I have a pair of F2 1.5tb drives, there in my case, they spend most of the time in the low 30Cs they only spin at 5400rpm, which does make a big difference in heat produced

your suply looks good, and is cheaper then a picopsu

yours works out at about 39gbp with adapter where the pico psu is 30+adapter.

the only thing that has put me off of buying yours is that i cannot think of any way to mount it.

i have a 150w pico psu in my build: Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 E5200 @ stock speeds (your cpu uses abit more power then mine, but there both rated 65w tdp so i wont be much more) 4gb ddr2 800 2 * 1.5tb Ecogreen F2 GeForce 7300 GS PicoPSU 150XT Haupage Wintv 150 load it uses ~80w alot of people say that the ...

that cool, i didnt know you could fit 3.5" drives in there ,i was gona use that case for my mediapc/file server, but i wanted more storage then a laptop drive could provide. so insted i went matx , if i could find a mini-itx case that could hold 2 standard hard drive i would rebuild my server in no ...

Upgrade finally done... http://bilder.wibla.net/albums/oberon-upgrade/DSC_8019.sized.jpg http://bilder.wibla.net/albums/oberon-upgrade/DSC_8020.sized.jpg http://bilder.wibla.net/albums/oberon-upgrade/DSC_8023.sized.jpg /dev/md0 20T 5.5M 20T 1% /mnt/raid The Seagate LP drives are not noisier than th...

that does look very cool

im not sure about your choice of hard drive, i have read that the F1 is rather loud,

have a look at an F3, which is 70quid for 1.5tb which is probably way more then you need .

it is best to go all the same metal, even if you do use chemicals to inhibit corrosion, it doesnt stop it, just slows it down.

for an i7 alone your going to need more then a 120mm rad.

Im looking in to getting 1 for my sister whilst there on sale at ebuyer (£150 free p+p)

I wana know how much power they use at idle and load.

Thanks Markp1989

the internet says
Idle power consumption 22W
Peak power consumption 27W

i just wana hear from someone who has done testing in person

Yuck. What's the point of that? You instantly lose one of the biggest benefits of an SSD, specifically the benefit most important to this site, namely silence! SSD's have allowed me to keep all my big, slow, noisy (relatively speaking) hard drives away in a closet where they belong. And there they ...

just got the 2 * 1.5tb drives today, i havnt raided them , just have them as seperate partitions right now, they are quiet, now my server is nice and quiet, its not silent, but its quiet :D i have 3 low speed ffans, 1 on the gpu, 1 on the heatsink, and a blow hole, both hard drives are screwed in a ...

Sharp have brought out a new range of tvs (le600 and le700 series), which are supposed to be the most efficient out there. Has full LED lit screen (not edge lit). Off the top of my head, the lc32le600 uses about 50 watts...and cost about £600. The 52" version uses about 100 watts :). those usage f...

i dont think your gona get a screen that size with <40w. my 32" Hanspree LCD tv (not sure of the model) uses about 150w when playing xbox My 19" HannsG is rated for something like 60W, and it draws 30W at maximum brightness, 10W at minimum brightness. So I'd much rather compare actual power reading...

i dont think your gona get a screen that size with <40w.

my 32" Hanspree LCD tv (not sure of the model) uses about 150w when playing xbox

i havnt had the card very long, so i dont really wana get a new one, i mite look around my house and see if i can find any old graphics cards with a fanless heatsink i can take steal

Since i have water cooled the cpu, with under volted pump,and slow fans on the rad, the only part of my system i can hear is the anoying little fan on the graphics card. i have 2 options (i think) get a cheap gpu water bock and add it to the loop , but im not sure if it worth water cooling a low end...

i was browsing oc forums when i came across this thread: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=621836 I like the idea of 1 drive that contains a ssd, and a standard hard drive, that you you can use the ssd for the os, and have the hd portion for data, spending most of the span down when the data ...

it does look very nice , it does seem kind of a waste to have a exensive cpu like that to run it that slow, having the e8*00 would of been better suited,

still, nice job, and it looks excellent

I got the fan controler, im running at at just over 7v , it slows it down enough just enough to i cannot hear it.

im suprised they dont sell radiators with bleed points on them, would make life easier.

here is my htpc for comparasion: motherboard Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 CPU: E5200 @ stock vcore HSF: mini ninja RAM: 4gb ddr2 800 HDD: Hitachi DeskStar 1TB 7200 (not very quiet replacing asap) GPU: GeForce 7300 GS PSU: picopsu 150XT + Dell DA2 220W DVD: standard full size drive, dont use it often. power co...

HammerSandwich wrote:Sunbeam Rheobus. Details of the build are in this thread.

thanks, i got the sun beam, running at 2235rpm, not sure what voltage that is, but i cannot hear it.

im running prime to see what kind of temps i can get, if its too high then i will speed it up abit.

[UK] Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5Tb - £79.99 Delivered (eBuyer) I've just ordered 2 for my server :) sorry to dig up an old thread i have been planing on ordering 2 of these for my server from same place as you have. how have you found them, whats the seak noise, and idle noise like, have you felt it n...

Even though your media is replaceable, why not just use each disk as a single partition and not bother with the RAID0? That way, you can use all your space and the loss of a single disk will only affect the files stored on that disk. The only potential benefits of RAID0 are: - performance (which yo...

thats why i pointed that out. i know..but what im saying is that statement kinda destroys your argument of "you should have enough overhead". i have about a 60w over head left on my rig, with a 65w cpu,matx board, and 3.5" hdd, he has a 95w tdp cpu, and 2.5" hard drive , so imo i dont think that th...

RoGuE wrote:

mark19891989 wrote:
your cpu is more power hungary then mine

cpu power consumption is a HUGE portion of a computers total power draw.

thats why i pointed that out.

i would think that the pico psu would be able to handle your build. i use 1 in my file server your cpu is more power hungary then mine motherboard Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 CPU: E5200 @ stock vcore HSF: mini ninja, + AC 8025pwm fan RAM: 4gb ddr2 800 HDD: Hitachi DeskStar 1TB 7200 GPU: GeForce 7300 GS PSU: ...

im hoping to set up software raid0 for for a 3tb volume, but i dont know how if you can boot ubuntu from a raid0 setup, so i may have to have another drive fror the os drive. Just making sure, you do know if one of the drives fail, you will lose everything on that array? Sucks to lose 3tb of data i...

honestly, I don't think you can beat the price/performance ratio of this drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152173 For what you are looking for, I would recommend a 5400 RPM drive. They seem to cost less, have less vibration, and are just flat out quieter drives. The sam...

im looking to replace the hard drive in my server with somthing quieter, and with a larger capacity,

im looking to spend as little as possible , whilst as quiet as posible on a budget.

what modles do you recomend that give the best cost:noise ratio?

thanks Markp1989