Will Scythe Ninja 2 fit this case? As a rule of thumb, I've been able to fit a Ninja (same size as the Ninja 2) in just about any case that fits a 12cm fan on the back. Since this case is one of the VERY few ones in uATX form factor able to fit a 12cm fan, my guess would be "yes". But since I wasn'...

agree. I tried a WI Pico and can't power up the spin of a 2.5" hdd. That is the scream of a severely overtaxed Pico and/or (most likely OR) power brick. Don't forget the Pico still has to convert part of the 12V input to 3.3V AND 5V (-12V is not present in the Pico, and I believe +5VSB also isn't a...

PartEleven wrote:Thanks for the advice!

NP, glad to be of help.

Please let me know how it turns out for you, ok?

Cheers.

Miguel

P.S.: Hmm, I wonder if you can get two of those working in the same IDE controller... I'm planning a WHS box, so the more controllers I can use, the better... lol

Wow I didn't know that. My power brick has adjustable output voltage from 15-21V, so I could also run this system on the original Pico PSU? Sorry, my bad. I must have been too sleepy at the time. According to this , max input voltage on regular Picos is 13V. :oops: :oops: :oops: Sorry. Now the prob...

Fuzzilla wrote:If he can't add a lamp without creating an issue with his NAS, he would be very wise to check the line for supply and regulation.

Indeed. If that happens, the power rating of the brick (or lack thereof) is the least of his problems... lol

Hopefully that's not the issue.

Cheers.

Miguel

Also, I'd find a buddy with a multimeter and check voltages at the wall outlet. Since you say an additional device plugged in worsens the problem you may be at the limit of the circuit. From what I've read, and considering the parts he's using, most likely it's the brick not having enough juice to ...

I'm wondering whether the WI (wide-input) Pico's are more susceptible to these problems. As I understand it the 12V Pico's just pass the 12V through straight from the brick, whereas the WI's have to convert whatever voltage they get to 12V. Put it this way - the 12V current limits on the WI Pico's ...

How about this, this (or the respective variants with an LCD screen, if needed), or even the right-out-of-the-oven M350?

The M350, for one, is DIRT cheap...

Hope this one helps.

Cheers.

Miguel

That is a clear case of lack of amperage on either the 5v or 12v rail, or both. Probably the offender is the 12v rail. Since you're running IDE drives, I can only see one viable option for you :upping at least the power brick capacity (unless you have a really good brick, capable of overshooting wit...

Got it.

Perfect explanation, thanks!

Now, why isn't there a "Vote Up" option on the replies?

Cheers.

Miguel

If after reading that thread and 2.5 pages of that article you still don't see obvious problems with the table you quoted then ask more questions. +1 for further explanation, please. And sorry for the blunt D&D reference... :P I've read those links, but I'm not very literate in regards to the math ...

Not really. At least in Portugal. Right now the WD20EADS is about €300, while the WD10EADS sells for around €95~€100, and 1.5TB drives (including the VERY elusive WD15EADS) are about €150 a pop. So I'd say, no. Price probably won't come down until Samsung and/or Seagate release 2TB models. A...

I have been trying to get stuff like that in Portugal for years now. No dice, though :( For those of you who are not really into dump-diving and such, you can always shrink-wrap one end of a wire to the appropriate pin, and solder the other end to the appropriate switch/LED terminal. No permanent di...

well, to start off, if you moved the front fan outside, it still wont fit under the front panel, there's less than 1cm there, the fans would both have to be on the inside of the case to fit. :oops: :oops: :oops: Sorry about that, now that you mentioned it, I took another look at AndrewD's pic, and ...

The motherboard tray is removable if i remember correctly. As for the 5.25" bays, i think they are, but i'm not 100" positive. Nice for the motherboard tray, and do you have a way to know about the 5.25'' bays? I hate voiding the warranty a couple of days after buying stuff... lol if you mount a fa...

Hi, guys. First of all, sorry for digging up this thread. I have a couple of questions about this case, and since info on it is rather scarce, I thought it might be a good idea to ask some of you. It's literally IDENTICAL to the TJ08. So, does that mean the mobo tray is removable, as well? That woul...

I guess I'm unclear on when it should be left alone, upped to 25.5, or simply disabled--and also why EADS is less of a problem than EACS. I just hope WD isn't cheating on the whole "park-unpark" count with the EADS series... However, one thing just came to me... Why would the park/unpark head movem...

Awesome program :D That's why Microsoft bought the sysinternals domain, and hired the guy behind each and every of those incredible pieces of software, starting with Process Explorer (Task Manager on some seriously potent steroids), and ending with Autoruns (ever wanted to REALLY know what starts w...

EsaT wrote:Just remember to make difference between y and Y...

Never capitalization made so much difference...

Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers.

Miguel

Diskmon: from sysinternals seems to not give me any information at all. You stopped reading the page too soon. Try Filemon instead :wink: That one will tell you which process is accessing what and where. @Csoszi: That seems an interesting way of circumventing some problems... Do you know if the dri...

That said, AHCI is required for hot swap. Don't even think about trying to get a drive to detect otherwise. X2 :!: This can be hacked into old intel chipsets as well if they have bios support, almost all of them do support ahci, but drivers must be loaded properly into the operating system. Link, p...

I'm using AHCI Then I just can't understand why Intel dropped the support for port multipliers from ICH10... I was under the impression ICH9 supports it... Weird... @author: you can still get your 4-bay SATA port replicator. Just do as wojtek, and get an addonics controller (or promise, or whatever...

Yep, ICH7 also doesn't support multipliers.

Odd thing ICH10 doesn't, too... Maybe it needs AHCI or RAID modes being enabled? IDE and AHCI/RAID modes work completely different on Intel chipsets...

Cheers.

Miguel

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, though, my multimeter (I had a - rather long, six-months, course on computer repair a couple of years back, so I needed one :P) is down for repairs for two weeks now. I'll only be able to get it back Saturday - with luck, that is... However, I'll test that ASAP. C...

What jessekopelman said. Plus, do keep in mind that some third-party software (most notably Spybot - and some other real-time protectors - and the Intel Wireless Manager) just LOVE to keep trashing just about any HDD in the system with file open and file close handles. It's a mess, I tell you... If ...

AFAIK, most eSATA backplate brackets have both a SATA port connection and a Molex connector. Which means eSATA power comes from the Molex connector, not the SATA port. Other eSATA brackets are simply "gender-changers" (no power is added) or, even worse, plain SATA ports (not even eSATA, that is). Wh...

Thanks! That's actually a great piece of information. That would explain why one out of three drives on my test config seems (oddly enough, the extra-dangerous water glass test didn't work for me... too little vibration? :P) not to care about the other two... It's connected to the (only) SATA power ...

Ok, guys, I FINALLY have an answer from Intel Support. It might have taken them less time if they only had READ the chat transcripts :roll:. I recieved an answer about one week ago, but they decided to point me to where I had already been (the southbridge datasheet), AND about which I had already ta...

Nice finding, aztec. Now, the question MUST be asked: why do review sites use the same benchmarks for both performance-oriented and storage-oriented drives? It's like comparing the Concorde with the A380 (or just about any other long-haul commercial aircraft), and saying "Heh, it packs a lot of peop...

Ok, small update to this thread. As you know, I chatted with an Intel support guy. The "48 business hours" technically haven't expired (with the whole time difference between here and the US), so I'l check with them tomorrow. I have, however, tried a uATX ASRock board (ConRoe 945G-DVI, for those who...