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four4875 · 07-19-03, 09:06 AM

io ran sandras file system test on my 4 gig bigfoot i got, to see if it was worth running CCDs off of it instead of my maxtor's partition, and it got like 5000 while my maxtor got like 30000. is it THAT slow? and would it be worth it to find a couple more and run them in RAID 0? or would it still be slow? i have an ATA100 card i can flash to a RAID, so thats ok there. thanks yalls

FIZZ3 · 07-19-03, 10:22 AM

They were extremely slow, yes. These 4Gb drives ran at 4.2K rpm. These drives were built for being cheap, *not* fast.
With today's HD sizes, the idea of offering a cheap 4Gb drive seems silly... and I guess that goes for the idea of RAIDing two or more of these things as well.

Crism · 07-19-03, 10:28 AM

IBM gave me one in my 233MHz Aptiva...

FIZZ3 · 07-20-03, 10:05 AM

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Originally posted by Crism
IBM gave me one in my 233MHz Aptiva...

That's what you get for paying extra for the 'quality brand name' I suppose.

07-19-03, 09:06 AM	Thread Starter #1
four4875 Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: I can see walmart, 44906	quantum bigfoot io ran sandras file system test on my 4 gig bigfoot i got, to see if it was worth running CCDs off of it instead of my maxtor's partition, and it got like 5000 while my maxtor got like 30000. is it THAT slow? and would it be worth it to find a couple more and run them in RAID 0? or would it still be slow? i have an ATA100 card i can flash to a RAID, so thats ok there. thanks yalls __________________ Student of Electronic Engineering as of September 20, 2010
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07-19-03, 10:22 AM	#2
FIZZ3 Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: NL, Europe	They were extremely slow, yes. These 4Gb drives ran at 4.2K rpm. These drives were built for being cheap, not fast. With today's HD sizes, the idea of offering a cheap 4Gb drive seems silly... and I guess that goes for the idea of RAIDing two or more of these things as well. __________________ Desktop: Intel C2D E6700 @ 2.67Ghz / TR AXP-140 \| Asus P5W DH Dlx \| Corsair TwinX 4Gb PC6400 CL4 Nvidia 8800 GTS 640Mb / TR HR-03 \| Creative X-Fi 2x WD Raptor 150Gb \| Plextor PX-760SA Lian Li V2000 Plus \| Corsair HX620 Dell 2407WFP \| Logitech Z-5500 Laptop: Sony VAIO Z11 Intel i5-520M \| 4Gb \| Nvidia GT330M \| 2x64Gb RAID-0 SSD \| 13" 1600x900 panel
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07-19-03, 10:28 AM	#3
Crism Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rhode Island	IBM gave me one in my 233MHz Aptiva...
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