Comments on: Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance Within http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ Thinking Outside the Cube Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Using hard drives to boost PC performance: myth vs. reality – The Storage Effect http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-14352 Using hard drives to boost PC performance: myth vs. reality – The Storage Effect Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:40:57 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-14352 [...] Justin builds the case for short stroking drives.  Techware Labs did a piece called “Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance Within” that explained in a step by step way how users could use Seagate’s SeaTools to short [...] [...] Justin builds the case for short stroking drives.  Techware Labs did a piece called “Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance Within” that explained in a step by step way how users could use Seagate’s SeaTools to short [...]

]]> By: me http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-13639 me Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:19:34 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-13639 first: primarily it is all about the acces times guys... you get 10.2ms AND high transfer speeds second: when it is about the transfer speed you get the same results when not partitioning the last 1200gb first: primarily it is all about the acces times guys… you get 10.2ms AND high transfer speeds
second: when it is about the transfer speed you get the same results when not partitioning the last 1200gb

]]> By: HDD mod untuk meningkatkan performance hdd - CHIP Forum http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-11853 HDD mod untuk meningkatkan performance hdd - CHIP Forum Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:53:01 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-11853 [...] mod untuk meningkatkan performance hdd - Today, 17:49 berawal dari artikel di sini , maka saya mencoba untuk melakukan modifikasi hdd WD 1 TB . step by step guide : 1. download [...] [...] mod untuk meningkatkan performance hdd – Today, 17:49 berawal dari artikel di sini , maka saya mencoba untuk melakukan modifikasi hdd WD 1 TB . step by step guide : 1. download [...]

]]> By: Quinton Hutyra http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-7951 Quinton Hutyra Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-7951 You make a very fabulous point. I hadn't thought about it that way before. Interesting point. You make a very fabulous point. I hadn’t thought about it that way before. Interesting point.

]]> By: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Specifications http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-7111 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Specifications Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:34:15 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-7111 [...] Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks says: July 7, 2010 at 11:34 pm. [...] As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate … recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. The drive specifications are decent … …Read more… [...] [...] Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks says: July 7, 2010 at 11:34 pm. [...] As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate … recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. The drive specifications are decent … …Read more… [...]

]]> By: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-5668 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:03:08 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-5668 [...] As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. The drive specifications are decent … So, what do they get? Velociraptor obviously wins in all categories – max speed, min speed, average speed, access time, you name it and it wins it. At this point they label the Seagate drive as second best and close the case. …Read more… [...] [...] As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. The drive specifications are decent … So, what do they get? Velociraptor obviously wins in all categories – max speed, min speed, average speed, access time, you name it and it wins it. At this point they label the Seagate drive as second best and close the case. …Read more… [...]

]]> By: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-5655 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS Hard Drive – 1.5TB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:34:03 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-5655 [...] As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. …. “The truth is the LBA mod has absolutely no effect on the transfer rate of the drive. Whatever benchmark “improvements” TechwareLabs showed are illusory, a matter of perception rather than reality. The hard disk drive’s transfer rate profile will remain the …Read more… [...] [...] As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. …. “The truth is the LBA mod has absolutely no effect on the transfer rate of the drive. Whatever benchmark “improvements” TechwareLabs showed are illusory, a matter of perception rather than reality. The hard disk drive’s transfer rate profile will remain the …Read more… [...]

]]> By: Jason Jacobs http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-5207 Jason Jacobs Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:50:25 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-5207 Mike, you have missed the point of this article. It is meant to gain performance from your drive. Mike, you have missed the point of this article. It is meant to gain performance from your drive.

]]> By: WD Caviar SE Hard Drive – 300GB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-5187 WD Caviar SE Hard Drive – 300GB – 7200rpm – Internal Speed Benchmarks Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:29:51 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-5187 [...] Will partitioning the HD and making the C drive the first partition with 300GB of space have the same effect – the increased speed – while letting you also set up partitions to use the rest of the drive for storage? ….. Otherwise, buy a good 7200 rpm SATA disk and go with it without problem. Ad example, if you do short stroking on a Seagate 7200.11 1.5GB drive, the results are very good. [...] Deal: [Newegg.com] WD 300GB Velociraptor $179.99 w/ free shipping …Read more… [...] [...] Will partitioning the HD and making the C drive the first partition with 300GB of space have the same effect – the increased speed – while letting you also set up partitions to use the rest of the drive for storage? ….. Otherwise, buy a good 7200 rpm SATA disk and go with it without problem. Ad example, if you do short stroking on a Seagate 7200.11 1.5GB drive, the results are very good. [...] Deal: [Newegg.com] WD 300GB Velociraptor $179.99 w/ free shipping …Read more… [...]

]]> By: Mike Hunt http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-5146 Mike Hunt Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:24:08 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-5146 What a load of rubbish.why would a person want to decrease the size of their hard drive? just partion it to 300gb. this is not a hack of a harddrive. scrap this article and put up something better. What a load of rubbish.why would a person want to decrease the size of their hard drive? just partion it to 300gb. this is not a hack of a harddrive. scrap this article and put up something better.

