Hdd... Grrrr!

Burgerbob · 08-12-2006, 05:16 PM

My WD SATAII 160GB drive is about the slowest thing on earth. It actually loads Windows Live Messenger slower than my external 5400RPM USB drive. I was wondering... should i get a completely new drive, and ghost my current one to that? or should i get the same drive, and RAID them? If i RAIDed them, i dont know how i would keep my OS and everything, since half of the RAID would be taken up. The problem is, my parents dont realize how slow the HDD is, and so they just dont feel the need to get a new one. Ill take care of that problem, but what should i do?

THanks in advance,
Boigah

Trizoy · 08-12-2006, 05:54 PM

Are you sure it is connected and operating correctly?

**The_Other_One** · 08-12-2006, 06:05 PM

Odd... I have the same drive and it's very fast. It's probably a driver/hardware problem.

SirKenin · 08-12-2006, 07:27 PM

RAID isn't going to speed anything up. That is a very common misconception. If you require I will provide you with links to comprehensive tests and benchmarks to prove the point.

Burgerbob · 08-12-2006, 07:33 PM

Ummm... RAID does speed things up, or it would be an obsolete technology, and even if it is, i could say that i have RAID in my comp

. I think it is a hardware problem though, cuz my temp monitoring programs say that im at 57C all the time... not good.

SirKenin · 08-12-2006, 07:41 PM

No, RAID 0 does not speed things up at all. It is not an obsolete technology because other RAID specs have practical uses. RAID 0 is the worst of them all, providing little to no performance gain (it's all in your head) and dramatically increases your risk of catastrophic data loss due to the striping.

The complete article here:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=2101&p=1

With the conclusion as follows:

Quote:

If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer. The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop.

08-12-2006, 05:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Burgerbob Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Private Island Age: 19 Posts: 2,532	Hdd... Grrrr! My WD SATAII 160GB drive is about the slowest thing on earth. It actually loads Windows Live Messenger slower than my external 5400RPM USB drive. I was wondering... should i get a completely new drive, and ghost my current one to that? or should i get the same drive, and RAID them? If i RAIDed them, i dont know how i would keep my OS and everything, since half of the RAID would be taken up. The problem is, my parents dont realize how slow the HDD is, and so they just dont feel the need to get a new one. Ill take care of that problem, but what should i do? THanks in advance, Boigah __________________ MY Computer AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition, Zalman 9700 4096Mb Patriot Viper, ASUS M3N78 Pro 750GB Seagate, 500GB WD, eVGA 8800GT Antec Three Hundred Logitech MX Revolution, UltraX Media Hanns-G 19in 5ms EEEPC 4G Dell Inspiron 6000 Windows 7!

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Trizoy VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mountain View, Ca Posts: 4,681	Are you sure it is connected and operating correctly? __________________ 01100110 01100001 01110010 01110100

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The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 25 Posts: 13,426	Odd... I have the same drive and it's very fast. It's probably a driver/hardware problem. __________________ Primary- i7 920 \| 6GB RAM \| 9800GT \| 160+160+500GB Secondary- Athlon X2 4200 \| 2GB RAM \| 7600GT \| 80+250GB Netbook - Atom N280 \| 2GB RAM \| GMA945\| 160GB

08-12-2006, 07:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
Burgerbob Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Private Island Age: 19 Posts: 2,532	Ummm... RAID does speed things up, or it would be an obsolete technology, and even if it is, i could say that i have RAID in my comp . I think it is a hardware problem though, cuz my temp monitoring programs say that im at 57C all the time... not good. __________________ MY Computer AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition, Zalman 9700 4096Mb Patriot Viper, ASUS M3N78 Pro 750GB Seagate, 500GB WD, eVGA 8800GT Antec Three Hundred Logitech MX Revolution, UltraX Media Hanns-G 19in 5ms EEEPC 4G Dell Inspiron 6000 Windows 7!

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08-12-2006, 07:27 PM	#4 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	RAID isn't going to speed anything up. That is a very common misconception. If you require I will provide you with links to comprehensive tests and benchmarks to prove the point.

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