Biggest hard drive (pissing contest)

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ceiling_fan
I think I'll revive this thread. Anybody have any of the 15000 rpm drives? Damn those look cool.
By the way, I have a 93 GB laptop internal and a 186.26GB external, with about 5 gigs free.
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Got a whole bundle of them in the client's servers. We only ever buy the 15k drives for that, but they're a lot more widely available in SCSI than IDE/SATA.
 
I have 2 hard-drives in my computer. I have 2 200GB drives, but they are Tattooed, so thay only work with this computer, and so that you cannot upgrade them. :( The smaller has a hidden partition for the rescue software (what takes 6GB, and fits on 1 dvd). ;)



They both are 7200.8s (7200.8 RPM) and write at over 80MB per second.


As you can see D:\ (games) is slightly better peforming, and it is quiter. ;)

BTW Sorry 56k users. :(

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If you are intrested in what PC wizard said about them then:
Informations Hard Disk ST3200826A :
IDE Controller : SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
IDE Channel : #1 - Master Drive
Model : ST3200826A
Revision : 3.03
Interface : ATA
Support : ATA/ATAPI-7
Size : 200 GB
Cache : 8 192 KB
ECC Size : 4
Multiple Sector : 16
IORDY : Yes
LBA Mode : Yes
DMA Mode : Yes
Multiword DMA Mode : 2
PIO Mode : PIO 4
UDMA Mode max. : 5 (ATA-100)
UDMA Mode Enabled : 5 (ATA-100)
SMART : Yes - Enabled
Power Management : Yes
Acoustic Management : No
Security Mode : Yes
Write Cache : Yes
48-bit Address : Yes
Cylinders : 387621
Heads : 16
Sectors per Track : 63

Informations Hard Disk ST3200826A :
IDE Controller : SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
IDE Channel : #1 - Slave Drive
Model : ST3200826A
Revision : 3.03
Interface : ATA
Support : ATA/ATAPI-7
Size : 200 GB
Cache : 8 192 KB
ECC Size : 4
Multiple Sector : 16
IORDY : Yes
LBA Mode : Yes
DMA Mode : Yes
Multiword DMA Mode : 2
PIO Mode : PIO 4
UDMA Mode max. : 5 (ATA-100)
UDMA Mode Enabled : 5 (ATA-100)
SMART : Yes - Disabled
Power Management : Yes
Acoustic Management : No
Security Mode : Yes
Write Cache : Yes
48-bit Address : Yes
Cylinders : 387621
Heads : 16
Sectors per Track : 63
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And if you do a quick google search, you will find this site:
http://www.yoursite.com/pc-199907-1951-seagate-technology-st3200826a.aspx
 
My laptop - 100gb
My external HDD - 80gb
Mp3 player - 4gb
mum's laptop - 40gb
Old desktop - 60gb

Total = 284gb
 
Biggest hard drive: 250GB (base 10).

In this PC there are 2x250GBs (one SATA), one 120GB and I also have a 200GB external.
 
DARRKCLOUD
I have 2 hard-drives in my computer. I have 2 200GB drives, but they are Tattooed, so thay only work with this computer, and so that you cannot upgrade them. :( The smaller has a hidden partition for the rescue software (what takes 6GB, and fits on 1 dvd). ;)

They both are 7200.8s (7200.8 RPM) and write at over 80MB per second.


As you can see D:\ (games) is slightly better peforming, and it is quiter. ;)

BTW Sorry 56k users. :(

EDIT:
If you are intrested in what PC wizard said about them then:

And if you do a quick google search, you will find this site:
http://www.yoursite.com/pc-199907-1951-seagate-technology-st3200826a.aspx
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I don't believe it is physically possible for hard drives to read / write that fast. The 80 you're claiming is from buffer (RAM on the hard drive) and additionally I don't believe the numbers in your graph are correct anyway. Over 30MB/s for write and 50MB/s read are insanely fast even for the most performance heavy SCSI drives.

Also, I am not familiar with this tattoed term. Where did the computer come from and why exactly can't you move them to another computer? And what would you "upgrade" about a hard drive?
 
Look at the sequential speeds, not the buffered speeds. Those are the uncached speeds and are in line with what a 200GB/7.2K drive should do.
 
