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- Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:51 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 2TB Western Digital 3.5-inch (WD20EADS) is QUIET?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 65152
And everyone who has ever done RAID will hate them :p Aside from 640 GB and 320 GB there are very few desktop drives that have adjusted the size due to platter-size, or? Also they weren't adjusted, they were added alongside the 'normal' 500 GB etc. Doesn't really make sense to stur up the whole mark...
- Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:11 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Turning off a hard drive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 23512
You don't need a hardware switch, just tell the operating system to shut it down after its been idle for some period. This is easily accomplished in Windows, Linux, and OSX . . . Windows is just terrible on this so atleast in XP and earlier (no idea if Vista is any better) this is for most people a...
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:28 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: LG T1 - thin, light, supposedly quiet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14249
that means that the 2 GHz version isn't a low voltage CPU, and the power requirements for that CPU is 31W. The TDP for that CPU is 31W. It will likely draw less than half that at idle, due to a Speedstep implementation which allows independent, dynamic clock scaling and voltage adjustments of the C...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:56 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: LG T1 - thin, light, supposedly quiet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14249
Thanks for the feedback. I guess few (non-passive) notebooks are silent when stressed. And for me thats OK, it's not that often that you stress a laptop and when you do noise doesn't have high priority. I have found a 2 GHz model as well. The price difference isn't that steep (compared to the other ...
- Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:03 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: LG T1 - thin, light, supposedly quiet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14249
The LG site says it's an 1.5 GHz LV processor but notebookreview has an 1.66 GHz version. Guess it's still an LV ? (if not that would probably impact on the noise). Which one do you got? Any comments on the this sound? (from the notebookreview.com review) The noise made by the hard drive is not loud...
- Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:45 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Notebook comparisons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12003
I've been looking for a ultraportable laptop for a while now. And I have found some small and quiet laptops, as far as I know (haven't seen anyone in real life (except LG TX but that was in a crowded store so I couldn't listen to it). Theese are all very smalla laptops with no optical drive (that is...
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:57 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: fanless 1920x1200 DVI?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9721
Just to make it clear, dual dvi is not the same thing as dual link dvi. Dual link is simply put two regular DVI connections that fits inside _one_ DVI connector. So you can have two dual link connectors on a card with two DVI connectors. And you can have two DVI connectors but both single link thus ...
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:31 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DFI Lanparty + Freezer 4 (as "NB" cooler)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4027
Sweet :) Although unfortunately you can't use two PCI-E 16x cards in a setup like that. More pictures of the same setup can be found here (hard to find, most pictures are 404): http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6577&page=14&pp=15 For people looking for similar solutions: http://www.df...
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:08 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DFI Lanparty + Freezer 4 (as "NB" cooler)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4027
Thanks , I'll take a closer look at the images. About the REVOLTEC NB FREEZER BLUE, I think it's to small. Just doing nothing gets my NB temperature up to almost 50C (with open case), and thats with a fan. But I don't know the size of the NB freezer yet, but judging from the picture it seems to be ...
- Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:24 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DFI Lanparty + Freezer 4 (as "NB" cooler)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4027
DFI Lanparty + Freezer 4 (as "NB" cooler)
Hello Recently bought a new computer and just out of reflex I bought a passive zalman heatsink for the "northbridge". I just naturally assumed that it would work since I've had it on all my other motherboards and because of the flexible mounting. Anyway, when everything was installed and I thought o...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:51 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Deaf iPod Generation
- Replies: 119
- Views: 85581
Another problem with that is that the connectors would take up too much space on todays mp3 players - making the whole player bigger. And about the EU law I personally don't like it. Of course if a firmware is there for you to bypass it might not be that bad but all players doesn't have firmware upg...
- Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:15 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: IDE v SATA
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5975
The only case I know where SATA is loder is in the Seagate 7200,7 series. And thats not because the drive is louder but because of the AAM settings. The SATA version is set to performance and the ATA version is set for low performance (but better acustics). So the reason for the SATA drive to be lou...
- Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:52 am
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: IMPORTANT: Poll for those with SAMSUNG Hard Drives
- Replies: 169
- Views: 196949
Noticeable whine (with case closed, about 1 meter away): Nothing Noticeable whine (with ear next to harddrive): Very slight Model Number: SP1614C Supplier: mycom.se Month of purchase: 2004.08 Motor: NIDEC stamp with FDB Revision: Rev. A Date of Manufacturing: 2004.07 Any other relevant/interesting i...
- Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:33 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung SpinPoint Death(s) -- Possible Cause Discovered
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2909
Ambient is 30C. Fans... there were case fans (1 Panaflo L1a @ 12V), but the HD wasn't in the direct airflow path. In the case setup I had, seeking randomly for ~5 mins bumps it from 30C to 45C, sooooo... Guess that may have killed it in my case. (When I looked at the temp using hutils, it reported ...
- Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:01 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Shieled SATA cables, do they exist and/or are they needed?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1249
Shieled SATA cables, do they exist and/or are they needed?
Hello I currently have one SATA drive and thinking of buying two more. But from what I've heard the standard doesn't require shieled cables and that the connectors are vulnerable. And that if you place SATA connectors close toghether they could interfere with eachother and thus resulting in data cor...
- Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:54 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SATA drives and Smart Drive 2002
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2075
There are different connectors for SATA. Such as smaller ones (atleast compared to the cable that came with my Abit motherboard) and slant cables (humm, never heard that word (slant) before - so just in case theres an image of what I mean here http://www.mycom.se/produkt/serial_ata_kabel_ata_150_vin...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:47 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Shut off noisy hard drives in Win XP?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20701
I've looked for an app that does this for ages but never found one for windows. In linux hdparm works perfectly. I've talked to Steve Gibson at grc.com and he said that he has done something similar and will add that to gizmo (an free app.) but I haven't seen any progress on this (was a while ago). ...
- Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: heat vs. hard drives: an insider's look
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5906
If hard drive manufacturers aren't giving accurate or indeed conservative SMART temperature readings they are shooting themselves in the foot. True.. Though if you look at the CPU temperatures and GPU temperatures among many you notice that they can differ 20 c or something... On the other hand a h...
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:46 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Cooling the sides or the top and bottom?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1796
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 9:37 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: heat vs. hard drives: an insider's look
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5906
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 9:29 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Cooling the sides or the top and bottom?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1796
Cooling the sides or the top and bottom?
Hello When I first saw the zalman heatpipe harddrive solution I wondered why they cooled the sides and not the bottom and top of the drive. But when my (very) simple watercooling blocks just didn't cool my drives enough it came to me that harddrives might be designed to lead the heat to the sides si...
- Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:10 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: FSP Sparkle 350W 120mm
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2174
FSP Sparkle 350W 120mm
Hello I have a computer thats supposed to be some sort of server, the problem is that it needs to be really quiet. I have taken care of everything exept for the PSU. I have read tons of reviews and been on many forums and I still can't decide what I want. Or - what I can afford and find in a store n...
- Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:08 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Need Advice on Mod for Antec 350W Smart Power PSU
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4379
I have an similar Antec powersupply and I have thought of having an 120mm fan istead of the 92 mm fan. The 120mm fan would be mounted outside the powersupply with som kind of fanduct. I don't know, but my hopes are that that would allow me to run the 120mm fan very slow and that the turbulence sound...