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Question on 640GB Black

Pheatton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:48:16 GMT

Im going to be installing my two 640GB Blacks this weekend. I seem to remember some sort of setting that would cause the drive to perform at a lower level. For the life of me I cant seem to remember what it was or how to check to see if its disabled/enabled.

Anyone know?

Scanning a RAID setup using another hard drive

fps0alan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:54:40 GMT

Setup:
1 - 500GB Seagate - for Vista Business 32
2 - 1TB Seagate - for Windows 7 RC 64 (RAID)

My problem:
I want to scan my RAID setup due to my frequent use of USB flash drives which I use on public computers but the thing is I have a Kaspersky from a Asus motherboard, which I use as my main antivirus but Kaspersky can only be ran on Vista.

From my current loadup, booting in from my Windows 7 RC 64 I can view my other hard drive. I have tried booting from my other hard drive but I get BSoD after the loading screen of Vista solution to the problem is to change the hard drives into a IDE configuration rather than RAID but in My Computer it cannot read the other RAID array and views it as a unformatted single drive.

I'm looking for a solution that will help me get the drive working on Vista since I'll have to switch back anyways and there are files from the drive that I need to access.

All help is appreciated :D

New HD what should I do?

phaseshift — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:00 GMT

just got a new WD 640gb Caviar Black, I've got that measly 160gb right now. I was wondering what I should do? Should I make a partition on the 640 just for my OS and the second partition for program installs, games and music? Or should I make a partition on the 160gb lets say 60 and leave the rest blank?

btw when you short stroke an HD, do you just have one partition and the rest is unallocated or is it another partition?

Some questions about HD and raiding

Darkshadow74 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:44 GMT

Hi,

I was looking at HDs, and i right now have one that is in my sig, and I want to do raiding, would it be worth the time and money to raid 4 7200 rpm drives like the one i have already? Or should i wait until i am old to get the 10k rpms drives? Also can i download a good raid driver or use the one i can download from the MB site onto a flash drive and setup raid 0 that way? last question on my mind right now, I was looking and drooling over the 15k rpm HD what is the difference in the Sata, and all the other ones like ultra etc that are on the 15k? do they still just hook up using a sata cable? thank you for putting up with my noob self.

SSD intel X-25M , have one, should i add ANOTHER ?

schybrid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:54:43 GMT

i ahve one intel X-25M 80GB now , and my system is alot faster. If i add another , will it benefit alot or any at all ?
if so, how do i connect them ?

Connecting an SAS drive

MrMason — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:55 GMT

I was wondering what I need to use an SAS drive? Would something like this be all I need?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-431-_-Product

Thumb drive question

hooah212002 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:26:23 GMT

Is this Patriot Xporter XT really worth the cost? If so, what makes it so much better than a run of the mill thumb drive? I am looking for a thumb drive that wil serve 2 purposes only:
1: readyboost
2: to hold my resume, and maybe some other small files that I need handy, but absolutely need to not ever be corrupted or lost.

*note* my 2 year old son got a hold of my other which was inserted in the top of my case. It was destroyed, so, sturdiness is a factor.

USB Flash Drive Encryption

identitycrisis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:25 GMT

So, I lost my 8gb jump drive that could potentially have had tax info on it, in addition to some work stuff. I think i deleted the tax stuff, but now that its gone, its driving me nuts!

I'm paranoid that there was indeed tax stuff on there, anyways, I just bought a pny flip drive with no damn software (1st jump drive ive ever owned with NOTHING on it)

Basically I want something free or pretty that will allow me to encrypt either a file, a partition on the jump drive or the whole thing, that will run from the jump drive, and when double clicked prompt for a password, much like the kingston blackbox stuff, I don't want to pay $250 for one of those drives though. LOL

I also plug this into many computers all over the place, i don't want to have to install software in order to open the folder.

Anyone have any suggestions? should i try to return this thing and buy one of the datatraveler lockers or something from newegg for less?

thanks!

How many Hdds can i add

flashvlad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:09 GMT

I have a Asus p5kc MB and i can see it has 4 SATA slots grouped together. I already have 3 HDDs, does it mean that the 4th HDD will be the final internal HDD that i can add? Because i have seen that on the oposite corner of my MB there is another sata slot but it's really far away from these 4. Could it be that it's not a sata slot for a HDD and it might be something else since it's placed far away from the main sata slots?

