What's the SPCR record at the moment for low power consumption with a C2D CPU? Does anything approach the new Mini?

It's a disappointing upgrade given it hasn't been touched for almost 2 years. Imagine the applications these could be used for with a quad core

baconandeggs wrote:the antec three hundred?

+1

I used mineral turpentine - cleaned that sucker good

I followed the instructions on that link when I installed mine - and that was using the stock paste. Give it a try!

SHTF = "stuff" hits the fan

That's hot. My Q9550 with S1283 idles at 32/32/30/30, and when running at 100% rarely goes over 40 per core. Dumb question - but did you remove the plastic film from the bottom of the heatsink? When I applied thermal paste to mine, I applied it to the heatsink, and spread it out by finger (wrapped i...

redcokehome wrote:i have already create the most fast ssd 240m/s read with 180m/s, if you guys interest please contact me .

How about you just post details on the forum?

It seems the WD20EADS a little slower than the 1TB Caviar Black, which is not that bad. However, still not a match for the similar-priced VelociRaptor (I know, I'm being mean here... lol), whose MINIMUM read speed is faster than the WD20EADS AVERAGE read speed. Well, that's exactly as expected... t...

I just read an email from state-side relatives who are "climate change deniers", pointing to record cold snaps being evidence against "global warming". Unfortunately their message is a little lost given that last week Melbourne had a record heatwave of 43C, 44C and 45C for three days straight (110F,...

Michel wrote:I intend to run Linux, so can't get the green power range

What? I have four 1TB Caviar Greens running just fine under Ubuntu. No load cycle count issues.

I'm only folding because I have a quad core running as a server... and most of the time it's idle. So I have one VM running with two cores of SMP on it - that way I'm averaging ~50% CPU utilisation, and keeping the heat and power consumption down. After a few months I'm only at 48 work units complet...

It was the 64 bit version with 4GB RAM allocated. As I said, it was an install into a virtual machine, so no, I didn't apply it over the top of an existing installation. Looks like I was looking at the free space, not the space used - but it was still 15.4GB used for the install. I installed to a 32...

P.S.: OMG! I just remembered something... 3 of these, plus a 2.5'' system drive (5V only, I wouldn't need to worry about Staggered Spin-up, like I am worrying now... lol) would be just about PERFECT for that WHS NAS I am thinking about... :shock: :shock: Dream NAS - Chenbro ES34069 mini-ITX hotswap...

__Miguel_ wrote: 2) A 4-platter, 7-head 1.5TB model (500GB/platter; it can also be a 4/8, short-stroked, though);

...wouldn't this be a 3-platter model - maybe with 6 heads???

My Q9550 only undervolts to 1.125V at 100% - anything less than that is prone to crashing. With SpeedStep it would idle at 1.08V - seeing as it's always running a folding VM with 2 cores in the background, I use less power than leaving voltage at "auto". It hosts a website so is on 24/7.

...I would only consider replacing the CPU if it no longer meets your needs.

There's none listed on Static Ice... which probably means you're outta luck

Do the cheap CF to IDE adapters suffer from stuttering issues? I know the performance would suck ass, but don't want to deal with the suttering issue. um, my impressions are that this is like buying a bicycle because you eventually have to pull over in the car to buy petrol, and you don't like stop...

Some customers have introduced high speed SSDs with JMicron's RAID controller JMB390, plus two JMF602B controllers . The target performance is 233MB/sec on sequential read and 166MB/sec on sequential write. Moving forward, JMicron is developing SSD controllers with DRAM cache and it is expected to ...

Chenbro ES34069

http://www.chenbro.com/corporatesite/pr ... ?serno=100

1 internal 2.5" HDD
4 x hot swap 3.5" HDD
Optional slimline optical

Looks sweet too. Very compelling NAS or media server if you filled it with 4TB or more.

No reason you couldn't use the same install media - my download was done separate to the product key.

I installed W7B into a virtual machine - just fired it up, it used 16.9GB to install.

I'v got a mini-itx file server Your free image hosting website has sex popup ads. I've looked at the 5 in 3 backplanes before - I have an Antec 300, if I were to use one, I wouldn't be able to plug the ATX power cable into my mATX motherboard - the backplane would extend over the motherboard. Check...

There's some discussion about it here:

viewtopic.php?t=51979

You're right, I'm going out to replace my WDs with Seagate 7200.11s right now :? ...does no-one on this board get sarcasm? :roll: I'm very happy with my WDs (mine don't appear to be reporting high cycles), but I don't believe it's an issue anyway until these drives start dying. Data that's not back...

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.

zds wrote:This way or that way, I would not buy GP drives myself until this issue has been cleared by WD; any drive can fail, but it does not make sense to by a drive that's *known* to have issues.

You're right, I'm going out to replace my WDs with Seagate 7200.11s right now

There's also the 65W Q9550S listed.

Do us all a favour and never try any house electrical wiring on your own!!!

SSDs appear to be coming down in price quicker than... well insert your dirty analogy of choice here. The Titan 128GB SSD has been announced with pricing of $300 USD - that's $2.35 per GB. A 300GB VelociRaptor currently costs about $0.77 USD per GB - so SSDs are only three times more expensive than ...

You need to use the correct Torx bit! They are not a Phillips head or Allen/Hex.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx