It's unlikely to be anything to do with the fans, as the extra HDD will put out an insignificant amount of heat compared with the system as a whole. The most probable cause is simply that the drive is hard-mounted to the case, and although its vibrations may not seem that noticeable in isolation, th...

WD suggested reatail price for this drive is the same as for 1TB Green Power. I've just bought a 1TB Green Power HDD and it was £125. So you just need to have enough patience to not buy overpriced/preordered etc. drives. I agree, pre-ordering is a mug's game - they'll take your money straight away...

I'm not intrepid enough for drive suspension, but acoustically and thermally, is there a preferred setup for two HDDs in the P182's lower cage (for example, drives in the two middle slots)? Yes, for a two-drive setup I'd use the two middle slots. I suppose there could be an argument for leaving an ...

The P182's main Achilles heel is the relatively restricted intake area in the top chamber - it's OK for most setups, but you might have a problem with a hot GFX card like the 8800GTS. I've noticed a fair bit of dust builds up after time around the "finger holes" at the sides of the 5.25" blanking pl...

I doubt those figures. Even if he undervolts that CPU (why would somebody buy powerfull CPU and undervolt it instead of buying lower performance CPU is beyond me) You're confusing undervolting with underclocking - you don't lose any performance simply by undervolting. In fact, it's perfectly possib...

I have moved gigabytes of data between disks. Never had any problems whatsoever. I don't see the point of fear. If you have normal OK hardware without flaws, it should just work without failure. I believe the SATA controllers on certain nVidia boards (even up to and including the 790i chipset) have...

_MarcoM_ wrote:Single-platter version? When? Where? Who?

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583/2

"The VelociRaptor needs only two platters to reach its 300GB capacity. Western Digital says it's also working on a single-platter version of the drive, but that's not ready yet."

It looks like the old Raptor bugbear of seek noise remains, at least to some extent - not as bad as the previous version, but still worse than the 7200rpm competition. :( I guess it's part of the price you pay for the fast access times, but hopefully the promised single-platter version will be a bit...

Most definitely!

I have a Vitra Ypsilon. It wasn't cheap, but it was one of the best 'investments' that I made. Designed by Mario Bellini, one of my favorite designers. It received Red Dot award in 2002 in product design category. I googled for Vitra Ypsilon, thought it looked nice, and then I saw the price tag. It...

Eeeffff... just ordered two of these drives from e-buyer. Most or all hard-drives I've bought before have come packed in a cardboard boxes with oodles of foam. These came in what can only be described as a glorified jiffy bag. I've had nothing but bad experiences with ebuyer, and I wouldn't touch t...

Your maximum Core 0 temp would be way too high for my liking - I think a maximum CPU fan speed of ~800rpm might be a little low to handle an overclocked Q6600 at full throttle, even on a TRUE and with some undervolting. Maybe Q-Fan's "silent" profile isn't really appropriate, at least with this part...

I've always used plain old robocopy for shuffling around hundreds of GB of data - it doesn't have an explicit verify option, but according to my (admittedly limited) understanding, it doesn't really need it as the standard Windows APIs will make it report any copying error. If you're truly paranoid,...

@andyb - Just out of curiosity... why did you want a positive pressure system? I'd imagine it's to prevent dust build-up - if the server is running continuously for extended periods, filtered front-mounted fans should help keep maintenance to a mimimum. Having said that, the whole enterprise really...

I wonder if you can put some of those 5-in-3 or 4-in-3 modules in this case... if so, it'll be really good for the price (it's popped up in online store databases here and there already). If I understand it correctly, it's doing 3-in-3, yes? Coolermaster now do a case-agnostic version of their Stac...

Marvell presumably have not been dragged into the current century, NT4 but no W2K or XP - WTF. I googled a bit for XP-specific 88E8001 drivers, found some links dating from 2006 pointing back to Marvell's site, but the links were broken. You could just select driver version 10.55.3.3 in the second ...

Weird... is it a new build, or an established setup which has worked OK in the past? Have you tried booting with a Linux live CD and see if it still happens? Is the GbE controller (Marvell 88E8001) correctly identified both in the BIOS and in Windows when it only seems to be 100Mb ethernet? Have you...

wait, so is it THE native language simply on the principle of "they were there first" Yes, precisely, or it wouldn't be... well, native, would it? I don't think "linguistic superiority," PCness (oh dear god, please, let's not go there) or Victorian noble savages is really the issue... Anyway, in on...

The fact that in a midwestern city of 3/4 of a million people, you can live your life and never speak a word of English astounds me and upsets me. I'm glad I took Spanish in school, and I hope my kids do as well, but not to help out someone who lives permanently in a place and is unwilling to speak...

I have tried GBPVR, Freevo, MythTV XPMCE.. and the best of the bunch so far is Vista... although XBMC is pretty funky too! VMC rant: No DVB-S support without third-party hacks, and then no HD (for Europe) support is a dealbreaker for me. Microsoft don't seem remotely interested in fixing it. No abi...

It's actually already been posted on this thread, but I guess it's worth repeating if someone's specifically looking for it.

My HX-520 is the same - it would be silly to draw a conclusion from a sample size of one, but I've reason to believe mine's not atypical.

The Corsairs are a bit overrated IMHO, at least from a quietness POV.

Hopefully the Antec 1200 wont be much longer. Here is an official flyer. http://www.antec.com/pdf/flyers/1200_flyer.pdf Sweet :twisted: Andy I think it's a butt-ugly bastard, but I suppose it's all in the eye of the beholder. :D Have you not considered ye olde P182? You could have six drives in the...

I honestly don't think this is a good plan - yes, theoretically having the having the pagefile separate on the WD would help, but with 3GB of RAM not much paging will normally be going on anyway, so the benefits would be mimimal. In the meantime, you'd have the OS itself on a much smaller and slower...

I don't think it's a significant issue in practice with modern systems, especially with a speed demon like your WD. There's also all the behind-the-scenes memory management performed by Vista which helps things run optimally. I'd certainly agree it's a good idea to keep your data files separate from...

I'd like to add one more hard drive, so I can separate the Vista OS from the program files (browsers, Photoshop, a couple of games, etc.). I don't need a very large drive for the OS only, but I want another quiet drive and am torn between a 2.5" vs. a 3.5" in terms of Operating System performance. ...

Hello nick705, I do not know whether the Samsungs under report temps but if power draw is accurately measured on different drives the drive with the lower power draw will be the one that runs cooler. Yes, that makes sense, although maybe some drives are also a bit more efficient at dissipating the ...

I am a big fan of the quiet Samsung HD501LJ 500GB hard drives. None of the four units that I have used have ever exceeded 35 degrees even without active cooling. If you search for reviews from Anandtech and elsewhere you will find that these drives have superior energy efficiency and run cooler tha...

From everything I've read on the interweb, there's zero performance benefit to enabling NCQ in a single-user environment, and it can actually hurt performance under some circumstances. Furthermore, there seem to be quite a few reports of certain drives behaving oddly with AHCI enabled on the ICH9R c...

I guess there's plenty of people around with a little knowledge of how things work, just enough to make a snake-oil salesman's pitch sound plausible and convincing. The irony is, they often probably *do* genuinely find that their music sounds "better" - the placebo effect is a powerful thing. That's...