Ok, I used the Internet Archive to see what the recommended 5400rpm drives were 4 years ago. This point in time seems to be a good place to start.
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200704 ... page2.html
Will try and find one of those drives for sale.
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- Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:41 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Question about buying used older 2.5" HDD's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2410
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:20 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Question about buying used older 2.5" HDD's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2410
Re: Question about buying used older 2.5" HDD's
Yeah, I started there but the only recommended 2.5" hard drives are newer 500GB models. And on the linked article at the top Is the Silent PC Future 2.5-inches wide? the best rated 2.5" drives noise wise are 4200rpm.
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:41 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Question about buying used older 2.5" HDD's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2410
Question about buying used older 2.5" HDD's
I'm looking for a super cheap and small capacity hard drive for an older system, and a used 40-60GB 2.5" 5400rpm SATA I drive seems ideal for this. Will pretty much any previous generation 5400rpm laptop drive I end up getting be considered quiet by SPCR standards, as long as it's soft mounted? Or i...
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:45 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Slower than Fanmate 2?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2137
Re: Slower than Fanmate 2?
When you feed a fanmate with 5V, the output is ~3.5V. This is a fixed voltage though and turning the fanmate knob won't change it.
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:03 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec 900 Drive Cage fits in a P180/2?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2542
Re: Antec 900 Drive Cage fits in a P180/2?
Yes, I know there is no hdd damping. The idea is to use it just as a professional looking extra air intake vent for the P180/2 without hdd's or fan attached to it.
Too bad it's out of stock, even the 1200 drive cage is out of stock too.
Too bad it's out of stock, even the 1200 drive cage is out of stock too.
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:37 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec 900 Drive Cage fits in a P180/2?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2542
Antec 900 Drive Cage fits in a P180/2?
It seems like the mounting system of the drive cages from the Antec 900 (and possibly the 1200) is not proprietary and fits in other cases. I found this pic in another forum of a 900 drive cage installed in a Silverstone FT01: http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9430/pc310263iw6.jpg These cages can b...
- Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Lian Li PC-Q08 Mini-ITX Mini Tower Case
- Replies: 53
- Views: 74116
I had been looking at getting one of the Lian Li mini-ITX cases recently, so it was very nice to see SPCR come out with this review. Lian Li has another very interesting Mini-ITX case, the PC-Q11 . I'ts less deeper than the PC-Q08, has less 'bling' and less vents for noise to escape. I really like i...
- Fri May 08, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silverstone Raven EATX Tower Case
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24013
- Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:01 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P183 Reviewed
- Replies: 41
- Views: 22144
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:17 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian-Li B10
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7346
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:14 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Nexus Value 430 PSU: Affordable Silence
- Replies: 149
- Views: 133716
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:21 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec AVP-2000
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3300
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:42 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec Skeleton... and P183 & Sonata Elite
- Replies: 161
- Views: 131338
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:35 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: 120mm Nexus Fan...but my case came with a 80mm
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2631
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:34 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Nexus Value 430 PSU: Affordable Silence
- Replies: 149
- Views: 133716
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:31 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-V351 - really tight screws...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12366
I guess it's the price you pay for having 5.25" bays on the sides... but somehow Lian Li managed to make their PC-X series cases with only one screw on each side panel PC-X500
They should implement it on the V351. Unscrewing 6 screws to get a side panel off is for the birds.
They should implement it on the V351. Unscrewing 6 screws to get a side panel off is for the birds.
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:20 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P182 - definitely not silent - updated
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5831
You don't mention your hard drives in your components list, how many do you have? What brand/models? Replacing the antec tricool fans is almost mandatory. I know it doesn't make sense to buy the case regarded as one of the quietest of all time and then having to go spend extra money on fans.. antec ...
- Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:07 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P183 on the Antec Website
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5818
- Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:48 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: How to build a LOUD comput0r
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14201
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:21 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Case airflow setup help. Which is best?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5309
- Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:50 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 100 HD movies on a stamp-size chip
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10823
All valid points, though I was referring to cellphones 5 years from now. Who knows what the battery life and processing power of cellphones will be like then.. I imagine the charger could be used to power the cellphone while screening movies to save the battery, like it's done with laptops. If you'r...
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:32 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 100 HD movies on a stamp-size chip
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10823
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:07 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 120mm exhaust fan acoustic cover / muffler / baffles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6272
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:29 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: If the SPCR recommended 120mm fans article was updated today
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14055
Thanks, that completly passed me by.jessekopelman wrote:Fan Roundup #5Shaman wrote:Can you point me to the review of the Slipstream(s)?
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: If the SPCR recommended 120mm fans article was updated today
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14055
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:09 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: If the SPCR recommended 120mm fans article was updated today
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14055
If the SPCR recommended 120mm fans article was updated today
What fans would be at the top? The Slipstreams? Any others?
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec ISK 300 Mini-ITX case
- Replies: 115
- Views: 118869
the chinese sites seem to indicate those are dual 80mm fans, not 60mm. i cant read chinese but you see the word 80mm on some of those chinese sites. That's also the impression I first got looking at the pictures. In one of those pics it's obvious the two fans have about the same length as the mothe...
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:22 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Apex MI-008: A Cheap Quiet mini-ITX Case?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 65871
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:29 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Apex MI-008: A Cheap Quiet mini-ITX Case?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 65871
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:07 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: cm cosmos 1000 vs. cosmos s
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7398
The 1000 will definitely be the quiestest of the two. The Cosmos S looks like the version a 'misguided power-crazed gamer' would choose. :lol: Don't worry too much about hdd cooling in the 1000, it has a filtered vent right bellow the hdd cage, plus you can install an optional fan on top of the hdd ...