When is your Hard Drive worked the hardest?

[FieldMarshals]

Mine are not taxed at all anymore, of course I run Raid 0, with drives stripped down to fastest speed- set by the factory- they cruise thru all installations twice as fast in read and writes as before, the only I quess slower time, which would be much slower with out Raid 0 is a complete virsus scan.

FieldMarshals

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Video editing for me

Happens almost daily, I'm in the process of converting home videos from tape to dvd

 

[Perplx]

Copy a 10GB file to somewher else on the drive. At the same time copy the same 10GB file to a different drive (or several).

 

[tynopik]

that would be an interesting graph, charting throughput vs number of simultaneous writes

throughput with 1 write
throughput with 2 simultaneous writes
throughput with 3 simultaneous writes
etc

compares both raw speed (1 write) and intelligence (as number of simultaneous writes increases)

 

[CheetahMk2]

When Windows starts using the hard drive as virtual memory (esp during a Photoshop) : /

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Play the MMOG Shadowbane if you really want to rip a hard drive to shreds. :thumbsdown:

 

[strend]

Lineage2, any heavy player populated(Giran, Cruma, castle sieges) area in that game is hell on a hard drive. Heck, just walking from one city to another is bad-L2 has very good quality character models and doesn't have load zones-it loads on the fly.

 

[ElFenix]

playing two instances of daoc with only 512 megs of ram

 

[T9D]

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