IBM Deskstars suck

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Summo

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Fuck's sake. A relevant picture? Pfft.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

I'm not sure one of the drive's (even with its 7200rpm and 8MB cache) is going to be noticeably faster than my current two 7200 rpm SCSI hard drives on separate channels.

One drive is for the OS and installed programs, the other is for data, swap file and temp folder. Surely moving all this on to one drive is going to 'balance out' performance so that I ultimately notice very little difference.

Hello?
 
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.Cask

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Wow did I notice a difference when I moved the swap file to a seperate drive. I now have windows on 1 drive, apps + games on another, video/music/swap file on another.

2 of them are IBM deskstar's and no probs yet.
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by Summo
Fuck's sake. A relevant picture? Pfft.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

I'm not sure one of the drive's (even with its 7200rpm and 8MB cache) is going to be noticeably faster than my current two 7200 rpm SCSI hard drives on separate channels.

One drive is for the OS and installed programs, the other is for data, swap file and temp folder. Surely moving all this on to one drive is going to 'balance out' performance so that I ultimately notice very little difference.

Hello?
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It is unlikely you'll notice a great difference in real world use, only in benchmarks etc.

I personally had a 4x80GB in a RAID 0 until about a week ago when I decided to run it as two sets of 2x80GB RAID 0. I currently have my swap file, games and MP3 on the second set with Windows XP and apps on the first set.
 
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mank!

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Originally posted by .Cask
2 of them are IBM deskstar's and no probs yet.
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You've probably just ultimately cursed them both, sorry.
 
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.Cask

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I said it before somewhere a few months ago so I'm feelin confident about them now :p
 
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mank!

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Originally posted by Embattle
Lets hope he touched wood :)
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I found that far too dirty, someone slap me :(

Originally posted by .Cask
I said it before somewhere a few months ago so I'm feelin confident about them now :p
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Heh, like taking chances huh? :>
 
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Summo

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Originally posted by .Cask
Wow did I notice a difference when I moved the swap file to a seperate drive. I now have windows on 1 drive, apps + games on another, video/music/swap file on another.

2 of them are IBM deskstar's and no probs yet.
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OMG BUY MORE MEMORY!

Ideally you shouldn't be using the swap file at all. How much RAM have you got?
 
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.Cask

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512mb SDRAM. Lookin to upgrade when the time is right :)
 
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Summo

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Should be ample, and I wouldn't bother upgrading, tbh. I recently upgraded from 512MB SDRAM to 1GB and I've noticed no difference at all.

PS. I LOVE YOU, CASK!
 
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.cage

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you need 1gb to dump the swap file really
512 will lead to problems unless you sit with irc and one ie window open all night or something, in which case you dont deserve a pc anyway
 
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Summo

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Ignore him! He's wrong! I had no swap file usage on 512MB.

Hey, Cage. Go clean my car!
 
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Embattle

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>512MB and up is fine, although I can't because Adobe products general won't run if you switch VM off.
 
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Testin da Cable

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doing strange things on your box [like searching through large flat files] can force your os to swap though. on your own head really
 
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Durzel

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Its somewhat ironic that the day I receive my WD from OCUK, I boot my system up expecting it to take the usual 5 minutes to click, beep and crunch its way into Windows XP only to find it doesn't make a sound.

If I didn't know better I'd think the IBMs were sentient and realised they were about to be ripped out of the machine.

I've booted it about 4 times since getting it and it hasn't made a single noise. The first time in literally months it hasn't.

PS. .cage - what possessed you to buy a retail HD? You didn't buy it from PC "£99.99 for 32Mb EDO 'Fast' RAM" World did you? :(
 
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Embattle

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In theory I could have a 1.6TB RAID 0 using 8 of those drives.....now that would mean a lotta lotta XXX ;)
 
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caLLous

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So could anyone with a couple of RAID controllers... :)
 
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Testin da Cable

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we have several [iirc] 1.3TB arrays attached to a test thingy. I wonder if I can set up a fileshare hub and not be noticed by the spooks :)
 
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