i see, is there anyway i could do it in Disk Management? or i must do it in old school way which uses diskpart.exe in ms-dos?

because currently now, i can't find where to remove active from old hdd, i only know how to mark active. my OS is Win7 64bit ultimate.

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Jun 17 2010, 10:00 PM

well, sadly no. or i don't know about or i fail to find it.

but i manage to clone the entire thing sucessfully now and disable MBR on the old hdd. all things are smooth now.

current HDD now is still unable to max out sata 2

Caviar Black 1tb 64mb cache, the only thing that uses sata 3 was the 64mb cache that does only a little perfomance gain, well i doubt that. HDD is still the bottleneck, and still cannot use even half of sata II. Let's forget about Sata III, unless you using SSD.

samsung turning hdd marketing pricing upside down. while intel turning ssd marketing price upside down.

Well, future, i was hoping to grab one SSD for system booting. let's hope intel will continue to forcing the price to drop down to hdd pricing.

maybe something like 160gb for RM200~300.

well, it's still a 50% reduction.

For now 1GB cost around RM15.

Later 1GB cost around like RM7.5.

That's a huge improvement.

If that's the case, kingston and other brand will also be making changes unless they wanted to be left behind.

i agree with this,
For desktop, we need atleast a bigger hdd atleast 150gb or more.
So the price would still be acceptable.

But what cherroy say is true as well, the reason is for Laptop user, for 80gb for RM300~400, that's hugely a very good improvement.

Instead, they choose to increase the capacity without decreasing the price is a major turn off for laptops, but for us as a desktop user, it's surely a good improvement. since 160gb is surely enough for software and games.

Now games is already 5~15gb, and software from 1mb to 5gb. For what i think 80gb isn't really enough. unless you're a light laptop user, something between you're travelling around with your laptop, working, sitting at starbucks online, a little bit of gaming. But having multiple games in 80gb ssd, is not possible.

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Jun 20 2010, 12:06 AM

Not sure about this, but volume letter can be reassign later in Disk Management. while the MBR part, it will mostly automatically set, you can check it by Start > Run > Type "Msconfig"

The Samsung 2tb only has 5400rpm thou i'm not sure it's F3 or F1.

Here's the benchmark from HD Tune.

as you can see, it's significantly slower than 1tb version.

try looking for model WD1002FAEX benchmark, that's the Caviar Black 64mb cache SataIII model.

If you want to compare the perfomance between Caviar Black 64mb cache 1tb and Samsung Spinpoint F3 1tb. it's still lose to samsung spinpoint f3.

the only HDD can wins over samsung spinpoint F3 performance is WD2001FASS Caviar Black 2TB. This HDD packs a punch in performance as well as in price. 299 USD. w00t

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Jun 23 2010, 10:28 AM

shouldn't now that, we're suppose to be on Harddisk Thread V3 ? it's more than 2500 post now.