I am nerding out here. I recently just bought a Core 2 Quad Core 2.4. The price for these processors has dropped amazingly low. I am a huge newegg.com fan also. I bought everything I have from them. Even pickup up a nice Gigabyte P35 board.. with 8 SATAII ports on it.
Well, this post isn't about my computer, but more about my new hard drive I just picked up. I was reading online that this hard drive is out performing some of the top line hard drives. I almost bought the Raid Ready drive for my personal machine (well, I did, but I canceled it). The only real difference is the firmware on the Raid Raid drive designed for hardware raids (plays nicely with it), the nice 5 year warrantee instead of 3, and the fact that they only do 8 hours of testing instead of 24 on this drive. Well.. that's fine with me. I did a full Q/A check on it using badblocks in linux.
So, here is the cool stuff.
My Computer Spec:
Quad Core 2.4
4 GB 1066 DDR2 Memory
1.75 TB storage (Would have been 2, but a 250 died on me a week ago)
Gigabyte Deluxe P35 Revision4
Nvidia 8600 Dual DVI 512 video card (yea, I know.. not that good... but it was only 100 bucks)
New hard drive: 750 Gigabyte Western Digital.
I have this cool program called HD Tune (www.hdtune.com) and it will run all different kinds of diagnostics on your hard disk. This specific hard disk is just nutty!
Here is some internal supported features:
Here is the Smart Data provided by HDTune
I was a little worried about the Ultra DMA CRC Error count, but it has not moved since I got it. Another disk of mine has it also. I think its ok.
Here is an example of an older 250 Sata drive I have:
Model: Maxtor 7Y250M0
Options:
I don't know why its missing the supported features. It could just a controller issue that's causing this.
As you can see, the new SATA disk is just freaking amazing fast. I want to go and buy like 3 of these things, and put them in a RAID 5. The read speed would just be crazy!
I hope you enjoyed my findings. Please feel free to trace back!