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Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: 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  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

In first pic is my old Seagate (UDMA33/5400rpm)
 (http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/seagate.gif)  

and heres the new IBM GXP (UDMA100/7200rpm)
 (http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/ibmgxp.gif)

Guess next step is set up a IDE-raid; Mobo already have a controller for that  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: Rocket 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!

S!
Rocket

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: bloom25 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.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)



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THUNDERBIRDS

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: TheWobble on February 11, 2001, 01:22:00 AM

Get a static RAM drive, only about $500 a gig!   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: Harppa 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 (http://www.kolumbus.fi/harri.j.niemi/Ghost%205.1.zip)

The file size is 907 kb

 (http://www.kolumbus.fi/harri.j.niemi/HarpDog.gif)  
Harppa
III/JG5

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: Frosty1 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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Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: bloom25 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:

 (http://www.engr.orst.edu/~bloom/bench.jpg)

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



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THUNDERBIRDS

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: Staga on February 19, 2001, 09:39:00 PM

Dam... Looks like I need to do some overclocking...  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Yes, That HardDisk simply rocks  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: bloom25 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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THUNDERBIRDS

Title: Need a new hard-drive ?
Post by: Staga on February 20, 2001, 02:03:00 AM

Abit Raid-133(Intel BX) with latest bios. Just joking about that oc'ing  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)