2tb HDD boot time

[CapedCrusader]

I have just put a a new 2tb HDD in my trusty X3 xbox.

It's this drive:

http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_ba ... t2000dl003

with the connector:

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/sata-to-id ... card-12537

I boot to XBMC to E:/apps, have F: and G:, 927mb each, 64k cluster size.

Everything's OK, but the boot time to XBMC is quite long - about 40 seconds. With my previous 2tb drive (Seagate too) it was shorter, I reckon around 20 secs.

Any Ideas how I can improve it?

[xman]

How full is it?. Boot times shorten as they fill up.

[CapedCrusader]

Empty:)

[xman]

Yer, I've had up to 40 second boot times while the HDD was empty but these all come back to about 12 seconds once the HDD is about 1/3 full. I wouldn't be to worried yet.

[CapedCrusader]

Thanks for the info, this is consoling, we'll see:)

I have another problem with this drive, I'll start another thread.

[CapedCrusader]

Problem solved

This is how it happened:

Boot time did not change after filling about 200 GB on the drive. Then, while FTPing to G: some files were stuck, there was no way to FTP them. I reformatted G: with XBpartioner 1.1 - LBA84 patch v3. Not only did it fix the transfer problem, but also the boot time improved - from 44 secs to 34! So I decided to give it a try and reformat F: and guess what - boot time went down to 24 secs! It is ok now I guess. The previous long boot was really annoying, but I had already given up.

I don't remember which version of XBpartitioner I used to format for the first time, I'm sure it was showing 64k clusters. I did not do the 1kb file check though.