Recent content by TheSpoon

Thanks, that'll do. How about X79 boards? This ASRock X79 Champion board seems to fit the bill as well. I haven't been able to find any others. Am I overlooking any?

I'm looking for a Z77 or X79 board that has 3 PCI-E slots with lots of room between them. One example is the P8Z77-V Deluxe. The problem with this board is that the last PCI-E slot is only x4. The P8Z77-WS has 4 PCI-E x8 slots, but because there are 4 of them rather than 3, they are close...

I think smartphones are closer to year 2000 PCs than 1995. In 1995 a high-end CPU was a 90MHz Pentium. Smartphones have 1.2GHz dual-core chips. They also have 1GB of RAM compared to 1995's 8MB. Though I don't know how current-generation ARM hardware compares to 1995 x86 clock-for-clock. Maybe...

Even if you want to call it a marketing video and use that as an excuse to omit a fair evaluation of the pros and cons of your new technology, you still have to compare it to existing technology to explain what makes it better. He compared it to polygons. Where's the comparison to voxels?

What makes it more suspect is that they don't once use the word voxel, not even to compare their technology to voxels (if it is indeed different).

Thanks, but I updated the firmware on all my drives as soon as I got them, and verified that the write problem no longer exists. My problem with the drives is not caused by the firmware bug.

Yes, I realize that this doesn't cause any data corruption, which is why I've kept the drives as long as I have. But it does cause slowness.

They won't send me drives in advance, right? The several-week downtime would be too disruptive. I'd rather just amortize their cost for a bit longer and then throw them out. And you're right that any drive can be faulty. But I have a peculiar situation. These Samsung drives are allergic to my...

The one WD drive in my system does not experience these problems. I'm not talking merely about some number climbing up in SMART. I'm talking about the drives slowing down to a crawl when this happens. I do maintain daily backups of all critical data :).

Sorry to resurrect this old thread... but just to reply to Janmae: my G-Sense error rate has stayed almost constant since I bought the drives. But the "Multi Zone Error Rate" is now at 12679 (!). Nonetheless the drives do seem to function more or less OK ... but I'll replace them with WD drives...

Sorry for the late reply. That drive now has a write error count of 6197, but still normed value is at 100. How did your out-of-case experiment go?

What case and HDs?

Well the errors go away (either entirely or almost entirely) when I just leave the case door open. The drives were also working fine in my previous case -- an Antec P182. So there is definitely something peculiar about this case (a Silverstone RV02). Or at least the combination of this case and...

Yeah I was thinking of relocating them to the 5.25" bays. I'll be out of the country next week and I'll do that when I get back.

Oh, that's interesting to hear. Is there a chance it really is the PSU's fault then? It's an HX1000, which is a pretty popular choice around here I think. I also have another HD in there -- a 320GB WD, which has no problem. Though older HDs use different storage technologies. So I don't know...