Hello;
Yesterday I bought a new Western Digital 500 Gig Hard drive (WD5000KS) and plugged it into my system. Here are my specs:
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
Motherboard Name Abit IC7-G (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Canterwood i875P
System Memory 1536 MB (DDR SDRAM)
Video Adapter RADEON 9600 SERIES - Secondary (128 MB)
Monitor ViewSonic VG800-2 [18" LCD] (A26033800119)
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 24D1
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 24DB
SCSI/RAID Controller SCSI/RAID Host Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y160P0
Disk Drive WDC WD2500JB-98GVA0
Disk Drive WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S
Optical Drive PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4824A
When I booted Windows it detected the hard drive and installed the drivers for the SATA controller. I loaded up the Disk Management system thru the control panel and sure enough the hard drive was there. I split the drive in two (232.88 Gigs) and told the computer too format the partitions as NTFS. That was 7 hours ago and they are both at 50% formatted now?!?!
So my question is (since this is my first SATA hard drive) how long should it take to format a 500 gig hard drive? Also I cable I bought to hook up the hard drive was labeled as an SATA I Cable. The hard drive is hooked up to an SATA I controller. The hard drive is an SATA II drive. Will this cause an issue?
Kroz
Yesterday I bought a new Western Digital 500 Gig Hard drive (WD5000KS) and plugged it into my system. Here are my specs:
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
Motherboard Name Abit IC7-G (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Canterwood i875P
System Memory 1536 MB (DDR SDRAM)
Video Adapter RADEON 9600 SERIES - Secondary (128 MB)
Monitor ViewSonic VG800-2 [18" LCD] (A26033800119)
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 24D1
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 24DB
SCSI/RAID Controller SCSI/RAID Host Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y160P0
Disk Drive WDC WD2500JB-98GVA0
Disk Drive WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S
Optical Drive PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4824A
When I booted Windows it detected the hard drive and installed the drivers for the SATA controller. I loaded up the Disk Management system thru the control panel and sure enough the hard drive was there. I split the drive in two (232.88 Gigs) and told the computer too format the partitions as NTFS. That was 7 hours ago and they are both at 50% formatted now?!?!
So my question is (since this is my first SATA hard drive) how long should it take to format a 500 gig hard drive? Also I cable I bought to hook up the hard drive was labeled as an SATA I Cable. The hard drive is hooked up to an SATA I controller. The hard drive is an SATA II drive. Will this cause an issue?
Kroz