn't look like it to me, to high of a spike there and it's all over the place

I do, I was thinking of disabling it. I don't know much about how the SSD functions itself, but to my understanding a SSD doesn't have a physical cache anyway, and therefore you should disable it. But you think I should keep it enabled?

Pillz Here · 2 Weeks Ago

Are any of your drives running in PIO mode by chance?

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