mwillman

Well it sounds very strange, I agree that it probably not bad sectors not on two drives. Have you compared the drives stats I.E. # of heads, sectors, that kind of thing to see if they are what the manufacturer states. IT might think its a different type of drive. Other wise its a very strange problem.

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ITs possible that a checkdisk was run on it and it found 20gigs in bad sectors.

The speed of a drive is bits per second if the head can read 100 bits for every solid state bit then it performs better. Rotation speed is important but bit density is more important. Solid state is limited by the size and layout of transistors a laser head mechanical drive depends on the the bit density, storage, and read capabilities. This means that solid state has a size limit that will limit its top end for storage where as a laser reader will be able to read data stored in much smaller spaces. All of this means that solid state is limited to a degree that makes it a long term dead end.

If you want windows you can run an application like partition magic to fix your partitioning problem. If you want to do it in linux you can use fdisk to repartition the drive. There is a ton of information on the internet on fdisk if you do a google search. P.S. if that doestn work you might have bad setting for your drive # of sectors that type of thing but its most likely just a partitioning issue. A swap partition uses a different format but any decent partitioning software should recognize the extra space and be able to repartition and format the drive. Like someone said a few posts up any OS installation disk should be able to fix the problem. You just have to do a manual repartition.

Hello I was able to get 20108 on 3dmark06. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9962008 Here is a picture

So with a little more work I was able to get 20108 on cdmark06 I was really happy to bet the 20000 mark

You will need to repartition the drive. formating doesnt repartition. I havent done it on a windows box in a while, I tend to use partitioning software like Partition Magic. I beleive there is a command window option but I cant remember it off the top of my head. Anyways Im sure theres plenty of documentation on the internet.

you can just pick the generic linux 2.6 kernel(or which ever kernel, maybe 2.4, fedora 7 is) then point the cd to the iso for fedora, it should work.

Exactly, If a mechanical system works faster then SSD then the mechanical system will be used. I think long term they will create some form of solid storage device that will fit into some form of laser reader. Something like a magnetic crystal that a laser can read in 3 dimensions at a nano scale. The laser reader is the next step in that direction. In the short term the choice of storage will be based on performance, energy efficiency, lifespan, and cost, not on whether its mechanical or solid state.

Great article, That looks very interesting. I think we will be using SSDs for a few years before that becomes wide spread.

Sorry for the double post

VI or VIM is your best friend. Command line is the only way to go. You dont know linux if you dont know command line.

Well most of the literature lately has stated that seagate has had large numbers of failures. Individual accounts are not evidence by themselves. And yes many seagate drives are SATA but the ones that are are not faster then the WD drives.