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I have a 20GB hardy which I use for my WinXP and I'm using 7 gigs out of it.

And I have a 100GB hardy that I use for files and I'm using 66 gigs out of it.

Are you crazy man?

I guarantee your 20GB HDD is not an ATA100 drive, (ATA66 at most, and probably at ATA33!!) and I bet your 100 Gigger *is* at least ATA100. This means you're using your slow drive for your Operating System. Dear sweet baby jebus: I hope and pray you have the Page File set to use the 100 Gigger!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Mobius:
<b> Are you crazy man?

I guarantee your 20GB HDD is not an ATA100 drive, (ATA66 at most, and probably at ATA33!!) and I bet your 100 Gigger *is* at least ATA100. This means you're using your slow drive for your Operating System. Dear sweet baby jebus: I hope and pray you have the Page File set to use the 100 Gigger!</b></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

wtf are you talking about mobi, I've got a wd 7200 ata 100 20 gigger?

<TABLE BORDER=1><TR><TD>Computer</TD><TD>Location</TD><TD>Interface</TD><TD>Model</TD><TD>Partition</TD><TD>Capacity</TD><TD>Used Space</TD><TD>Free Space</TD><TD>Contents</TD></TR><TR><TD>Main</TD><TD>Device 0</TD><TD>PATA primary</TD><TD>WD1200JB</TD><TD>0, C:</TD><TD>5.99 GB</TD><TD>4.55 GB</TD><TD>1.44 GB (24%)</TD><TD>OS, paging file, some programs</TD></TR><TR><TD>Main</TD><TD>Device 0</TD><TD>PATA primary</TD><TD>WD1200JB</TD><TD>1, D:</TD><TD>105.79 GB</TD><TD>90.65 GB</TD><TD>15.14 GB (14%)</TD><TD>Programs, DVD ISOs, games, downloads</TD></TR><TR><TD>Main</TD><TD>Device 1</TD><TD>SATA primary</TD><TD>WD1200JB</TD><TD>0, E:</TD><TD>111.79 GB</TD><TD>102.90 GB</TD><TD>8.89 GB (7%)</TD><TD>AVIs, MP3s</TD></TR><TR><TD>Server</TD><TD>Device 0</TD><TD>PATA primary (master)</TD><TD>WD300BB</TD><TD>0, C:</TD><TD>27.95 GB</TD><TD>5.72 GB</TD><TD>22.21 GB (79%)</TD><TD>OS, paging file, programs</TD></TR><TR><TD>Server</TD><TD>Device 1</TD><TD>PATA primary (slave)</TD><TD>WD800BB</TD><TD>0, D:</TD><TD>74.53 GB</TD><TD>68.67 GB</TD><TD>5.86 GB (7%)</TD><TD>FTP & HTTP storage</TD></TR></TABLE>
TOTALS,
Capacity: 326.06 GB,
Used Space: 272.49 GB,
Free Space: 53.54 GB

All drives are NTFS.

Just got through burning a bunch of stuff to DVD!

Main System:


3rd WD800JB is in a mobile rack and used for backups only, but it is a mirror of drive D.

HTPC:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">code:</font><HR><pre>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 9.6G 619M 9.0G 7% /
/dev/hda6 20G 4.5G 15G 24% /usr
/dev/hda8 53G 8.5G 45G 16% /home
none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 30G 26G 5.0G 84% /mnt/windows</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's also a 386Mb partition that's used for the Linux swap file but not listed there. Drive is a Western Digital WD1200JB.

Sure beats doing homework:

<div style="overflow:auto;width:400px;height:400px"><img alt="Mobius can't read this!" src="http://home.comcast.net/~jeff250/diskmng.png" /></div>

edit: Somebody broke the object tag.

edit2: Even better than iced tea.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Mobius:
blah blah blah</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Mobius, stop making assumptions. My winxp install is on a 36g hdd. But it's a 15.3k rpm u320 scsi hdd, which I assure you is faster than 90% of the stuff on the market nowaday. And it only has 4 gigs free at the moment, unfortunately...

As for my server, well.

