SATA Hard Drive Configuration Question

[Arockerdude 0]

Just built a new system for my GeoVision 800. I'm real happy with it.

Old system was a P4 with HT technology. Gigabyte board. 1000mb of ddr400 memory, Seagate 400 mb hard drive.

New System

Intel Duocore 6400 2.13GHZ

1067 Bus Speed

Intel Board Dg965WH On bord Sound and Video

2GB of Corsair C4 6400 800mhz Memory. Ouch! $239. But I wont have to wonder if I should have bought the good stuff.

Thermaltake 500 watt power supply- I like it. Shiny paint job and nice wires with strong protection covers on them. Plenty of extra wires. The guy at fry's recommended this one.

Mini Typhoon Fan. Man this thing should keep it cool.

Sea Gate Hard drive 500 Gig. SATA plug. Had to bye this because the new mother board only had one ribbon cord connector. The new HD has the SATA plug. Luckily they took my old 400Gig. back. That was hard to believe! Anyway I was shocked to see that I am getting 9 days of 4 cameras round the clock. Wow thats great. I was only getting three days with the old Hard drive. It makes no sense. Three times as long of storage time. Oh well I'm happy with it.

I built this new computer because my other one was two slow.

I use one computer for personel computing and my security system. So before programs were opening slow with the Geovision running in the background. Also it was skipping frames in fast forward replay. With the new system I can fast forward much better with out skipping frames so bad like before. Programs load fast. I can drag the cursor back and forth and it dose not skip frames. Even while lots of programs are running.

Also Geovision and the playback program load very fast now. And the computer loads much faster.

This system did the JOB.

I will trade the processor in for the E6700 with 4 Mb cache if I get the chance again. I could have the other day for another $50. But I didn’t have the time to get down to Fry’s.

One thing though with this new system. At night I have to turn my gain in the GeoVision software up now. Its real dark out there. But I didn't have to do that so much before. But before I had a good ATI AGP video card. And now I'm using the on board graphics. I will probably pick up an Ati PCI Exspress card soon. What the heck I already spent a fortune. They even got me for a new copy of Windows XP. I needed the full install. To get the Raid drivers to load.

Take care all. Dave

 

Here are some pics. Of the new system.

Not bad for an amateur you think? This case has six fans. Do you think I should shut of all but two? One blowing in and one blowing out. And the Mini Typhoon for the processor. The case fans are noisy when they are all blowing. And they blow a lot of dust into the case. I might try and put some type of filter on the in blowing fan.

 

 

 

 

Here is an Avi of the playback. It looks much better on my system. But it's better than not being able to show you anything.

http://www.fototime.com/47A858D2EB22347/orig.avi

 

Desk is kinda messy. That is my backup system up top. It is plugged into my monitor with an video jack. That is my new Samsung 940 MW Monitor Built in TV Tuner. Picture in a picture and input and output jacks like you can't beleive. The first one went out after 3 months. This is the new one they sent.

Edited May 9, 2007 by Guest

[rory 0]

Cool man ..

 

More fans the better, but if you like, i find 1 in and 1 out, plus one on the CPU, just fine, since you have the bigger CPU fan you should be able to ditch the additional side panel CPU fan. Watch the temps with just the single 1 in and 1 out and see how they are, adjust as needed.

 

Why raid though if only 1 hard drive?

 

I didnt find much of an increase in speed myself with the Core 2 Duo, and thats with the 2.67, though the control panel came up quicker

But you have DDR2-800 and that probably is making a big diff too, mine was DDE2-667. ALso I wasnt doing any multi threading really, just regular apps.

[Arockerdude 0]

I guess I should not have loaded the Raid drivers. I could not get Windows to recognize my Hard Drive. So I hit the F3 and loaded the Raid drivers. After that Windows recognized the HD and Windows loaded.

I ended up re formatting and re installing Windows. This time I changed the BIOS to ATA. And Windows recognized my Sata Hard Drive.

I ran a program called SISoftware Sandra. I ran a the test to check my computers performance. I got a message back.

ST3500461AS(ATA): current mode not optimal. check settings. Also I think it was faster with the Raid driver. Do I have my Hard Drive set up wrong? The only choices I saw in the BIOS was Raid,ATA and another setting that was for Windows Vista only. Shouldn't there have been a choice for Sata? Thanks Dave

[rory 0]

yeah dont use NATIVE SATA, cause you would then need to load the drivers. Just set to IDE mode.

[CollinR 0]

If you want to use SATA you MUST press F6 and install the controller drivers BEFORE installing Windows. It cannot be repaired after the fact.

[Arockerdude 0]

Would the computer run faster with the SATA drivers.

And If I press F3 and load the drivers. Should they be Raid drivers I load? or Some other SATA drivers?

I do have a floppy Labeled Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID DRIVER for Intel Desktop Boards. BLACK SATA CONNECTORS Version 6.2.1.1002 D62657-003 It came with my Motherboard.

It seemed to me that the computer ran faster with the raid drivers. Dave

[rory 0]

i doubt it, but dont quote me.

If you want extra data read speed, look at the WD Raptors, twice as fast as a normal 7200rpm drive (4.6ms as opposed to 8.9ms), or go a step better and check out the GigaByte i-Ram @ 0.1ms (only 4GB size though) ...