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Original Message 1/58 03-Feb-02 @ 10:27 PM - hard dicsk
Is 7,200 rpm the fastest speed you can get? if not where can i buy a faster one
i cant go wrong with 8.5 ms access time ..right?
2 meg cache is ample?
have you heared of this barrocuda seagate beast? is it worth spending the extra? what would the advantages be over my spec above?
Do you know anywhere online (UK) i can get really cheap deals apart from scan.co.uk or ebuyer.com ??
am i asking too many questions?
Thanks, Mark
Message 2/58 04-Feb-02 @ 04:03 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 3/58 04-Feb-02 @ 01:30 PM - RE: hard dicsk
From what I've heard, there are plans for a 10,000rpm IDE drive, but anything at that speed or higher is generally only attainable with SCSI, and you're talking huge money.
Si.
Message 4/58 04-Feb-02 @ 03:03 PM - RE: hard dicsk
There are SCSI drives with higher rotational speeds than 7200 (15k I think is the fastest). However, RPMs don't necessarily equal speed..
-Craig
Message 5/58 26-May-02 @ 11:12 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Is that a good direction to go? Will a Maxtor be fine? I would prefer to get something in box because of the problems I had getting cheap equipment from Pricewatch (I know its not them, but that's how I found the scummy dealer - Krex.com). Any suggestions?
Message 6/58 27-May-02 @ 01:36 PM - RE: hard dicsk
If you're looking at the smaller drives I'd probably go for the Barracuda's. I'd stay away from IBM 75GXP drives - I've had one 30Gb drive die on me, and I know I'm not the only one.
Si.
Message 7/58 28-May-02 @ 06:40 PM - RE: hard dicsk
It's worked perfectly so far.
Message 8/58 28-May-02 @ 10:04 PM - RE: hard dicsk
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I'll find out where I got mine when I get home. I have the receipt somewhere.
-Craig
Message 9/58 28-May-02 @ 10:06 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 10/58 28-May-02 @ 11:15 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 11/58 29-May-02 @ 02:55 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Stay away from IBM!#@$# #
Seagate sucks too......
western digital all the way man!
peace,
mike
Message 12/58 29-May-02 @ 03:36 AM - RE: hard dicsk
DZ..you can find local sellers on pricewatch, too...
Message 13/58 29-May-02 @ 01:06 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 14/58 29-May-02 @ 02:35 PM - RE: hard dicsk
-Craig
Message 15/58 30-May-02 @ 01:23 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 16/58 30-May-02 @ 10:13 AM - RE: hard dicsk
don't you dare say that re: 40 g ibms!
hey - here's a 'good' question.. loads of you are into using 2 drives. i don't see so much benefit to it, since i understand one 7200 drive can do like 128 24bit stereo tracks.. only real reason would be for this type of situation..
so.. say i get another drive? where should i stick it? as the slave on the same bus as the first, or as a second with the cd-r? wouldn't that compromise performance??
Message 17/58 31-May-02 @ 06:38 AM - RE: hard disk
second that on www.newegg.com -fantasic prices, and truly honest shipping rates. i built my 1.4G mostly from there.
dz, at least use the site to make sure there isn't a huge difference in price at your local.
something i've doing for a while with great convenience, speed and security:
4.5G scsi - WIN2K OS \
seagate
18G scsi - recording /
40G eide - drivers, mp3, patches, articles etc AND backups.
Message 18/58 31-May-02 @ 01:20 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 19/58 05-Jun-02 @ 03:26 AM - RE: hard dicsk
hot hot was were the operating conditions?
Message 21/58 05-Jun-02 @ 11:24 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 22/58 05-Jun-02 @ 12:30 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 23/58 05-Jun-02 @ 02:12 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Few people do this, few give much thought to orgainsing their work into dedicated folders.. but 1 folder per song with all samples and audio files and all saved presets & drum kit sets etc all saved in one folder under the song title makes organising & archiving work a breeze.
Message 24/58 05-Jun-02 @ 09:46 PM - RE: hard dicsk
"Hard disks are complicated electro-mechanical devices that WILL FAIL at some point"
It's a true-ism
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DVD-R will make all this so much easier once it's affordable.
