Savage1701 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I had a fast mechanical named after a bird that I knew was losing altitude fast. Replaced it today with a 64GB P series Corsair. It's not aligned, and running under enhanced IDE mode. I know I am not getting the most out of it, but it's faster than that extinct bird, does not stutter, and since it's for SOHO use I don't have to squeeze every ounce of performance out of it. I needed my situation remedied immediately as the CPU is used every day for work and I don't have several days to experiment. I guess if you can't love the one you want then you just gotta learn to love the one you're with... When I have the time I will ghost it as is and try the SATA/AHCI settings with a fresh XP install and see if I can really get it going. It's pretty darn fast already. I did run Diskpart at offset=64, which probably did not align it correctly for XP, and Ghost probably messed it up if it was there anyway, but it's still highly responsive, fast, and stutter-free. Nice work Corsair. It's still really fast even though I have been technically irresponsible in its setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 5, 2009 NP and I would suggest using Accronics Disk Image to image the drive it will not change the alignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimwillsher Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Agreed. I bought a P64 to replace a couple of RAID1 drives. It's installed on my server as the primary drive, running Server 2008 R2. I've then got 4 750GB hard drives in a RAID5 array to give a 2TB data partition. I installed Server 2008 R2 on the P64, and have just forgotten about it. Server uptime 39 days, running flawlessly. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 5, 2009 Sounds perfect. Let us know if you run into any issues or need further assistance. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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