Anyways, my recommended HDD, i know people are sick and tired of hearing this, but it's the WD RAPTOR LOL! Heard they migh be releasing a SATA2 followup or even a 15k RPM one. I stand here waiting
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 Oct 9 2005, 03:19 PM
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Same here using my maxtor for 2 years and it's still ok, might have been lucky XD
Anyways, my recommended HDD, i know people are sick and tired of hearing this, but it's the WD RAPTOR LOL! Heard they migh be releasing a SATA2 followup or even a 15k RPM one. I stand here waiting |
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Oct 9 2005, 07:28 PM
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Depends on the drives you buy, for high reliablity, i suggest using WD's RAID edition and Raptor series, for Maxtor, it seems their MAXLine is good choice and Seagate's normal drives are good too.
Try looking at the MTBF rating of a drive before buying it. |
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Oct 10 2005, 10:24 AM
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QUOTE(victorboy @ Oct 10 2005, 01:50 AM) Ok here is the message i got from my WD80 PATA harddisk!!!! Hmmm, suggest you boot up in DOS and try to copy it to another HDD. Either that or doing a low level format, although personally i'd junk the HDD and get one of those sweet high reliability disks.anyone got any ideas of solving above error, else, i think i have to format that partition and delete the file as well. erm..hehe... a minor technical help from me in this thread!   |
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Nov 27 2005, 01:46 AM
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RAID or Enterprise editions of normal hard disks are ofcourse costlier, but to me the extra warranty, reliability and speed is worth is. Currently using Western Digital Raptors as my boot drive, and Western Digital's RE2 drives for normal storage.
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Mar 6 2008, 07:26 AM
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QUOTE(mypetridish @ Mar 6 2008, 12:40 AM) Hey guys, I read about the NCQ and it says "Unfortunately, Windows XP requires the installation of a vendor-specific driver even if AHCI is present on the host bus adapter." Save yourself the trouble. If you're using non random access pattern programs, NCQ isn't worth it.Does that mean if im using an XP with a Raptor, I need to download the AHCI driver specific to the Raptor? Added on March 6, 2008, 12:40 amto utilize NCQ that is Generally you need to install the driver for the disk controller when installing windows, but it's a waste of time in my view as NCQ in normal access pattern use generally degrades performance. |
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Mar 6 2008, 10:31 AM
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QUOTE(mypetridish @ Mar 6 2008, 08:01 AM) i read in other forums and tried to look for downloads/support from Asus website - there was no mention of AHCI driver. And when I pressed F6 during windows installation it asked for a floppy disk drive for the 3rd party installation. i dont have any and thought it's not worth it. Mostly only servers applications since games don't really write randomly even if they aren't optimized, they're generally still quite contiguous by all means and don't really require NCQ.yeah i read about that in other forums. some found that their normal disc usage performance was reduced. probably it's only good for heavy/unoptimized gaming (where the dev throws important data all over the place in the installation folder) and servers? |
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