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TruthInRuin

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I recently decided to switch back to XP from W7 due to my OS drive only being 36GB and running out of room very quickly.

After I switched back, everything seemed fine until I decided to open some folders on my other drive. These folders gave me an access denied error when I tried to open them, and under their properties tab they showed they were empty.

I went back to W7, and I was still locked out, yet this time under properties I could go to the security tab and allow access...for myself, after a clean install? Hmmm...

Anyway, I can now access all of my files perfectly fine, I was just wondering if there was any way to prevent this from happening again? I'd like to go back to XP just for the extra space I would have...

Also to note, both of these folders were my music and video folders, which were being used by WMP, could the way WMP accesses these folders be the problem?

BTW: Love W7.
 
That 1TB Seagate 7200.11 you have will smoke that old 36GB Raptor in performance... if you're gonna do Windows 7 again, use the 36GB Raptor as a temp drive, secondary page file, etc, and shave off 100GB on the Seagate at the beginning of it and use that as your Windows 7 system drive.

Talk about a difference... :)
 
Will it really? Haha wow, didn't realize until now how long I've had that little guy...

Looks like I'll go ahead and stay with 7 after all...
 
The Raptor will win on sheer random access times because of the 10K rpm nature of its spindle speed, but it can't match the sheer average sustained reads and write speeds from that Seagate nowadays. You're looking at something like 60-70MB/s average read speeds off that Raptor and 85-95MB/s average reads off the Seagate so, yeah, the Seagate will be noticeably faster in sustained reads and writes.

Random access times might make the Raptor seem as though it's as fast or faster in some situations, but it's not really faster in terms of getting the data off the platters. It can find it faster, sure, just not transfer it faster.

And those 36GB Raptors were the originals, been out since around late 2003 so, yeah, they've been around a while. :)
 
panhead said:
There is a nasty bug in some of the 7200.11s firmware. Make sure the firmware on that Seagate drive is updated.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
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Thanks for that, already checked though and its good to go.

Joe Average said:
The Raptor will win on sheer random access times because of the 10K rpm nature of its spindle speed, but it can't match the sheer average sustained reads and write speeds from that Seagate nowadays. You're looking at something like 60-70MB/s average read speeds off that Raptor and 85-95MB/s average reads off the Seagate so, yeah, the Seagate will be noticeably faster in sustained reads and writes.

Random access times might make the Raptor seem as though it's as fast or faster in some situations, but it's not really faster in terms of getting the data off the platters. It can find it faster, sure, just not transfer it faster.

And those 36GB Raptors were the originals, been out since around late 2003 so, yeah, they've been around a while. :)
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Should have figured after six years my newer drive would be at least a little faster haha.
 
Joe Average said:
The Raptor will win on sheer random access times because of the 10K rpm nature of its spindle speed, but it can't match the sheer average sustained reads and write speeds from that Seagate nowadays. You're looking at something like 60-70MB/s average read speeds off that Raptor and 85-95MB/s average reads off the Seagate so, yeah, the Seagate will be noticeably faster in sustained reads and writes.

Random access times might make the Raptor seem as though it's as fast or faster in some situations, but it's not really faster in terms of getting the data off the platters. It can find it faster, sure, just not transfer it faster.

And those 36GB Raptors were the originals, been out since around late 2003 so, yeah, they've been around a while. :)
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How would you say the new Velociraptor (300GB) compares to the 1T drive?
 
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