I bought one, and have a little warning for future purchasers. I also bought the gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard and for some strange reason gigabyte decided to put horizontal faced SATA connectors on the board which sit right at the edge of the motherboard. So if you mount the motherboard its im...

I'm also planning to buy the 2480, but how quiet are the standard fans and the power supply ?

Because a large file or multiple files are written 4/5/6... bytes at the time (depending on the number of drives). That is why the more drives you use in a raid(5), the faster it becomes.

Why use an independent HD for the OS ? If you put the OS on the raid 5 HD's you can already add one extra drive. And raid is a lot faster then using one drive. I see a lot of comments about raid speed and cpu usage etc. I'm using raid 5 (4x 500GB) and its a LOT faster reading and writing then using ...

TAT was designed for notebooks, not really suitable for desktops. There are 2 Q6600 out there, the B3 and G0 stepping. The B3 stepping has a max core temp of 85c, the G0 has a max of 100c. The problem lies in how speedfan reads the temp, it doesn't read the actual temp, but reads the difference betw...