The reason I asked is because my previous two RAID 0 setups had a much lower sequential read (150mb/s and 200mb/s). This setup is a lot faster.
I did a little research and found that these drives are single platter 1tb drives so they have a very high areal density. Maybe that's why I got such...
I've replaced my two old 500GB Hitachi drives with two 1TB WD black (in RAID 0) and was surprised to get such a high number in HD Tune. I'm happy with the numbers but I was wondering if they are real. I'm using a X58 chip set that only supports SATA II 3gbit/sec. Here is the screnshot...
My main system is still a Core i7 920 @3.4Ghz (3.6Ghz turbo). I have not felt the need to upgrade yet. This is one of the best processors that Intel has released in my opinion.
Were did you see the info on the SMART data being wiped out by GoHardDrive? I looked around in Amazon and new egg and got tired of reading reviews. I did not see that mentioned anywhere. Maybe the user bought a refurbished item. I know I always check to see if they say "New" before buying...
120GB is cutting it close even for many business. I work for a state agency and I'm seeing some PCs run out of space with 160GB drive. Most of our data is on the network so most of the space is been eating up by large apps. Our division has been upgrading these HDD to 500GB.
For consumers...
You can count on the HDD platter density to continue to increase in the next few years. I don't see SSD replacing HDD by 2020. It's too early to say for sure but most likely be closer to 10 years from today.
There is no way. Most entry level PC come with 1TB drives now days. The majority of people are going to need more 120GB storage on a PC. Anyway, price/GB is not even close.
HDD will continue to be the main storage device for a very long time. SSD are simply not cost effective for regular consumers and will not be for many years to come.
I've been hearing that SSD are about to overtake HDD in price for last 5+ years but that never happened. SSDs are still...
Windows 7 has a backup utility that does system images. Make sure to create a restore DVD and have another hard drive to hold the image. The image will not be compressed so expect the image to be big.
I have photo and video editing software and everything worked fine for me. I don't have...
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