Getting screwed eevry day!

[Atomicpower]

We're getting screwed every day! In the good old times (1997) When i still had my Pentium 166MMX with 32MG of ram and a 4.3 (5400RPM) gb Ibm hard drive, my drive was formatted in the FAT system! Windows gave me the option to reformat it into the FAT32 which doubled the available space! But now I bought the Maxtor Diamond Max+ 40GB and guess what FAT32. What the #!@#. So this is actually a 20 GB hard drive reformatted in the FAT32 format. And at 7200 RPM it's about 4 times as slow right? I tried using The disc defragmenter and again what the $#@# it took me 2 HOURS come on it took only 15 min on my old one. This sucks! Hard drives are too slow!

 

[Atomicpower]

Oh great i misspelled my topic!

 

[Windogg]

WTF are you talking about? FAT32 does NOT double your capacity in relation to FAT16. Drive speed is a function of rotaional speed, physical size, and data density. What do you mean by "4 times a slow?"

Slow down and explain.

Windogg

 

[wyvrn]

Editing the first message will allow you to edit the topic, right?

 

[Windogg]

To answer your question in GH, some Maxtor drives run hot.

 

[hubbs]

This guy is definatley on the WRONG kinda crack if you ask me.

 

[Viperoni]

Crack doesn't do you over this bad, not even a kilo...

 

[RU482]

Since when is having a P166 and 32 MB considered the "good ole times"???

I thought computers sucked ass back then.

 

[Atomicpower]

IT's true! When I ran disc defragmenter on my old computer it only too me 15 min, on my new one it's 2 hours!

 

[Atomicpower]

How else should i explain it my old one ran at 5400RPM and my new one runs at 7200 but it's almoust 10x as big! but only 30%faster rotation. And it's true that if you had a Hard drive in the FAT sysem and reformatted it into the FAT32 you get more memory! Don't believe me get your dusty computer with Win95(actually not that old) out of your garage and then go to C:... properties just take a look!

 

[Atomicpower]

Redly what's your point?

 

[Czar]

newbie alert

 

[Windogg]

FAT16 has a 2GB limit so that is why formatting in FAT32 "doubled" you hard drive space to 4.3GB. Thas because you were only using 1/2 of your drive's available space. 2 patritions in FAT16 would clear up that problem

Defrag is NOT a speed benchmark. A lot of factors create slow defrag. Any disk access during defrag will reset the software. IE, leaving software open, running programs in the system tray etc. could cause a disk access and restart the process.

Take a chill pill dood.

Windogg

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

I don't understand where the FAT32 = 2x Space as FAT16 is coming from. As I understand it, FAT32 frees up a bit more space, but doesn't double your HDD.

Listen to Windogg, he knows what he's talking about. I have a DiamondMax 40 + 40 GB and it runs like a charm.

 

[Atomicpower]

You're maybe right. I had two partitions on my old one! both 1.99 GB and with FAT32 it would have been a bigger number i can't remeber because it only wanted to convert the unused space into a new drive with FAT32. I you want i'll start up that bad boy and look it up to be sure!

 

[Atomicpower]

KarsinTB
Is your Maxtor drive really hot? (Warm at least?) mine is about 42C.

 

[Windogg]

Hard drives too slow?

Here ya go. Just make sure you have $50,000 to blow on the 3.2GB version.

$50,000 solution to "slow" hard drives

Windogg

 

[RU482]

my point is p166's sucked ass

 

[nd]

P166's were great for their time... they most certainly did not suck ass.

 

[Atomicpower]

That's right!

 

[~zonker~]

sounds like you got the noide key set in your registry when you added or changed the hard drives.... do a registry search for 'noide' and if there are any in there.... that's the problem

 

[Atomicpower]

What's NOIDE?

 

[lowtech1]

I smell troll bait.

 

[Atomicpower]

Hey i didn't mean that!

 

[MWink]

Defrag only takes a few minutes on my Maxtor DM+ 30GB since I upgraded to Win ME.