Just picked up a Western Digital WD1600JB from Bestbuy. It's a 160gig 7200rpm 8mb cache drive. This is my first WD drive, I've only bought Seagates before.
This drive went into an older p4 system with windows 2k installed. (1.7ghz 128mb rambus). I set it up with 2 partitions, a 20 gig primary, and the other extended with 2 logical drives in the extended. First thing I noticed is that this drive makes more noise than any Seagate I've ever owned, but it still much quiter than the 60 gig IBM Deskstar that was in the system. I was wondering if the drive could be making more noise because it has a highly active swap file because of the low RAM in the system, 128mb's.
Also, I've been using Diskeeper on my much faster system downstairs, a 3.06ghz p4, 1 gig ram, on XP. I've always managed to get 0 fragmented files after a defrag on the faster rig, I was expecting to get the same thing on the win2k system with my new wd hdd, but I didn't! I was able to get both logical drives in the extended partition with 0 excess fragments, but I had to run it a couple times to accomplish this.
The problem is in the primary partition, no matter how many times I run defrag, their will always be fragmented files. I'm just wondering what the cause of this is. Does Windows 2k use a different ver. of NTFS which could cause this? Is the hard drive itself causing this problem? Low ram? Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated.
This drive went into an older p4 system with windows 2k installed. (1.7ghz 128mb rambus). I set it up with 2 partitions, a 20 gig primary, and the other extended with 2 logical drives in the extended. First thing I noticed is that this drive makes more noise than any Seagate I've ever owned, but it still much quiter than the 60 gig IBM Deskstar that was in the system. I was wondering if the drive could be making more noise because it has a highly active swap file because of the low RAM in the system, 128mb's.
Also, I've been using Diskeeper on my much faster system downstairs, a 3.06ghz p4, 1 gig ram, on XP. I've always managed to get 0 fragmented files after a defrag on the faster rig, I was expecting to get the same thing on the win2k system with my new wd hdd, but I didn't! I was able to get both logical drives in the extended partition with 0 excess fragments, but I had to run it a couple times to accomplish this.
The problem is in the primary partition, no matter how many times I run defrag, their will always be fragmented files. I'm just wondering what the cause of this is. Does Windows 2k use a different ver. of NTFS which could cause this? Is the hard drive itself causing this problem? Low ram? Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated.