System Manufacturer/Model Number: HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS: Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU: from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays: 2x HP w2207 Keyboard: with trackball - no mices Mouse: Trackball mice Hard Drives: 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed: DSL 6000
Samsung 830 128GB running as good today as it did when I got it in May. I wish I had picked up another one of these, or the 256GB model when they were available, and cheap!
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Intel DZ77GA-70K OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 4.7GHz (Overclocked) Motherboard: Intel Corporation DZ77GA-70K, 0066 BIOS version Memory: 32 GB 12800 DDR3 Crucial Ballistix Sport Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 SC x 2 (SLI) by EVGA Sound Card: (1) Bluetooth Hands-free Audio (2) NVIDIA High Definition Monitor(s) Displays: LG 27" HDMI Screen Resolution: 12920 x 1080 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60Hz Keyboard: Logitech backlit Mouse: Dell PSU: Corsair 750w fully modular Case: Corsair 650D with perforated side panel Cooling: 3 200mm case fans, Intel liquid cooling for CPU w 120mm fans Hard Drives: Intel 120GB SSD (ATA INTEL SSDSC2CT12 SCSI Disk Device)
Western Digital Caviar Black 64M cache 2TB 7200rpm (ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 SCSI Disk Device), 3 x WD 150Gb 10k Velociraptor hard drives in RAID 0 (testing) Internet Speed: 11Mbps DSL Browser: Chrome, IE and FireFox (latest versions) Antivirus: Windows Defender, MalWareBytes Pro and CCleaner Pro Other Info: Windows Home Server 2011 with 10 clients at home
I thought it would be interesting to compare everyones hard drive performances with screenshots from HD Tune utility (get from HD Tune). Maybe after some time we could produce a results table.
So heres mine:
Im going to show you the single WD Raptor X results first for interest:
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I bought a Samsung 840 EVO120Gb which is showing a very disappointing performance.
My system is the following:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Asus P7P55 WS
GSkill 12gb
Intel i5 760 2.8Ghz
4x Nvidia Quadro NVS 290
I'm interested to see what others are getting out of their SSD or SSDs in RAID. It's cool to look through the "Show us your hard drive performance" thread but here's a place for just SSD performance. I have a 128GB Patriot Torqx. (F/W v1881) Please post your benchmarks.:)
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Edit: I now...
Since the SSD boys and girls have a "Show us your SSD Performance" thread, I thought I'd start one for us mechanical HDD owners.
Simply DL, install, and run HD Tune and post screenshots of results here in this thread. Please also tell us the Make and Model of your HDD(s) and any other specs you...
I am trying to setup a default user or machine setup for how win7 handles folder view options. I want show hidden folders to be set to on for all users and the hide extensions for know file types to be unchecked or turned off ffor all users (so extensions show)
I have located them in the registry...