Yeap just checked ... XP does.
But Win 2K doesn't ... and I have to use it

Amourek wrote:Hmm... all my external USB drives can have write caching enabled via the device manager. My drives top out at 25-30MB/s regardless.

Which is your OS ???

:!: Caution this is about registrey editing. Just discovered this after buying an external HD for my backups. So far I had always done it through CDs or network devices. Starting to back up and ... gosh :x only 5Mb/s writting : I was shocked and feeling abused. What was this shit they had sold me !?...

92mm nexus would be cool to see on it. i have a feeling that the length of the tower did not much to cool the bigger boy. interesting. i like it. I will actually buy it now. :) rare that I say that! That close from the exhaust fans, is there any point having a fan. Better duct no ? Unless you'll be...

A new follower of Al Gore !!!

Another good one :
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/18b3bad0-e914-1 ... 10621.html

Ha ! Again one of those liberal posts : FT.

Wolfowitz caught red handed ........ stealing from the world bank. (That's from the poor and the hungry) http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2056501,00.html After being one of the strongest advocates of the war in Irak for the weelbeeing of the Irakis (just don't laugh now) : Wolfowitz is on the ...

Sadly its an SATAII drive and my motherboard only has standard SATA drive ports. SATA II drives, at least both of my Samsungs, work fine on regular SATA ports. There's a jumper (supplied with the HDD) that is set for SATA "I" operation. No bridge or other cable required. You won't get SATA II perfo...

Home RAID fileserve : 3 (250Go / 200Go / 400 Go)
Laptop (dual boot work / personal + 2 for backup) : 4(80Go x 2 + 40 Go + 40 Go)
3 other PCs of PCs lying around put not really used : 3 (80 Go + 20 Go + 4 Go)
1 not used either laptop HD : 1 x 40 Go

Total : 11

honestly, who cares that some random rich bimbo died of a drug overdose? This is getting way too much press. It should have been a 10min video clip on the evening news the night she died, and then never mentioned again. Indeed, Anna Nicole isn't worth more than a few seconds of the world's attentio...

.... and deaf, ... and DUMB (I mean stupid - half-witted). Good lord ! I have been casually watching some of the debates : this is appalling. I mean those people are judges and lawyers and they are supposed to have make studies, be "smart", eloquent. However when they speak, they have utmost difficu...

AFAIK 99% of the standalone ATX cases can also accomodate the smaller µATX boards.

The only thing needed to ensure the compatibility (that's what you need to check for) is whether there are additionnal mounting holes for the µATX.

Yep ! A typical 2 fan push - pull would definitely work better and quieter IMHO.... I would definitely like to see that theory put to the test.... ;-) (personally I think you would seriously have to finetune both fan speeds to avoid counterproductive turbulence) Not that difficult. If you use two s...

It is alco contrary to this : http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/technolo/drivetemp/drivetemp.htm However the below 30°C pattern is quite constant in proportion despite being a lesser impact in medium life ranges. Having said that, the bin below 30°C is wider than the others (15°C vs. 5°C) and the lo...

According to this study from Google : http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf and this specific graph : http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news_popup.php?id=37593 HDs would be more likely to fail when running .... COOL. With all the efforts we make here to run HDs cool at the expense of some noise ...

Yep !
A typical 2 fan push - pull would definitely work better and quieter IMHO.
4 fans is pointless and counter productive ...

Had one of those too (the 250Go version) ... Was very quiet indeed. And then went ultimately quiet (aka DEAD) after 3 weeks and a mere 15 hours working. It was full but thankfully on a RAID. By lack of better solution (part exchange) I got a 400Go version and its very quiet too. Just lit a candle to...

Yes, those results changed, and the Ninja's results were better than the Ultra120's this time around. ... Thanks for the answer. I went (rapidly) through the test methodology article and realised that you had picked that up too. One question : I didn't see any mention of mobo orientation. (Hope I h...

Sorry ... have I missed something ?

Those 2 articles :
- http://www.silentpcreview.com/article646-page3.html
- http://www.silentpcreview.com/article719-page4.html
give a completely opposite view of how the top contenders (Ninja and Ultra 120) fare against one another !

How is that possible ?

You have the same case I just bought a few weeks ago :D Hdds rattle the entire case with the default mounting system though :cry: But I realised it's really easy to suspend the hdds in this case so I did and now they are barely audible. What kind of drives do you have ? Mine are quite silent, espec...

It has been quite I while since I started thinking about posting a small article here about my own PC. Hopefully an interesting result of fruitful hours of browsing through the articles and forums here at SPCR, and a good way to bounce a few ideas around. I am interested in all kinds comments of cou...

Alternatively there are some (though few) silver colour DVD drives / burner.
Some from Sony in particular.

I've had the NeoHE in my P150 ducted for over a year now. It's never ramped up once, ever. I couldn't ask for a better PSU. Found the pics under General Galery / Staff rigs : interesting !! I was thinking in a system with an affixed fan on the cabling side of the PSU. Something with clothing elasti...

The Solo definitely has the edge on the other 2 cases :
- bigger / more numerous fans,
- heavier construction and damping material,
- less airflow imedance,
- indirect sound paths,
- HD suspension.

Not even a close call ....

A few comments building on the previous posts. You say you use the specific 4 in 3 modules for Staker. I am using one myself and I am very pleased with it though in another enclosure (with a door I must say). They already have a suspension (the inner cage is monted on rubber inside the outer one) : ...

Buddabing wrote:... So if you are planning on ducting your PS's air intake, you might consider the NeoHE.

Did you experiment that ?
I have long wondered if ducting in or even adding an intake fan can effectively remove some workload from the exhaust and allow it to run quieter.

XP 120 would have probably been a better choice with this case ...

Otherwise you could try and duct the SI 120 to one of the exhaust fans.
It should significantly improve your temps.

My classes in electronics and thermodynamics date back more than 10 years but I think we are getting mislead here : for me this is more similar to photoelectric components : using some source of energy and turnung back some of it into electivity though of course with no perfect efficiency. Here it i...

Could this be the future in PC cooling and silencing ? http://www.eneco.com/technology.html The chip actually consumes heat to produce electricity or when a power is applied will act as a heat-pump !! Imagine a double layer CPU : normal CPU next to this : a 0W TDP !!! (Found via : http://akosh.pcinp...

Note also that if you are a casual CAD/CAM & 3D user the FireGL will probably be quite an overkill.