About 50%. 20GB drive, ~9GB used across 3 partitions for 98SE, 2K, and XP. Heh. (tend to offload generated data to Zip and CD-R/W often, and I rarely have more than 2 games installed at the same time)

Once again the Mobitroll© has Flamed another thread!

Good Job!

Anyways

C: 80G WD 8mb 32GB used (application , O/S disk)
D: 120G WD 8mb 78 Gb used(games, Apps, Movie Creation TEMP)

I have been thinking of getting either 2 or 3 more internal 120/250 WD's drives for my movie temp storage(while editing DV video for DVD's) or even better an external Firewire Drive. Rather have Firewire2 but I can wait on that

The first Mobitroll© to insert a foot in their mouth in an attempt to compare..
Firewire 400Mbps vs USB2 480Mbps( <~~ utter joke)
.....Shall get bounced hard!

I know all about your wanky 15K drives.

I also know that NO ONE makes a fast 20GB drive AND NEVER HAS! (Compared to even a WD800JB with 8MB cache)

I also know Sage aint a PC guru.

Knowing these things, I think it's safe to say his PC is running WAY slower with the OS on a dog-of-an-ATA-66/33-ancient-POS-HDD. I also bet the 20Gigger is loud as hell, and makes wild clicking sounds at every access.

let's get Sage to inform us shall we - to see who is right and who is wrong.

Sage - please, at your next boot, stop the process and tell us what mode both HDDs are running in. Thanks.

Even Better: Run Sandra Sisoft HDD benchmark on both drives and let us see the results.

Maxtor 160GB

Partition 1 (20G : 9.76GB Free
Partition 2 (133G : 19GB Free (cuz of all the mpeg2 streams I've captured and haven't burned to DVD yet because Ulead's menu software blows, and I haven't found a good menu creation program yet.)
Partition 3: (976M 5MB Free (swap partition)

Server:



The system disk will be replaced by 2 36GB 15K drives in RAID0 (first generation tho) in a few days.

Main PC has a 10K 74GB raptor, about 50% used.

Webserver has a 60GB drive, 20% used.

Wheres that "STFU Mobius" pic?

Lot of requests for this lately!

19.7GB of a 40GB drive. And before it get's bashed, it's the exact same model as the WD JB, just with a 4MB cache.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Mr. Perfect:
19.7GB of a 40GB drive. And before it get's bashed, it's the exact same model as the WD JB, just with a 4MB cache.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't you mean 8MB?

system - 9.18gb 15k skuzzy with 4 free gigs

WD 120gb special edition used for dvd rips, image files, and downloads - 28 gigs free

WD 180gb special edition used for music, movies, and tv shows. 58 gigs free

gonna need another 180gb+ soon

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Mr. Perfect:
19.7GB of a 40GB drive. And before it get's bashed, it's the exact same model as the WD JB, just with a 4MB cache.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I can tell someone pulled out the Hard Drive and read from the cache chips on the IDE pcb dont be fooled by the letters on HD chips they have a completely different meaning

WD400JB = 8MBytes of cache (will read MBooks)
WD400BB = 2MBytes of cache (will read MBooks)
WD400EB = 2MBytes of cache (will read MBooks)

MBooks will read either half or double the actual cache size..just need remember which one it was (I think it was half)

Lol, why do you guys say stfu modious? he's a good guy. but yeas I am no computer guru, that's for dam sure. lol

here's sis sandra File System Module bechmarks:
100 GB Hardy
------------
Buffered Read 85 MB/s
Sequential Read 36 MB/s
Random Read 6 MB/s
Buffered Write 78 MB/s
Sequential Write 36 MB/s
Random Write 7 MB/s
Average Acces Time 9ms (estimated)

20 GB Hardy
-----------
Buffered Read 84 MB/s
Sequential Read 33 MB/s
Random Read 4 MB/s
Buffered Write 67 MB/s
Sequential Write 26 MB/s
Random Write 5 MB/s
Average Acces Time 13ms (estimated)

I don't know what ATA or whatever it is.

20 gig HD, I'm using 17.5 of it. I want to splurge and get 240, $206 US.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Sage:
Lol, why do you guys say stfu modious? he's a good guy.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Erm. No, I didn't mean 8megs. It's the BB version. For some reason I thought it was a 4Meg cache drive, I dunno why...