Hi, guys. I've stumbled upon this thread a while back, and I'm rather interested in it because I'm actually considering WD GP drives for the NAS I am planning. I have some questions about this issue, though, to which I haven't found answers yet. Since some of you are owners, can you tell me: 1) Whic...

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Miguel

From what I've read, the ICH9R does support SSU when set to ACHI mode, Well, I did know pretty much every ICHxR (starting with "7", at least) supports SSUp, but I did have the impression that the function needs BIOS support as well, which is more complicated. I assume most motherboard manufacturers...

I don't think the drives connected to the ICH9R on my motherboard are starting up separately Not good for what I want. That board doesn't have SSUp coded into the BIOS. Which means most, if not all, consumer-grade motherboards lack it :? If you happen to power-cycle that server say... yesterday (ki...

Not unless you have found something I havent. I had a look around the net, but couldnt find a trace of the NF3 chipset supporting SSu. I then turned on my backup server (NF3 chipset), and all 4 SATA drives span up at the same time. #$%&! Oh, well, another bump on the road. Let's see if good news co...

I can't speak for any other setups, but WD GP drives do support staggered spinup when paired with a controller that supports it as well (all 3ware cards do, IIRC). All you need to do is jumper the proper pins on the back of the drive. Hmm, that confirms what I had seen on WD's support page, which i...

Is that instantaneous, though? My understanding was that HDD had a very high instantaneous draw (like ~2A) right at startup and then quickly drop down to whatever. Yes, ~2A consumptions are at peak, meaning on those couple of seconds while the drive is powering up. That's when the motors need to wo...

I seem to remember that the nForce 3 chipset supports it, and that really quite old - but I might not be correct. That actually is a good sign. If the NF3 already supported the feature, then there is a really good chance the 8000 and 9000 series also support it. Finally, some good news! Its not usu...

Motherboards vary a lot, its mostly down to whether the chipset supports it, and whether the manufacturer has implemented it on the board . Most good motherboard will support it, but you are far less likely to find such support on Mini ITX boards. Hence the question :P I really want to know which c...

Hi, guys. I am currently on the planning stages of a small (mini-ITX small), low-power (well, as low you can go with 4 3.5'' drives... lol), high-capacity (4TB or more), low noise NAS. Right now I am still considering my options, since when you start thinking about something like building an 8TB sub...

The WD GP drives support "start up in idle" mode - you do this with jumper pins (not that the drives come with a jumper bridge). Haven't tried it because mine are in an array and I'm not sure what effect on the array it would have. Thanks for the info. However, does "start up in idle" mean "Stagger...

My two USB external drive enclosures for backups have 750GB drives now. I stayed away from 1TB and 1.5TB because of all the failures. But now they are getting full, and a 2TB in a single enclosure would be awesome! The fact they are slow wouldn't matter to me at all. I look forward to them. Actuall...

Well, that was quick! Thanks for being on top of things! As for the methodology, we don't really have one - it's an on-going process. Needless to say, that one is on your short "to-do" list, right? ;) So should I continue doing it for the sake of routine? Of course not. Just stick to a baseline, and...

I believe I can shed some light on this one. Let's see: Is it due to less features or is it something else, something ineherent with the ITX factor or something else? Well, since features are not lacking on this particular board, I can only attribute the low power outputs to few unneded ports being ...

Even bigger mess on the Portuguese website... Same non-functioning WD10EACS-to-EADS link, but the WD7500AACS-to-WD10EADS link works. Odd thing is, the StableTrac information still referrs to the 2TB model... :? Check here : StableTrac™ - O eixo do motor é preso nas duas extremidades para reduzir ...

please stop hiding your text in such a small font size. :oops: :oops: Ups, sorry about that. I'll be more careful from now on. Better yet, I'll just try not to make such long OT comments (which is the reason I use the smaller size in the first place :P). Btw, run Notepad instead (Start>Run>Notepad>...

