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| Thread ID: 47518 | 2004-07-28 17:26:00 | Will an old harddrive slow down another? | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 256291 | 2004-07-29 02:42:00 | Lol, yea i suppose so - i have one in an old 486SX which has probbly been going for ages and it seems allright still... | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 256292 | 2004-07-29 07:18:00 | >In that case should I keep the CD drive as Master on the Secondary? Yes. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 256293 | 2004-07-29 11:56:00 | Adding an old hard drive will affect in two ways: 1) If you back up to it, it will be slow. 2) The rest of the system will run much slowly if you use the current hard drive and the old hard drive at the same time. This is because the slower bus speed and the time taken for the IDE controller to access and get data from the second hard drive. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 256294 | 2004-08-02 13:39:00 | I have two Quantum Bigfoot drives which have been in several computers and are both in good working condition. On the other hand I have had two Maxtor 40 gig and one 40 gig Samsung drives pack up in the past 2 years. There is no certainty when it comes to drives, but logic tells me that a drive running at half the speed of a modern one, & a fraction of the capacity, has got to be far less stressed :) |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 256295 | 2004-08-02 22:06:00 | Some historical hard drive reliability info from a data recovery company, DriveService (www.driveservice.com). I guess as long as nothing critical is on the drive you may as well make the most of it. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
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