Well, you've kinda isolated that its not a power supply issue, right? then there's just the whole rest of the computer to troubleshoot... BTW having dodgy voltage readings in bios/"HW monitor apps" isnt unusual, i've not come across too many motherboards who actually reports all the voltages 100% co...

Is it just me, or does it look like it recirculates some air?

Also swapping out drives in a nas appliance, meh, not a very big deal...

Old server, 9.1TB 365W spinup (boot) 180-190W idle 195-240W drive access New server, 19.1TB 384W spinup (boot) 175W idle 190-220W drive access Workstation: 160W average over several weeks Those numbers will have to be revised tho, I doubled the amount of ram and put in another gfx card... :D I'm con...

I really like your solution for the sata cables :) What kind of fans do you have infront of the bottom drives? and are those P12 fans on the 4in3's? I've heard mixed reviews on how the F2 1.5TB's work in raid, ranging from "dont use them, they cant handle it" from backblaze, to others having no prob...

spin-up: 384W idle: 173W munin-update: 211W bonnie++ writing: 216W peak, 200W average bonnie++ reading: 227W peak, 206W average bonnie++ start'em: 203W A quick analysis compared to my 12x1TB box: 20W more peak usage at boot, similar idle usage, and 20W lower usage with drive access. No doubt the LP ...

lga1366 is most probably the best socket for "future proofing" as it is now, it will probably be the flagship socket for intel for the next couple of years, while lga1156 will be their value socket. As it is now tho, having 3 vs 2 memory channels doesnt really mean much for performance apart from in...

FYI: Newer motherboards dont always support speed control on 3 pin fans. Known issue, and very silly tbh.

Actually, a cooler like the Thermalright Ultra120 Extreme will do the same, you need to buy new brackets for it, but thats not really a problem. It will fit the i7 no problem, just needs a $7 bracket... :D The U120E was put on market in may 2007 and is still showing very good performance, even on th...

+1 for subscription/fee with no ads. Just donated $25 to show some appreciation towards SPCR, this is a unique community that offers much insight not available elsewhere. And the reviews are top notch :D You've set the standard for proper noise measurement amongst reviewers, and AFAIK noone has been...

My computers draw about 8-11W when turned off, this with intel chipset/cpu, corsair psus... so i flip the switch on the pcs i keep turned off most of the time

Server still lives :shock: ... but its only booted to copy backups over to it these days, with the main server being used most of the time. Got myself a kill-a-watt a few days ago, here are some numbers for this server, gonna post numbers for the 16x1.5TB server later: 232 VAC / 50 Hz Boot peak: 365...

The difference is that where WD intentionally cripples their consumer grade drives, Samsung drives (bar the F2 1.5TB) usually works fine in raid. I know of atleast 200 F1 1TB drives in use, and the failure rate is close to zero, even tho alot of them are used in RAID. Samsung has better long-term re...

The F2 1.5TB has had problems in raid arrays, while the 1TB variant didnt. The new F3 2TB has no such problems. On the whole, Samsung drives tend to work well in raid arrays.

WD removed the ability to adjust TLER on a bunch of GP drives, trying to force people to buy RE drives for RAID i guess...

might be an idea to try to open it up abit more in the front maybe? just a suggestion...

wow, hardware porn...

Edit: you could try removing that fan mesh cover on the rear exhaust fan, I've done that to both my stackers, should yield significantly better airflow for the exhaust..

SSD or the F3 500GB is my take on it. I have two F3 500GB's now, got one in use as a system drive for one of my gaming system, and the performance is very impressive for a 7200rpm drive

Its not fanless with that fan sucking air out, you know

I'm impressed by the fact that the "mighty" TRU120E is hanging on as well as it is, as its quite old by now...

Use something to burn in the harddrives, if the drive lasts a few months, its likely to last quite a while.. DOA's are ofcourse not nice, and out of 16 1.5TB LP drives I have, one is failing after 2000 hours runtime.

This is actually quite an interesting field, because the various manufacturers implement SMART in different ways. I'll give some examples from my own seagate LP drive, one that is slowly failing (reallocated sectors increasing...), but still shows as OK in smart. The interesting parts pertaining dri...

Thats one of the strenghts with boinc i think, easy to configure. I run boinc here, but it wont fire up any processing unless the machine has been idle for 5 minutes.

tbh I got well fed up with jumping through hoops to get "the mostest" out of my computer running F@H, so I just didnt bother anymore.

I also have one LP drive now with reallocated sectors, so im gonna look at replacing it at one point. A little FYI about newegg reviews. They have the crappiest packaging system known to man when it comes to harddrives, so ALOT of failures on the whole can probably be attributed to transport damage,...

Indeed, hehe.

1900 hours runtime on the drives, one drive has 52 reallocated sectors, the rest are fine. The drive with reallocated sectors still passes self tests etc, so its not a catastrophic failure going on yet, but will keep monitoring the drive

Check SMART data? I would look at pending sectors, reallocated sectors and unrecoverable read errors...

LG L245 24" P-MVA - No noise as far as I've noticed
Iiyama E2201W 22" TN - Very slight hum, not audible at 2'
HP L2335 23" S-IPS - Slight hum, not audible at 2' with present background noise levels, variable with monitor brightness.

One of my two, 2 TB LP drives makes clicks of death so often that it slows to a crawl during use. The other didn't for the first day of its use, but does click now, rarely. I'm not talking about the usual sounds of seeking, but instead, characteristic "clicks of death." Now I know all hard drives f...

I thought the 1.5TB version had 4 platters, with one being deactivated? hmhm.

The LP is definetly quieter than T166, I can attest to that. Seeks with 16 LP drives in raid6 is quieter than 9 T166 drives in raid5...

post i quoted underneath In my case it was 100% failure with Samsung. First with the 750GB model, Second with the 1TB model. The thing about Samsung is there is no advanced RMA, so you have to buy a new one just to recover your data to. The 750GB failure prompted the purchase of the 1TB model. The ...

I just realized I answered a 5 year old poll, and got a used 23" monitor just last week, produced in 2004.. retailed for nearly $2k, but I paid $150 for it. One CCFL change later ($40) it will produce better colours than most new $200 TN panels. Too bad the "reasonably cheap and good enough" lcds ar...

Let the mods handle this one, sure looks dodgy tho.