I am trying to figure out what kind of WD HDD I have.
The first "caviar" drive was released in 1990, what is your drive model?
According to this article it was 1991 when the Caviar series started. Are there any numbers on the drive you can input at the Western Digital site?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital
1991?
"1990 – Caviar drives introduced"
" (1991) That year saw the rise of WDC's Caviar drives"
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If your looking for how old it is it should have a build date on it.
Well unfortunately I am not home at the moment and will not be until Sunday afternoon. But the reason I ask is because I purchased my current HDD back in March/April of 2008. I am using my uncle's PC right now and Windows seems to boot up faster (noticeably faster) than it does on my new PC I built last Thursday and I know he has a WD Caviar Black HDD because I am the one who purchased it and installed it for him. And I was thinking that it's possible my HDD is slower than his. If I remember correctly my HDD doesn't say Caviar Black anywhere on it but it does have the black circles/dots on it. Maybe it does and I just overlooked it.
I am pretty sure this is the HDD I installed for him
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
I really hope that is the only reason his PC boots up/shuts down fast than my new PC :/
you could have gotten a 5400 rpm drive for your new build are you sure you bought a WD for your new PC? if so the lable should be blue, red, green, or black depending on the type.
I reused my old HDD for my new build. I purchased the HDD back in March/April 2008 I believe. It might only be a 3.0Gb/s HDD. The Caviar Black HDD I installed for my uncle is a 6.0Gb/s HDD. I won't know more until I get home Sunday afternoon so I can check the model number on my HDD. I'm assuming that can be done through Device Manager correct?
mid 2000s
Caviar drives have been around forever, but Caviar Black has only been around since SATA and around the same time they released their first 1tb drives so about 2006 or 07
I purchased mine in March/April 2008 at $120 (a good deal at the time) so it is possible it is only a 3.0Gb/s drive. At least I hope.
Well come to think of it I believe it is only SATA 2.0 so that would make it a 3.0Gb/s drive. Will cloning my current HDD to a newer one slow down a newer HDD from cloning? Did that question make sense? Sorry if it sounds confusing :/
seeing as its a HDD and not an SSD it will make no difference whatsoever as no HDD can use all of the bandwidth of Sata 3GB/s
But do you think that is why his PC boots up and shuts down faster because he has a faster HDD?
no
its most likely you have more startup programs or some other factor
It's a week old install of Windows 7. Only thing I installed were drivers, some games, maintenance/monitoring programs, and Google Chrome. I had Firefox but was having trouble with Adobe Flash so I switched to Google Chrome and uninstalled Firefox. Look at this screenshot of my desktop. Just imagine Google Chrome in place of Firefox and that is what I have installed myself so far.
http://imageshack.us/a/img688/8327/38303993.png
no idea
but its still most likely something else as current HDDs cant maximize the bandwidth of sata 3gb/s
I know you said you have no idea, but do you have any ideas? I just want to figure this out.
Correct me if I am wrong but cannot the RAM and CPU speed affect these speeds he is asking about? The variations between you uncle’s computer and yours could be 16GB of RAM VS 4 or something like that. If the 2 CPUs have very different speeds could that not have an affect as well? The bus that this data must travel through the motherboards may be having an affect as well or a combination of some or all of the above mentioned items.
I have an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz, 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600MHz, MSI R7870 2GB GDDR5 OC Edition, GHz Edition.
My uncle has a Dell Studio XPS pre-built PC that has a Dell Inc. OFF3FN motherboard, chipset 785G, AMD Phenom II X6 1035T 2.66GHz, 8GB of RAM and CPU-Z says it is PC3-10700 (667MHz) max bandwidth, and my old BFG 8800 GTS OC 640mb GPU.
We both have Windows 7 64-bit with all the updates from Windows Update and of course the latest drivers for the hardware on both systems. I honestly believe his HDD is much faster than mine.
Well that flushed my query down the toilet with the system you have! This is not logical captain. The HDD you installed for your uncle is one of the fastest available beyond hybrids. If your HDD has black circles then it is a black edition. The question I think now comes down to Cache, RPM, and possibly the SATA connection speed. I’ll be honest, this is a little beyond my full understanding of why this would be happening.