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I was told not to expect 2TB drives for another year so yes 500 GB drives aren't so large any more and one needs Vista to see arrays > 2TB.

The WD1000FYPS is the proper drive for use with RAID controllers. I am aware of the issue, but in my case when used alone the drive miserably failed SMART tests. It is as simple as this, defective drive. But thank you.

I recently purchased (2) 1TB enterprise drives from WD, put them in RAID 0 for a media server and the array kept "going away". So last night I called WD and got off-shore tech support which was less than useless and they did not even seem to want to help. This morning I called WD...

Power Supply: Thermaltake W0131RU ATX12V / EPS12V 850W Power Supply RAID Level (if any) RAID 0 RAID Controller- on board Jmicron Quantity and Name of drives in the RAID array (2) WD RE2 GP WD1000FYPS 1TB - RAID 0 - (Movie RAID) Singles Drives (if any) (1) Western Digital Raptor...

It may have been ten years ago but I replaced MB and CPU, I changed from AMD to Intel, keeping all the hard drives. I have been using NT4 for OS. Anyway I just booted and NT "found the new hardware" and just asked me to reboot only once then ran like a champ. You may have to call Bill...

I will not tell others how to set up their PC but I will tell you how I set up my physical drives. Disk 0 - WD Raptor 150 GB (2) partitions - 110 Gb for Vista 64 & apps - 40 GB for install (store drivers and mini apps) Disk 1 & 2 - 750 GB each - media server Disk 3 - 750 GB - backup...

Trying to be helpful, not a smart asp. I have a QX9650 running 3.8 right now. I like it. I just set the FSB up to 1700 and the CPU goes to 3.8. What I like the best is that the bios automatically enabled super step when I OC'ed and normally the CPU trips along nice and cool at a 2.4...

I have been shopping for 1 TB drives for a RAID media server and the thought occurred to me: 1TB drives have been out now for a long while. Why buy several 1 TB size now when something larger is over due? So I searched the net looking for info on larger drives to be released this year and...

> Ok, so you determined it is NAV running on IDE (PATA/SATA) then? It is just he is not running RAID, and has no need to.

> damn that sounds like a hell of a system....... My dad is getting up there in age. Don’t know how many more years I’ll have him. Last system I put together for him a few years ago was an all-nighter. It was an Intel 3.0 HT with a new cable modem, he was on dial up before that. So as I...

Boot drive is a 150 GB Raptor, SATA not IDE MB= ASUS P5W DH DELUXE CORSAIR XMS2 2GB

I used the stock Intel cooler which is unique to the Extreem edition, and used the stock Intel paste, not AS. Compressing video is CPU intensive. I don't remember the temps but after a short time the CPU got too warm and the clock speed went south. For my dad it does not matter. My point...

An Intel question if I may? I have a 3.8 Intel OC’d to 4.0. It works well in a multitasking XP OS with hyperthread. When I am working and some other process kicks in the CPU allocates it self well and applications don’t seem to suffer to great a performance hit. I just built a new PC for...

Koolance makes less noise than the Zalman and at least takes the heat out of the case. Still it is like a hot plate left on in my office. Reading elsewhere, I might be able to plug a quad core in to my existing MB? Other rumors - Intel will go water cooling?

I do a fair bit of video compression work. I have a water cooled 3.8 Mhz over clocked to 4.0 Mhz. It runs hot as hell when the CPU is 100% for a few hours at a time. The system is now about 18 months old. I don’t need a system 5% faster than what I have, I want a system about 10 times...