WD5000AADS: where in the world is Caviar Sandiego?
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Short stroking means only using part of the drive. A hard drive's first partition is always at its outer edge, which is the fastest part of the disk. By short stroking, you avoid using the slower inner parts of the disk, which have the lowest throughput. Only using the outer part of the disk also means that the maximum distance the heads will need to travel is reduced. This reduces seek time and may also reduce seek noise.
The simplest way to short stroke your disk is when formatting it before installing an operating system. Simply create partitions that don't fully use the disk. Leaving the remainder unformatted is optional, but preferred, because Windows may occasionally send the heads to an empty partition just to check that it's still empty or something.
The only disadvantage to short stroking in this way is a reduction in available disk space. If you decide later that you in fact need the space, you can create additional partitions in the unformatted space without affecting your existing partitions.
Using dedicated partitions for your swap file and operating system near the start of the disk can provide part of the benefit of short-stroking without an actual loss in capacity. I have been doing this for years.
The simplest way to short stroke your disk is when formatting it before installing an operating system. Simply create partitions that don't fully use the disk. Leaving the remainder unformatted is optional, but preferred, because Windows may occasionally send the heads to an empty partition just to check that it's still empty or something.
The only disadvantage to short stroking in this way is a reduction in available disk space. If you decide later that you in fact need the space, you can create additional partitions in the unformatted space without affecting your existing partitions.
Using dedicated partitions for your swap file and operating system near the start of the disk can provide part of the benefit of short-stroking without an actual loss in capacity. I have been doing this for years.
What if the OS is installed on the disk?swivelguy2 wrote:Short stroking means only using part of the drive. A hard drive's first partition is always at its outer edge, which is the fastest part of the disk. By short stroking, you avoid using the slower inner parts of the disk, which have the lowest throughput. Only using the outer part of the disk also means that the maximum distance the heads will need to travel is reduced. This reduces seek time and may also reduce seek noise.
The simplest way to short stroke your disk is when formatting it before installing an operating system. Simply create partitions that don't fully use the disk. Leaving the remainder unformatted is optional, but preferred, because Windows may occasionally send the heads to an empty partition just to check that it's still empty or something.
The only disadvantage to short stroking in this way is a reduction in available disk space. If you decide later that you in fact need the space, you can create additional partitions in the unformatted space without affecting your existing partitions.
Using dedicated partitions for your swap file and operating system near the start of the disk can provide part of the benefit of short-stroking without an actual loss in capacity. I have been doing this for years.
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With the fastest partition at the end, how do you leave the beginning empty? I have always used one partition so I don't know if that fastest part you speak of is in the first partition or not.JVM wrote:What if the OS is installed on the disk?swivelguy2 wrote:Short stroking means only using part of the drive. A hard drive's first partition is always at its outer edge, which is the fastest part of the disk. By short stroking, you avoid using the slower inner parts of the disk, which have the lowest throughput. Only using the outer part of the disk also means that the maximum distance the heads will need to travel is reduced. This reduces seek time and may also reduce seek noise.
The simplest way to short stroke your disk is when formatting it before installing an operating system. Simply create partitions that don't fully use the disk. Leaving the remainder unformatted is optional, but preferred, because Windows may occasionally send the heads to an empty partition just to check that it's still empty or something.
The only disadvantage to short stroking in this way is a reduction in available disk space. If you decide later that you in fact need the space, you can create additional partitions in the unformatted space without affecting your existing partitions.
Using dedicated partitions for your swap file and operating system near the start of the disk can provide part of the benefit of short-stroking without an actual loss in capacity. I have been doing this for years.
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The fastest part of the disk is the "beginning." If you start with a new, unformatted disk (or delete all the partitions on an existing disk), then the first partition you create will be placed at the beginning of the disk, in the fastest location. The second partition that you create will begin immediately following the first partition, in the next fastest available space.JVM wrote:With the fastest partition at the end, how do you leave the beginning empty? I have always used one partition so I don't know if that fastest part you speak of is in the first partition or not.
If for some reason you wanted to leave a portion in the beginning or middle of the disk unformatted, you would do that by creating multiple partitions, then deleting earlier partitions. The later partitions remain where they were created, in slower parts of the disk. There's no reason I can think of that you would want to do this, however.
We've gottan a little off-topic for this thread, and I don't see a dedicated short-stroking thread, so if you have any further questions, let's make one.
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interesting topic, i have a question about the 750GB- http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=608
in contrast to the 750gb that was reviewed here- http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page1.html
is there a speed difference? it's 2-3 platters?
(actually, what's the difference between the blue and the green?) why does the green take less power?
thanks.
dan
in contrast to the 750gb that was reviewed here- http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page1.html
is there a speed difference? it's 2-3 platters?
(actually, what's the difference between the blue and the green?) why does the green take less power?
thanks.
dan
I think you can edit the message to insert a link, but here you go anyway: http://yertech.blogspot.com/
On a related note, I cannot find WD6400AAKS Blue locally anymore. It appears to be discontinued, which is strange. WD5000AAKS Blue and WD5000AADS is still available, with Blue in lesser quantities. This situation might differ in your locality.Chis wrote:I don't know about the WD5000AADS, but the newest WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue are now single platter drives, and VERY fast!
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here you go. looks pretty sweetMatija wrote:I think you can edit the message to insert a link, but here you go anyway: http://yertech.blogspot.com/
A mini-review from an italian friend on PCSilenzioso.it, the italian site for our quest for silence: http://www.pcsilenzioso.it/forum/showth ... post132528
It seems Samsung EcogreenF2 is more silent under idle, but the AADS have a better noise in reading/writing than Ecogreen F2.
It seems Samsung EcogreenF2 is more silent under idle, but the AADS have a better noise in reading/writing than Ecogreen F2.
A quoting from Yersys Technology Blog: "Now here's something you don't see everyday. I found a Japanese site that tested a brand new single platter WD5000AADS drive, then opened the drive up completely, taking out the platter and determining the RPM, which was found to be 4995RPM. Interesting."
So, not a 5400rpm, but a 5000rpm one
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u= ... n&ie=UTF-8
I REALLY need a SPCR review/investigation
So, not a 5400rpm, but a 5000rpm one
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u= ... n&ie=UTF-8
I REALLY need a SPCR review/investigation
Just installed this drive in my parent's new computer. 8600X3 on Fanless Ninja Rev B + Gigabyte 785G + Sonata 2 + Sparkle 400W w/120mm fan + 2 x Yate loon 120mm fans (<1000rpm). The AADS idles better than my old Samsung SP2014N but the seeks have a more pronounced clicking sound. I can't do any additional testing as of this time as I am away from my parent's city.