The Samsung MP0402H is a single platter drive. The Western Digital 120GB Scorpio is dual platter drive. Unless SPCR reviews a single platter version of the Scorpio (40GB), I do not think it is fair to compare SPCR's results from the Western Digital Scorpio with SPCR's results from the Samsung MP040...

Since I don't know what motherboard you have or whether or not you've had previous SATAs installed, I'm shooting in the dark here, but look around in your BIOS for your SATA controller information. In my AMIBIOS setup, it's under Integrated Peripherals. First, in my computer, there are two IDE contr...

Right now, this motherboard is about $280 at Newegg. There's no way I'll pay that amount of money for a motherboard. I'd definitely go with the MUCH cheaper Asus N4L-VL which is darn near half the price at $145. My apologies for mis-naming the Asus board: it's N4L-VM DH, not N4L-VL. Anyway, here's ...

Right now, this motherboard is about $280 at Newegg. There's no way I'll pay that amount of money for a motherboard. I'd definitely go with the MUCH cheaper Asus N4L-VL which is darn near half the price at $145.

I'm sorry that You and Dave had to spill some blood with this case. The pursuit of Silence isn't free nor without sacrifice :wink:. No problem here. With all the playing around in two cases, I expected to get scratched a bit. The key point is that I had forgotten how maintenance-friendly my Lian-Li...

"Little" sounds like my hard drives and GPU fan are now muted out, which is great. But my rear fan (Nexus 120mm) and CPU fan (Zalman 9500) are just as loud as they were in my old Lian-Li case. Fan noise was one of the main reasons I did this sidegrade. I'll confirm masumo's report of sharp edges: I...

Greetings, I'll bet that two drive enclosures could fit in there, side by side, in this vertical position? They would probably fit, but I doubt the elastic bands would hold them (they each weigh 2.5 lbs). You'd have to rest them on the base of the drive cage. Also, doing that would highly restrict ...

korsch, It depends on how you define "room" :lol: . I put my drive back in the SmartDrive and suspended it vertically between the top and bottom sets of elastic bands. It's not a very stable position at all, but since I almost never move the computer, I figure it will be ok. I do worry about how lon...

I don't know if this is allowed, but here's all the stuff I posted on Amazon for this case: http://members.cox.net/dalessnau/Antec%20Solo%20Front.jpg http://members.cox.net/dalessnau/Antec%20Solo%20Side.jpg http://members.cox.net/dalessnau/Antec%20Solo%20Open.jpg As I write this, Amazon has no infor...

If you don't need to use many different cards, as an alternative, you could try a Simple Tech BONZAI USB 2.0 CARD READER (STI-USB2BONZAI). I'd post the link from Amazon, but it's so long it would probably mess up the message display on the board (and I'm too lazy to figure out how to work those shor...