So much for this seagate 7200.10

[Shagster]

It took a **** on me. A few days ago it didn't let the motherboard detect it. Thought it was nothing, restarted and everything was ok.

Last night (Ironically at exactly the same time my ****** ass internet went down) I restarted my computer after I installed a few windows updates and half my icons lead to windows saying they couldn't find the program. I was thinking 'oh great, virus'. So booted into safemode and ran kaspersky and a chkdsk. Everything checked out ok. Still, when I booted into normal windows it started taking 5 minutes to load in and things still weren't clickable. Decided to run HD tune and HD tach and see what the graphs looked like....

http://www.theshaggy.com/images/seagate.JPG

Of all the hard drives I've owned, most of them Maxtor's :eek: This is the first brand to take a total **** on me.

For shits and giggles I'm replacing it with a raptor. I'm pretty sure there isn't but I thought I'd double check...there is not difference between the raptor x 150 and the raptor 150 other than the raptor x's pretty container right?

[Roody]

For shits and giggles I'm replacing it with a raptor. I'm pretty sure there isn't but I thought I'd double check...there is not difference between the raptor x 150 and the raptor 150 other than the raptor x's pretty container right?

That's correct. It's only due to the casing. :nod:

[Rivas]

For shits and giggles I'm replacing it with a raptor. I'm pretty sure there isn't but I thought I'd double check...there is not difference between the raptor x 150 and the raptor 150 other than the raptor x's pretty container right?

Correct, but the "container" is looking damn good.

[Shagster]

yeah, but $10 is a lot to ask for a pretty hard drive that won't be seen in my case.

I did some more testing on the hard drive and then ordered the $10 cheaper ugly 150gb raptor :)

[Sava700]

I love my raptors

[Roody]

yeah, but $10 is a lot to ask for a pretty hard drive that won't be seen in my case.

I did some more testing on the hard drive and then ordered the $10 cheaper ugly 150gb raptor :)

That's what I did also. My case doesn't have windows so I saved the money. :nod:

[Shagster]

http://www.theshaggy.com/images/hdd.JPG

I still don't think they are worth the money but I have always wanted to mess around with one.

[Joel]

*Points at random access times*

[Shagster]

*Points at random access times*

*points at the fact they are not really worth twice the price and a third the disk space*

While the random access time is twice as fast it offers at most a 10% performance increase in couple of instances.

[goobee]

Bought a 500gbs Maxtor retail drive, took a dump on me after 1 month. Couldn't return it to Fry's it was after their return period. Sent it to Seagate and they sent me a replacement drive with only 60 days warranty. WTF!!??

When I complained, they said they go by the original drive's manufacture date. :rolleyes:

[Joel]

*points at the fact they are not really worth twice the price and a third the disk space*

While the random access time is twice as fast it offers at most a 10% performance increase in couple of instances.
The drives' worthiness is a completely subjective matter.

Seeing as how one of the largest bottlenecks in computers today are the hard drives, I personally think every extra bit of performance is worth the money.

That said, an average of 200+ I/Os more than a standard drive, random access times that blow standard drives' times away, and a higher sustained read by 15mb is in worth more to me than a "perhaps, could happen, probably never will but in the right circumstances, with the right temperatures and enough of the right people smiling in the same room at the right time simultaneously, the raptor might be faster in one purely scientific occurence than a standard hard drive."

[Genesis]

Isn't technology headed for still drives anyways :? ( Sorry to intrude :P )

[64bit]

Isn't technology headed for still drives anyways :? ( Sorry to intrude :P )

Yeah, but I hear they cost like 17,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars.