5400rpm and 7200rpm


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where do you people keep getting that crap from. The chipset (VIA, AMD, INTEL) handles each drive independently so they drive will operate at their max speeds. If an ATA-100 drive has a slave ATA-33 the ATA-100 drive WONT be limited to ATA-33 speeds. Get your story straight and please stop spreading that junk...

Oh and to the topic there shouldn't be any problem. I don't see why you wouldn't use the 7200RPM as the master tho? So why not? Even if it's smaller ... just put your OS on that and keep your 5400RPM for data.

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I have a similar question. I have an 60gb 7200 and a 15gb 5400 and I was wondering if putting the page file on the 5400 would be beneficial or if I should just leave it on the 7200. BTW I have the 60gb 7200 as my primary with my os and data on it and the 5400 is only used for my ftp and mp3's. Thanks guys!

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id use the 7200 as the master

partition it so you would have around 10 gigs for your OS if your system restore person and tthen the other partition for your program files if your doing graphics you'll need the seek speed to be faster for just loading the apps

so it's a better way out

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OK this is what I am going to do:

20gb (5400rpm FAT32) - Main drive with OS and some program files

Slave 80gb (7200rpm) - Graphics applications, medua files, and other data

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Originally posted by Winston

id use the 7200 as the master

partition it so you would have around 10 gigs for your OS if your system restore person and tthen the other partition for your program files if your doing graphics you'll need the seek speed to be faster for just loading the apps

so it's a better way out

Partitioning a drive like that won't nescesarily reduce seek times for apps loading...

Sphere, go grab a copy of norton ghost 2k2 and ghost your main stuff to the 7200 RPM drive. (make the boot disk, do it through there)

also, it doesn't matter if you have a ATA100 drive and ATA33 drive on the same channel... the ATA100 will take advantage of it's rated speed (granted you have a motherboard supporting it and the proper 80 pin conductor IDE cable). Mixing drives will not cause a problem.

Personally, the only reason I've ever had to partition a HD for is if a customer requests like WinXP but doesn't want to lose all of their stuff (and my lack of time to spend hours transfering settings, files, etc). So I make an image of their current drive, partition their old one into two parts, put their old stuff on the C part, install XP or whatever they want on the D part, and let them dual boot.

There are very few speed advantages to partitioning. For one, you don't know where the partitions lie on the platters. So depending on where it is, you could actually be slowing things down. Secondly, one of the few speed "tweaks" is to make a partition for JUST your page file(s). That way they don't fragment all over the drive, and are rather contained in one place.

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well i have just formatted the 7200rpm into NTFS.

Also, my 7200 is setup inside the computer as a slave. i would have to change that around.

so if i go and get norton ghost, i can make an exact copy of the drive onto the 7200rpm? and then can i partition that drive into 20gb/60gb?

so the 7200rpm would become drive C:? and then i can assign whatever to the other drives...?

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Originally posted by sphere

well i have just formatted the 7200rpm into NTFS.

Also, my 7200 is setup inside the computer as a slave. i would have to change that around.

so if i go and get norton ghost, i can make an exact copy of the drive onto the 7200rpm? and then can i partition that drive into 20gb/60gb?

so the 7200rpm would become drive C:? and then i can assign whatever to the other drives...?

You got PM

And if you do partition, you'll want to partion BEFORE moving your stuff to the drive

Norton Ghost also supports from disk to partition. Instead of from disk to disk. So after you partition the drive, THEN ghost your files to it. Do triple check your source and destination. I've even managed to **** it up (luckily though I had the customer's data on even another HD). Heh.

1. Put in 7200 drive as master... no slaves (leave other HD sitting out)

2. jump into win2k/XP setup

3. partition the 7200 RPM drive as 20 and 60.

4. let setup format the 60 part

5. exit before it installs files (should say "creating a list of files to be copied")

6. slave up the 5400 RPM drive

7. jump into GHOST

8. select FROM DISK then TO PARTITION

9. select your 5400 as the source

10. select your 20GB partition as the destination

11. enter serial number (it was given to you on the splash screen when ghost starts from the disk) ;)

12. once done, unhook slave (5400RPM).

13. try to boot (gotta test it)

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I can't WAIT til serial ATA comes out. No more master slave BS. Listen to my strange story. My 12x CDRW

crapped out, so I thought I'd upgrade to a 40X CDRW.

Wanting to reconfigure the drives, I thought I'd set it up this way: IBM HD, Primary master, CDRW (phillips) primary slave, CD/DVD secondary master, IDE zip secondary slave. So, on boot.......NOTHING.....kept saying invalid boot device, insert bla bla.......so, I swapped the CDRW and the CD/DVD.....same thing. (Hard drive on a pull out cage). I then popped out my IBM drive, and tried my backup drive (maxtor), using the CDRW as the slave to the hard drive. Same thing.......swapped the CDRW and CD/DVD.......success! booted fine. swapped out the HD's and nothing. Ended up having to put everything back the way it was.....HD primary, zip slave.....CDRW 2ndary master, CD/DVD slave. Yes, all jumpers were correct.

I guess some hard drives just don't work and play well with others.....

:alien:

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