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my Raptor is acting badly...it is incredibly and unbelievably sloooowwww...

I bought it a few years back for $60 off CL (160GB HP OEM), it was sealed and the guy said it was a replacement for an RMAed drive, I ran HD Tune on it the other day along with all my other drives and this drive is the only one where the graph tops out at 90MB/sec, all the other graphs (even for the 5400rpm green drives) top out at 150MB/sec...

the stats for the most part are all on par with the slower of the 5400rpm green drives, which really shocked me, I want to migrate the contents of this drive (boot drive) to my 640GB Samsung and have used MSI's HDDBackup tool to create an image of the Raptor's contents in a folder on another drive, can I restore the image of that partition to a disc that has more space than the original partition...? 149GBs to a 640 GB HDD...? will it create another separate partition on the 640GB or just place the contents into that existing partition...? will it then boot...? I usually just do clean installs or upgrades, so this is all new to me and would be my first time transferring an image file of a boot drive to another drive...

help please...?
 
All Raptors but the newest ones are pretty slow compared to modern 7200rpm drives. The only advantage of them will be in IOPS. That said, your drive does sound pretty awful. Why not just use Acronis True Image? And yes, you can copy it to a bigger drive and expand the partition while not messing up your OS.
 
dandragonrage said:
All Raptors but the newest ones are pretty slow compared to modern 7200rpm drives. The only advantage of them will be in IOPS. That said, your drive does sound pretty awful. Why not just use Acronis True Image? And yes, you can copy it to a bigger drive and expand the partition while not messing up your OS.
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cool, I may try that, but the HDDBackup was a utility I got with my P55 GD80, I may just try to restore the partition image to the 640GB drive and see what happens, there's nothing important on it anyway...
 
There's probably something on Ultimate Boot CD that will work - you could even use "dd" from *nix and then perhaps use Windows to enlarge the partition once running on the new drive...
 
you could even use "dd" from *nix and then perhaps use Windows to enlarge the partition once running on the new drive
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I have done that before with success. There are also ntfs tools on sysrescuecd that can do this. ntfsclone ntfsresize (i believe) also gparted.

also clonezilla

http://clonezilla.org/

So many free options to clone a drive..
 
drescherjm said:
I have done that before with success. There are also ntfs tools on sysrescuecd that can do this. ntfsclone ntfsresize (i believe) also gparted.

also clonezilla

http://clonezilla.org/

So many free options to clone a drive..
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english please, my newbishness is EPIC!!!1!11!1!!! EPIC I tell you...

I am DLing clonezilla now as I type this though...so thanks...

:D
 
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so I migrate my OS from the Raptor to the Samsung that had outperformed my Raptor in HD Tune and now the Samsung's performance is pretty much "meh" once it became the OS drive (the Raptor is out because both can't be in at the same time I guess, something about a signature failure), so which will give me the best performance...?

- the Samsung basically as a small storage drive...

storage.jpg


the Samsung as a boot drive...1st pass and then a 2nd pass two hours later, wow, big difference...I wonder what happened...?

boot.jpg
boot2.jpg


the Raptor as the boot drive...

raptor.jpg


I'm thinking the Raptor may give me the best performance, but I may just keep the Samsung in there unless performance just gets absolutely horrible, it runs about 10°-15°C cooler than the Raptor and probably uses less powah...

the good thing out of all this is that I now know how I can migrate an image of my OS to a SSD if I decide to go that route (seriously thinking of pulling the trigger on at least a 120GB SSD)...

thoughts anyone...? on which drive to use, not whether to go SSD...lol...

EDIT: I think I made it worse...damn photobucket won't let me go bigger...

EDIT2: damn...lol...is it too big now...? fark...
 
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That image is too small to read. Nor is it a thumbnail link to the larger version.
 
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