Going back to the old skool!

2Thumbs · 12 Jun 2010 at 13:25

A couple days a go I found an old IDE hard drive (in my dining room, of all places) in the form of a WD RE 320gb. It was waiting to be chucked out for months untill it hit me that it might still have warranty left on it.... it does, until the end of 2011!

So yesterday my computer spent most of it's time doing diagnostic tests, writing zero's and low-level formatting to see how much life is in it incase I had to RMA it.

Everything went perfectly, I knew there was a reason I stuck with WD drives! The same couldn't be said for a SATA Samsung Spinpoint I also found laying around which was half it's age. Full of bad sectors!

Did a HD Tune benchmark on it:

Now to find a matching drive and raid0 them.

alex24 · 12 Jun 2010 at 13:29

Or, you could sell it and buy a 500GB SATA drive for about £35 that would match the performance of a RAID0 setup with the above drive.

2Thumbs · 12 Jun 2010 at 13:34

That would be more viable, but I'm planning on putting it in to an old system which has no SATA ports.

alex24 · 12 Jun 2010 at 13:35

OK, well I'm going to stick to my guns and say buy a PCI SATA controller, they can be had dirt cheap.

2Thumbs · 12 Jun 2010 at 14:09

I'll admit I didn't think of that. I'll look in to it.

Thanks for the advice.