I think the AMD 7 series chipset has the lowest power consumption over all the other boards (6 series and nvidia chipsets) Ups, I somehow skipped this answer. Sorry. Until now, the lowest non-stock idle power consumption I've ever seen from a machine ( appart from those P2 and P3 machines idling at...

__Miguel_: "Actually, this drive seems to be available for pre-ordering on an European e-tailer already" And it may remain in pre-order for the next 6 months or even longer. F1 took an eternity to become available... it was pre-orderable for most of the time too! Yeah, the F1s were a major pain. An...

Hmmm... Does it HAVE to be a desktop system? I mean, the only times I hear my laptop fan is when I'm alone in the room, with no external sounds, and even then is just a whisper... The only thing I had to do was to (severely) tweak the VID of the CPU (via RMClock). It's only a T7300 (65nm), X3100 IGP...

And everyone who has ever done RAID will hate them :p Soooo true... lol Not to mention you'd be in a very big pickle to begin with if you went anything but RAID1 with a pair of these... I mean, 2TB is the upper limit for regular partition schemes, and unless the Windows installer (or whatever OS yo...

Even with the assumption that Western Digital will leapfrog over 1.5TB and release a 2TB drive first, it is highly unlikely that it will be a 5-platter drive. To my knowledge, neither Western Digital nor Seagate (including Quantum and Maxtor) has produced a 5-platter desktop-class drive for at leas...

AFAIK these are the most power efficient mobo's for AM2, based on the nVidia 7050/630a chipset: Asrock AliveNF7G-HDready Abit AN-M2(HD) (...) First of all, sorry for digging this thread up. I was wondering if this is still true. I am starting to plan for a NAS device (WHS-based), and as such, I'd l...

Miguel, I hope I didn't come across as bellicose. I am just learning about these things and trying to find out what works. That was an article that I found to be informative to me. Not at all, Greg. Believe me, if I was anywhere near p****d off because of what you said, my reaction would have been ...

I would not characterize the 780G is a "great" HTPC chipset. It is good as a general purpose chipset. I'll give you that one, the NVIDIA 8000 and 9000 series looks like a better deal, especially the 9000 series Intel chipsets. Do keep in mind, though, that the review you're linking to was posted af...

can you elabourate a bit please? i get the general idea but aren't up to date on the intel side.. and would like to know what i could achieve (in terms of FSB) without spending much over the going rate for budget ram... I believe I can help you with that one. I'm assuming you already know about mem...

Yes, it ran the E7200 at 3.8GHz with 1:1 divisor and 2x2GB DDR2-800 just fine. Oh, that's music from my ears. Thanks for the heads-up :D More likely 946GZ (a.k.a GMA 3000). Actually, if memory serves me right, the 946GZ appeared AFTER the G3x series. It was a weird hybrid between the 945G/GC and th...

No Suggestions? Try taking a look at a review over at Tom's Hardware a couple of days ago, on the VRM11.1-compliant G31 boards. In a nutshell, G31 (VRM11.1)+E7200+1 3.5'' 7200rpm drive stayed well under 60W max power consumption. And that's without voltage optimizations... My guess is you could pro...

there is no 45nm CPU available cheaper than the e5200 is there? Not that I know of, and since Nehalem/i7 is right around the corner, I'm guessing it will never be... Unless, of course, you are considering the Atom CPUs... hehehe But those are not LGA775 parts (nor are they performance monsters like...

lowpowercomputing wrote:Mine suspended nicely in XP SP3 (x86) after installing the chipset drivers. It also woke up flawlessly.

Thanks! I'll check that out when I have the chance. Right now the system is disassembled, but I'll check it out ASAP.

Cheers.

Miguel

Hi, guys. Just a quick question for those of you who also have a D945GCLF: do any of you lack S3 support using Windows? I ask because with either with W2K8 and W2K3 (haven't tried XP yet) I have no Suspend option in Windows, even after installing the chipset drivers... Did I get a dud, or this board...