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Are you recording to a second hard drive? While not the most intensive when it comes to bandwidth, recording to the same drive you're playing PCSX2 off of can cause quite a bit of slowdown just with that.
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You're running into NCQ limitations then.
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okay heres a scenario thats on topic. i want to get a second harddrive for video recording with fraps. currently i run 1 hdd and when i record pcsx2 i dont have any noticeable slowdowns when im running it. question is when i get a second harddrive (my first one is a 7200rpm 6gb/s hdd)
what if my second hdd was a 5400 or 5800rpm HDD that ran at 3gb/s. and had fraps record to that hard drive. would it slow down my gameplay because the speeds arnt the same as how the game is running vs whats being record?.
this question has been puzzling me. i either get a BIG 5400 hdd or a 7200rpm regular 1tb version.
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if you must insist on a 5400 drive, get it from samsung
Seagate and WD's "Green" drives have agressive head parking which reduces performance and drive life span.
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im talking about the most recent Greens from WD, they are doing agressive head parking and wearing the locking mechanism quickly.
WD declared it a fault in Linux but it is reproducible in windows as well
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Yeah it's win7 and Linux mostly, new power management policies or something.
Been getting only Samsung HDDs lately for same reasons, too many Western/Seagate giving up too soon.
Core i5 3570k -- Geforce GTX 670 -- Windows 7 x64
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NGO posted a tool for disabling it, but i haven't seemed to need it.