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by cjs
Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:57 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Replies: 61
Views: 89593

Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?

no 8s sleep thingy causing hundreds of thousands load/unload cycles in few months Take that with a pinch of salt, the cycle scare reached FUD levels of paranoia. In my case as a desktop storage drive I use every day, the count is 88,817 - in 735,9 days of Power On Time, which comes to a little over...
by cjs
Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:25 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: New build: Ivy Bridge in a fanless mini-itx enclousre
Replies: 14
Views: 14905

Re: New build: Ivy Bridge in a fanless mini-itx enclousre

I can now confirm it fits in the T3500 by almost a cm. :) It also doesn't cover the PCIe slot on the GA-A75N-USB3. Not that it matters when using the T3500... Finding DIMMs that fit beneath it was a pain, though. It's perfectly silent when doing ordinary desktop stuff, but the small fan is fairly no...
by cjs
Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:24 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: New build: Ivy Bridge in a fanless mini-itx enclousre
Replies: 14
Views: 14905

Re: New build: Ivy Bridge in a fanless mini-itx enclousre

Can't you fit a Kozuti or something in a T3500? That would seem to make more sense. Can anyone confirm/deny this? I've got a T3500 with an Intel X25-V, an Optiarc AD-7703S and a D510MO, which I'm considering replacing with either an Ivy Bridge mainboard if and when they get thunderbolt ports (to be...