Recent content by Frenchc

FWIW, I hooked my X58A-UD5 (rev1.0) to a Corsiar 1000hx power supply, and it also has the squeaks when c1e is enabled. I was going to RMA and go for a UD7, but after looking around, I think ALL of the X58A boards with certain power supplies do it. If everything else is working and I don't have...

The X58A boards seem to work ok with Intel Xeon W35XX processors and ECC ram, even though ECC isn't supported. With the latest round of cpus, is ECC handled completely by the cpu, or is it something that has to be activated in the bios (or both)? Is Gigabyte not mentioning ECC because it doesn't...

Don't do it. I was one of the unlucky people that purchased the 1680 and used those Seagate 340AS drives before the compatibility report was posted. They timed out / dropped out constantly. I put Hitachis (HDS721010KLA330) on it last year, and hadn't even had to check on it since then. The...

High end PC, hackintoshed. You will have more options that way, and keep some dollars in your pocket. Partition/dualboot into Windows when you need to. You might have to stay a version or two behind on updates, and some of the drivers can be hard to find at times. The money saved is worth it though.

I don't think they knew it was a BIG problem back in august. There are only five drives on the whole Areca chart that are not compatible - surprised to see the seagate AS 1tb as one of them. The latest chart includes 11XX, 12XX, and 16XX controllers. I did find a letter from Areca Support...

FYI- if you plan on using the Areca 1680 controller, don't get the Seagate AS model or Samsungs. I made that costly mistake back in August, before those drives were added to the compatibility chart as "not compatible". They drop out of the array randomly (time out errors). At the time, I thought...

Holybonkers, more like taking a Mini Cooper and fitting it into a semi. A very logical thing to do if you wanted a mac file server with a smaller footprint and less expensive than say 3 Xserves. The Xserve is a monster, and I don't really need anything THAT big or expensive. However, I would...

I would like to keep it all in one case. Speed isn't really the issue. Honestly, I just don't want to see a MacPro tower with a box of drives sitting by it, when I know there is a way to get everything in one case. An external box will need to be powered separately. The new box will need fans in...

I see the reason for wanting a larger case. Even though the MacPro case is very nice, it only has room for four drives. With a good raid controller, the drive count can be as many as the controller/case/psu can handle. I need a case that can hold more than four drives but with a smaller...

Cesium, the sata drives should drop into the hot-swap bays just fine. I did the same thing with a Dell 6300. I would invest in the best 8x sata controller you can buy and scrap the backplane. Run the sata cables straight to the drives. The hardest part is powering the drives. I ended up making a...

Keep looking on ebay, the 550s pop up every now and then. If it comes down to it, you can just buy a whole server. I needed parts and found one last year for $90 shipped (won it for $50, shipping is really what you would be paying for).