Great article and discussion.

I am currently building a new system and I found this article to be a great read. It helps raise some potential issues that I am going to face.

I also have found the post-discussion to be helpful as well.

It makes my visit to this forum very worthwhile.

Thanks.

ATI is the way to go. Check out this study... http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/29/the_tft_connection/index.html Yes, it is a little dated, but it is really revealing. I have one of these... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102305 It drives the 1900x1200 LCD and the 1600x120...

You may want to check these out...

http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4041660

http://www.academicsuperstore.com/marke ... tNo=730208

Good luck

MikeDeuce, How did your drives work out? From my experience, the drives had such a high-pitched distinctive whine, that they could be heard over all of the typical low pitched sounds. The sounds did coincide with some type of hard drive activity. (Churning as you call it?) I work all day within 3 fe...

I sent the drives back and installed a backup pair.

I'll wait until later this year for more SATAII options.

Thanks.

Thanks for the link. I had seen it before making this purchase, however, I was hoping to get lucky. Since I am seeing the same problem in two drives, it is not looking good for WD. I was considering the Seagates, but their performance looks dismal compared to the new SATAII drives. Unfortunately, I ...

I just wanted to report to the forum that I just received two new WD2500KS drives from newegg and they both have loud high pitch whines. These drives are for a RAID Mirror pair on a Promise TX2300 controller card. The whine is each drive is equally loud. It is very high pitch and can easily be notic...