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Thanks. What I decided on was a 2tb Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB Advanced Format drive. Based on your previous post to my other thread, I'm aware of the complications of cloning from a non AF to an AF drive...
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. If you're using an older OS and haven't already done so, you can try to make accommodations so that it can use the advanced format drive. It can be problematic at both the software and hardware...
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. One might wonder if Microsoft "invested" in the HDD manufacturers to "nudge" people to get winXP out of their machines so they must buy a new OS even though XP was working 100% OK for them and was...
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Hi, My suggestion is to not add the HDD as a third storage medium and instead use the HDD as an ext-hard drive. In a generalized note, most of the PC manufactures from the past few years are offering...
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Naveen Goud said: ...My suggestion is to not add the HDD as a third storage medium and instead use the HDD as an ext-hard drive. In a generalized note, most of the PC manufactures from the past few...
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. In case you're not aware, be sure to use appropriate ESD handling protocols and power-removal protocols when dealing with an open case and handling any components whether or not they are connected....
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Thanks for all the additional input guys. I still don't fully understand the AF info you gave me about cloning drives so it may take me a while to get to the new links I have a new corsaire 400w psu...
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Nas Nas said: ...The drive is up and running, I've been scanning it on HDTune and I'm a little worried about the results as there seem to be a lot of random spikes which resemble the same worn 6 year...
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Thanks for another very thorough explanation. No clarification needed on your input, but I do have a follow up question or two based on my being a perpetual noob when it comes to this stuff. I've tried...
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Here are some additional readings. The spikes freak me out, I have a seagate 1tb from two years ago that doesn't have spikes like that......
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. I see you're also trying to resolve your HD Tune "spikes" concerns on yahoo since 4 days ago, but haven't received any responses. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130413080548AAslvKo...
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Thanks so much for the follow up. Lol, yeah,I asked on yahoo as well as I usually do so I can get as much info as I can in order to be able to decide on how to handle it. I had a busy week and I didn't...
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. Since the benchmark provided by HD Tune appears to be at the PC interface level (not at a low level within the drive), it should be expected to be different for different systems, OS's, drivers,...
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. Found an article that covers many of the Advanced Format HDD issues in reasonably easy to understand language with diagrams....
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. Re: effect of system-level events on the reliability of HD Tune reports... Just remembered, another thing you can do that can reduce (but not entirely eliminate) the magnitude of system-level events...
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