Recent content by Thrus

well based on that i think there may be a 25% chance that what I'm going to say makes any sence, if not ignore me in favor of someone that knows what they are talking about. by ext2/3 i think they mean the format of the drive, like ntfs or fat32. 2 and 3 are different versions and the format...

should have mentioned about budget. SSD is definately outside of the budget, but wish it wasn't. Was hoping to be in the $150-170 range. maybe could swing going up to 300GB velociraptor but that would pretty much eat the budget for drive space, and I'm not comfortable with that for storage for...

I'm building a new gaming rig and am trying to figure out what I want to do as far as the hard drives go. Creating a storage server so don't neeed much of a storage space. Three ideas that I have are: 1) two 500GB WD Black in a RAID 0 2) one drive as OS, second as install/storage 3) cheap...

Yes it would need to be justified in order to be an argument, but the person building the system has the right to be aware of a hole in the sugested setup compared to what they were thinking of. Not saying that it is a concern but it is hard to have to much knolwedge of the flaws in the system...

I agree with ryan on that one is most likely plenty for protection. If you are disposing of a drive, then again there is always the drill press method if you are just junking the drive and want your data safe as well. On the other hand what you do depends on if it is home or work and if work...

I'm not current on this so don't take this as having any athority behind it. I belive in the past i had read that with the proper equiptment it is possible to look at data that was on the drive a few writes ago. so if some thing was over written say 3 time they could in theory read all 4...

Dnphamus13 I'd perfer the works well with minimal setup, as to the users it will be me and my wife. I'm slowly infecting her with the computer geek virus, no need to be idiot proof. all she cares is that she can get her pictures up to myspace and load her ipod with music, and this project...

I'd agree with dandragonrage that a 350w should work. but that is just by throwing the parts into antec power supply calculator. The way I filled it in it came back at 234w. Thrus

Thanks, for the quick reply and that dose make it more apealing for half what i was thinking. Guess I have been looking at to many OS prices between XP Vista and 7 upgrades to keep then straight in my head.

I'm looking to build two new computers for myself and my wife for gaming, and upgrade our network from 100 to gig. In the process her old pc is going to become a storage server for our photos, music, and movies. It is an older HP tower; athalon 64 3800 (2.4Ghz) with 1 gig of RAM and a 300GB...