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Why are my HDD heads jumping around on a fresh drive?
I have 2 500GB Maxtors in RAID 0 on a cheap Rosewill PCI SATA RAID
card. The drives are new and I just formatted them. I'm in the process of transferring several hundred GB worth of photos (~20MB each) and in the process, I can hear and feel the heads jumping all over the place. That doesn't make sense to me, the drives are freshly formatted and clearly not fragmented, the data is in large chunks, so why are the heads traveling so much? Thanks, t |
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Why are my HDD heads jumping around on a fresh drive?
A cheap sata card uses software implimentation of raid, therefore the PC cpu
may be overworked, perhaps this has some implication. wrote in message ps.com... I have 2 500GB Maxtors in RAID 0 on a cheap Rosewill PCI SATA RAID card. The drives are new and I just formatted them. I'm in the process of transferring several hundred GB worth of photos (~20MB each) and in the process, I can hear and feel the heads jumping all over the place. That doesn't make sense to me, the drives are freshly formatted and clearly not fragmented, the data is in large chunks, so why are the heads traveling so much? Thanks, t |
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Why are my HDD heads jumping around on a fresh drive?
wrote in message ps.com... I have 2 500GB Maxtors in RAID 0 on a cheap Rosewill PCI SATA RAID card. The drives are new and I just formatted them. I'm in the process of transferring several hundred GB worth of photos (~20MB each) and in the process, I can hear and feel the heads jumping all over the place. That doesn't make sense to me, the drives are freshly formatted and clearly not fragmented, the data is in large chunks, so why are the heads traveling so much? Thanks, t Write data chunk, Update MFT (master file table, disk "index", as it were) Write data chunk, Update MFT, etc, etc, etc, (+ other NTFS internal operations) Data & MFT do not reside in same place, heads have to move. |
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