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fastwunz

fastwunz

fastwunz

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Hi guys,

Just a quickie - my Samsung SpinPoint F1 RAID 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM - arrives tomorrow. Its to go hand in hand with my current Western Digital SATA drive.

Is there anything i need to bare in mind? or is it just a case of plugging it in, formatting it and starting to install windows on it?

I assume its compatible with my current SATA drive?

any tips / advice much appreciated,

cheers
 
Assuming your Motherboard is happy with Sata-II drives then it should be as you hope, Plug in & play.

Why do you want to re-install the OS as opposed to using the new drive as storage space?
Do you need to reinstall windows?
 
yes, windows is currently installed on my old IDE drive - an 80GB Maxtor and whilst it has served me well, its developed a fault which is effecting performance in the windows environment. Thats why i need to replace it before it dies a more permanent death.

Ive got an ASUS P5K Mobo -= i assume thats compatible with SATA2?
 
No problems on the compatability front. Just remember to disconnect all the HDDs other than the one you want Windows on while you do the install. That way you won't end up with the OS installed on one drive but booting from another.
 
fastwunz said:
thanks for the advice but what is ESTool?
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Of the Samsung site,

ES Tool (The Drive Diagnostic Utility) is made with the aim of testing a Samsung hard disk drive while it is installed inside a PC, regardless of the status of user's operating system. In fact of the drives returned to Samsung, a large percentage are NTF("No Trouble Found") after testing. So it is strongly recommended to test the drive if it is truly defective by a few fundamental troubleshooting of ES Tool first, to avoid user's unnecessary effort and inconvenience of replacing a good drive.
ES Tool can test a drive solely manufactured by Samsung. It is strongly recommended to back up the user's significant data in advance because ES Tool has a Write operation that can erase it. Samsung has no responsibility of lost data.
 
by the way, if i may ask this here without disrupting the thread, what is the difference between the samsung standard f1's and the raid edition f1's? I'm just asking becuase i am considering buying one of the 1tb raid editions after being quite impressed with the 320gb versions of the f1 drive. Is it similar in terms of technology to the OCZ apex ssd in that it has a built in raid controller? and if so what does that do for system performance? i appologise for asking it's just that i can't find any reviews through google for the raid edition of the F1 drive.
 
mythrandyr said:
by the way, if i may ask this here without disrupting the thread, what is the difference between the samsung standard f1's and the raid edition f1's? I'm just asking becuase i am considering buying one of the 1tb raid editions after being quite impressed with the 320gb versions of the f1 drive. Is it similar in terms of technology to the OCZ apex ssd in that it has a built in raid controller? and if so what does that do for system performance? i appologise for asking it's just that i can't find any reviews through google for the raid edition of the F1 drive.
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Basically 'RAID' edition means it's built to handle errors in a different way, allowing a limited time for error recovery. It means it's a bit more reliable in a RAID array than the standard desktop drive. Read about it here:

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/learningresource/whitepapers/LearningResource_CCTL.html
 
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