Ahh, sorry Mojo. I wasn't talking about your writing at all. I would be the fourth last person to complain about grammar and spelling. I meant spoken English. I was referring to the "tri-monitor rackmount computer build" in the General Gallery. He's from London, so I just made a baseless assumption ...

Ahh, so 500 quintillion? That puts a little challenge back in the game so it's not so boring.

Elect me! (I don't recognize monarchies in checkers).

BREAKING NEWS: Pedantic retort to silly comment sends man off CN Tower in flying leap.

I have no problem with flip-flops beachside, but when paired with urban attire (and increasingly with formal and professional attire!) and worn out and about in a city in the northern hemisphere, the overall impression of a clappity naked-footed duckwalker is not very simpatico.

That was probably caused by an allergic reaction.

Edit: Or, after reading a bit of the commentary, maybe not!

I don't shop at Walmart (on protectionist and snobbish grounds), and I don't like flip-flops (when women wear them, of course), but I just got this graphic link in email and thought I'd do my little part to discourage any women/girlfriends/wives from disturbing the public peace with these fashion at...

Get a rackmount cabinet. Then get 3 monitors, and learn to speak Queen's English.

Great, thanks for ruining checkers. :( Now it's only a matter of choosing the correct counter-moves out of the possible 500 billion. As for cancer, when it's cured, new problems will surface to take its place. There will always be challenges to give purpose to life. Nanomachines should eliminate man...

The reason I bought Vista was to upgrade to a 64-bit OS. While the platform matures, I have 32-bit XP as a fallback for applications that don't work well in Vista. How you arrange the drives depends on how many drives per system there are, and whether silence or performance is your primary aim (havi...

No offense taken. :) As I said, I used to have an 8GB partition for XP, but my needs steadily grew, as did the size of software. I just bought Office 2007 Ultimate retail (haven't installed it yet), and it lists a space requirement of 3GB on the box. Of course 20GB is perfectly manageable (or even 1...

The motor or bearings can stick or seize, the platters can get warped from excessive thermal expansion, nuclear fusion can spontaneously occur if it gets really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, re...

That's why I mentioned the term "performance-oriented". :) I'm not a purebred silence enthusiast. I'm a scroungy mutt. An XP partition of 16-20GB is quite small in this day and age. And for the future? I used to use 8GB for XP, then 12GB , then 20GB (on a 300GB drive), then 30GB, then 40GB. I would ...

That's terrible news, zoob!

I guess I'm going to have to do some heat tests before I put anything valuable on these AAKS drives.

I'm wondering why these 500GB AAKS are so cheap, even cheaper than the 400GB versions. Hmmm.

LOL, jaganath.

woodsman wrote:Heat energy does not necessarily rise. Heat energy flows.

Don't worry, woodsman, you're not in the twilight zone.

Partition the Samsung and stick with one drive -- less heat, power, and noise. Smaller drive = lower areal density = faster transfer rate dropoff and higher access time compared to the same capacity at the beginning of a large drive. Why would you want an older, slower drive for the OS? If you want ...

Yeah, Bluefront, why would you assume that people would interpret your statements from the common human perspective on the planet called Earth? That's not fair to upside-down, subterranean computer users on the moon. I'm just kidding, woodsman. Excellent post. I'm just wondering if we should wear bu...

I'm sorry, angelkiller, but it's been eating away at me. I've decided to challenge you to a duel to the death. The winner gets to have his link clicked on. And live.

Okay, nevermind, it's just a forum post, after all.

Dude, all you need to do is a cut a little notch in the case, as seen in the pic below, from this thread: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41356 http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6749/image03rk1.th.jpg Edit: Okay, angelkiller beat me to it, and also took the time to embed the li...

I was also planning to make an acrylic duct, but then I thought that I might change the cooler at some point, and it wouldn't be worth the extra work, so I went with this little plastic duct. I made one modification to it since. I added tape (only sticking to the duct) to help block the gap between ...

Well, heated air is less dense than colder air, so to keep things simple, I say the heat rises (in air).

edit: then/than typo

Fantastic work on the plastic. Could you give a more detailed description of how you cut it? (cutting bit used, dremel speed, any method details).

Clever logo.

I thought the Asian Prince picture was a photoshopped image of, like, Jennifer Lopez or something, to analogize the new Athlon X2s as a slight makeover, basically growing a 'stache.

A transfer rate above 130MB/s for a single drive!?

Can you measure the speed with other benchmarks or realworld tests?

Maybe you got a mispackaged prototype for a future product.

I just inherited a small kingdom but I really wish I had a Samsung HD501LJ. Oh well. I bought five 5000AAKS drives recently because, aside from being recommended, they were very cheap, but I might've opted for the HD501LJ now that I've seen many reports of how fast and quiet they are. The HD501LJ se...

Personally, I'd have a very tiny amount of crap in my pants if my hard drives hit the high 40s. But maybe that temp is normal for your older drive. :!: Many people here are comfortable with HD temps in the 50s mounted in ham and cheese sandwiches, but considering that data integrity is crucial above...

I'm still confused by that quoted statement. When a drive is 'on', the platters spin. When the drive read/writes data, the arm/heads assembly moves into position. The drive does not spin up and down between accesses. To make the hard drive spin up and down during periods of inactivity requires setti...

40C is not low for stock speed, but more than safe. The CPU temp reported by PC Probe is the 'tCase' reading. The core/internal diode reading is 'tJunction', which is typically 15C higher. Use the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool (TAT) to measure the core temperatures, and to test for worst-case temperat...

Rattle and Hum from '900RPM' by Enermax

Excuse me if someone already made that kind of joke. I'm not going to read 100+ pages!

The fans need some clearance from the filters (I have about 1.5cm). There's enough space between the filter and the inner bezel wall (about 1 cm) for air to enter. The fans are about 5mm away from the hard drives. This is a mickey-mouse filter setup next to Bluefront Solutions TM, but I don't really...

I have no intention of buying a Smart Car after seeing a certain graphic email involving a collision with a truck. Not with all the tanks rolling in Toronto! But I prefer the styling of the Fiat 500 and the Mini Cooper.