How much of your Hard Drive are you using?

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:46 pm

I have a 20GB hardy which I use for my WinXP and I'm using 7 gigs out of it.

And I have a 100GB hardy that I use for files and I'm using 66 gigs out of it.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:30 pm

Are you crazy man?

I guarantee your 20GB HDD is not an ATA100 drive, (ATA66 at most, and probably at ATA33!!) and I bet your 100 Gigger *is* at least ATA100. This means you're using your slow drive for your Operating System.

Dear sweet baby jebus: I hope and pray you have the Page File set to use the 100 Gigger!

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:28 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mobius:
 Are you crazy man?

I guarantee your 20GB HDD is not an ATA100 drive, (ATA66 at most, and probably at ATA33!!) and I bet your 100 Gigger *is* at least ATA100. This means you're using your slow drive for your Operating System.

Dear sweet baby jebus: I hope and pray you have the Page File set to use the 100 Gigger!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

wtf are you talking about mobi, I've got a wd 7200 ata 100 20 gigger?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:45 pm

<TABLE BORDER=1><TR><TD>Computer</TD><TD>Location</TD><TD>Interface</TD><TD>Model</TD><TD>Partition</TD><TD>Capacity</TD><TD>Used Space</TD><TD>Free Space</TD><TD>Contents</TD></TR><TR><TD>Main</TD><TD>Device 0</TD><TD>PATA primary</TD><TD>WD1200JB</TD><TD>0, C:</TD><TD>5.99 GB</TD><TD>4.55 GB</TD><TD>1.44 GB (24%)</TD><TD>OS, paging file, some programs</TD></TR><TR><TD>Main</TD><TD>Device 0</TD><TD>PATA primary</TD><TD>WD1200JB</TD><TD>1, D:</TD><TD>105.79 GB</TD><TD>90.65 GB</TD><TD>15.14 GB (14%)</TD><TD>Programs, DVD ISOs, games, downloads</TD></TR><TR><TD>Main</TD><TD>Device 1</TD><TD>SATA primary</TD><TD>WD1200JB</TD><TD>0, E:</TD><TD>111.79 GB</TD><TD>102.90 GB</TD><TD>8.89 GB (7%)</TD><TD>AVIs, MP3s</TD></TR><TR><TD>Server</TD><TD>Device 0</TD><TD>PATA primary (master)</TD><TD>WD300BB</TD><TD>0, C:</TD><TD>27.95 GB</TD><TD>5.72 GB</TD><TD>22.21 GB (79%)</TD><TD>OS, paging file, programs</TD></TR><TR><TD>Server</TD><TD>Device 1</TD><TD>PATA primary (slave)</TD><TD>WD800BB</TD><TD>0, D:</TD><TD>74.53 GB</TD><TD>68.67 GB</TD><TD>5.86 GB (7%)</TD><TD>FTP & HTTP storage</TD></TR></TABLE>
TOTALS,
Capacity: 326.06 GB,
Used Space: 272.49 GB,
Free Space: 53.54 GB

All drives are NTFS.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:46 pm

Just got through burning a bunch of stuff to DVD!

Main System:

3rd WD800JB is in a mobile rack and used for backups only, but it is a mirror of drive D.

HTPC:

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:50 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 9.6G 619M 9.0G 7% /
/dev/hda6 20G 4.5G 15G 24% /usr
/dev/hda8 53G 8.5G 45G 16% /home
none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 30G 26G 5.0G 84% /mnt/windows</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's also a 386Mb partition that's used for the Linux swap file but not listed there. Drive is a Western Digital WD1200JB.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:57 pm

Sure beats doing homework:

<div style="overflow:auto;width:400px;height:400px"><img alt="Mobius can't read this!" src="http://home.comcast.net/~jeff250/diskmng.png" /></div>

edit: Somebody broke the object tag.

edit2: Even better than iced tea.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:07 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mobius:
blah blah blah<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Mobius, stop making assumptions. My winxp install is on a 36g hdd. But it's a 15.3k rpm u320 scsi hdd, which I assure you is faster than 90% of the stuff on the market nowaday. And it only has 4 gigs free at the moment, unfortunately...

As for my server, well.

Asrale · Post by **Asrale** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:13 am

About 50%. 20GB drive, ~9GB used across 3 partitions for 98SE, 2K, and XP. Heh. (tend to offload generated data to Zip and CD-R/W often, and I rarely have more than 2 games installed at the same time)

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:15 am

Once again the MobitrollÂ© has Flamed another thread!

