[X4U] Slow Finder on Second Hard Drive

[Linda]

On 1/10/06 4:45 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> I put a second 200 gig HD Maxtor 16MB cache in my dual G5 works fine except
> for when I double click it to open it often takes 5 sec or more before the
> Finder opens it giving me the beachball. The original drive that came with the
> machine takes no time at all to open. Same thing when I¹m opening documents it
> takes quite a few seconds before the drive contents show up in the open dialog
> box. Otherwise the drive seems to be performing fine. Why would this slow to
> open be happening?

Any chance that the drive has gone to sleep between access? It might be the
time needed to spin up the drive... similar as when you let a CD spin down,
and then double click it ‹ takes a moment to spin up.

Otherwise, any chance that it IS a slower disk -- a 5400 rpm disk, perhaps?

-Linda