[windows2000] Re: OT: SATA Hard Drives

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:33:53 +0100

windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <> wrote on :

>>> I would say it's faster by a minute or two. Never thought of timing it,
>>> but it was a noticable difference.
>>
>> That much??! What hardware do you have and what do you load when booting,
>> for it to take such time? Have you defragged lately?
>
> I don't have as much starting up as I use to have, that's for sure.
> What I have is a MSI MB (too lazy to look up the specs). AMD Athlon 2500
> (Barton), 1GB 400mhz ram, 2-80GB drives one 200GB SATA drive. (soon to
> be two) MSI GeForce FX-5200 video card. A CD burner, a DVD burner and a
> DVD-ROM drive. Not a screamer, but maybe one day I'll be able to get
> that "ultimate" computer. :-)

Doesn't sound much different from my admin-wks, except I have a barton
xp3000+. So hw-raid is something to depend upon even on a workstation.
Hmmm... I'll see what the boss says. 8-)


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