Good Job!

Anyways

C: 80G WD 8mb 32GB used (application , O/S disk)
D: 120G WD 8mb 78 Gb used(games, Apps, Movie Creation TEMP)

I have been thinking of getting either 2 or 3 more internal 120/250 WD's drives for my movie temp storage(while editing DV video for DVD's) or even better an external Firewire Drive. Rather have Firewire2 but I can wait on that

The first MobitrollÂ© to insert a foot in their mouth in an attempt to compare..
Firewire 400Mbps vs USB2 480Mbps( <~~ utter joke)
.....Shall get bounced hard!

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:22 pm

I know all about your wanky 15K drives.

I also know that NO ONE makes a fast 20GB drive AND NEVER HAS! (Compared to even a WD800JB with 8MB cache)

I also know Sage aint a PC guru.

Knowing these things, I think it's safe to say his PC is running WAY slower with the OS on a dog-of-an-ATA-66/33-ancient-POS-HDD. I also bet the 20Gigger is loud as hell, and makes wild clicking sounds at every access.

let's get Sage to inform us shall we - to see who is right and who is wrong.

Sage - please, at your next boot, stop the process and tell us what mode both HDDs are running in. Thanks.

Even Better: Run Sandra Sisoft HDD benchmark on both drives and let us see the results.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:38 am

Maxtor 160GB

Partition 1 (20G

: 9.76GB Free
Partition 2 (133G

: 19GB Free (cuz of all the mpeg2 streams I've captured and haven't burned to DVD yet because Ulead's menu software blows, and I haven't found a good menu creation program yet.)
Partition 3: (976M

5MB Free (swap partition)

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:09 pm

Server:

The system disk will be replaced by 2 36GB 15K drives in RAID0 (first generation tho) in a few days.

Main PC has a 10K 74GB raptor, about 50% used.

Webserver has a 60GB drive, 20% used.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:23 pm

Wheres that "STFU Mobius" pic?

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:54 pm

Lot of requests for this lately!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:19 am

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:02 pm

19.7GB of a 40GB drive. And before it get's bashed, it's the exact same model as the WD JB, just with a 4MB cache.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:53 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mr. Perfect:
19.7GB of a 40GB drive. And before it get's bashed, it's the exact same model as the WD JB, just with a 4MB cache.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't you mean 8MB?

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:51 am

system - 9.18gb 15k skuzzy with 4 free gigs

WD 120gb special edition used for dvd rips, image files, and downloads - 28 gigs free

WD 180gb special edition used for music, movies, and tv shows. 58 gigs free

gonna need another 180gb+ soon

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:08 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mr. Perfect:
19.7GB of a 40GB drive. And before it get's bashed, it's the exact same model as the WD JB, just with a 4MB cache.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I can tell someone pulled out the Hard Drive and read from the cache chips on the IDE pcb dont be fooled by the letters on HD chips they have a completely different meaning

WD400JB = 8MBytes of cache (will read MBooks)
WD400BB = 2MBytes of cache (will read MBooks)
WD400EB = 2MBytes of cache (will read MBooks)

MBooks will read either half or double the actual cache size..just need remember which one it was (I think it was half)

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:17 pm

Lol, why do you guys say stfu modious? he's a good guy. but yeas I am no computer guru, that's for dam sure. lol

here's sis sandra File System Module bechmarks:
100 GB Hardy
------------
Buffered Read 85 MB/s
Sequential Read 36 MB/s
Random Read 6 MB/s
Buffered Write 78 MB/s
Sequential Write 36 MB/s
Random Write 7 MB/s
Average Acces Time 9ms (estimated)

20 GB Hardy
-----------
Buffered Read 84 MB/s
Sequential Read 33 MB/s
Random Read 4 MB/s
Buffered Write 67 MB/s
Sequential Write 26 MB/s
Random Write 5 MB/s
Average Acces Time 13ms (estimated)

I don't know what ATA or whatever it is.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:17 pm

20 gig HD, I'm using 17.5 of it. I want to splurge and get 240, $206 US.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:24 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sage:
Lol, why do you guys say stfu modious? he's a good guy.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:51 am

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:39 am

Erm. No, I didn't mean 8megs. It's the BB version. For some reason I thought it was a 4Meg cache drive, I dunno why...