Welcome to spcr. I'm from Perth, and the first tip I'd give any Australian is PC case gear if you haven't found it already. They stock a range of parts (heatsinks and fans) commonly recommended on spcr at reasonable prices, and ship Australia wide. http://www.pccasegear.com.au For cases and PSUs, MS...

One of the more interesting OT threads I've seen for a while.. no political/religious flamebaiting! Anyway, to throw my two cents in and possibly veer the thread off course again, I think that English pronunciation is highly irregular compared to most languages. Written English is definitely not pho...

OK, practicality aside, how can you not like the spider? That's just plain awesome.

Sorry MFE, I don't know about AAM or how it is implemented.

What tool are you using to query / set the AAM properties outside of the NDAS? Maybe there is another tool which can help you (from WD perhaps)? Might be worth a try writing an email to WD to see if they have any suggestions too.

Wow, interesting first post! Sorry, I don't have a definite solution for you. My only thought is replacing the firmware in the NDAS. Is there any open source firmware for it? Or if you are really ambitious, you could try reverse engineering it with an ARM disassembler (most of these things use ARM C...

Thanks for the info deadrabbit. The snapshots definitely sound like an interesting feature to me. I might install them both as VMs and have a play.

Unfortunately I don't have access to newegg (not in the states), but I've got an old mobo + Celeron and a mini tower case which should be up to the job.

I'm pretty sure that all their 780G chipset boards all support AM3 as well.

Yes you can. You should be able to bridge or route between any pair of network interfaces on your machine, whether they are onboard, installed in a PCI slot, connected by USB, or any other way. They don't need to be the same type of interface either. You could use an 802.11b wireless interface and a...

Apart from the hard disk drives, and assuming you use quiet fans spinning at low speed, the machine should be quiet (not silent). Add in the 7 or 8 disks, however, and you can forget about quiet. I don't know how many of them you expect to be running at any given time, but the noise of 8 7200RPM 3.5...

Say what?

What are you trying to achieve?

OK, so a little googling helped me find an answer. This excellent whitepaper on industrial computers provides the formula: CFM = 3.16 x Watts / allowed temp rise deg F However, it goes on to explain that the impedance of the chassis to the fan must be factored in when selecting the number of fans. S...

I'm wondering: given a known power usage (in Watts), is there some way to estimate the required airflow (in CFM)? This way, it would be possible to estimate or measure the total power consumption of a given set of components, and estimate how many fans at what speed would be required to cool a syste...

Nice thread! 3 fans total in my machine. - 120mm Scythe S-Flex-F (rear exhaust) - 120mm Scythe S-Flex-F (CPU fan, blowing air directly towards rear exhaust) - stock fan in Seasonic power supply. Both the Scythes are controlled from the CPU fan header on the mobo, with splitter cable. At idle they sp...

Wow, nice first post westom! For sharing your knowledge, you get.. a bunch of questions :D What name is generally used for this class of whole-house protection device? I assume they can be supplied and installed by any qualified electrician? Also, what exactly is meant by a single point earth ground...

Once I had to replace five out of six network cards plus an Ethernet switch in a customer's office after a lightning strike, so it can happen. That said, it's unusual, and dodgy wiring may have been a factor. Also, I'm not sure what protection (if any) the Ethernet ports on the built in switches in ...

Welcome to SPCR! Stock Intel heatsink/fan combos aren't loud at idle, but an aftermarket cooler plus fan will certainly be quieter, especially at load. You could always start with stock and see how it goes for you, and replace later if need be. Assuming you use a quiet fan for your case exhaust, it ...

I've run my 65W Athlon 4850 with both an HR01 and a Scythe Mini Ninja. I used the same setup for both heatsinks. Two Scythe S-Flex 120mm fans. One fan strapped to the heatsink and one rear exhaust fan in the case. Both fans running off the CPU fan header on the motherboard (using a splitter). No duc...

My suggestion would be to buy a rack mountable shelf, bolt on a motherboard tray from an old case, and a cover on top.

What's the reason for the depth restriction? Is the depth of your rack smaller than normal?

I don't know what will happen if your components decide to draw more power than the power supply can handle, but if it was me I'd go for a safety margin. It depends what kind of margin (if any) the PSU manufacturer allows in their specification. I'd guess in the best case the power supply will shut ...

My 1000HE is disappointingly loud when the fan is working hard, which it does when the CPU hits a certain temperature (I think it's 40C from memory). I know you can modify the fan profile, but I assume that it spins up at that temperature for a good reason. This seems to be unavoidable when you use ...

It's a shame you don't have anywhere to buy good fans at reasonable prices over there in NZ. Here in Aus we have PC Case Gear. Here are their 120mm fans for example: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=207_9_510 Note the 5 pack of Nexus for $50! Also Scythe Slipstreams for $19....

+1 for Windows software RAID

Also, consider getting a UPS if data integrity is important to you.

Not to jack your thread too much, but I too am a lover of two monitors. However, now that I have a 24 inch monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio and 1920 pixels across, and more importantly Win 7 with the brilliant *windows key + left and right arrows* feature, I actually prefer having one big monitor, and...

Welcome! Good luck on your quest for silent computing. I can't comment on the VX450 or Earthwatt 500 directly, but I was blown away by the quietness of my Seasonic 430W, which according to this site is in the same ballpark for noise (I wanted the VX450 but availability here in West Aus was limited)....

I have a 4GB Voyager GT and I've never seen a drive as fast. Thinking outside the box, what about archiving your source code into a single file and backing it up that way? You may be right that all the small writes are hurting performance. I'm not sure what OS you're using, but just try a quick expe...

I'd put it all together using a standard power supply with ample capacity, max out the load on all components, and measure the total power draw at the socket. If it is very close to or exceeds 150W, you may have issues. If not, you should be OK. I'm not sure how the efficiency of a 150W power brick ...

Congratulations, you definitely deserved it! Beautiful work.

I've had a really good run with Gigabyte motherboards, but their tech support is completely hopeless (very common to get ambiguous, incorrect or non-committal answers), and the downloads from their website are pathetically slow.

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Great recommendations, thanks washu!

The 6200 looks promising. The 3450 is a bit more expensive here in Aus for some reason.