]]> By: Imran http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-3121 Imran Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:34:39 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-3121 By the way, who needs a paging file these days, ram is plenty cheap, you might be well off using the faster drive part for something more useful By the way, who needs a paging file these days, ram is plenty cheap, you might be well off using the faster drive part for something more useful

]]> By: Mike http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-2817 Mike Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:23:21 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-2817 I have 5 of these drives. I did the test using partitions rather than resizing. I got the same bench mark on the disk as a whole (1.5tb) as I did when I partition to a 300 gb partition. I assume that is because there was no data on it. If I run the test on a HD that is partitioned with a 10-100 gb first partition with data on both second partitions and all have data then you see a 50% performance increase for the first (and smaller partition). My guess is there is no benefit to resizing over partitioning. Just make sure that the files on the second partition (backup files only) are not accessed at the same time as the first. So yes it seems the drives are an excellent bargain and if you deal with video a necessity. I have 5 of these drives. I did the test using partitions rather than resizing. I got the same bench mark on the disk as a whole (1.5tb) as I did when I partition to a 300 gb partition. I assume that is because there was no data on it. If I run the test on a HD that is partitioned with a 10-100 gb first partition with data on both second partitions and all have data then you see a 50% performance increase for the first (and smaller partition). My guess is there is no benefit to resizing over partitioning. Just make sure that the files on the second partition (backup files only) are not accessed at the same time as the first. So yes it seems the drives are an excellent bargain and if you deal with video a necessity.

]]> By: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=658&pgno=1 http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-2716 http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=658&pgno=1 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:11:50 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-2716 "The truth is the LBA mod has absolutely no effect on the transfer rate of the drive. Whatever benchmark "improvements" TechwareLabs showed are illusory, a matter of perception rather than reality. The hard disk drive's transfer rate profile will remain the same, whether you perform the "LBA mod", create multiple partitions or leave it as a single giant partition." “The truth is the LBA mod has absolutely no effect on the transfer rate of the drive. Whatever benchmark “improvements” TechwareLabs showed are illusory, a matter of perception rather than reality. The hard disk drive’s transfer rate profile will remain the same, whether you perform the “LBA mod”, create multiple partitions or leave it as a single giant partition.”

]]> By: TecknoMania :: Memorie & Storage :: Come trasformare un Barracuda 7200 rpm in un VelociRaptor da 10.000 rpm http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-2448 TecknoMania :: Memorie & Storage :: Come trasformare un Barracuda 7200 rpm in un VelociRaptor da 10.000 rpm Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:53:20 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-2448 [...] Gli screenshot relativi alla procedura illustrata solo disponibili qui. [...] [...] Gli screenshot relativi alla procedura illustrata solo disponibili qui. [...]

]]> By: HDD Speeding o RAID 0 - ASUS Xperts http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-2447 HDD Speeding o RAID 0 - ASUS Xperts Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:44:51 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-2447 [...] la velocidad baja, si mantienes en los sectores mas cercanos se mantiene estable. Por ej: Seagate Barracuda 1.5 Tb MOD | TechwareLabs [...] [...] la velocidad baja, si mantienes en los sectores mas cercanos se mantiene estable. Por ej: Seagate Barracuda 1.5 Tb MOD | TechwareLabs [...]

]]> By: Seagate 1.5TB Velociraptor killer MOD : iTrends.dk http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-2309 Seagate 1.5TB Velociraptor killer MOD : iTrends.dk Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:02:17 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-2309 [...] many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 [...] [...] many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 [...]

]]> By: Tobis http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-2287 Tobis Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:59:15 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-2287 I'd like to know as well. I get the same. How magic is the magic number? Is it an estimate closest to 300 or definitive and will give less performance with the extra sectors perhaps? I’d like to know as well. I get the same.
How magic is the magic number? Is it an estimate closest to 300 or definitive and will give less performance with the extra sectors perhaps?

]]> By: Christian Ramdeholl http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-1683 Christian Ramdeholl Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:41:25 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-1683 What if the aforesaid method was applied to the new 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS, complete with a 64MB cache. Would this be faster than the modified Seagate Barracuda 1.5 collapsed into 300GB hard drive, if so? How much faster? Cordially, Christian Ramdeholl What if the aforesaid method was applied to the new 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS, complete with a 64MB cache.

Would this be faster than the modified Seagate Barracuda 1.5 collapsed into 300GB hard drive, if so? How much faster?

Cordially,
Christian Ramdeholl

]]> By: Critique my i5 build! Needs RAM and P55 Mobo - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-1649 Critique my i5 build! Needs RAM and P55 Mobo - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:53:19 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-1649 [...] the same performance for less by short stroking a seagate 1.5tb HD. I'll get the link in a minute. http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ Or, you can get a couple cheaper 500gb HD's and put them in Raid-0 __________________ GPU [...] [...] the same performance for less by short stroking a seagate 1.5tb HD. I'll get the link in a minute. http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ Or, you can get a couple cheaper 500gb HD's and put them in Raid-0 __________________ GPU [...]

]]> By: Deal: [Newegg.com] WD 300GB Velociraptor $179.99 w/ free shipping - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/comment-page-2/#comment-1617 Deal: [Newegg.com] WD 300GB Velociraptor $179.99 w/ free shipping - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:05:52 +0000 http://www.techwarelabs.com/?p=2126#comment-1617 [...] thought the Seagate 1.5TB drive was faster than these, if you made it a 300GB partition? Here's a link no HDTune shots though, that I saw, so maybe he's just full of crap. __________________ [...] [...] thought the Seagate 1.5TB drive was faster than these, if you made it a 300GB partition? Here's a link no HDTune shots though, that I saw, so maybe he's just full of crap. __________________ [...]

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