Re: Silly HDD question

Dumbo wrote:
> I have had vista up and running for months but my score is held back by
> the HDD. When I had it on a 160GB Maxtor it scored 5.2 so the advice I
> was given was to go to SATA from IDE. I purchased a 500GB Hitachi SATA2
> drive but the score only improved to 5.3. After a bit of research I
> discovered that the drive normally sets up at SATA1 speeds and needs to
> be reset using the software provided at the Hitachi website. I did this
> and made a bootable CD and used it to set the drive up at it's maximum
> throughput but this made no difference. It still reads at 5.3. I put
> up with this until now because I am running out of free space and need
> some more. Do I buy a USB 1TB device at USB2 speeds or purchase a 1TB
> Samsung f1 internal drive.
> Will the boot time be decreased any? I am running a Q6600 at 2.8GHz on
> an ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard with 4GB of PC6400 ram.
>
> TIA
>
> Robin

This is an example of a fast drive. But the boot time is
still not zero. (Gigabyte iRAM versus a Raptor.)

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=2480&p=7

Paul

Paul wrote:
> This is an example of a fast drive. But the boot time is
> still not zero. (Gigabyte iRAM versus a Raptor.)
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=2480&p=7

Well that's interesting. Many of the Anandtech tests are highly system
dependent. Duh! I didn't see mention of the system specs, though.
I wish someone smarter would take that idea and run with it...
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM

Phil Weldon wrote:
> 'Fishface' wrote:
>> Well that's interesting. Many of the Anandtech tests are highly system
>> dependent. Duh! I didn't see mention of the system specs, though.
>> I wish someone smarter would take that idea and run with it...
>> More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM
> _____
>
> 'capacity up to 8 GiB'? Has the Wiki author spent too much time on
> first person shooters with guts turned up?
>
> Phil Weldon

You can fill it with either, but it works better with one of the choices :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibs

Paul