erh?games,drivers and software all go into primary drive as well?i thought storage drive

a bit pening now.should i backup my windows files into the 80gb drive,then the others into the new 1tb drive or all 2gether into the new drive

This post has been edited by ZeneticX: Oct 2 2009, 07:06 PM

soon selling my WD 640GB (less than 1 year old) to make way for 1.5TB Seagate.. any advice?
is the standard price now around rm460? i saw samsung's 1.5tb selling at rm339, is that a typo?

Guys, i feel something is holding the burst speed of my harddisk, i feel that it should go beyond 400MB/s one, got any idea how to solve this problem?
I'm using ICH10R chipset RAID 0.


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I assume that your current Seagate is not a single 500 GB platter, so their performance is likely to be a lot more slower than any decent 1 TB and above. You can confirm by running some hard disk benchmarks. For comparison, the WD 1 TB Black maxes out at ~110 MB/s and Seagate's 2 TB monster maxes out at ~140 MB/s.

If your current hard disk is substantially slower, I recommend splitting your new 1 TB into two or more partitions, then use the first partition for the OS and the other(s) for storage. The overall performance improvement should be worth it.

er wat u mean by not a single 500gb platter?i split it into 2 partitions thou,1 for OS and programs and the other 1 for files like music,wallpapers and movies,and programs as well if my 1st partition ran out of space.

running a benchmark?its dying edy,no way im gonna boot into windows and make it worst,will gonna try save my data as soon as possible.

i think i will make a full backup image of the dying 500gb 1st then 2moro when i got my caviar black,will use it to restore the backup and set it as main drive.after my 500gb is back from rma,will reorganize evrything

This post has been edited by ZeneticX: Oct 3 2009, 09:31 PM

hey guys,

ive got a 500GB ext HDD 3.5 with a USB and eSATA port. however, when i connect the eSATA port to my PC's , the thing just wont work. I tried connecting both my USB and eSATA but to no avail.

any idea whats wrong?

Thanks

It means that your 500 GB 7200.11 hard disk uses two 250 GB platters to make that 500 GB capacity. It is not related to your logical partitions.

The bigger the capacity per platter, the higher your data density is and thus better read/write performance. 500 GB per platter will outperform 250 GB per platter significantly but all hard disks using 250 GB platters will perform generally the same regardless the capacity.

Sorry, I had forgotten about it dying.

Depending on why it is dieing, you might get more of your data quickly by copying the folders or files one by one or by groups, aborting a copy if it's not progressing reasonably; sometimes the problem are with a few files. After copying most of your stuff out, go back to the problem folders or files. Also, if the hard disk becomes unresponsive after a while, it might be because its too hot. In that case, try turning your computer off for a while until the hard disk is back to room temperature or cooler and then try to copy the remainder.

Yes the current price is around that range.
Which shop is selling the Samsung 1.5TB for RM339?

339 for 1.5T?
wow..cheap oo..which shop?
my 1T RM305

yeah, which shop is selling that price? Compu-zone price is listing 350myr for Samsung 1.5TB, wow

samsung eco green , samsung f1 or samsung f3 ?

samsung 1.5tb RM330 with 5400rpm one ler.

which means is eco green rite?

both oso wont work?
maybe the hd is underpowered, like my pc at kampung
need to connect at my mobo directly, cos my casing's usb port I think dont provide enough juice, cos cap ayam one

what brand is ur psu?

nono, only my USB work. quite fast in fact. the only problem is my eSATA port. I'm not sure whether its my mobo or the HDD problem.

OCZ 500W. The HDD is NexStar

You have to restart in order for your PC to detect eSATA if I'm not wrong, it works that way for my WD My Book anyway. If it still doesn't detect your HD after you've restarted, you can go Device Manager and scan for hardware changes.

Thanks alot ! Its working!!

but anyway it isnt really much faster than USB though

really?
thought e-sata better then usb interms of transfer speed.

No prob, glad I could help. I never really notice the speed though, maybe someone else could help on that.