It has nothing to do with speed, it has to do with having a usable driver for the two extra ports.

The flash is safe and entirely reversible (if it fails so badly you can't reflash it, how the hell are they going to find out you've flashed it?).

I was hoping they had a fix for the eSATA hotpluging issue I hadn't had an opportunity to test issue with a slightly different chipset. If it's the same BIOS and not just ones with the same user-configurable options, I guess I shouldn't waste my time testing that. If nothing else the PSU is also no...

If you'll look closer they all say 'RS780 Host Bridge Alternate', which was the incorrect name given to 1022:9601. If you check the lspci output above, you'll see 1022:9601 as RS880. Hint: The name is stored in a regularly incorrect and regularly updated text file. So I suppose you were in a way cor...

HFat wrote:

DanaG wrote:RS880

It used to say RS780 instead.

Nah it didn't.

There's no difference except the CPU.

cyberspyder wrote:You could clip the Minja and clamp/solder the heatpipes shut, but that'd be risky.

Brendan

The heatpipes won't work if you open them. They are not at atmospheric pressure inside.

Hey guys, a little reality check: It is only foam . A utility knife with a fresh blade can be used to easily cut away a portion of the foam that interferes with the heatsink. With this little mod, there's hardly a heatsink the case would not fit, and the impact on noise would be a big fat zero. But...

Everyone actually does there are zero slient aftermarket coolers that will accept 120mm fan that are below 158mm in height. What do you call a Scythe Ninja then? You could also fit something like a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 into this case easily. Or an HR-01. Xigmatek HDT-S1283 159mm tall Thermalright HR-...

johnniecache7 wrote:Everyone actually does there are zero slient aftermarket coolers that will accept 120mm fan that are below 158mm in height.

What do you call a Scythe Ninja then?

You could also fit something like a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 into this case easily. Or an HR-01.

I notice that there's no way out for the USB 3.0 cable without taking it across the motherboard. Why can't they just cut a small slot out above the fan?

http://munin-monitoring.org/ Bleh. The standard package installs fine but for some reason it won't recognise any additional plugins that I add into the plugins folder. And of course HDD temps aren't monitored by default. Darn darn darn... The configuration is fairly simple: astriaporta munin # cat ...

How did you produce that graph? I'd love to have some sort of automated service keeping track of the HDD temps for me so that I didn't have to run a script myself... http://munin-monitoring.org/ Thanks very much for that - will try installing it tomorrow morning. I would hope your distro has a pack...

Jim G wrote:How did you produce that graph? I'd love to have some sort of automated service keeping track of the HDD temps for me so that I didn't have to run a script myself...

http://munin-monitoring.org/

- The drives are not in the main, large compartment but in a confined one - There are 2 rows of drives very close to one another, not a single column... Irrelevant. - The available airflow routes for the hot air to escape are severely limited: I don't believe this to be a significant issue. It is n...

And I am attempting to make the point that the cooling capacity of this case must be exceedingly dire to be unable to cope with cooling HDDs sufficiently in normal operating conditions. So long as there are no major leaks of air along the way, even at 600RPM, I cannot see a 120x120x25mm fan being un...

I believe I know what you are talking about, the Google hdd failure test published some time ago (and discussed here in the forums), but it would be wrong to say that "hotter is better than cooler"...it depends on the temperature range really... Here in Greece a set of poorly cooled hdds, even Gree...

Modern HDDs require relatively little cooling, and statistics show a higher failure rate for overly cooled drives.

Jim G wrote:Also... can anyone shed light on why the front is perforated in this pattern?

I recall seeing models with a fan controller, placed in that corner of the panel. I suspect it's there to prevent cables getting snagged.

The Seagate-Samsung arrangement benefits Seagate, however, in that it assures Seagate a steady supply of flash memory for use as the company expands its SSD and hybrid drives ... Hopefully they will get on the stick and move into the future instead of hanging on to their past. I'd rather they backt...

There goes another brand down the drain of the only HDD manufacturer who has to advertise firmware updates..

Does the BIOS allow booting off USB? Thanks for the excellent review, Mike. This is a tempting home server, but I'm still balancing out the lack of RAID5 with the configurable RAM and more powerful CPU of a NAS... If you don't use a crippled OS like Windows, you can have RAID-5. And 6 or 10 (or tru...

Does the BIOS allow booting off USB? Thanks for the excellent review, Mike. This is a tempting home server, but I'm still balancing out the lack of RAID5 with the configurable RAM and more powerful CPU of a NAS... If you don't use a crippled OS like Windows, you can have RAID-5. And 6 or 10 (or true...

I don't see anything new or radical, just some old (and sensible) ideas finally implemented.

The chassis has a lot of wasted space for most applications..

Probably due to scalability. The off-die memory controller used by early Intel x86_64 implementations does not scale to multi-socket systems well at all. The K8 and especially K10 cores scale extremely well. Torvals refers to the "PAE crud". The other article refers to that as "a major kludge in th...

Well, I'm sure all that insulation will prove very useful when running your HDMI cables around 11kV uninsulated power lines!

I haven't read the article, but Hammer was the codename for the K8 design. Which is the AMD64. Hence the early core names of Sledgehammer and Clawhammer. Intel use a slightly modified implementation, originally codenamed Yamhill. Yes. I noticed that after the fact. It still seems like Torvalds find...

Intel already makes (and sells) many x86-64 I get the impression from the Torvalds article that there are two x86 64 bit implementations. Intel only makes a disabled version available on the market. The other, I think the article refers to as the Hammer, exists but you can't buy it. Apparently Torv...

The only major issue with HDMI is the weak connector. CEC is a bit annoying, though. The Windows implementation of audio, along with the likes of Realtek, ATI, nVidia, and Creative, is crap, but then, Windows has had an utterly laughable audio (.. actually, all APIs, ABIs, and driver) stack since da...

Partition alignment has nothing whatsoever to do with readability of the data. Whether it's correctly aligned or not, automatically or otherwise, you will not have any issues accessing data on the drive.

I understand Windows 7 and Windows XP read and write data to HDD in different ways. Since this seagate 2TB HDD will be used in an XP computer first, data would be written to it using XP method. Then when I shift the same HDD (with data) to a Win7 computer, data would be read using the Win 7 method....

asdf85 wrote:I basically want to know whether I can still use this HDD (only for storing data, i.e. no OS installed) on a Windows 7 system, even though I had previously used this HDD (again -only for storing data, i.e. no OS installed) on a Win XP system.

Will all my data be lost?

Of course not.