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[eton975]

Got my HDD and RAM the day before yesterday: 2 4GB sticks of HyperX Red and a Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB. More RAM's always good (Planetary Annihilation's MINIMUM requirement is 8 gigs) and the DT01ACA300 is crazy silent.

Sadly, it doesn't do quite as well as my ST2000DM001 in benches.

 

[Bearmann]

Looks nice, but is your RAM in the correct slots for dual channel mode? I thought that usually the alternate slots are matched. Shouldn't it be Red-Blue-Red-Blue instead of Red-Red-Blue-Blue?

 

[Soulkeeper]

congrats
I've noticed that performance can vary from drive to drive, even the same model numbers.
I had one DM that did 185MB/s and another did 205MB/s
my toshiba gets like 215MB/s
Maybe it's just the fw version, or some background stuff that may be running.

 

[eton975]

Looks nice, but is your RAM in the correct slots for dual channel mode? I thought that usually the alternate slots are matched. Shouldn't it be Red-Blue-Red-Blue instead of Red-Red-Blue-Blue?

Dunno. I thought that maybe the two kits might have different memory chips inside them, so I thought I'd dedicate one kit to each channel.

Probably doesn't matter though.

 

[ArisVer]

Probably doesn't matter though.

It does if you want dual channel. Check your motherboard manual.

 

[eton975]

It does if you want dual channel. Check your motherboard manual.

yeah... but all slots are populated and Speccy says it's dual-channel.

 

[eton975]

I dunno if it's just me, but the DT01ACA300 feels... faster? when loading games than the Seagate. Dunno if it's just placebo or because the HDTune latency of the Toshiba is a lot lower (~13ms vs 20ms on the Seagate)

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I dunno if it's just me, but the DT01ACA300 feels... faster? when loading games than the Seagate. Dunno if it's just placebo or because the HDTune latency of the Toshiba is a lot lower (~13ms vs 20ms on the Seagate)

Latency will do that.