Putting the HDD on it upside down may help w/ cooling -- the heavier cast aluminum on the bottom dissipates more heat than the thin steel top cover. Just flipped mine upside down and it got cooler by ~1°C at idle and 4°C (from 40°C to 36°C) after an hour of constant sequential activity. Not bad for...

One of the greatest looking cases I've seen (or maybe the only one good looking) and an example of a newthink too. Kudos to Silverstone for innovation. Of course, it is overpriced, like most premium aftermarket components. Two things I have not understood from the review is: what is the reason of su...

You seem to have something against SSDs, don't you?

BTW, aren't these VelociRaptors even more expensive that SSDs these days?

What's the point of spending money on an SSD and not use it? TEMP dir back to SSD!

By the time it wears out, you'll long be running a newer/bigger/better/faster/cheaper SSD.

Boy, is this ugly... I am now looking for new case (my old Chieftec BG-02 ended up being 5 mm too narrow for a CM 212 Plus I just bought :)) and was browsing through manufacturer's websites. I am not even trying to be picky, not looking for the perfect design, but Jeez... do those designers have a b...

Yes, but it doesn't affect Word's speed of brining the file up. Who knows how that AV works... Turning it off for a while would be an easy way to identify if that the problem or not. It just slows down when I use windows explorer to open that same file. And the problem disappears when iDrive contin...

ces,

do you have an antivirus running? Is windows search indexing enabled?

I am thinking of processes and/or services that interfere with real-time file system acceess...

Dorin.