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    USB takes ages to detect

    OK so it's a new laptop, Alienware M17X R4. I swapped the HDD today for a Crucial M4 512Gb, changed SATA in BIOS to AHCI, and did a fresh Win7 install, then all the drivers from Dell. It's working fine, and really fast, but I have a weird issue now with USB flash drives. They take ages to...
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    Here we Go!

    I really hope AMD can survive. Imagine what would happen to x86 prices if Intel have no competition.
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    Some questions about the Samsung SSD's..

    Same in the UK. Overclockers has the 840 at only £5 more than the 830.
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    First ssd (few questions)

    Garbage collection is built into the firmware, it works in the background during idle time. TRIM doesn't need to be enabled, as long as you have an SSD aware OS it will just happen. Win 7 and 8 are both SSD aware. Yes. Always check for latest firmware before installing windows. You can do it...
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    SSD choice...

    Just checked Amazon. They have the Samsung 830 for £330. Might go for that.
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    SSD choice...

    Well I did look at the Samsungs, but the price was a bit off putting, Heres the current prices (all 512Gb) Crucial M4............. £325 OCZ Vertex 4......... £340 Samsung 830..........£445 Samsung 840 pro.....£450 (pre order) I don't think Plextors are available in the UK, at least...
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    SSD choice...

    I just bought an Alienware M17x R4, I went for the standard 500Gb HDD as the upgrade prices from Dell were just silly. £500 to fit an SSD and take away the mechanical? No thanks Dell! So I'll change it to an SSD myself, and keep the 500 as secondary. I'm looking for a 480/512 drive. First...
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    Hardware Raid questions.

    Looks like a good setup, but why the video card? The i3 already has an onboard GPU.
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    Hardware Raid questions.

    I think the problem with greens is not the low power spin down, I have 2 in my NAS running RAID 1 and never had any issues. I think the problem is with error recovery, it's normal for an HDD to take a while trying to recover a bad sector, which is fine normally, but in RAID the controller might...
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    Hardware Raid questions.

    Yes, it will recover the data too, not just the array. If a drive fails, you pull it out and replace with a new one. It takes hours to rebuild, but you'll have all your data back. No, RAID 5 doesn't use a dedicated parity disk, it uses 'distributed parity'. So in a 4 disk array, 25% of each...
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    WD Red drives?

    No, there don't seem to be. Just the SMART data which says all drives are OK. I don't want to speak too soon, but I checked all the cables, which was a pain as they run under the motherboard to the connectors on the caddys. The cable on caddy 4 was at a very slight angle, so I pushed it fully...
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    Hardware Raid questions.

    If you're using 3Tb drives, then RAID 5 would actually give you 9Tb storage, assuming using 4 drives. RAID 10 would give you 6Tb. RAID 5 can handle the loss of one drive, and should rebuild automatically when you replace the dead drive, but comes with a performance overhead. You need a decent...
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    WD Red drives?

    Another update, seems you were on to something ashman. The drive passed all the tests, so I put it back in the server, but swapped drives 3 and 4 around. An hour later, drive 4 failed again. So it seems it's not a bad disk after all. Damn. Now I'm at a loss. Time to strip it down and check all...
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    WD Red drives?

    Agreed. I have 5 pre flood WD drives that have never gave any problems. 2 Raptors, 1 black, and 2 greens in a NAS. All been going strong for years now. This red didn't even make it past the RAID build! I have it connected to my desktop now, running the WD test program.....3 hours remaining.
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    WD Red drives?

    OK thanks, I've just download the tool from WD, but I'll need to put the drive back into my desktop to run it. I put it back into the server just out of curiosity, and it booted just fine. The array is showing as healthy. I'm even very impressed with the speed of it, I copied a 1Gb file to it...
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