The HD501LJ actually is a very quiet drive, but only when you turn on the AAM (Automatic Accoustic Management) mode. I have several of these drives in use and every one of them had the AAM mode disabled when I got them. I guess this is the factory default. You can enable this feature with the HD501...

If I'm not mistaken, some 32-bit operating systems might have a 2TB disk size limit. A RAID is viewed as a "single" disk by the OS. To go beyond that may requires one of the 64-bit version of your OS. but i have an 64bit OS!!! windows Vista Ultimate 64bit! probably the problem comes fom SATA contro...

i found the problem finally ... for some reasons windows vista installed wrong drivers for ICH9R controller, something like INTEL 82801/ICH9... actually it was not absolutely wrong but it didnt work. when i manually installed the drivers for INTEL ICH9/ICH9R everything went fine.... one more thing.....

hi again... finally i bought four WD7500AAYS (raid edition, 5 years warranty) in order to build my RAID 5 array, but.... i'm facing a big problem to build the RAID array in my system... As i have told before my motherboard is ASUS P5E3 deluxe/wifi@n with INTEL ICH9R raid controller, CPU E6850 core2d...

To get into the Intel Matrix manager BIOS screen you need to enable RAID mode in the BIOS first. Once you do, the computer will boot, and give you the option of loading the IMM confuration (Ctrl+I - I believe). In there, you can set your RAID configuration as you wish. hi all, this is correct but.....

few quick questions guys cause i cant open any other site to search right now... my WLAN is crawling these days... the normal edition of the Samsung 750GB drives is HD753LJ. does anybody know what is the exact code name for the SAMSUNG 750 GB HDDs, RAID Edition?? something like HE753LJ?? and if some...

i know what u mean... its the same as what i read few weeks ago... an array of hard drives based on the MS Win Home Server (new release) or MS 2003 Server. i think its not exectly a RAID array and the final available storage space is less than RAID 5, but not the half as in RAID 1. anyway i will thi...

zzombi wrote:The non-raid have 3 years.

have you seen RAID edition for SAMSUNG spinpoint F1 HD103UJ??
because im interested exactly for this... a RAID 5 array!

does anybody know how many years is the official warranty for Samsung F1 HD103UJ drives???

Andy thx for the usefull detailed information. As i can see there is no reason for RAID 6, too risky to go for RAID 10, so -as i had thought- 4x1TB seems to be the better solution... starting with RAID 5 and if something goes wrong i would be able to change them into RAID 1... (of course before load...

First of all i 'd like to thank you all very much for your replies... Finally it was a good oportunity for a detailed conversation about RAID matters, even if this conversation went far away from my first post. But i think that it was very very usefull, not only for me but also for any other person ...

btw it's only cheaper because here we have less VAT, so Hardware and Multimedia products are usually cheaper than in Europe, because the taxes when the product enter switzerland are lower than in the EU.... we get to have more expensive food though :wink: maybe its a good time to make that trip to ...

I've bought them at a local store (Stegpc.ch) here in Switzerland, they were at the same price as the WesternDigital GP, but cheaper than the Hitachi one. I suppose swiss currency doesn't mean much to you... 390CHF = 230Eur rougthly. seems to be a very good price... they costs about 269-283 Eur in ...

SileX wrote:Shocking:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/21/ ... th_a_bang/

very usefull link.... thx

has anybody seen any review like this for 750GB HDDs????

IT DOES NOT REFLECT A LIFETIME TEST of the drive. In a fail-safe system, the drives should be swapped before they reach the MTBF number, because as they comes closer, the probability of a failure raises. Even a lot earlier than that. For the 70 years MTBF of the F1 you need to replace them every 5 ...

That is simpley not true. If one of your drives fail, you will lose the data if another fail before you have replaced the drive and rebuild the array. Actually this is true... but in this case man... You must have unbeliavable rotten luck !!! to happen 2 or more drives to be absolutely dead at the ...

just saw your post... why do u want to know how many platters they have? who cares at the end... they are the absolutely best HDDs in 500GB today! and maybe the best solution for any other storage capacity... i've got 5 of them in RAID 5 array and they are just perfect , including 5 years warranty.....

there are 2 +1 possible ways to avoid transfer of vibrations and/or noise of any vibrated source ; in our case HDDs. first is rubber mounting or by springs for example. the second way is by using a big mass. so an aluminum case, even handmade, like some pics i saw would be a good solution and also i...

gb115b wrote: i'm going to have 8 of them as of tomorrow!

didnt u read the other subjects of the same forum...?

zzombi wrote: Has it occured to anyone they pulled the 5400rpm speed exactly because they cannot make a 1TB 7200rpm drive right now? The "Green Power" feature ....

seems to be a big bulls@&*t to me...!

No offense, but this is my opinion and obviously WD is not ready to produce 1TB 7200rpm disks right now...

The 1200000MTBF is customary to server/RAID editions of various drive brands, unfortunately at extra price. HDDs with 1.200.000 MTBF are more expensive than the normal disks but they have 5 years warranty. So, the safety of your valuable data is given!!! especially in RAID arrays. You cant lose any...

PASwore wrote: It depends on what you want to do with it. If you want tot use it your just files, backups, this Samsung wil be your drive. But if you want to you use it as a server, like mysql, it will not be the fastest, because Samsung lakes a bit behind on that. Pure transferrate: Samsung rocks. ...

hmmm... if this is correct, the MTBF of Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ is 600.000 running hours, while WD Caviar GP WD10EACS is 1.200.000..!

i 'm looking for HDDs to built a RAID 5 array of total storage capacity around 2TB. i was reading the whole topic here for an hour, trying to find out what kind of HDDs is the best and i have no concluded yet. Finally, is the Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ (1 TB - intern - 3.5" - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm -...

two drives are mirrored [RAID 1] and then two other drives are mirrored as well, and these two RAID 1 units are put into a large RAID 0 array, giving the speed of RAID 0 and the redundancy of RAID 1 at the same time better speed, worst storage performance... considering the cost it doesnt seem to b...

what does RAID 10 offer more then RAID 5???

supposing that i will use 4x1TB HDDs (regardless to that kind of HDDs still has reliability problems and the cost will be extremely high; more than 1000 EURO / around 278 euro eachone) what will be the final storage capacity and the access speed?

If you really need the last sata port free, go with 750GB. Not sure which make to go with in that case, sorry. Thanks for your ideas. Actually i dont need the last SATA port free right now cause i choose not to use a SATA DVD+/-RW but an IDE (Plextor PX 800A), but i think it's better to have one fr...

Hi there, I'm building a totally new HTPC and i want it to be quiet enough (as much as i can get...) It will be based on ASUS P5E3 Deluxe WiFi motherboard which can only support 6 SATA drives (other parts will be: E6850 Core2Duo CPU, MSI RX2600XT 512MB silent VGA card, 2GB RAM DDR 3 Corsair DHX 1333...

hi i was also wondering what is better to get... Core2Duo E6850 or Quad Core Q6600.... Most people say that core2duo is faster that Q6600 but im not so sure... u see, in the first case u have 2 cores running slightly faster than the 4 cores of quad core CPU... but when exactly do u need the maximum ...

No offense, but this is a silly statement. Unless you only watch loud action films. Nothing like getting to a quiet moment in a movie and you have to turn up the volume because the fan noise drowns out the quiet dialog. For me, the HTPC absolutely NEEDS to be quieter than a desktop system. Heck, my...