Author Topic: Need a new hard-drive ? (Read 487 times)

Staga · « **on:** February 10, 2001, 09:02:00 PM »

My old 6,5 Gigs Seagate was getting small so I thought maybe I should buy a new HD.
After some reading I bought IBM's 45gig GXP and that really is a good bargain (160$ here).
I did some tests after I installed that HD to my system and took couple screenshots. Program I did use to benchmark is SiSoft Sandra 2001 Professional.

First I noticed my system boots up in half time compared what it took earlier

In first pic is my old Seagate (UDMA33/5400rpm)

and heres the new IBM GXP (UDMA100/7200rpm)

Guess next step is set up a IDE-raid; Mobo already have a controller for that

Rocket · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2001, 10:29:00 PM »

My last 2 hard drives have been IBM and I love the speed and reliability of them. Smmmmmmmmmmmokin ;p

Enjoy!

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bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2001, 12:25:00 AM »

I'd say that's the main problem with my system right now. I'm still using an old WD 8.4Gb Udma 33 HD. I want to get one of those IBM drives eventually.

Quick question, does it happen to come with a utility to copy my old drive to the new one? Norton Ghost is basically what I'm looking for, but I don't have a copy of it. I don't really want to start from scratch all over again.

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TheWobble · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2001, 01:22:00 AM »

Get a static RAM drive, only about $500 a gig!

Harppa · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2001, 01:25:00 AM »

Here it is, Ghost 5.1
http://www.kolumbus.fi/harri.j.niemi/Ghost%205.1.zip

The file size is 907 kb

Harppa
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Frosty1 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2001, 01:35:00 PM »

I just ordered that same exact hard drive. My 4.3 gig and 8.6 gig weren't cutting it anymore.

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bloom25 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2001, 06:45:00 PM »

Ok, I did it. I went out and bought the 45 gig IBM drive myself.

Here's the result:

My computer is almost 2 times as fast! (Not joking.) I can't even hear this drive.

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Staga · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2001, 09:39:00 PM »

Dam... Looks like I need to do some overclocking...

Yes, That HardDisk simply rocks

bloom25 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2001, 01:48:00 AM »

What MB do you have Staga? (I'm using the Asus a7v with the brand new 1006 bios. It REALLY improved memory and drive performance.)

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Staga · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2001, 02:03:00 AM »

Abit Raid-133(Intel BX) with latest bios. Just joking about that oc'ing

Author Topic: Need a new hard-drive ? (Read 487 times)

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