My turn to ask for assitance,
Since my IQ846 is primarily used in the bedroom sound and vibration are a key factor to consider, I had been thinking of an SSD, but the WD Green Advanced format drives with the 4096 sectors are getting decent reviews for Vista and Win7 PCs.
So I bit the bullet and bought one of the new 800GB units, and the setup of the new clean drive from my recovery DVDs was very slow, but I expected this since it was embedded XP as far as I know, I figured that after I got Vista and then Win7 on it, the speed would pick up.
Don't misunderstand, when I say speed, I mean average to a tick slow is more then acceptable for my use, I do not need desktop quad-core level performance.
Even with Win7 and all the updates it seems there are still performance issue, but they're tough to figure out, things just stall for no reason at all, then come back fine as if there was no issue. Live HD TV on the internal tuner? unwatchable.
Ideas? and yes (send it back is acceptable)
Diane
That makes sense, and fits with my personal experience with that particular drive series.
When my OE 500gb died, I replaced it with a WD green 1tb drive. Since I was not cloning the old one, it was a clean install to Vista (at the time). I have since upgraded to 7. It has been flawless, and it's access times etc are a little better than the original drive.
But, again, I had to do a clean install...
Paisley Pirate
-Illigitimus non carborundum est
FWIW, when I refer to "cloning" I'm not referring to me cloning one drive to another, but that the whole Recovery Media process with the Recovery DVDs is effectively a cloning procedure, and that's where the issue starts.
Diane
Interesting... as I said, my performance index went up when I went to the WD green drive... from 5.4 to 5.9.
That was an interesting article you linked to, btw...
Now you have me wondering if I ought to run that just to see if it goes even higher/faster?
Cheers!
Paisley Pirate
-Illigitimus non carborundum est
Paisley Pirate said: Interesting... as I said, my performance index went up when I went to the WD green drive... from 5.4 to 5.9. That was an interesting article you linked to, btw... Now you have me wondering if I ought to run that just to see if it goes even higher/faster? Cheers!
Even when the drive was "aligned incorrectly" I still got a 5.x Win7 "performance index" it was strange for sure, but the performace of the drive itself was awful from usability.
Also very important to note, I'm not discussing all WD Green drives, just the newest that are considered "Advanced format" and use 4096k sectors, as opposed to the old 512k sectors we've had for decades. They have the "you need to run these tools if you run XP" warning.
Diane
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Apparently the cloning/Recovery process for the HP systems is not fully compatible with 4k cluster advanced format drives, after a great deal of trial and error I found out that if you use the WD Align software that you would use for an XP installation before you run Recovery, then the 512k sector alignment of the drive works fine.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/why-new-hard-disks-might-not-be-much-fun-for-xp-users.ars/
If you dig into the WD support documents they imply the Vista and Win7 installs will be ok, but they're not because they are effectively cloned, and those installs need the alignment to "old style" sectors.
Had I done a clean install on a Win7 DVD I would not have had this issue.
useful things for folks coming after me to know.
Diane