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- Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:23 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: A word of warning about booting Windows from 2.5" drive
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19202
If a particular configuration does have a regular disk access problem, though, then you are at risk of wearing out a 2.5" disk in short order. It's no skin off my nose if anyone is ignorant or arrogant enough (like Aris here...) to wear down their drive--you're just costing yourself money and riskin...
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: A word of warning about booting Windows from 2.5" drive
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19202
details that a travelstar drive managed in excess of one million load/unload ops. Assume Windows and the drive firmware conspire to force a load cycle every minute. If the drive is on 24/7, it'll use up all those million load cycles after a million minutes, or just under two years. Now consider dri...
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: A word of warning about booting Windows from 2.5" drive
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19202
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:32 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: A word of warning about booting Windows from 2.5" drive
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19202
A word of warning about booting Windows from 2.5" drive
[Moderator edit: removed long post (in Latin?), presumably put there by the original poster. If the original poster wants to remove their posts and/or the the whole thread, then please PM one of the moderators. Please see "Mr Evil's" post below, for what I think is a quote of the original post on t...
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Space Heater
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4408
Re: Space Heater
This has got to be a troll.branko623 wrote:So, I was wondering, about how dangerous would it be to replace the fan and rewire the heater with a nexus or sycthe 120mm?
Try that and there's a fairly good chance you'll set the building on fire.
Just open a window.
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:57 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Potentially interesting: Inwin BK623
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4275
Potentially interesting: Inwin BK623
Inwin's new BK623 looks to be potentially interesting for some quiet(ish) small form factor applications. http://www.in-win.us/products/pc_case/BK%20(MtJade)-Series/bk623_small%20copy.jpg http://www.in-win.us/products/pc_case/BK-Series/bk623_003.jpg This thing is tiny by mATX standards yet supports ...
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:33 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: independant power switch for drives?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2293
Re: independant power switch for drives?
how safe is this? can i damage my drives if i power them up with the system running? or will they just obvously not be recognised? This is completely unsafe unless you're using SATA drives with hot swap support. Kill the power to a running PATA disk when the motherboard is still running and you wil...
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:23 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Google study: effect of temperature on server hdds
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29535
Statistically speaking, it's not strictly necessary to control for brand and model when performing reliability studies. If the population is sufficiently large and sufficiently diverse (i.e. no brand or model is highly overrepresented), differences between brand and model will average out. Controlli...
- Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:09 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Very small mATX case for portable server
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3616
Very small mATX case for portable server
I'm looking to put together a portable no-monitor (headless) server for hauling files and software between sites. To this end, I'm looking for a very small case that supports an mATX MB, 3.5" hard drive and full size optical drive. The whole thing has to fit into a large briefcase (preferable) or in...
- Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:18 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Sempron 3000 AM2 passive cooling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3361
Sempron 3000 AM2 passive cooling
Just wondering, what heatsinks would be good enough to passively cool a AM2 Sempron 3000?
I'm looking at building a quiet network server--don't need much CPU horsepower for what I need.
I'm looking at building a quiet network server--don't need much CPU horsepower for what I need.
- Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Best media to backup data?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6474
Touch wood, but so far I've never had a good DVD burn fail at a later date. If the DVD passes a byte-by-byte comparison with the data burned to it, then the DVD has remained good. Trusting DVDs without a post-burn compare is asking for it, though. Another trick for DVD reliability is to make PAR2 pa...
- Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:34 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Best media to backup data?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6474
High reliability backup is more a matter of redundancy than anything else. The chances of losing all your data are greatly reduced if you keep multiple backups in different locations. In terms of media, external hard drives are the best bet at the moment. Most other methods are too slow or too awkwa...
- Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: No reason to buy 3.5"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4677
HTPCs are a niche use. A large niche, but still a niche. For general computing, performance differences between 2.5" and 3.5" drives are far from irrelevant. Seagate's 7200.10 drives have an average seek of 8.5ms and will do a 78MB/s sustained transfer rate. None of the mobile drive makers even publ...
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:51 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is this too hot? -- new system
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5700
Re: Is this too hot? -- new system
Reliability is a problem with WD unless you buy a Raptor or one of their 'RAID edition' drives.fmriguy wrote:should have just gone with the new WD's...
There's not much out there at the moment that's both quiet and reliable.
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:40 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Canadian sources for off lease/refurb/surplus hardware
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2243
Canadian sources for off lease/refurb/surplus hardware
Can anyone suggest a good Canadian source for low-cost off lease/refurb/surplus (etc) hardware?
Most of this stuff seems to be getting deflected to charities these days...
Most of this stuff seems to be getting deflected to charities these days...
- Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:27 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: [Survey] Most Silent (Recent/New) 3.5" Drive 300-400GB
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8262
When it comes to reliability, I think the warranty periods speak for themselves. Samsung and Hitachi only offer three year warranties. Seagate drives all have five year warranties--if they made unreliable drives, it would cost them a lot of money in warantee replacements. My inclination is to buy Se...
- Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:47 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Best Antec Solo Competitor?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4272
Re: Best Antec Solo Competitor?
When you posted this thread, the second thread down on this forum was discussing the PC-B20.Relleum wrote:Perhaps the PC-B20 http://www.lian-li.com/Product/Chassis/ ... PC-B20.htm
can compete with the Solo?
- Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:40 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What do YOU want for the holidays?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 39962
- Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-B20
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11354
- Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:38 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-B20
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11354
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:50 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Antec NeoHE 430 @ $58 vs. Seasonic S12-430 @ $98
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4397
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:47 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silent Industrial PC. What would YOU use this for?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9113
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:18 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Silencing PSU of LCD monitor?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2977
Don't think thEre's much that can be Done other than replacing the unit. Maybe you could fInd some subtle way to renDer the monitor inoperative so Dell will do an RMA. If Dell won't play fair with you, there's no reason for you to play fair with them. Problems like these are why Dell monitors are so...
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silent Industrial PC. What would YOU use this for?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9113
You can see the IO ports on the back of the case in the first image. Looks like 2x DB-9 (serial?), VGA, ethernet, modem, PS2 keyboard or mouse, 3x USB, audio, and four other ports I can't make out. I can't say I'd call this much of an industrial PC given that all these ports are exposed on the back ...
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:46 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-B20
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11354
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:30 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-B20
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11354
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1011&pageID=2838
The door is a little restricting but the main case is pretty open.
Isn't really wide open--like this--a bad idea for noise, though? Any grill that lets a lot of air in is also going to let noise out.
The door is a little restricting but the main case is pretty open.
Isn't really wide open--like this--a bad idea for noise, though? Any grill that lets a lot of air in is also going to let noise out.
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:40 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-B20
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11354
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:34 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: K9NGM2-FID or M2NPV-VM
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10739
There are...issues...with both of these boards. Poorly thought out component placement renders one of the PCI slots on the MSI board unusable. As for the M2N, it's really picky about memory. This board cannot supply more than 1.8 volts to the DIMM slots. This rules out using much of the cheaper DDR2...
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:13 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Silencing the 71 lb (32 kilo) beast
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3009
You won't have much luck quieting that many HDs. If you can, replace your eight current drives with three 750GB units. You could also look at remoting most of your storage over a gigE NAS or SAN. Leave a quiet boot drive in the system but put the rest of your drives in a ventilated closet somewhere....
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:17 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: File server, AKA numerous HDs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4313