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- Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: New HDDs: RAID 0 vs Single HDD
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17132
If ypu have two or more standalone drives, and one of them dies, you only lose the data on that drive. If a RAID 0 drive dies, you lose all the data on the entire array, because most of the files will have split into two or more pieces. You can't recover the data from the other drives in the array, ...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:24 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 320Gb when???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16526
- Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:41 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 320Gb when???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16526
In terms of the read and write transfer performance, an F1 will beat a current generation Raptor hands down. The Raptor’s 39% spindle RPM advantage can’t compensate for the F1’s fourfold advantage in areal density. Tom’s Hardware review of the 1TB F1 noted a 22% higher average read transfer,...
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 320Gb when???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16526
Got one
Just bought one today. First impressions are reasonably positive. Rotational noise is much the same character as my T-series HD501J, albeit quieter by 1-2db - idle is pretty much inaudible from a few feet, and shoved into a Scythe Quiet Drive in my computer, I can't hear anything at all - neither id...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 320Gb when???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16526
Odd
If you mean the single platter HD322HJ, I thought it was already out. There are a number of places in the UK selling it. I'm surprised its not selling in the US yet. http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/Samsung-HD322HJ-SpinPoint-F1-320GB-7200RPM-SATA-3GB/s-16MB-Cache-OEM_6208.html http://www.dacompute...
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:56 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi 7K1000 1TB a silent beast? :O
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35722
Twice as loud before I enabled AAM. After setting to 128, and running in a while, it's quietened a bit more. However, since its mounted in a drive silencer, it isn't easy to be exact. It's quieter than I expected. I'm afraid I don't know the power consumption, but I'm fairly sure it's more than the ...
- Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:54 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi 7K1000 1TB a silent beast? :O
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35722
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:03 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi 7K1000 1TB a silent beast? :O
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35722
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi 7K1000 1TB a silent beast? :O
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35722
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:44 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi 7K1000 1TB a silent beast? :O
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35722
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:53 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi 7K1000 1TB a silent beast? :O
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35722
Just bought one. First impression is positive. The drive isn't as quiet as the Samsung 500GB, but I didn't expect it to be. Subjectively, it seems about twice the noise, but it's a fairly smooth swishing sound that's easy to tune out. Vibration is even lower than the Samsung. With AAM enabled at ful...
- Fri May 04, 2007 7:48 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Interesting review over at xbitlabs.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9869
Tell me about it. I recently bought an 8800 GTX for my system, and the increase in idle temperature in the cooling loop is quite noticeable. I'm not sure my reserator could actually cope with both CPU cores and the GPU running at full bore. What puzzles me is why Nvidia don't provide any support for...
- Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:45 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Dictator is Hanged...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 85731
Of course they didn't. Saddam's career alone demonstrates that By that logic, if there was a world in which only saddam commited genocide, saddam's actions would prove that whatever was different in that world didn't stop any genocides. I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say here, but if you...
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:32 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Finally, a quiet SATA drive...I mean really quiet.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 54166
I've recently got the 500GB T-series and it's definitely the quietest drive I've ever had - and that's before the run-in period. And the perfromance is quite impressive too, even with AAM at max. Can you give me some more info on that AAM and how to configure it ? Thx. Well, I'm not an expert, but ...
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:45 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Finally, a quiet SATA drive...I mean really quiet.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 54166
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: First post, mini-review (Scythe), and thanks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3003
Just got one of these from QuietPC to use with my new Samsung T HD501LJ 500GB (which is pretty damn quiet to begin with, even though it hasn't yet gone through the 1-2 week run-in process), and stuck it on foam at the bottom of my case . It's fantastic - Idle is totally inaudible unless I have my he...
- Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:19 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Just how much HD space are you using?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11204
- Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:38 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Dictator is Hanged...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 85731
So you're convinced that the death sentences in the neurenburgh trials didn't deter anyone from anything? Of course they didn't. Saddam's career alone demonstrates that. Not to mention Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and others since WWII far too numerous to mention. No dictator, or dictoria...
- Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:57 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Dictator is Hanged...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 85731
The execution of a real mass murderer by the relatives of his victims, would elicit so many expressions of sorrow. So society becomes the tyrant when it rids itself of a cancer. Poor Saddam.....maybe some wag at the UN will nominate him for a Nobel peace prize, maybe pay his relatives reparations f...
- Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:19 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 8mb and 16mb cache?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3165
Not really. The drive cache is so small compared to the total amount of data on the drive, that the odds of a cache hit are quite small. RAM is infinitely better at drive caching, since it's vastly larger and much faster. There may be a minor improvement in performance for write operations, but it's...
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:28 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Upgrading to Conroe C2D, do I need to reinstall Windows?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10239
Technically speaking, you can replace every single component as many times as you like, and windows will adjust if you supply the correct drivers. Although replacing the motherboard will most likely require reactivating windows. In practise, windows won't behave as well as it would with a clean inst...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:31 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What are you WATCHING right now? ~Voted #1 Thread~
- Replies: 62
- Views: 38399
- Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:42 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: How does one build a computer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6161
- Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:06 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: How does one build a computer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6161
High-quality parts are feely available in the UK. Scythe, Zalman, Antec, Seasonic et al are all avilable from internet retailers. Nexus fans are harder to acquier, but they are avilable. Overclockers.co.uk QuietPC.co.uk Try these places. The reason that you may have been advised to get a high-power ...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:04 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Reserator 2 review [updated]
- Replies: 47
- Views: 39379
But fortunately, it isn't. I downloaded the instruction manual for the Reserator 2, and on page 16 there is an exploded view. The water is ducted from the input to the opposite end of the unit, then up to the top, then looped back multiple times through the radiator, before ending up in the reservoi...
- Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:35 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Upgradeability of am2 vs core2duo
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14911
I’d have to agree with GlassMan. Since Intel manufactures chipsets as well as processors, it benefits considerably by forcing consumers to upgrade their motherboard every time it brings out a new core design. They have no strong incentive to stick with a particular socket/voltage/chipset combinati...
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:32 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Abolish copyright? good or bad..
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22492
- Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:02 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Bad time to buy a new HD ?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8005
Laptop drives run at 5400 RPM, so they're substantially quieter than standard desktop drives. They also use less power, generate less heat, and are physically much smaller, so they're much easier to suspend, enclose, etc. The trade-off is that capacity is limited, cost is higher (2-3x as much per GB...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:37 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Mail-In Rebates
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9286
Annoying and wasteful rebates may be, but the logic for the seller is undisputable. I suspect that sheer consumer inertia would allow a seller to realise considerable benefit even if they conducted the rebate perfectly honestly. That being the case, since this is not a prima facie case of fraud, I d...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD My Book, External USB, Mini Review.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4214