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Looking To Buy A Mac, Which of these 3 would you buy?

#41 Evildave

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 04:56 PM

Checked the SMART status of that 'older' drive? Might be crawling toward its grave. Be sure to backup those VMs.

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 06:20 PM

I don't know what happened there - I ended up shutting down the PC, and then trying again, and then it worked ok. (I still get queue lengths of about 5 or so when the virtual OS is booting though.) I doubt the drive is dying - smart and HD Tune say it's ok, and it hasn't been used all that much (it was in a nas server for a while, and that was only turned on for backups, then the nas itself failed, with the hard drives in it being completely affected).

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 06:08 PM

slow laptop hard drives have 15ms or higher seek times. Is it really hard to imagine a computer requesting more data than those drives can deliver? Then the requests continue to pile up. Most queue depths stop at 32 though.

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