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    Installing Rapid Storage Driver Issue

    So I have a bit of an older but very good mobo. Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 version 1. It has one of the latest bios with AHCI enabled. I picked up a Corsair F60 SSD week back, installed Windows 7 on it but it installed msahci driver. I tried installing the latest RST and it says my system does...
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    WD wdidle3 1.05 Idle Mode Update Utility Release - 04/05/2010

    I'm guessing this is only for Green drives?
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    WD6401AALS vs Seagate's 500GB offerings

    Just picked up a 640gb WD black, should I short stroke the 640GB? If so what should be the capacity of the partition? Thanks
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    WD6401AALS vs Seagate's 500GB offerings

    Hi Guys, I have a WD 160GB drive as my OS drive currently and is still in mint condition. But I think its a bit on the slower side in performance, I will be reloading my OS soon, I'd like to upgrade the hard drive to a quicker one. Price is a major factor, I'm not planning on spending...
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    5V - Corsair HX620

    Hi Guys, I have noticed something weird in my HWmonitor reading, my 5v is reading 4.81~. Could this be a sign of a dieing PSU? My machine isn't all that intensive in terms of power... Specs: Antec Nine Hundred Case (3 120mm fans, 1 250mm fan) 2 DVD Writers 1 x 160 GB WD SATAII Drive...
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    PSU May be dying [help?]

    I'd try to see if there is a new bios release for your mobo before replacing PSU.
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    Concerned Seagate Owner

    ya i have began doing a total backup of the drive on to optical media.... I may pick up a Hitachi or WD 1TB and RMA the seagate if this is enough of a reason too..... edit: Another good thing is my seagate still falls under the 5 year warranty :) so I may just keep it till it completely craps...
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    Concerned Seagate Owner

    Well, I have a Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB which was affected by the firmware issue, so I upgraded all the way to SD1B. All is good, nothing wrong with the drive, all it is is my storage drive. But installed that new app someone here posted to read my smart info and I am scared from the...
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    OCZ: Platinum vs. Gold

    you have more room to loosen timing and increase oc...
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    firmware

    problem in the case of seagate was it aint broke but you know it will be broke in a couple of days, months years, hence why Seagate release firmware for some of their drives to fix the issue. I don't like the saying if it aint broke, don't fix it....that's just lazy. Some things need to be...
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    [HDD] - cleaning un-used space

    Ccleaner now has a wipe free space feature. I'm betting thats what it does. www.ccleaner.com a tool all systems should have!
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    Reliable DVD Burner

    Pioneer and if you can find one, Benq get my vote. Pioneer writes to any media i have thrown at it, benq burns good quality burns on verbatim dvd+r's and also have the ability to check the quality of the written content.
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    Disable AAM and having some weird problem

    btw, my access time improved on that drive, but everything else stayed somewhat the same. I'm concerned the drive is running in Multi word dma mode 2, which would suck.
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    Disable AAM and having some weird problem

    Hi Guys, So I change the AAM mode on my WD hard drive to 254 (normal or loudest what ever you want to call it), my access times improved significantly but now Vista is buggered up. In device manager it says my hard drive is in multi word dma 2 mode and in HD tune it says im in UDMA 7 mode...
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    Gigabyte P965-DS3 v 1.0 with F7 bios AHCI issue

    figured it out see http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1393813
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