Odd HD Tach results on new HD?

Sweetloaf

Sweetloaf

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Just formatted a new Seagate 250Gb 7200.10

HD Tach results for my other 250 Gb 7200.100 is approx:

219MB/s burst speed
13.4 MB/s random access
Ave read 66.8 MB/s

My new formatted drive is:

135 MB/s burst speed
15.1 MB/s random access
Ave read 83.9 MB/s

The first drive is aprroximately 50% full, the new one is empty..Is that correct? If so why, if not, why not?

Cheers!
 
Chances are your older 250 is the 2 platter design and the new one is the single platter one (effectively a 7200.11). The single platter drive is significantly quicker than the older design.

As for the burst speed, the new one still has the SATA150 jumper set on it. You can remove it if you want but you won't notice a difference in real world operation.
 
Another quick question for you if you don't mind.

I plan to mount an image of my current OS drive (Maxtor SATA 120Gb) onto a second new 250Gb Seagate, do I still need to format and initialize the drive if I'm using Norton 9 recovery disk or can I just slap the image onto the new drive?

I know I've done this before when my wife's HD failed but it was an 80Gb drive going onto an 80Gb drive.

Thanks again.
 
Sweetloaf said:
I plan to mount an image of my current OS drive (Maxtor SATA 120Gb) onto a second new 250Gb Seagate, do I still need to format and initialize the drive if I'm using Norton 9 recovery disk or can I just slap the image onto the new drive?
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I'd like to think that the image would go straight onto the new drive without any need for formatting beforehand. I'd take a look through the options for the restore though, you may have to set something to get the image to expand to fill the whole disk or you could end up with a 120Gb partition and the same in unallocated space.
 
Well the image file itself is 28Gb so it must just recognise the entire drive and allocate remaining space accordingly?

I say "must" but obviously mean "probably won't" :)

I'll let you know the outcome if I can be bothered with the faff tonight.
 
not sure if the program your using is any different but i use ghost at work and we've imaged 40gb drives before and burnt the image onto an 80gb drive with no issues so id assume it'll be fine :)
 
rpstewart said:
you may have to set something to get the image to expand to fill the whole disk or you could end up with a 120Gb partition and the same in unallocated space.
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Spot on, there was a resize to fit unallocated space tick box:)

mrbios said:
not sure if the program your using is any different but i use ghost at work and we've imaged 40gb drives before and burnt the image onto an 80gb drive with no issues so id assume it'll be fine :)
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It was Ghost 9, love that program :)
 
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