hi im tired of this dam pc its rediciliously slow the cpu seems fine (understatement) its just the hdd thats the air in my fuelpipe, so if any1 knows of any superfast IDE /sATA drives that would be great, im not after raid just a plain drive. i mainly just do basic windows office tasks thanks!
Id imagine your system will be slow because of the software on the system and not the hardware. Especially when you say you have a raid0 Raptor setup!! ie a clogged up windows install, spyware, a fragmented drive etc. For most PCs your best bet is SATA2 harddrives, you can get PCI cards which will accept SATA2 if your m/b doesnt support them. Other than that your looking at SCSI, but your talking cash when your looking at the latest SCSI. Id streamline your system more because your hardware looks fine to me!
its for the office pc its fine in nature, but "cold" program startups are redicilious, for instance it took 8 seconds to load the msn messenger window friend chat window.. EIGHT SECONDS! that is redicilious. it has a daily auto-defrag so its not a frag prob. its when it needs something from the hdd, whenever the red HDD light flashes when im doing somet (loading a prog) its soooooo slow
If a Raptor won't do the job, then it's time to step up to SCSI and the 15000RPM drives. You also might consider that it's the program itself that's not coded well, and there's really not much you can do about that if it's up to date.
The new Raptor X (150GB) is where the mega performance comes in. The 36 and 74GB models lack the TCQ/NCQ frills of the SATA II drives, and only offer the 10k RPM spindle speed. With Seagate's perpendicular recording, the original Raptors don't look as good.
ok big b.. its mega-speed im after, so instead of slower sata ill get this then? of corse i'll need a PCI scsi card right?? and raid0.. also, are some scsi cards raid0 compatible for scsi devices
I think SCSI adapters for the fastest drives which also have RAID cost a bomb.... like hundreds of pounds. Almost certainly more than the drive you are looking at. I suppose for 2 of those SCSI drives in RAID0 your looking at £1000. Is it worth it?
im fed up of the hdd slowing down me performance and last night i was spitting but since bigb didnt reply i suppose he thinks im taking the pees but im lookin for help so i can find the fastest way to boost me operating system, and according to him the scsi's are the fastest, 2x 1500rpm hd = £300, pci scsi raid controller (i think it is anyway) = £150 total £450 state of the art hdd hosting mega-machine. hmmmm tempting!
Your talking about an extra 20mb/s transfer with the 320 scsi drives over sata2. Have you checked to see how fast your harddrive is working? HD Tach and Sandra are the best. When MSN takes 8 seconds to open on a system with a 10k Raptor in raid0 it simply cant be your hardrive which is slowing you down. Its got to be someting else! MSN is probably loaded up in your ram upon bootup.
erm so your sayin me system isnt normal big b finks its a windows error or code error :dry: i suppose a format will sort it out me cpu was <30% load when starting up windows where it should be nearing 70 - 80% for full data transfurs (full hdd read) ive got me hdds set on a auto-defrag every week so dont fink its that letting me down
How long have you gone with your current installation of windows xp before formatting it?, its normal for windows xp to slow down, it deffo cant be your hardware, i have an IDE 160gb samsund drive, and i would say my msn window takes about 5 seconds to load... so its obviously your installation of windows xp and not your hard drive.
well, i think windows usually needs to be restored every six months, anyone running it for like 2 years will find that its really, really, really, really, really slow , i find that after 3 months i need to restore lol coz i need speed, infact one point i was restoring every week lol, but that was coz of BSOD's .
That might've been true with Windows 9x, but Win2k and XP can go much longer without that sort of overhaul. Fresh copy of XP here, and the only thing I notice is a faster boot time---but that's due to installing the OS on my 160GB Seagate SATA drive. Just due to advances with hard drives in general, it's faster than the other two. SCSI will require an adapter card, but you don't have to get RAID. A U160 card isn't that expensive, especially if you look at something by LSI or Tekram. A starter host adapter is around $50, depending on where you look.