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roadrunner197069   10-16-2008 at 12:59:48 AM

Well my old WD hard drive 500G was averaging 52mb/s transfer rate. It was clearly bottlenecking my 4.0 e8400. I bought 2 new WD 640s and put them in raid 0, and now my transfer rate is 181.7 mb/s.

The difference in everything is like night and day. The HDD is no longer bottlenecking my CPU. This PC is way!!!!!!!! more responsive now.


Morel of the story is if your HDD is slow buy a raptor, or some raid. You wont be disappointed.

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jerreece   10-16-2008 at 01:10:03 AM
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Someday. lol My wife hates my spending cash on PC parts. Not to mention I just burned $300 on a snow thrower for this year.

But I know the feeling. My Harddrive is definitely a bottleneck for my system. CPU usage can sit at idle while my system waits for the drive to feed it what I'm waiting for.

------------------------------ Intel Q6600 G0 SLACR @ 3.2Ghz/ Xigmatek HDT-S1283 / XFX 680i LT SLI
2x MSI GTX 260 Core 216 (655Mhz) / 4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-6400 (800Mhz)
Antec TPQ-850 / Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS
Win 7 Home Premium / 2 x WD Caviar Black 1TB / WD 400GB
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roadrunner197069   10-16-2008 at 01:23:40 AM
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I got a friend theat handles my snow for free. I give him 500 photos of his race car to give to fans and he mows my yard and handles my snow in return. I fix his PC about once a year also for free.


This is my 8 year old sons computer. I'm building myself a Core I7 next month, if they actually release when they are supposed to. You can bet your a55 it will have rail also. I almost bought my son some 32G Patriot SSDs but the day before I had $$$ there was 4 bad reviews, and Newegg had no cash refunds on them so I went with the proven HDDs.


Message edited by roadrunner197069 on 10-16-2008 at 01:26:38 AM
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Kumitsu   10-23-2008 at 03:39:53 AM
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roadrunner197069 wrote :

Well my old WD hard drive 500G was averaging 52mb/s transfer rate. It was clearly bottlenecking my 4.0 e8400. I bought 2 new WD 640s and put them in raid 0, and now my transfer rate is 181.7 mb/s.

The difference in everything is like night and day. The HDD is no longer bottlenecking my CPU. This PC is way!!!!!!!! more responsive now.


Morel of the story is if your HDD is slow buy a raptor, or some raid. You wont be disappointed.




can you tell me which WD 640gig hard drives you bought, im already getting tired of my Raptor X drives in raid 0 and they make tons of noise, so id like to replace it for something faster, please include the model number of your new drives so i can be sure of what to buy.

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Kumitsu   10-23-2008 at 03:56:58 AM
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roadrunner197069 wrote :

Here you go. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136218



thank you.

one question tho, wouldnt the 640GB 32Mb cache WD caviar black be a better/faster drive overall, since they are the new thing ?

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roadrunner197069   10-23-2008 at 04:19:46 AM
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Go for it. They didn't have those when I ordered, or I probably would of tried em. Let me know how they run if you get em.

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