Some more info on the TS130 here:

http://ts130.blogspot.ca/

The machine is indeed quite quiet, but the included WD RE4 is a noisy and fast enterprise drive.

I recently had a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 PATA 40gb develop two bad sectors. The 8-month old drive is used "normally" with about 30 hrs/week power-on time. Even though the bad sectors happened to be in the NTFS MFT, I was able to recover the data since the Seagate SeaTools utility was able to re-wri...

What would be useful to diagnose a problem like this is a "Task Manager"-like tool that indicates which thread/process is causing the hard disk activity. This could be used to also diagnose which thread/process is preventing a HD from spinning down.

Anybody know of such a tool?

Sthayashi, did you manage to figure out your problem?

Also, what's a "DNS part"?

Mare sure it's even in stock to start with; don't trust their website. I had bad luck trying to purchase their SS-300FS : I was told it was out of stock forever, yet, weeks after that, I see it's still listed as being both new and available. Both the SuperSilencer and SuperTornado were listed as "a...

What is the best material for ducting? cardboard is cheap and easy to mod but it is ugly to put it in a system. any other material is good for ducting yet do not require a lot of workshop equipment and efforts? Thanks for any suggestions. I've used legal-size file folders as cardboard for ducting. ...

Ralf Hutter wrote:I've never seen anything to indicate that they've been resolved. Maybe one of the poor guys that's RMA'd their PSU back to Seasonic a couple of times will chime in here.

Thanks.

I haven't seen any resolution to the Tornado issue in the forums either.

Seems like a pretty good deal. In fact, all of the Seasonic stuff is on sale at Frontier. http://www.frontierpc.com/ProductDetail.aspx?productID=950011852 I'm really tempted to get this PS, just not entirely sure because of all the discussion over the fan issues. Anybody know if these issues have be...