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Ryan Atici
What do you think about the new Western Digital 74GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
with 10,000 RPM?
with 10,000 RPM?
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Ron Reaugh
Ryan Atici said:
They rock!
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Ryan Atici
What do you think about the new Western Digital 74GB Serial ATA Hard
Drive
Is the performance difference significant compared to normal IDE Hard drives
with 7200RPM?
Drive
Is the performance difference significant compared to normal IDE Hard drives
with 7200RPM?
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Ron Reaugh
Ryan Atici said:
Yes, faster.
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Shailesh Humbad
Yes, very few things give a full factor increase in performance likeRyan said:
an increase in spindle speed. Going from 7200 to 10k is roughly a 38%
increase, and you see all of it in real-world usage.
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Ryan Atici
Yes, very few things give a full factor increase in performance like
I think most motherboards have 4 connections for Serial ATA Hard Drive.
Then, I assume you can have 4 different Serial ATA hard drives inside a
computer with different operating system on each Serial ATA hard drive,
Windows 98 on the first one, Windows XP on the second one, Linux on the
third one, and Unix on the fourth one. And you can go into BIOS and choose
what hard drive you like to boot up.
I think most motherboards have 4 connections for Serial ATA Hard Drive.
Then, I assume you can have 4 different Serial ATA hard drives inside a
computer with different operating system on each Serial ATA hard drive,
Windows 98 on the first one, Windows XP on the second one, Linux on the
third one, and Unix on the fourth one. And you can go into BIOS and choose
what hard drive you like to boot up.
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rstlne
Ryan Atici said:
Personally I would use a boot loader..
Grub (installs with many linux distro's) is VERRY easy (i think) and it
beats you modding ur bios settings.
if you do use grub then read about the MAP command
But yea you can do that
..With grub you could (depending on how much space you need) install all 4
operating systems on the same hard drive (dont know if unix would have a
problem with grub or running from non-primary partitions)
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Bob Willard
Ryan said:
I don't think you will like them, so just send any you have to me.
I'll also accept those itty-bitty 36GB 10K RPM HDs when you outgrow 'em.
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Andy Lee
On Tue, 18 May 2004 01:14:28 -0400, "Ryan Atici"
Nope some have only 2 like mine
Nope the Silicon Image Bios does not permit you to choose which drive
to boot from or at least the version on my Asus A7N8X E Deluxe does
not. As posted elsewhere in this thread a bootloader is probably a
better option.
Nope some have only 2 like mine
Nope the Silicon Image Bios does not permit you to choose which drive
to boot from or at least the version on my Asus A7N8X E Deluxe does
not. As posted elsewhere in this thread a bootloader is probably a
better option.
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Andy Lee
Fast and expensive mine works fine as a high speed boot disk for XP
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chrisv
Andy Lee said:
Not so expensive if you can live with a 36G, which many people can. I
got one for my work PC, and have been playing with it a bit. It's
noticeably quicker, no doubt.
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Timothy Daniels
Andy Lee said:
(!) You mean it doesn't allow you to set the
drive boot sequence (i.e. the boot priority)?
Does it then just always boot from the same
hard drive, not even letting you boot from a
CD or maybe a floppy?
*TimDaniels*
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Wayne Youngman
Hi,
I have two of the older 36GB Raptors in ICH5R RAID-0 and they are fast!!!!.
The newer 74GB version is meant to be even better. If your not gonna go
RAID-0 then one of the 74GB versions would be real sweet as your system boot
drive (or grab a 36GB version if your on a budget). If your using a newer
INTEL system that features the ICH5R then I can recommend the RAID-0!
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Ron Reaugh
chrisv said:
HOLYSHIT...now let's go back and do some Google searches and find a nice
quote regarding IDE for you to respond to!
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Folkert Rienstra
Shailesh Humbad said:
What a load of crap.
The first Raptor certainly wasn't much faster than a comparative 7200 rpm drive.
10k and 15k rpm drives also have smaller platter diameters that eat part of the rpm
percentage increase.
You buy 10k rpm drives for better access times.
You buy 15k rpm drives for better throughput and better access times.
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Ron Reaugh
drive.Folkert Rienstra said:
That's FALSE.
That's grossly misleading. The diameter decrease does reduce the
'potential' sustained transfer BUT the decreased diameter also IMPROVES the
average access time as also does the HIGHER RPM.
And higher STR. Check the facts.
"Throughput" is NOT a term typically used in HD performance description.
Average access time and sustained transfer rate are the correct terms.
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Shailesh Humbad
Hi,
Yeah, two 36GB in RAID-0 gives you a decent 72 GB drive. And its
FAST. On my computer, XP comes out of hibernation in 30 seconds
between pressing the power button to seeing the desktop, and most of
that time is the BIOS doing its stuff. Running two drives plus a
third backup drive puts out a lot of heat though. That's one major
drawback.
Yeah, two 36GB in RAID-0 gives you a decent 72 GB drive. And its
FAST. On my computer, XP comes out of hibernation in 30 seconds
between pressing the power button to seeing the desktop, and most of
that time is the BIOS doing its stuff. Running two drives plus a
third backup drive puts out a lot of heat though. That's one major
drawback.
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Eric Gisin
Why use hibernate when you can suspend to RAM? That only takes a few seconds.
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Folkert Rienstra
Ron Reaugh said:
Clueless, check your own facts.
Barracuda 7200.7, Samsung SpinPoint P80, WesternDigital WD2500, Deskstar
180GXP, DiamondMax+9, all ~55MB/s, just like the WD360 Raptor.
Never said it didn't.
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rstlne
Timothy Daniels said:
I dunno about the SI bios.. but I have seen some that say "Boot Sequence"
with the choice of "Hard Drive" or "Floppy" and "Allow CDRom Boot Y/N"