Comments on: Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance Within

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:09:55 +0000

Hi, I have done this right now, but shortly after entering and confirming the LBA-number I noticed that text and picture number does NOT match (589080586 vs 586080586) I used 589080586 (which gave me 301.609GB) as its in the text… does this make any difference? Is the right number of LBA a really magic number or is it more like “around 300 GB”?

thanks
Martin

By: hehee

hehee — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:20:28 +0000

i agree with that ,this is what i do….

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SCSI to SATA cable? - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:50:11 +0000

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By: joeboo

joeboo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:34:22 +0000

The is a no brainer, for the OS disk I always run HDTach and find where the transfer rate of a new disk starts to drop, and that is the OS partition and the rest is occasional access storage. My current partitions on a 1GB are OS 244GB, storage 687GB. For the same reason you can put your page file on a second disk in a hidden partition at the beginning of the disk for just the page file, so it will never get fragmented and it is on the fastest part of the disk.

By: Joshua Post

Joshua Post — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:04:14 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. I would much rather partition my drive if that would yield similar results.

By: rockyjohn

rockyjohn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:16:20 +0000

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?

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Upgrading my storage - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:10:46 +0000

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Upgrading my storage - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:39:26 +0000

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:52:20 +0000

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By: Seagate 300GB HDD that outpreforms Raptor, for $100 less - Tweak3D.Net

Seagate 300GB HDD that outpreforms Raptor, for $100 less - Tweak3D.Net — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:14:44 +0000

[...] Seagate Barracuda 1.5 Tb MOD | TechwareLabs It's a mod that manually resizes the 1.5TB Seagate to 300. This in turn makes the drive perform better than a Raptor. [...]

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downsizing a 1tb seagate to 300gb - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:58:59 +0000

[...] and get similar performance increase ? opinions suggestions, I'm open to them This is the link http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ of a comparison between a downsized Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 and a Velociraptor. The Seagate is [...]

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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:08:32 +0000

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New Hard Drive - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:55:13 +0000

[...] about a comparation between WD Velociraptors and 1.5TB 7200.11 Seagate short stroked at 300 GB (http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/). The Seagate outperformed the VR in all the tests except access time (the VR are 10K RPM). But [...]

By: babafisa

babafisa — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:20:42 +0000

Wow, what a lengthy and in depth article but full of useful information

By: Ventego

Ventego — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:35:47 +0000

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By: n00b

n00b — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:46:15 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:13:16 +0000

You would need to be very careful about what you put on the other partition though. Once you start reading files from both partitions at the same time the performance gains would go out the window.

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Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:34:02 +0000

[...] insane reads & writes & then i'll just get one or two WD caviar blacks. Have a read here: http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ When you have some extra cash for a larger drive or two, really worth it IMO. [...]