-Craig
Message 25/58 06-Jun-02 @ 12:16 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 26/58 12-Jun-02 @ 02:42 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 28/58 12-Jun-02 @ 03:55 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 33/58 22-Jun-02 @ 01:20 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 34/58 24-Jun-02 @ 12:42 PM - RE: hard dicsk
control panel > add remove programs > Startup disk
you probabaly know that, but some people niglect it.
Fusion
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Message 35/58 24-Jun-02 @ 08:06 PM - RE: hard dicsk
are you sure you have it set to slave if its on the same bus as the old one? are you sure the power is on?
no offense intended. it happens
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Message 36/58 25-Jun-02 @ 03:11 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Influx - It's difficult to tell if the thing is on. I'm not sure how to know if the power cable is hooked up properly or if it even works. I did see an IDE drive in CMOS but it was for a 6.2 gig drive, not a 20 gig (which is what I have).
Message 37/58 25-Jun-02 @ 03:52 AM - RE: hard dicsk
the power..there is no way to hook it up "wrong" but you COULD have the IDE cable in wrong, or you COULD have it set to master (if the other drive is set to master on the same buss you wont see the 20 gig)
Message 38/58 25-Jun-02 @ 12:36 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 39/58 25-Jun-02 @ 11:30 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 40/58 28-Jun-02 @ 06:57 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Now, when we tried to install the OS on the new drive, we found I couldn't load the OS onto the IDE drive because my cd-rom is SCSI and the floppy disk is recognized before the computer boots up the scsi drives and card. When I try to boot with cd support, the computer doesn't see the scsi drive and can't load the os from the scsi drive.
Soooooo - we pulled the ide cd-rom from my home computer, and plugged it in, but couldn't get the computer to accept the cd-rom drive and the hd on the same ide cable. It detected either one individually, but not at the same time. So we figured we could format my scsi hd and load the os onto that first (so I can start testing out Sonar), but when trying to do the install, the install stalls at "PCI bus scan completed". The cd-rom drives are loaded (Oak technology) but the process aborts at at "PCI bus scan completed".
Does anyone have any ideas? My 60 day trial period for Sonar is running out... Although having started RTFM, I can see that I'm gonna love it more than Cubase 3.7 and Wavelab 2 combined.
Message 41/58 28-Jun-02 @ 07:55 PM - RE: hard dicsk
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 43/58 30-Jun-02 @ 10:47 PM - RE: hard dicsk
this is the sort of thing that I would just have to be there in person to sort out!
so...you load the 98boot disk and chooose start with CD support, right?
and then it goes to C:
you need to type D: or whatever the system told you was your CDrom, then do a dir
you should just be able to type "setup" and itll go from there?
personally I would just pull the SCSI hard drive for now...and install to the IDE drive.
you have FDISK'd it and formatted the IDE right? done your partitions?
gosh D...fly to CA and Ill sort it out for you
another thing you can do is just COPY the entire windows CDrom over to your boot drive and run setup from there...Ive done that before, too...
Message 44/58 30-Jun-02 @ 10:55 PM - RE: hard dicsk
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 45/58 30-Jun-02 @ 11:57 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 47/58 01-Jul-02 @ 02:29 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 48/58 01-Jul-02 @ 10:04 AM - RE: hard dicsk
I would set the HD to master and the CD to slave, or have them both set to "Cable Select" if you have a cable that designates master and slave.
honestly. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Its just not that mysterious...not some sort of hit and miss thing really where SOMETIMES a drive will get recognized
I did that once..put two drives on one IDE buss. Had em both set to master...system only saw the FIRST drive in the chain (the HD in my case)
did you check this?
Message 49/58 02-Jul-02 @ 01:04 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 50/58 02-Jul-02 @ 01:45 AM - RE: hard dicsk
COULD be a faulty drive? You have had the worst run of bad experiences with these things over the course of time, no?
Message 51/58 02-Jul-02 @ 02:08 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 52/58 02-Jul-02 @ 02:15 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 54/58 02-Jul-02 @ 03:09 PM - RE: hard dicsk
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 55/58 02-Jul-02 @ 11:03 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 56/58 16-Jul-02 @ 11:43 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 57/58 17-Jul-02 @ 03:23 AM - RE: hard dicsk
TAKE A BREAK, MAN! jeez!
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