CPU/Mobo Best P67 motherboard

I just transferred some 500 GB some time back and it took around 1-1.5 hrs or so. Of course, I have a WD Black 2 TB SATA III 64mb HDD.

But copying from one HDD to another just took a lil over an hour.

Even if you have a few TB of data, leave it over night and it will probably happen even before morning! :p
 
^^ Try copying 2TB of data to a Green series drive and then talk. While my source drives were all WD Performance drives, the write performance of the Green Series drives murders any chance of fast copying. I think it suffices to say that it took me like 20 hours to copy every thing.
 
rite said:
I just transferred some 500 GB some time back and it took around 1-1.5 hrs or so. Of course, I have a WD Black 2 TB SATA III 64mb HDD.

But copying from one HDD to another just took a lil over an hour.

Even if you have a few TB of data, leave it over night and it will probably happen even before morning! :p
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Ok. Another lesson. Single-large-file copy takes less time than multiple-medium/smaller-file copy.

And no it doesnt. I have tried to copy several 1 TB to another 1TB. It never does. Atleast for me it takes till 11~12 pm if lucky.
 
It wasn't a single file, probably more than 10k files :D

The speed was like approx 5-6GB/min

And WD green is crap. You should either go for Seagate 7200.12 or WD Black 64mb.

And I don't see the point of anything less than 2TB for people who need 2 or more drives.
 
rite said:
It wasn't a single file, probably more than 10k files :D

The speed was like approx 5-6GB/min

And WD green is crap. You should either go for Seagate 7200.12 or WD Black 64mb.

And I don't see the point of anything less than 2TB for people who need 2 or more drives.
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You might not see the point but are you the final authority of what other people should want????

But on the other hand I would not stop myself from buying a board because of 6 Ports.
 
Exactly my point. I would rather have a really good board for a decent price and great warranty with just 6 ports rather than something which is at best equal in every aspect, doesn't cost less either and is pathetic with RMA but has 8 ports!
 
^^ I guess if you have 6 members in your family, you would still buy buy a car with 4 seats because it has "supposedly" better After sales service than other cars that have 6 seat capacity. That is techboy for you.

As for me I need 8 SATA ports (considering I was already using 7 on my previous rig at one point of time), so if I am spending over 10k, I would rather buy a board with 8 SATA ports (Be it a MSI P67 GD55/65/80, Asus P8P67 series or the Gigabyte UD7). If I cannot RMA the board for whatever reason, I will throw it away and buy a new board again with 8 SATA ports. Why should I compromise on expandability when I am spending a premium for a feature rich motherboard.

And yeah, I love to burst your bubble, so let me tell you that apart from Rashi, I have had experience of RMA experience with Gigabyte as well and I found it just as lousy as Rashi's. Took them about 2 months to replace my X48-DQ6 and I think the only reason I even got it by then is because I had Amarbir's help who made sure that I got a replacement. Whether its Asus, MSI, Gigabyte or what ever else, the After sales service is always lousy in our country. If you get help from your dealer, that is the only saving grace. otherwise its all one and the same. So good luck trying to make motherboard decisions based on "perceived" after sales alone rather than features and value for money.
 
rite said:
Exactly my point. I would rather have a really good board for a decent price and great warranty with just 6 ports rather than something which is at best equal in every aspect, doesn't cost less either and is pathetic with RMA but has 8 ports!
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see what you say is correct, but its different for everyone according to their requirement.

the giga boards are excellent no doubt, but if i were to buy a p67 for my home use i would go still go for asus as 6 sata ports is too less for me. im stuck with 6ports on my current board and cant add more hdd for almost 2yrs now.

for my office i just purchased a p67 board. i needed just 1 sata slot, i am never going to add more to it. I was very keen to get the ud4, but as always gigabyte stock here in india is always sad. they always get very limited stock of all products and is sold out in no time and then they hike the price (this was the case with x58 & am3). i still own plenty of x58 and amd ud3p giga boards and know this from personal experience.

this why my last amd board was Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 and recently asus p8p67 pro, both of which are performing great when overclocked 24/7. even the technical team of asus was very helpfull for a problem i ran into and provided me with a special bios which they made just for me.

http://www.techenclave.com/cpu-mobo-corner/calling-asus-p8p67-pro-owners-190016.html

so as you can see its not just all about the performance and after sales/warranty, if a user has plenty of hdds and knows he is going to add more there is no chance he would go for anything less than a gigabyte ud7.

for me personally i dont even care about after sales and warranty. 1st thing that matters is the performance and then the number of sata slots the board has.
 
As far as performance is concerned, Asus isn't better than Gigabyte. Infact in terms of real world performance and OC, most of the boards over 11k perform more or less the same.

The only difference is in minor features like no of SATA ports, board comtability and ease of use, and primarily after sales service and brand loyalty.

You can reach the same speeds with all three MSI, Gigabyte and Asus, or at least enough to make the difference not worth keeping.

Performance at stock and OC all will be excellent with all of them, except that in this particular race Gigabyte is a lil ahead but Asus is very close too and even MSI is just 1% behind the leader. So it doesn't make a difference.

But I still can't digest the fact that there can be a person for who 8 TB internal storage + 2x2TB external storage, a total of 12 TB storage isn't enough.

Then you definitely belong to the rare 0.01% of users and the sales of the company aren't really affected if you use more than 12 TB space.
 
you cant shelf them out bro . Yeah people do need their space so there are boards to fit there requirements :) . ASUS , MSI is no doubt a good brand but as you said Gigabyte is better by a whisker . As i said its on the buyer's need if he doesnt need so many SATA ports so be it . And dont compare Udit here again . He has a 980X how many of us do actually own that . And he keeps back of every HDD on another HDD :) its his will that he buys all that space so dont think everyone will be the same :) . IMO 4TB should be more more than enough for a regular user :) even with all your porn collection :p LOL.
 
I myself have 4 TB internal space and I don't feel that it is going to run out for at least another 1+ years or so. I might need to go from from external 1 TB to 2/3TB space, but 4 TB internal is way more than enough for 99% of users
 
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