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- Tue May 26, 2009 8:02 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Need a 3.5" external harddrive enclosure
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2717
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:44 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: External Storage - two options, advice please.II
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2564
Recall that Western Digital enforces anti-piracy restrictions for 30 multimedia file types if you use their Anywhere Access software for the WD My Book. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7136069.stm If you find their "Big Brother" approach offensive, this could be a reason to avoid the WD My Boo...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:44 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard Disks. Good for offline storage over the years?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17519
>Actually, even if a few bits on a hard drive have changed, the data can be read from it as usual, since every hard drive has error correcting features nowadays. Perhaps you miss my point. Despite ECC, sometimes the data that is read is not identical to the data that was earlier written. This sort o...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:52 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard Disks. Good for offline storage over the years?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17519
A hard disk is not an archival storage medium. If you write it, then put it away and hope for the best you may get a very bad surprise. But as inti points out, you can use hard drives with multiple copies to get reliable long-term storage, and inti points out several good tips on how to do this. But...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:37 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: a passive card with HDMI ouput?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6714
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:05 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Caviar GP 1 TB SATA Hard Drives (WD10EACS) spin speed
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14692
> the wholesaler ... only used specification papers supplied by the manufacturer so there's nothing they can do! In effect they are free to falsely advertise as long as the (false) information comes from the manufacturer. I had a similar experience with a vendor in the USA. They asked WD a second ti...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:48 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: 200 bucks!! SAMSUNG 1TB 7200RPM SATA II 32MB CACHE (HD103UJ)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2693
- Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:01 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 406062
> Now of course the even more interesting question on this off topic subject that has always bothered me is why would all HDD manufacturers only choose to read only single platter at a time. All the platters are spinning and heads are tracking same position after all. Tracks are quite narrow, and th...
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:49 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Shaving time between checkpoints - My AMD X2 4000+
- Replies: 67
- Views: 34134
>If that's true then how to explain that his folding is using 2 processors at 50%??
50%+50%=100%. The uniprocessor client has enough work to keep one core fully busy, but it doesn't stay on one core, it gets preempted by other processes and when it is resecheduled it is random which core it runs on.
50%+50%=100%. The uniprocessor client has enough work to keep one core fully busy, but it doesn't stay on one core, it gets preempted by other processes and when it is resecheduled it is random which core it runs on.
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:02 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: can't connect to assignment server at work
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6698
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:22 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung Spinpoint - Vibrating/Pulsing Loud
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6720
What you describe is likely your case resonating with the disk vibration -- which is particularly pronounced with multi-drive systems. The usual SPCR antidote for this is suspension (hang the drive in a basket of strong elastic so that it doesn't touch the metal of your case). Try searching this sit...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:27 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Folding Machine on the cheap?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10957
Hi, cd8uk. You've clearly taken considerable pains to achieve economical high-yield folding. Let me be a bit forward and suggest that your knowledge could perhaps be of considerable value if you were to distill it to a "cookbook" and post "How to get 3000PPD on a Q6600". That posting would surely be...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:14 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Questions from a Folder out of the loop for a few years
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5169
Hi, Autoboy. I think you can't get the big points with the single-core athlons. The main reason for the high PPD of the successful dual- and quad-core folders is that the SMP jobs (especially the 64-bit Linux SMP jobs) have much higher PPD values than the uniprocessor jobs --- in part because the SM...
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:00 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Any good 1TB drives? Samsung, WD, Hitachi all have trouble
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5847
>You are wrong Interesting. I looked around a bit and you are absolutely right. I had a vague concept of "false advertising" but didn't know what I was talking about and I made an over-broad statement. It turns out that, roughly speaking, the vendor runs afoul of the Federal Trade Commission's consu...
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:05 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Any good 1TB drives? Samsung, WD, Hitachi all have trouble
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5847
>paranoia about W/D seems irrational Idealism is irrational, I suppose. This particular concept has a long tradition: "you reap what you sow", "karma", "what goes around comes around" --- by our choices we create the kind of world we have to live in. >WD's telling the truth Evidently not. Vendors wo...
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:54 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Any good 1TB drives? Samsung, WD, Hitachi all have trouble
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5847
Any good 1TB drives? Samsung, WD, Hitachi all have trouble
Anyone know of a 1TB drive that is good and a safe choice for data we wish to keep? From newegg.com customer comments, the (extremely speedy) Samsung 1TB drives are having many problems with excessive numbers of sectors going bad. The WD 1TB drives are advertised by many vendors as 7200rpm but seem ...
- Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:21 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Time for RAID
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14072
I second the "none of the above" comment. I had been using a hardware mirrored pair (2 disks on an adaptec card) for my Windows XP "C drive" and evidently suffered a power glitch that happened during a disk write, trashing both disks simultaneously. Neither disk was bootable after that disaster. For...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:52 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 Plus Club!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4393
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:57 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2,000,000 Plus Club!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4393
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:36 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Adding 1Gb DDR2 for dual channel up power draw much?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3445
- Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:24 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Might be getting a q6600...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6533
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Caviar GP 1 TB SATA Hard Drives (WD10EACS) spin speed
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14692
>now all we need to do is to persuade everyone to stop buying their drives That is not my conclusion. I think that we want the facts so that we can evaluate the tradeoffs among performance, power, heat, noise,.... Accurate specs help, as do high-quality performance tests and reviews such as found at...
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:03 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Smart Drive 2002
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5129
I've had a Raptor 150 in one for several months, and I haven't observed overheating (but have not taken a scientific measurement). But there should be some airflow over the smartdrive -- there's more likelihood of overheating if the smardrive is placed out of the airflow and depending only on convec...
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Caviar GP 1 TB SATA Hard Drives (WD10EACS) spin speed
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14692
I went to the WD web site to see if they have a clear answer to the question of spin speed. From the Greenpower page, it states that for any particular size of WD GP drive, the spindle speed is fixed, not dynamically changing. It also states that, depending on which drive in the family, the speed ra...
- Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:24 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Antec MX-1: eSata is not Sata
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15865
Hi jackylman, >bkh, I have a few ?'s: > >- What kind of disk are you using? WD 5000KS-00MNB0 >- Is it possible that it needs some sort of firmware upgrade? I can't rule that out: I have never flashed a disk drive to newer firmware. But of course it works just fine as is on the internal nVidia and Si...
- Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:59 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Smart Drive 2002
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5129
The SmartDrive 2002 doesn't prevent it: it depends on your computer case: if the 5-1/4 drive bay mounting screw slots are long enough that you can pull a CD drive into a recessed position you should be able to do the same with the SmartDrive. But there are some small air slots in the side- and upper...
- Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:23 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Antec MX-1: eSata is not Sata
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15865
Here's another hint about particular motherboard chipsets that may have trouble supporting eSata using a Sata-to-eSata bracket. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3119&p=2 "As we noted in our earlier review of the ICY DOCK MB559US, proper chipset support of eSATA is strongly recommended...
- Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:44 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Q6600 G0 crunching, some questions and some issues
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14316
- Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:01 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Windows SMP client expiring very soon!!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8833
> also, anybody know a good method to upgrade the expiring client without losing any WU's? Plan A: Take a backup of the folding directory and restore it if anything goes wrong. Plan B: Stop the old client then restart it (prior to expiration) with the -oneunit flag so that it will stop after complet...
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:42 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Antec MX-1: eSata is not Sata
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15865
> I thought that the difference between esata and sata was a deeper and more robust connecter on esata - and that's all. So did I until my problem. Then in looking around I found a statement in the last paragraph on page 2 of this Icy Dock review at Anandtech that suggested there are technical diffe...