Actual Config:
C: Quantum Fireball LCT15 15GB (14.6GB) ATA-66 (IDE) - Running all the **** I have.

RAM: Kingston 256MB SDR PC133


Next weeks Config:
C: Quantum Fireball LCT15 15GB (14.6GB) ATA-66 (IDE) - OS
F: Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache ATA-100 (EIDE) - Rest of the stuff

RAM: Kingston 1GB (2 X 512MB) DDR400
 
I suggest you just pull the fireball entirely. it's so much slower than a modern drive it's not even funny. you'd get faster bootups and stuff by just using the 160 and if you want partitioning it into an os partition and a programs partition.
 
I used this baby for most than 3 years and never been dissapointed. I dont search for speed, I search for stability and rendering. This baby is rendering alot, and for the 2 past years it worked, it been working 24/24 7/7 for the most part. It may not be the fastest HDD, but its for sure a good acquisition :)
 
LoudMusic
I don't believe it is physically possible for hard drives to read / write that fast. The 80 you're claiming is from buffer (RAM on the hard drive) and additionally I don't believe the numbers in your graph are correct anyway. Over 30MB/s for write and 50MB/s read are insanely fast even for the most performance heavy SCSI drives.

Also, I am not familiar with this tattoed term. Where did the computer come from and why exactly can't you move them to another computer? And what would you "upgrade" about a hard drive?
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It is a Packard Bell iXtreme 1907, and it is only a few months old. A tattoo on the hard disc is where the manufactuer puts a hidden partition on the hard drive, and adds some modified firmware, so that the hard drives only work on this computer, and so that you cannot add it to aonther computer. If you try to add it to another computer, then "Not a Packard Bell Computer" appears on the screen, or the drive just won't appear in My Computer. Instrunctions on how to make a Packard bell PC reconize a new HD are here. :)
 
:scared: I have a **** load of HDs all over...

160gb Desktop external
40gb Laptop external
5gb Mp3 player
30gb Mp3 player

Not really but...

512mb Mp3 player
512mb Thumb Drive

In Puter...

30gb Laptop
80gb Desktop (soon to come)
 
I think my 'homework' computer wins the smallest HDD competition. It has a 6Gb primary drive, which when you include the collapsed sectors gives a total useable space of about 4Gb. :rolleyes:
Coupled with a 2Gb secondary drive and you have a computer with seemingly limitless storage potential! :lol:
 
I got a new computer, along with new drives. I now have a 200GB internal + 80GB and 120GB external for a total of 400GB. 👍
 
Got this at Best Buy over the weekend. 300 gig harddrive to go with the 80 gigs I have in the desktop right now. I got a sweet deal on it, $189.99 sticker -> $20.00 instant savings -> a bunch of rebates making the final total $99.99. I really wish they would have had more then one left.

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Got another 300GB and external caddy today for car files. Just formatting it into one 279GB partition now. Hard drives have really come down in price lately too, this was only £70.
 
TheCracker
My old Apple LC630 had a mighty 250MB hard drive - do i win?
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i have an old toshiba laptop from way back that has a 325mb hard drive..

we should start a club..

i have a business collegue that has 2 x 520Gb hard drives...he is a marketing person so its all photoshop and corel draw etc..

i posted a pic of the worlds biggest hard drive ages ago...i'll see if i can dig it out...
 
BlazinXtreme
Got this at Best Buy over the weekend. 300 gig harddrive to go with the 80 gigs I have in the desktop right now. I got a sweet deal on it, $189.99 sticker -> $20.00 instant savings -> a bunch of rebates making the final total $99.99. I really wish they would have had more then one left.

dsc039142yp.jpg
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So, has that WD of yours ignited into a spinning ball of flames? I hate WD; they make so much heat.
 
Actually no, I have so many fans in my computer it seems to be just fine.
 
I've got 6 WD drives now (4 internal and 2 external) and I've never had a problem with heat, even with pretty minimal cooling (just a single side case fan aisde from the heatsink fan).
 
i have got a hard drive that measures 3 feet X 2 feet X 1 foot.

yea, thats feet! as in 12 inches at a time..

its bloody huge....now where the ferk is that photo?



TurboSmoke
i posted a pic of the worlds biggest hard drive ages ago...i'll see if i can dig it out...
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