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Laz
Gecko
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Join date : 2012-06-13
Location : Delta BC
| | Subject: Drive alignment Thu Oct 04, 2012 2:00 pm | |
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bdquick
Admin
Posts : 583
Join date : 2010-02-22
Age : 44
Location : Central Iowa
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:29 pm | |
| Unfortunately it looks like you have to be a subscriber to read the article. | |
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Laz
Gecko
Posts : 201
Join date : 2012-06-13
Location : Delta BC
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:19 pm | |
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bdquick
Admin
Posts : 583
Join date : 2010-02-22
Age : 44
Location : Central Iowa
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:10 pm | |
| Have to admit, that is pretty much over my head. I wonder how much speed you get out of doing such things. | |
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Laz
Gecko
Posts : 201
Join date : 2012-06-13
Location : Delta BC
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:42 am | |
| Not a great deal. Frankly you'd have to be a nitpicker to go through the hasstle. As these test results indicate:
The throughput times of the misaligned-versus-aligned SSD produced the following results:
Random-access read
Before alignment: 149.2 megabytes per second (MBs)
After alignment: 150.0 MBs
Sequential read
Before: 278 MBs
After: 277 MBs <----- This is an actual drop in performance.
Windows Experience Index
Before and after: 7.9 (The scale goes only to 8.)
Bootup and shut down
No perceptible change.
But you would get the all important bragging rights. | |
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welan
Admin
Posts : 248
Join date : 2010-02-23
Age : 60
Location : snow drift in minnesota
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:19 am | |
|  This is all the bragging rights I need. Yes, it's a new WD VelociRaptor Hdd Model# WD2500HHTZ With this I don't know that I need to brag....OK, I will anyways  | |
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Laz
Gecko
Posts : 201
Join date : 2012-06-13
Location : Delta BC
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:48 am | |
| I only know the specs for this drive, very impressive. Is there really a need for the heatsink enclosure? How is the noise level? I am far more interested in this drive than the SSD's for a number of reasons. Longevity, and the ability to recover lost data for starters. | |
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bdquick
Admin
Posts : 583
Join date : 2010-02-22
Age : 44
Location : Central Iowa
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:59 pm | |
| Is that a heatsink around it or just a plastic clamshell. And I suppose this drive is going into the mondo chiller controller, which is already bringing snow to the upper plains. | |
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welan
Admin
Posts : 248
Join date : 2010-02-23
Age : 60
Location : snow drift in minnesota
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:32 pm | |
| To answer both of your questions, It's a aluminum heat sink and it does wonders for the otherwise well known "egg frying ability" of the past 10000rpm Hdd's. I chose this over a sdd for the simple fact of reliability and life span. In my multi fan Antec ninehundred case it seem very happy. And that makes the penguin happy  | |
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bdquick
Admin
Posts : 583
Join date : 2010-02-22
Age : 44
Location : Central Iowa
| | Subject: Re: Drive alignment Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:07 pm | |
| Better aim the Iowa Mondo Chiller at it to make sure the drive stays plenty cool. | |
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