Hi storage guru's,
My friend recently purchased 8 x Samsung 750GB SATA drives to be placed in the storage server I built for him replacing 8 x 250GB SATA WD RE. It would seem that the 16 x port Adaptec RAID card which I acquired on the cheap and used on the build will not create a RAID-5...
M-cubed T-balancer.
http://www.t-balancer.com/english/index.htm
You can setup the T-balancer software to monitor temperatures read from Speedfan (possibly other software as well I can't remember) and make adjustments to fan speeds.
On a 1680x1050 widescreen LCD @ 60Hz on a C2D@3.4Ghz with a 7800GTX at 2xAA and 4xAF. I run vsynch on in game control panel and AA/AF controlled from game most settings are on high unless they bug me (HDR for instance looks rather too bright). The machine can generate around 110/120fps maximum...