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« Reply #30 on: February 10, 2011, 12:05:34 AM » |
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it actually took 16 seconds from hitting enter for the whole operating system to be installed? Obviously not counting updates, etc. And HDDs are not optical, they are magnetic platters. Optical is CD, DVD and Blu-Ray.  |
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91 Eagle 2000GTX 5spd awd. great handling 87octane daily driver. Compomotive, exhaust, cams.
86 Merkur XR4Ti 5spd, rwd, turbo, 91,381km. Original paint, heated leather. intercooled, big VAM
06 Mazdaspeed6 6spd awd, DISI turbo, heated leather HIDs etc, bone stock,203awhp/238tq
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« Reply #31 on: February 10, 2011, 12:07:57 PM » |
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lol there was supposed to be a / in between those. optical/HDDs are ancient, meaning both separately haha oops!
yep 16 seconds from hitting enter to finished, not including updates. playing SC2 on highest video quality settings and still being at 60+ frames is pretty sweet
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John Hartman
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« Reply #32 on: February 11, 2011, 03:05:29 PM » |
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holy crap I gots ta get me one of those!!!
you guys must have installed it from a hard disc image tho, no way a DVD drive can transfer data at that rate. Must be a baddass motherboard as well and super fast memory too. Thats ALOT of data to be moved and written.
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91 Eagle Talon TSi 5spd awd. quickest and fastest pump gas 14b in BC? now -12/Tial equipped
91 Eagle 2000GTX 5spd awd. great handling 87octane daily driver. Compomotive, exhaust, cams.
86 Merkur XR4Ti 5spd, rwd, turbo, 91,381km. Original paint, heated leather. intercooled, big VAM
06 Mazdaspeed6 6spd awd, DISI turbo, heated leather HIDs etc, bone stock,203awhp/238tq
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Remi Raymond
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« Reply #33 on: February 11, 2011, 03:31:14 PM » |
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Its not that much data. Now, rebuilding a raid 5 array, that takes time.
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They're like expensive pokemon... gotta catch 'em all.
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Chad Giffen
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« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2011, 04:03:56 PM » |
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Ya that had to be an image for sure. I reloaded the OS from scratch on my SSD and it took way longer than that. However, it was way faster than on a regular hard drive.
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« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2011, 04:30:07 PM » |
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Ok Remi, its not AS much data, but its lots for 16 seconds of data transfer.
I have good motherboards, ones that I bought specifically for fast data transfer, one of them even is supposed to do something that eliminates one area that it has to pass thru from drive to drive. I believe it doesn't have to go thru the northbridge or something like that. Sorry its been a while since I built that one.
I have good quality high speed SATA drives, the correct cabling, correctly setup. When I changed over to this setup, yes, installing XP Pro was quite a bit quicker, as was just transferring large files, but still, a fresh OS install takes probably 15min without updates etc.
If I could get it down to 5 min, that would be a huge increase. If I could get it down to 1min that would be a miracle. But 16 seconds? Holy crap.
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91 Eagle Talon TSi 5spd awd. quickest and fastest pump gas 14b in BC? now -12/Tial equipped
91 Eagle 2000GTX 5spd awd. great handling 87octane daily driver. Compomotive, exhaust, cams.
86 Merkur XR4Ti 5spd, rwd, turbo, 91,381km. Original paint, heated leather. intercooled, big VAM
06 Mazdaspeed6 6spd awd, DISI turbo, heated leather HIDs etc, bone stock,203awhp/238tq
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« Reply #36 on: February 11, 2011, 06:34:35 PM » |
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when you look at how much of a system you can buy for $1,000 nowadays you can build a pretty fast system. but when your budget is $3,000 and you buy all the parts yourself and build it yourself? that's some speed goin on, let me tell ya. and yes, we definitely didn't use some crappy dvd drive to transfer that much data that quick haha
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« Reply #37 on: February 11, 2011, 07:32:06 PM » |
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no shit on how much you can get for a grand! And 3? Holy shit!!
I remember when I built my first system. My first sound card I bought was aSoundblaster16 was $179!! My first hdd I bought cost me $149 and it was, get this, a 500meg drive!! It was replacing a 30meg. I think I payed $99 for a 14.4 modem!!
And RAM? Don't even get me started, but I think I payed $250 for 4x128k sticks once.
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91 Eagle Talon TSi 5spd awd. quickest and fastest pump gas 14b in BC? now -12/Tial equipped
91 Eagle 2000GTX 5spd awd. great handling 87octane daily driver. Compomotive, exhaust, cams.
86 Merkur XR4Ti 5spd, rwd, turbo, 91,381km. Original paint, heated leather. intercooled, big VAM
06 Mazdaspeed6 6spd awd, DISI turbo, heated leather HIDs etc, bone stock,203awhp/238tq
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« Reply #38 on: February 12, 2011, 12:38:59 PM » |
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Drew why not be specific.
I am assuming you transferred the image from another external hard drive. Possibly SSD external?
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« Reply #39 on: February 12, 2011, 02:33:28 PM » |
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I would think he made an image of the original disc on the same hard disk, then installed it from there.
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91 Eagle Talon TSi 5spd awd. quickest and fastest pump gas 14b in BC? now -12/Tial equipped
91 Eagle 2000GTX 5spd awd. great handling 87octane daily driver. Compomotive, exhaust, cams.
86 Merkur XR4Ti 5spd, rwd, turbo, 91,381km. Original paint, heated leather. intercooled, big VAM
06 Mazdaspeed6 6spd awd, DISI turbo, heated leather HIDs etc, bone stock,203awhp/238tq
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« Reply #40 on: February 12, 2011, 06:42:34 PM » |
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booting from an external SSD and installing off that SSD onto the internal RAID SSDs
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