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    Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver v10.0.0.1043

    I've deployed this release on my Inspiron 1720 laptop, with a Vertex 2 60GB running XP 32-bit AHCI Oddly, I am now stuck with both SATA drives working at 'Generation 1" 150MB/sec speeds. Sandra and RST manager both confirm that the ports are now working in SATA I mode, although the...
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    SSD advice requested

    During the recent sales, I finally took the plunge and ordered both a 30GB Vertex for $60 AR and a 60GB Vertex 2 for $132 AR/BCB I have two computers, a desktop with a crappy nVidia 6100 chipset motherboard w/2GB, and a Dell 1720 laptop w/4GB (which has two hard drive slots). I want to...
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    Better than Colossus

    A little while back OCZ began shipping the Colossus series of drives. Somebody should make something better for the market. Here is what it should have: 3.5" form factor two 2.5" SATA2 bays (specifically for SSD RAID0) 1 DDR2 SODIMM slot (supporting a 2GB write buffer) 2 AAA battery...
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    Core i7 Xeon Turbo mode under RedHat 4.7

    My company recently bought a Dell R710 server with dual X5550 Xeons. I installed this server with Redhat AS 4.7 x86_64 (kernel 2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp). By default, it installed a utility called 'cpuspeed v1.2.1' which automatically downclocked the CPUs (to 1600Mhz) when the load is low to save...
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