Thinking about getting a velicoraptor

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Liver

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Thinking about upgrading to a velicoraptor from a raptor 150 gig variety.

The only thing really stopping me is the joy of installing Windows all over again, with all the tweaks, games, and all.

All my important stuff is on my Mac and backed up.

Is there an easy and cost effective way to make an exact duplicate of my 150 gig drive onto a 300 gig drive? So to the computer (and me) the only change is the drive and none of the software?
 
Use Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost or another imaging software to copy your current install onto the new drive.

Western Digital might have free software available to do that. But not sure how well it works. TrueImage and Ghost are the most recommended imaging apps here. Might also want to try DriveImage XML since it's free.
 
Danny Bui said:
Use Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost or another imaging software to copy your current install onto the new drive.

Western Digital might have free software available to do that. But not sure how well it works. TrueImage and Ghost are the most recommended imaging apps here. Might also want to try DriveImage XML since it's free.
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I tried Ghost a number of years ago (awhile back) and tried to image a RAID partition, and failed miserably. Nothing worse than believing you have the security of a back up and it not working what at all.

It was a couple of years ago and it was a RAID partition, I'll look into it again.

Of the two, which one is better at just imaging?
 
i just went from 150 raptor to the new velociraptor. i used acronis trueimage and it worked without any problems. it's relatively quick process.

i'm noticing improve boot up time, about 30%, and all the programs definitely load up faster, especially during the startup.
 
To the OP, what kind of motherboard do you have? If it uses the Intel ICH9R, you shouldn't get a Velociraptor. It won't work right. This is my current problem.
 
Brahmzy said:
To the OP, what kind of motherboard do you have? If it uses the Intel ICH9R, you shouldn't get a Velociraptor. It won't work right. This is my current problem.
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What are your symptoms? I think a lot of people here are on p35 motherboards, this could be a killer for a lot of upgrade plans (including my own).
 
I have the Bad Axe 2, Intel 975XBX2KR, the north bridge is 975X.
 
I used norton ghost when I made the exact same migration without issue. If you can get your hands on it the corporate version is very nice becuase you can boot from the cd/floppy and do the migration directly from one drive to the other. It will even expand the partition to fill all 300gb.
 
Rather than get a Velociraptor, have you seen the new Fujitsu 1TB drives?
They only have 3 platters (334GB each) so the Data Density and hence the Data Transfer Rates are a step above previous drives.
Granted the seek time isnt as fast but in most cases, the extra speed makes up for it and they are truly massive to boot!

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article843-page3.html
Average read speed is 93MB/s !
They are damn cheap too.

Mine arrives on Friday :D
 
VR's are pricey but very fast. I run mine on a P35 and no problems whatsoever. Blazing fast.

I also used Acronis to move from a 150 to the VR. No problems at all.

I just added a 640aaks and finally ditched my multiple 200's and 250's. It's a lot quieter in here now, and I was getting over 100MB/s transferring data over from the VR. Nice!
 
Liver said:
I tried Ghost a number of years ago (awhile back) and tried to image a RAID partition, and failed miserably. Nothing worse than believing you have the security of a back up and it not working what at all.

It was a couple of years ago and it was a RAID partition, I'll look into it again.

Of the two, which one is better at just imaging?
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I use Ghost on RAID arrays all the time, Ghost 7 and higher tend to do fine with most RAID controllers. I now use Ghost 11 though.
 
I used Acronis to clone my Vista installation from my older 150 GB Raptor to the new Velociraptor, and after cloning had really odd problems with crashing background services (mostly BITS). Reinstalled Vista and everything worked fine after that.
 
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