yea , you should try disabling them before you order the new hdd it might quiet it down enough where you dont even need it

first things first WELCOME TO SPCR

and second that should be posted under system advice, see u there

did u turn off windows defender?

yea iv read reviews of it and have heard that its decent, but i have no experience with it personally so i cant say for sure how good it is

well if u do them in a raid 1 and take the drive out u can put it in any system because raid1 has no "code" or any thing like raid 0 and raid5 does, its simply a mirror of the other hard drive so to answer your question, yes if with raid1 no matter what you use to raid it at any time you should be a...

have got some harddisks working again by hitting them with a screw-driver, first gently, later on somewhat harder and suddenly it did spin up and work Smile

i have to admit that i like that idea, although i never did anything for me but help my anger that i just lost all my data

to me it looks like a p180B that had a really fat guy with an ugly foot stomp on it, i don't know if its just me but i don't even like how the inside is layed out

well if a true hardware raid is pretty much out of the question, then I'd go with the raid on your MoBo, because its a mix of hardware raid and software raid, (ie theres a chip on you MoBo that does the raid , that uses alittle cpu power but not much). With pure software raid, it uses alittle more c...

eh my experience with vista wasn't all that great, when i was running it, it did the same thing. I never figured out why, hence why I now stick with WinXp and Ubuntu (Linux), even tho i never figured why vista hits the hard drive so much doesn't mean that u cant stop it, there is one thing in mind t...

i didn't read the whole thread but u should try the HR-05 SLI, sorry if some one mentioned it

well what os are u using , windows, Linux if its windows do you have a spy ware removal tool, or a virus scanner, because often when a computer is idle some apps will use the time and scan the computer for viruses and spyware , also you have 2gb of ram in it so i don't think its using the swap disk ...

1st off WELCOME TO SPCR


and what i think your referring to is know as when the hard drive is seeking
i don't know what the current quietest laptop hard drive is but i know from experience that "Samsung Spinpoints" are pretty quiet

well i found one, dont know if the hdd would get hot in it seeing how it doesnt have fins or anything http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817984003&ATT=17-984-003&CMP=OTC-Froogle&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Accessories+-+Hard+Drive-_-Scythe+USA-_-17984003 it would also be...

eh that wont work for what im aiming for, mine still has to be mountable in a 3.5 drive bay...

Does any one know where you can find a silencer for a laptop drive? or if there even are any?

no i didnt see ur comment but i saw that a few minutes ago while going over every thing and said o shit, the shuttle just keeps looking more appealing, except the fan in the psu, and i could pretty much have a full system for the price of a am2 shuttle, i have a 3800x2 in my current system but im go...

sure 90watts is enough?

sweet, looks like ill be adding that to my list, $40! for that tiny thing???, damn well its the price to play... well thanks for the help and i will definitely be posting pics of my progress when i get around to ordering every thing... thanks again

well i did a google search for images and found this

http://www.short-circuit.com/images/pro ... -intel.jpg

thats also the same mobo i plan on using, but in that pico psu i dont need the sata power

http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-90?sc=8&category=13

ok so looking at the pic of it, the white and black wires are power in, then the red, black, and yellow are the molex connectors?

aw ok i see, so i would wire in the power brick to that? what about the other stuff thats gonna need power like the cf to ide adapters (2 of them) each require a power from a floppy connecter, and the slim dvd rom thats gonna be in it?

im not much of a psu guy, took me alittle while just to figure out the psu on that case, your gonna have explain the psu setup alittle better, if you can show me a link to a pico psu maybe ill understand more

eh, thanks or the idea (its the thought that counts) but i hate buying prebuilt things that arnt modable very easy, when it comes to computers it takes me awhile before i actually order the parts, because (not to sound greedy) exactly what im looking fore and will surf the web months looking for the...

Aww well that kinda blows, i like that case for the fact that its really small, and most other mini itx cases are like $90 USD and thats without a psu, one of my other options was to buy a barebones shuttle thats AM2, because im gonna be cycling some Am2 hardware in another month or so (3800X2 and 1...

wow like looking build, id have to say u where really lucky when it came to the heat sink fan, also iv never even seen a mobo with a DVI out on it, how quiet is it?.. temps?

Mike C - I already have 2 CF/PATA adapters thats why i didn't put then down, although i should get better ones because the ones i have are cheapy $6 USD ones.


jaganath - what do you suppose I do then, run a an undervolted Nexus 80? Because I HIGHLY doubt that theres a after market heatsink for it.

well i dont know how tall the scythe mini is but iv only heard good things about it, and yea its in the wrong section should be under system advice but nothing i can do about it :D and on HTPCs i don't know very much about then, never used them, nor have i built one but i think antec just came out w...

sorry i thought that link worked so i guess ill just post what its gonna be Case: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811165041 MoBo/Cpu/Video: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813121317 CF card for OS: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E168202111...

the sound of me typing and waiting to reply to other peoples posts.... happy computing .... cheers

https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/WishList/TemporaryWishList.asp?BundleExist=N well thats what i plan to have in it , i plan to run Xunbuntu with no page file or time logs and all that unneeded writes to the flash cards, the 4gig one is for general local storage and the 2gig one which is faster t...

Silenx-scandal? did i miss something, then again i havent posted here inn awhlie