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Got my new 500GB HDD today.

I put it in my case then started installing win7 64bit
After it done extracting it done a restart but it got stuck, it was a black screen and a little white dash blinking in the top left. It was like it for 10 mins so i just switched off the PC and started the install again. After This time it extracted everything & restarted ok.

This a good or a bad sign? Where should i check to make sure i haven't installed two windows 7.

The hard drive is supposed to be faster than my old one (3gbps) This one is (6gbps) it seems abit slow. Any settings i need to make sure i have ticked?

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3Gb/s or 6Gb/s it makes 0 difference as its just a marketing stunt. It would be akin to having a 50Mb/s internet line and 100Mb/s internet line, it makes no difference at all if the server only lets you download at 20Mb/s. You only have 1 install of windows 7 so you're fine there.
 
+1,you only see big improvements with sata3 ssd's not hdd's,did you set to ahci mode in bios before win7 install? this might improve things slightly if not google the reg tweak for ahci after win7 to enable it
 
I don't know how you can possibly call a industry wide change in standard a "marketing stunt" ? ? ?

Have a look at this

http://cidesign.com/ci-highlights/blog/articles/sata-6gbps-vs-sata-3gbps/


Seagate published a set of performance results (note the difference in cache size between the drives) but overall they found a 22% increase in performance

It would be akin to having a 50Mb/s internet line and 100Mb/s internet line, it makes no difference at all if the server only lets you download at 20Mb/s
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What does this mean?


Performance wise - changing the BIOS settings to AHCI over IDE for a mechanical drive won't make a hogs hoot of a difference so that suggestion and a possible registery tweak is ill advised also.
 
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It would be akin to having a 50Mb/s internet line and 100Mb/s internet line, it makes no difference at all if the server only lets you download at 20Mb/s
What does this mean?

ok.he means that even if you have the available bandwidth at your disposal..it doesn't mean anything if you are limited with the source..ie a slow hard drive.

You realised that though....?.....
 
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I would expect the same performance if the 6Gb/s drive was still connected to a 3Gb/s SATA port on his MB

perhaps that would be a better explanation to the OP instead of a convoluted analogy?
 
As you very well know that link, as you so rightly pointed out, uses two different drives with multiple variables changed in the test environment. This immediately invalidates the results as you can't, with certainty, attribute the performance delta to any one change in drive specification.

The analogy puts it in terms that people are most familiar with.
 
I have this on my laptop, not sure if it's the same but I had the blinking dash at the top left and I had to go into the BIOS and change the boot priority to HDD instead of CD drive and just boot it from the HDD and it worked fine.
 
Essexraptor said:
I don't know how you can possibly call a industry wide change in standard a "marketing stunt" ? ? ?

Have a look at this

http://cidesign.com/ci-highlights/blog/articles/sata-6gbps-vs-sata-3gbps/


Seagate published a set of performance results (note the difference in cache size between the drives) but overall they found a 22% increase in performance



What does this mean?


Performance wise - changing the BIOS settings to AHCI over IDE for a mechanical drive won't make a hogs hoot of a difference so that suggestion and a possible registery tweak is ill advised also.
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sorry but you will hardly see any improvement with a mechanical hdd from sata2 to sata3,theres only so fast a mechanical hdd can go

and whats wrong with the ahci reg tweak? ive done this countless times and always works flawlessly
 
Gammawolf said:
3Gb/s or 6Gb/s it makes 0 difference as its just a marketing stunt. It would be akin to having a 50Mb/s internet line and 100Mb/s internet line, it makes no difference at all if the server only lets you download at 20Mb/s. You only have 1 install of windows 7 so you're fine there.
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Alright thanks :)
 
d_brennen said:
What do Seagate sell again?
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touche :)

But really...... do you think for a millisecond that industry would improve a standard from 3Gb/s to 6Gb/s to sell slower mechanical drives at a higher premium? How long would it be until the IT crowd found out that this was untrue and leave them with piles of unsold "newer" standard drives ?

As for ACHI and mechanical drives - well just look into it a bit before you recommend it :) What would the OP gain? OH!!! .... hot swap and NCQ ... that's it... performance ... nowt to write home about. So why reccommend it?

It may look personal... but why the heck give out duff info... when a little digging about can keep you far better informed to give out the right advice :)
 
duff info? whats wrong with ahci? like you said it enables built in hdd features like native command queuing ect,its up to the op
 
Essexraptor said:
I don't know how you can possibly call a industry wide change in standard a "marketing stunt" ? ? ?

Have a look at this

http://cidesign.com/ci-highlights/blog/articles/sata-6gbps-vs-sata-3gbps/

Seagate published a set of performance results (note the difference in cache size between the drives) but overall they found a 22% increase in performance
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The test would only be valid if it compared otherwise identical drives but with SATA 2 and SATA 3.

You've already spotted the different cache size but there are other factors, such as platter density, that will be having a far greater effect than a change from SATA 2 to SATA 3.
 
CocaCola said:
After it done extracting it done a restart but it got stuck, it was a black screen and a little white dash blinking in the top left. It was like it for 10 mins so i just switched off the PC and started the install again. After This time it extracted everything & restarted ok.
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May not have read your install disc correctly.

CocaCola said:
Where should i check to make sure i haven't installed two windows 7.
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Are there any "windowsold" folders (think that is what they are called).
 
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