Hard Drive Speed Question

[Christian]

How can I check the speed of the hard drive? How can I check if the speed of drive is 7200 RPM?

[Rat]

Erm...read what it says? I don't think there's any other way of telling. Its sustained data transfer rate will give an indication, though.

Cheers,
Rat.

[Christian]

Originally posted by ratcomp1974

Erm...read what it says? I don't think there's any other way of telling. Its sustained data transfer rate will give an indication, though.

Cheers,
Rat.


On the drive itself, you mean? Really? I didn't know that.

[Rat]

I can't tell if that was sarcasm or not. Certainly every drive I've handled from the big four manufacturers has its model, serial, capacity (in those gigabytes that only HD makers use, i.e. 1000000000 bytes, which is why Windows will report a different size using 1Gb =1073741824), and the speed in rpm. Even if yours doesn't, you can check the model number at the manufacturer's website.

I've checked and even Sandra doesn't report speed, so I guess it isn't accessible in that way. I've never heard of hard drives being fraudulently rebadged, unlike cpus, so whatever it says will almost certainly be honest.

Cheers,
Rat.

[Christian]

Originally posted by ratcomp1974

I can't tell if that was sarcasm or not. Certainly every drive I've handled from the big four manufacturers has its model, serial, capacity (in those gigabytes that only HD makers use, i.e. 1000000000 bytes, which is why Windows will report a different size using 1Gb =1073741824), and the speed in rpm. Even if yours doesn't, you can check the model number at the manufacturer's website.

I've checked and even Sandra doesn't report speed, so I guess it isn't accessible in that way. I've never heard of hard drives being fraudulently rebadged, unlike cpus, so whatever it says will almost certainly be honest.

Cheers,
Rat.

Oh no, I'm so sorry, no sarcasm here. I really am that ignorant on this.

Thanks a lot, I will do that, I will open up the computer and check it for the rpm. You've been a great help.

Thanks again.

[Soapy Sam]

Woah!
Before you take your pc apart (possibly violating any service contract)- is it really important to know this number?

If so, utilities like Belarc or Sisoft Sandra will give you the name of the model * and you can look up the spec online. No need to take anything apart.

* Try running MSINFO32.EXE first. That may tell you all you need to know.

[Christian]

Originally posted by Soapy Sam

Woah!
Before you take your pc apart (possibly violating any service contract)- is it really important to know this number?

If so, utilities like Belarc or Sisoft Sandra will give you the name of the model * and you can look up the spec online. No need to take anything apart.

* Try running MSINFO32.EXE first. That may tell you all you need to know.


Again, thanks. I will do that.

[Christian]

The power of knowledge, wow


I ran MSINFO32.EXE and it told me the model number. Turns out it is a Western Digital IDE WD800BB, and yes it runs at 7200 rpm. Great thanks Soapy Sam and ratcomp1974

[Soapy Sam]

Another result for JREF Tech Support. (A thriving subsidiary).

Nice hard drive by the way.

[Rat]

Nice, perhaps, but not SATA. Nor 10000rpm.

That said, my SATA HD, like all or almost all on the market, is just an IDE drive that converts internally to a SATA interface. And my quasi-SATA drive runs at 7200rpm as well. Bugger.

Cheers,
Rat.

[Soapy Sam]

Rat- You know how you skip a few editions of "PC Plus", and find you can't understand any of the abbreviations in the next copy you pick up?

I missed the one that said what SATA was all about.

What is the difference between EIDE and SATA? Is it related to SATAnism , or worse, SANTAism? Should JREF be informed?

Is it just speed, different interface, what? How does it relate to the old Two IDE drives per driver business? Can you chain 'em like SCSIs?

What's da deal?

[a_unique_person]

SATA, Serial ATA, is the Next Big Think in disk drives.

Parallel interfaces all suffer the eventual problem that it is too hard to tell which signal refers to which byte of data that is being sent down the wires.

Serial, when it is designed well, is faster in that it can send down data at surprisingly high rates. Just look at FireWire and USB2. Also the cabling is much simpler, as it is thinner and more flexible.

Ratcomp appears to be saying that all they have done is take the old parallel ATA data, and converted it into SATA. That is, it is still being sent down at the slower parallel speeds, but over easier to handle cables. Ah well, these things always take time. Can't we all just be a bit more patient in this modern world, rushing here, rushing there.

[Christian]

And on another related topic. If I want to back up folders using a bat file, I remember there is a use of % (symbol), does anyone remember the syntax?

[Wudang]

Something like
for %N in (*.doc) xcopy %N d:\backupfolder
perhaps?

[Christian]

Originally posted by Wudang

Something like
for %N in (*.doc) xcopy %N d:\backupfolder
perhaps?

Yes, yes. Evildave gave me this, but I don't quite get.

Originally posted by Evildave

@echo off
set xflags=/h /e /r /d /i /c /k /y
set dst=i:
set backup=%dst%\Backup
set recover=%dst%\Recover
xcopy %xflags% "D:\Games" %backup%\Games
xcopy %xflags% "D:\Mail" %backup%\Mail
xcopy %xflags% "D:\My Documents" "%backup%\My Documents"
xcopy %xflags% "D:\VMWare" %backup%\VMWare
xcopy %xflags% "D:\Work" %backup%\Work
xcopy %xflags% "D:\ste" %backup%\ste
xcopy %xflags% "D:\Jakks" %backup%\Jakks
xcopy %xflags% "E:\CD-IMAGE" %backup%\CD-IMAGE
xcopy %xflags% "E:\Download" %backup%\Download
xcopy %xflags% "E:\Movies" %backup%\Movies
xcopy %xflags% "E:\Music" %backup%\Music
xcopy %xflags% "E:\Perforce" %backup%\Perforce
xcopy %xflags% "F:\OldWork" %backup%\OldWork
xcopy %xflags% "F:\Recover" %recover%
xcopy %xflags% "C:\Config" %recover%\Config
xcopy %xflags% "C:\Documents and Settings\evildave" "%recover%\evildave"