Suggestions for a HDD for OS

flashvlad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:30 GMT

I am planning to get windows 7 and i was thinking to install it on a better HDD than my WD 1001FALS @ 1TB. I wanted to know if i can get a better HDD for OS that is not so expensive like a SSD which i cannot afford?
I read something about some hdds from WD that are black/blue green etc. What are these colors describing? Which is the best HDD i could get @ around the price range of 100 bucks for my OS?

Noob question about W7 and Hard drives

dwwindham — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:26:22 GMT

I have a question,
I have an old computer with windows XP and a WD-320gb SATA HD. Would it be possible to just plug up my old HDD to my Win-7 system and grab all my old files from it? My HD with win-7 is my boot drive. Thanks for the help!

Are these SSD the same?

jcichetti — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:25 GMT

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-X25-M-Main...item35a504f97f

Model: SSDSA2MH080G2C1

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

Model: SSDSA2M080G2XXX

I get they are both G2 models, that have TRIM support. However, the first one has an 'H' in the model, what does that mean? Are they the same or different?

RAID Participation...

ae804 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:00 GMT

So, I would like to participation my Raid5 Setup so I can run Linux on it also (currently I have win 7, but would like to add linux and chrome...)

Any thoughts?

What does drive health really mean?

lsudvm — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:55:22 GMT

I dl'd HDD Health and installed it - nice little program. It shows my temps for all my drives. For my WD 500 gb blue and Hitachi 2tb it shows them as having 100% excellent health while the Seagate 500 gb (which is an RMA drive that replaced a 400gb that died) as having 63% Normal health. The seagate is about 60% full - i am copying photos and other important files to it. Once done i will remove and put in a safe deposit box.

So my question is what does this health thing mean?

Should i sell my intel ssd?

B4Shock — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:12:54 GMT

hi all,

i did a new pc build and instead of wauiting for the drive i wanted to come back in stock, i hesitated and bought the intel x-25m 80gb instead. Im reading specs that the ocz vertex 60gb gets upwards of 200mb/s read/write, however the intel only gets like 80mb write speeds...if im not mistake that puts the ocz drive 2.5 times better than the intel, and there both the same price!

So, should i try pawn off the intel drive and buy an ocz drive instead? i plan on doing raid in the near future also.

many thanks all.

RamDisk = 4-5x longer boot time

Murlocke — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:05:12 GMT

Is this normal? I have 8GB of ram and if I enable a 2GB ramdisk (and even put nothing on it) my boot times increase by 4-5x.

need info on intel g1 80gb ssd

valtopps — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:55:58 GMT

Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH080G1 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD)

does this g1 have trim and firmware updates? is this any good

What is the fastest raid0 config out there

YouWin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:46:18 GMT

After seeing

YouTube- How fast can 15 programs load in Windows 7 on Core i7

I'd like to buy some hdd's/ssd's and put them in raid0 but I have no clue where to start and I'm kinda just learning about raid0. So what's better? hdd's ssd's? can I put 1tb hdd's in raid0? Should I put 1tb hdd's in raid0? What hdd's/ssd's should I buy if I where to attempt a raid0 config? What is the best/fastest configuration? I'm looking to upgrade my lazy 7,500rpm 1tb hdd for a raid0 config and keep the 1tb as storage. So if you got any ideas lay it on me :)

I think something's wrong with my Caviar Black 750

defoLinY — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:16:17 GMT

looks a little off to me... I just put it in my computer today and did a fresh install of Win7 on it.

what's wierd is that my old Seagate HDD just got a lot faster for some reason... the pic on the left was 3 days ago... right one is today

***?

External HDD dying?

HoldYrPistlstr8 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:06:17 GMT

Hi OCN,

I have a Maxtor 500GB external HDD connected by USB that I use for backup, storage, etc. and recently it's been screwy. It won't play back a few video files, ex: in MPC it will say file not found, or Windows won't recognize the file at all. Those that do play back lag a lot and pixelate.

I've tried defragmenting the drive with Auslogics and Defraggler, as well as Chkdsk. I think I shouldn't have defragged, but what's causing this? I've kicked it over a few times by accident but it was still working.

Unplugging IDE Hard drive while computer is still running?

havox — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:04:37 GMT

Well My friends hard drive is connected to my rig because I was getting files off him. It is an older hard drive with an ide connection, Problem is im folding a bigadv unit right now and don't want to shut off my comp. Can i just unplug? the hd is off so not spinning

Some stupid questions about RAID 0

GuilT1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:57:42 GMT

First off, I feel stupid for even asking because I've been coming to this website for a long time and never bothered to learn about raid configurations. Anyway, do I need the exact same hard drive with the exact same revision in order to run raid 0? Also, if I don't need the same revision, can it be 2 different size drives, I mean I have a 250gb Seagate, but I wanna get a 500gb or a 1TB, can I raid that with my little 250gb? Thanks.

WD 640gb not reconized

xFALL3Nx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:43 GMT

i boot, XP to see my new hdd isn't shown in the "my computer" properties.

it shows in the bios

Flashed my board to newest Beta BIOS and got a new option?

almighty15 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:10:21 GMT

I have RAID as an option as I always have but now with this new BIOS I have RAID (XHD) as an option as well :confused:

Anyone know what it is?

Western Digital Raptor 74GB

djogoku — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:41:59 GMT

Is this a good deal for the money or should I get something else?

Western Digital WD740GD SATA 74GB Raptor (10K RPM) Only $49.49

Specification
Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size 8 MB
Average Latency 2.99 ms (nominal)
Contact Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 minimum
Fluid Dynamic Bearings (FDB) Technology. Helps with the overall life of HD and reduces noise of HD while running.

Seek Times (Average)
Read Seek Time (Average) 4.5 ms
Write Seek Time (Average) 5.9 ms (average)
Track-To-Track Seek Time 0.6 ms (average)
Full Stroke Seek 10.2 ms (average)
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 1,200 Mbits/s (Max)
Buffer To Disk 816 Mbits/s (Max)

Recommended Configuration Parameters
Number of Heads (Physical) 2

Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity 74,356 MB
Capacity 74 GB
Interface ESATA
Actuator Type Rotary Voice Coil
Number of Platters 2
Bytes Per Sector 512
User Sectors Per Drive 145,226,112
Servo Type Embedded

Have my Seagate RMA replacement drive

lsudvm — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:12:26 GMT

I had a 400 gb Seagate go bad. Had drive savers recover the data and RMAd the drive to seagate. The sent me a 500 gb recert drive 7200.10. Gotta love this RMA stuff.

COD4 HDD Stutter?

xxbassplayerxx — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:37:30 GMT

Hey guys. I have COD4 installed on my WD5000AAKS (Western Digital 500GB Caviar SE). When I start it, I can here the HDD (it's louder than usual) and every 5 seconds or so, it stutters like the game is skipping a few frames.

It's only this game as far as I can tell. I'm running some analysis with HDTune right now.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I defrag once a week, so that's not the issue. I might try installing this on the Program files partition of my Caviar Black 1TB and see if that fixes it. Any chance I'm looking at a failing HDD?

one more 7200.11 down...

BiruZ — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:51:50 GMT

Hey guys, so my 7200.11 is dead. I had all my important information on that one :mad:
I have another one with the same product number and firmware, would I be able to recover the data if I switch the boards they have on the bottom?

thx :(

Slow Hard Drive access speed.

Dooginater — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:09 GMT

Since installing windows 7 on a partitioned 1.5 tb drive I've been having issues with the computer getting extremely slow at accessing the HD. I just tried reinstalling to a smaller drive in case that was the issue but now that one is slow as well.

I've had some luck with chkdsk but it takes forever. Then when I boot up the computer seems fine. I just formatted the drive I want to install to and left it installing when I went to work.

Any idea why both of my hard drives are getting slow outta nowhere?

DEAL or NO DEAL: WD 640AAKS?

Seakros — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:08:39 GMT

I looking to get my Harddrives, and I came across this deal today:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...-218-_-Product
70$ CAD + free shipping for WD 640AAKS, is this good deal?

I was looking to get the WD 640AALS because I read that they were very good (found some for 70$). I am planning to get two in RAID 0. So what is the difference between AALS and AAKS? Which is better?

I was also considering getting an SSD for the OS, anybody know of any not too expensive ones (preferably not MLC, 30 - 64GB).