6Gbp/s Hard Drive

Necron

Necron

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Hi there, I just have a small question to clear.

I have a WD 1TB Green 32MB cache and a 500GB IBM/Hitachi 16MB Cache.

I was wondering at some times when I'm playing usually Call Of Duty 4 or some other game, the screen freezes, and I hear the hard drive spinning or activating (or whatever it is).

Is there a way to remove that thing?

Also If I sell both Hard drives and get 2 640GB SATA III WD Black will i see better performance?

I.E. Does SATA III make a better performance in booting times, game and program loading, transfer rates, etc?

Thanks!
 
What do you mean they are not close to the performance of even Sata I?

Also could you explain why the HDD "shuts off" ingame or while also using the PC? Is that the power saving feature?
 
Throughput, for example the new SSDs utilises SATAIII by having ~350MB/s read speeds. Where as even the 1TB F3 is around ~130MB/s read.

Yes it could be the power saving feature, although its odd to kick in during a game. Try to disable it in the power saving properties as a test
 
:O So the samsung F3 although SATA 2 is better then the WD Black 640GB which is Sata 3? Are the write speeds of the F3 good? Maybe will consider that hard disc!

Also were do I go for the power saving feature? I said power saving feature maybe because it's a Caviar Green.

Thanks for the help :D
 
I don't think you will notice much difference between most new drives.

I have just unraided from Raid 0 as it game no real world performance increase that I felt or noticed when using the PC, apart from slower boot times, an affected overclock? and less stability, the array failed on me yesterday.

My current drives are Sammy 500gb F3, Sammy 1tb F3, Sammy 640gb F1, WD 1.5 Green.

Using something like HDtune to monitor HD performance showed high read/write with Raid 0, with the F3's in standard there is a large variation between lowest and highest read/write with a middle ground average of around 100, so though people quote high speeds with single drives they are not average performance figures, my WD green is not far behing with an average in the 90's if I remember correct but with a better low read/write and less variation between the high/low read/write than the F3.

WD, Seagate or Samsung 7200 drives from 500gb to 1tb are all decent with a very small difference that may look good in a benchmark but no difference in real life I guess. Cache size seems to have had no relevant performance gain so 16 or 32 makes little odds. Currently I would say for 500gb Seagate has the lead as it is £35 at the moment, with teh 1tb drive that offers the best performance storage per pound being the F3, WD's are a little too expensive but have decent guarantees.
 
tried my wd 640gb 6gbs version on both 6gbs (sata 3) and 3gbs (sata 2) and they were pretty much identical.

@ sata 2 :

hdtunebenchmarkwdcwd640e.png


@ sata 3 :

hdtunebenchmarkwdcwd640.png
 
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Yeah, the drive is used for the OS (WD 1000Gb) Ah ok thx, so the drive is working fine?

Also could someone post his result with HD Tune of an F3 drive, both 500GB and 1TB? Thanks
 
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The second drive sounds like its just going into power saving. Can be adjusted to not turn off so quick in 'Power' options in Control Panel.
 
Oh, I see, so which would be the best for the OS, the WD Caviar Black or Samsung F3?

Also are the speeds of the 500GB hard drives of the same model the same speeds? Thanks
 
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The speeds of the 500 GB models should vbe very similar. The Caviar has better random read / write and access time so it would be my choice for OS but it is more expensive, though it does come with a five year warranty. Both are good drives and think you'll be happy with either.
 
I see, thanks! :) Will sell my drives for a caviar black 1TB. Also does anyone know how to destroy a hard drive without voiding warranty? :P
 
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