Thanks. Good to know. Some people seem to report problems with long-term reliability on Amazon reviews. Maybe I can find some reliable reviews somewhere.

Ooooor just go for an el-cheapo dock.

Cool, thanks. Yes, I saw lots of this type of models on Amazon. Did you ever have issues with disk-spinup? edit: I wonder, do you think the 12V supply could be replaced with a beefier version, should there ever be any issues with spin-up? I assume this would just be pass-through to the SATA power-po...

Hi folks,

I'm searching for an external SATA hard-drive dock (USB3), for backup purposes.

I'm slightly worried about power supplies being under-dimensioned to spin up some 3.5" drives.

Has anyone come across a good value-for-money version?

Cheers!

And the biggest bump in quality you get with close microphone/iPhone positioning and setting the appropriate levels.

They aren't very big, are they?

At least you won't have to heat that room in winter, hehe.

Fingers crossed that you don't have to change any components, because that would be messy.

How many times did you re-seat the coolers? I would have been paranoid about getting it as optimal as possible.

Is the saving of at best ~13-14W (assuming 3% at 450W) over a Gold really worth the loss of useful features?

During normal loads of around 100W this would only account to 2W (2%) difference anyways.

I agree with you on the software side of things. Though developers will always have to cut corners. It's the trade-off on whether you want incredibly fast vapourware (potentially economically not viable) or software. However, you talk about the average user a lot. The average user wouldn't dream abo...

CA_Steve wrote:Go with the M.2 if you want to get rid of cables, don't have a 2.5" slot available, or have apps that can thrash the hell out of your storage and can make use of PCIe BW. Go with SATA if you want it to run cooler.

Hmm, now I'm actually unsure. Turns out cheapish NVMe drives are still rare. Bummer.

So the deadline is drawing close. I'll probably will give it a shot, but I feel this would be a good time to also upgrade my systems drive. Any recommendations for a M2 250-500GB SSD for an Asus Z97 Pro? Or should I stick with SATA?

At home I don't see the point unless you have a large number of users and they are going to be using a computer most of the time. The one server would have to be an always on system so that means you're going to be burning through a lot of electricity, even if it is just idling. The setup in the vi...

LinusTechTips published this video "8 (or is it 10?) Gamers, 1 CPU - Taking it to the Next Level!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJw8IKVYQ8 Besides the stupendous about of graphic cards in the server, I found the underlying idea pretty neat. Put all your computing power where it doesn't bother yo...

Wrong kind of friends? If I were to eliminate all people other than techies from having the potential to be my friends then I would have to eliminate 99.999% of humanity and about 90% of my family from consideration. :lol: No I mean, friends usually don't take the piss. It's probably family that's ...

Wrong kind of friends?

I'm Austrian and I take offence of the Germans booking German as their language. :mrgreen: (plus we sound way cooler) Dude, chill and just follow the moderators' wishes. Humour is debatable. edit: So, are you gonna post any pictures of your build? This is what this is all about in the end. Pics or i...

Corsair has an exclusivity deal with Cherry for six months. Once the competition rolls in prices will probably drop. I'm still waiting fork a nice tenkeyless wireless mechanical keyboard. Maybe it's to come

Welcome to the realm of civilised typing

Are these variants of the Cherry red switches with O-ring to prevent bottoming out?

edit: just found, oooooh, new 'silent' cherry mx switches.

PH-F140HP_RD are not found for sale. SPCR's links take you to PH-F140HP_BK2 (well different 7 baldes desing against 9 from one shown in the article). Glide Stream whose label is blue is discontinued. The links take PWM version (pink label). I think those may are not able to reproduce the same good ...

And which case over-$200 should perform even better noise-wise, assuming that we stay with air cooling only? I doubt there is one. The FT's 180mm fans are just below the card(s). Was it Abdula who built a SLI-gaming rig in it? edit: jop: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=682...

edit: nah, I wrote a load of hogwash.

not being negative. just cant figure out where the idea that heatpipes, moving 100+ watts of heat, should not be "hot to the touch" comes from. just trying to nip this misconception in the bud, before it gains more steam . *cough* :mrgreen: So, if you only play SC1 and WOW, why not stick with a GTX...

I'm using a Beresford DAC (http://www.homehifi.co.uk/PP/cartlist.html). Apparently, they are all the rave. You could possibly find a used one for cheap.

baii, might be a bad version. My U2711 doesn't hum and I always thought the backlight's brightness was voltage controlled, or least with a very hight frequency PWM signal.

This is awesome. Also loved the presentation on audio myths. The second reference to good science versus bad science is one of approach. If you start by thinking, "We've got this dialed, we know exactly how it works and we can measure everything that matters" you've either picked an incredibly simpl...

Might be the leads of the front panel connectors that are set in motion through the fans.

Hi Andy,

Have you thought about bolting two smaller cases together? Then you could build two stacks of 6xHDs with the fans sandwiched between.

As always, nice review. So who's still buying $300 "performance" hard-drives? Film-editors? Does WD reveal any of their market insights when they send a model for review?

Stratohero wrote:We all know that vertical design is superior

Maybe in a 15m chimney, otherwise the stack effect is pretty much negligible: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... g-89/page2

My numbers seem consistent with what I've seen elsewhere for SSD temp and aren't especially alarming. Watch the following video complete with reggae soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhdWwvh5kI Looks like heat output is very localised to one side of the SSD stick. So at least the flash c...

Are your summer time ambient temps >8C higher than now? It's about 17C inside today according to my thermometer. During the summer it will get hotter than 25C everyday during the long, dry, hot summers for months on end without a cloud in the sky that Britain is renowned for having. :lol: Seriously...