Drive update


Raptor works!

I am knackered! Was up 'till 3 this morning working; really can't do anything tonight apart from a blog entry...

Well, Tuesday morning found me back up East Kilbride with the second dead Raptor. The guys at Maplin gave me a refund no problems then I haired it across to Glasgow. Parking was a nightmare - 2.5 hours to get parked! Anyway, into Maplin, plonked down the dosh and got my third Raptor. Back home and ran the quick test - IT ALL PASSED! Thank you God! Ran the full sector check - all passed. Hurrah!

Right, boot back into OS X and CCC my boot drive across - no problems. Reboot. Reasonable amount of time passes then my desktop appears. Slight dissapointment; thought it might be a bit faster than that :( Then it dawned on me that all the caches had been deleted. OK, reboot.

'Grunt'... pause... 'grunt' and there's my desktop - boy when they said this drive was fast they weren't kidding. I rebooted again. And again, And again. All in I rebooted ten times just to see the speed of it. Very impressed. I'll never buy another 7200RPM hard drive again.

But of course on the very day I actually get a serviceable one, what do they do? Only release a new version double the size! Bugger.



Posted: Thu - January 5, 2006 at 09:33 PM          

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