Whatever happened to the Vista scores thread

aly051

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Here's mine I tried since I got my new PC going.

My hard drive totally suxx can anyone tell me a good one that may be better than what I got, I'm after something of performance and that is quiet.

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How do I know if my drive is running in SATA II or will it be running at this already, on my old motherboard you had to install a driver for the SATA II to work but I'm not sure about this one.
 
aly051 said:
My hard drive totally suxx can anyone tell me a good one that may be better than what I got, I'm after something of performance and that is quiet.
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What makes you think that?

I hope you're not just basing that on the fact is scored lowest out of your various components.

Its hard to suggest any particular hard drive, as most of the common ones are very similar.

First - do you need SATA or IDE?

For top performance go with a WD Raptor, it'll cost a lot more per Gb than other drives, and they are noticably louder, but they are undoubtably fast.

If you just want a decent drive with a good capacity and all round performance, then something like from the WD AAKS (16Mb) range would be ideal.

For slightly quieter drives, with slightly lower performance, consider the Samsung drives.

Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung all make great drives. The Hitachi drives are also meant to be very good!
 
I just pulled a raptor from being my boot drive and I'm just using a pair of Samsung Spinpoint 320GB in RAID1.

My machine is now pretty much silent and my 'Vista Score' has dropped from 5.4 to 5.3. I wouldn't bother with the raptors as you can get simlar performance with more storage for less money and less earache from the other (newer) WDs and the Seagates.

There is a nice comparison table on Tom's Hardware which rates the 750 WC Caviar as generally quicker than all the raptors.
 
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I know a Raptor gives 5.9.

I also know a Quad core or well overclocked Dual core would give 5.9 CPU score.

What are your current specs?
 
Me?

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It was an old 36gb raptor that I pulled out, but having lived with two in RAID0 for the last 4 years I don't think that the performance gain you get from the is worth the cost / noise / lack of space especially when there are drives like the Caviars around.
 
Ignore the scores, try your own benching and find programs to do so. HDTACH e.t.c
 
you dont need a raptor to score 5.9. any new 7200rpm drive would get it.

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thats my htpc. e2160 @ 2.7ghz, 4gb ram @ 800mhz, 2x 500gb wd aaks drives (not raid) and an 8800gtx.
 
My 7200rpm, 16MB cached, SATA II Samsung drive gets me 5.7. Good job I ignore the ludicrous figure and use HDTach instead, which rightly has my drive as a good performer!
 
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