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New Hard Drive suggestions
Hello everybody. So my main hard drive on my cpu is on the fritz (really noisy and am starting to expreience strange problems and is very sloooowwwww) so I figure it may be agood time to install a new hard drive. I have never replaced a main disk drive before (I have installed a second slave HD) I am posting to get some input about what type of drive would be recommended by the experts here, as well as any tips that may be helpful as I crack open my cpu and install.
My CPU is Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1MB cache per processor
512 MB DDR SDRAM (which I would like to upgrade in the near future, so any bonus tips on this would be great as well)My HD right now is an IDE 120 GB model ST3120024A (seagate I think?)
Any tips on where to purchase would be great too!
I appreciate everybody’s help very much!!!!
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4 Replies
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For the System Drive, first off if it’s very slow, have you run Disk Warrior on it to see if that helps fix it? Usually when I hear of slow system drives, it’s because the person has been capturing media to that drive which is a big no-no.
As for picking up a new one, since it’s a System Drive, you can really just go down to Costco, Best Buy, Circuit City, wherever and pick up just about anything. I generally go with Western Digital products and have installed I think 4 or 5 of them as Aux drives in our machines with zero failures in about 4 years or so of the life of the oldest one.
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Thanks Walter!
I don’t have disk warrior (although I just read a little bit about it and think it may be an investment in the near future).
I may be showing a bit of inexperience, but I had never heard that you shouldn’t capture to your main hard drive. I totally trust that you are correct but nobody has ever mentioned that to me. What is it that makes this such a big no no? This could very well be why my system is running slowly (I don’t always capture to this my maid drive, but have definiely been guilty on several occasions).
Again this forum is teaching me something that I never learned. Thanks!
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You would need to search the archives or possibly the calf forums for this info.
Your system drive is running the app. (reading)
When capturing media it is: (writing)
You are making your computer read and write at the same time to the same drive. The drive’s optical head must hop around the platters to various sectors to read operational instructions of the app PLUS hop around to various unused blocks of sectors to write the data you are creating. This is why it is crawling. Video editing is one of the most demanding uses of computers so it is advisable to write to a deticated media drive preferably 7200 rpm or faster. -
That makes a whole lotta sense. Thanks!
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