> Though I'm fine if the drive manufacturers wise up and realize they lose credibility by using a technically accurate measurement to mislead uneducated consumers. Windows explorer is what is reporting sizes wrong, not the drive marketing... Sometimes when windows says GB, it actually means GiB...

It is a good machine. Great how they zip tied the kama bay in there. Pre-modded glory. For a more useful and less modded solution they might want to use a hard drive expansion bay that has a fan spot, like the lian li or coolermaster devices. I appreciate the strategy to move all the fans away from ...

> By junk hardware, you mean I mean all the parts of the case that get in the way. Like the bottom fan mount and compartment divider and front fan covers and... etc. If the compartment divider was in place in your example, you'd have two and a fraction of fans going out, and a bit less than one fan ...

> It seems it was designed with an airflow imbalance. It definitely was. That is why it takes some work to get it right. > blu-ray drive Your new blu-ray drive will also be a DVD writer, so you can get rid of your old one no problem. Most people do not have a second optical drive, and most of those ...

If you still haven't decided, CoolerMaster is the obvious first choice for what you are looking for. They have probably 4 different cases that fit your requirements, depending on the details like size and cost. You don't have much in your computer, so the fact that the p182 is probably quieter won't...

More space between components=better airflow. This is the exact problem when trying to make smaller processors and semiconductor devices. Heat and leakage between transistor interconnects because they're packed so close together. In less than 20 years, I'm sure we'll see a breakdown of Moore's Law....

I don't see why you think a bigger case has better airflow... Also, cases in general are shrinking, not getting larger. Hard drives are getting smaller. Semiconductors are getting smaller and mini-ATX motherboards are starting to come with all the features of ATX motherboards. Computer cases of the ...

scythe and noctua winner ? my english is bad lol the silverstone ones did well. The P12 did well in high pressure situations. The slipstream did well in low pressure situations. The sound wasn't really compared. This reinforces my recommendation to pick P12 when blowing through things, and slipstre...

I am having airflow problems using a P182. ... I am not sure what to do with the bottom fan in the lower HDD chamber. Remove it? Turn it off? The bottom middle fan doesn't do anything but blow itself out against the back of the psu. And an unmodified p182 can very quickly find itself with three or ...

Turn the fans on and decide if they are too noisy for you. You are right that they are too noisy for a lot of people.

As for "what to do", that has been asked and answered so many times! I say do this! viewtopic.php?p=404018#404018

Why use a top fan but no upper-back-side fan? The top fan spot is simply more hassle than the back one. So the easiest way to stop the top fan from vibrating is soft mount it on the back rather than the top

That top cover is not installed by default. It just clips on. Without it, and with the feet, my case is just under 52cm.

I did this recently myself, and for simplicity, effectiveness, and value, this is what I'd recommend right now: I'd use 800rpm slipstreams on the back, top, front middle, and front top in a scythe kama bay or a suitable alternative. I don't know how noisy the scythe ninja and kama bay fans are, but ...

I didn't want a hassle. I wanted the quick and clean method. So I used tin snips.

I don't need to file anything down because the dust filters cover the mess up.

> If I take the 640G and enable AAM, won't I end up with something slower than the GreenPower?

WHAT, no

What's wrong with raid0? do drives fail faster if running in raid0 mode? i mean if any drive just DIES on me, i'd lose data on that drive anyway... right? i just double my chances of a hdd failure then The failure rate of the set is about twice as much as the failure rate of one drive. Aside from t...

RAID0 is not good. Buy a WD6400AAKS or WD7500AAKS. The end

If I recall correctly, the press release for their SLC stuff said it could do 200mbps+

Samsung is pretty slow, still no new HUTIL after two months. Or GASP maybe it isn't the tool that is broken...

The memory on that is slow and crappy

AAKS is the current version... most would say the newest and the best.

Lich wrote:Just got a 1TB model (103UJ) but how should I test it when Hutil isn´t reliable ?

Try Hitachi Fitness Test (not Feature Tool)

The latest video card "best of" list at toms hardware always has a ranking of video cards and a recommendation of how far up the rankings you need to go to find a good upgrade. http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/04/best_cards_february_2008/page7.html "I don't recommend upgrading your graphics card ...

I used a simple small hack saw to remove just enough of the plastic to fit the tab in.

Anyone saying they expected it to be quieter simply had unrealistic expectations and didn't research properly.

It is a normal steel case with fancy doors and noisy fans. If you missed the noisy part there you might have a selective reading problem

dhbn wrote:Another thing I noticed is that when I first ran Hutil, it didn't find the Samsung drive.

It sounds like you have a bad cable or a bad motherboard, so you should take your problem to a different thread

MC error debate aside, I think you owe it to yourself to not settle on a drive with surface errors.

Jose Hidalgo wrote:As requested by lm, here's the way we have used to test our drives with Debian

Debian (GNU/Linux) isn't Unix, and a read/write test does not check all areas of the disk. The master cylinder, for instance, is not checked by that test.

The Tomshardware article had it wrong, yes. Anything wrong left over in the article was missed by them when they went back and edited it to be less wrong. I believe they tried to clarify using the company line, rather than just outright saying the truth: These drives are always 5400rpm no matter wha...

People definitely want this mod because the top hole lets sound out of the case for us to hear. Since many builds do not need the second output, it is a natural mod to make. Re: convection flow. One thing every engineer I've ever talked to has told me about convection flow is that you can basically ...