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Looking back into the issue of molex to sata adapters catching fire, I finally found the answer seems to come down to whether they were made in a hasty method where the plastic is molded around the wires, versus methods that properly crimp each wire. Jump to 3 minutes.

Quick look around Google tells me this is not an ideal long term solution. I will probably trade it out!

It worked! ...though someone in another chat is asking if I've ever heard the saying "Molex to SATA, lose all your data"? Ahaha.. ha... wonder if they have a point.

Woah! I'll let Fry's know that might not have been the best model to put out on the shelf then. Thank you for finding this info. Let me dig around, I think I have one of those converters.

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Oh man, I didn't notice it was SAS, or the price.... well I guess I'll be digging for compatibility lists if anyone even includes them on new enough controllers. To be clear, I absolutely have not purchased SAS drives.

Edit: dang, that's a SAS controller I was calmly explaining to HGST that they should seriously consider hosting a recommended list of controllers, in the event that I'm right about compatibility being a long shot on a variety of older boards. If Nintendo can recommend SD cards and Hard Drives...

It is the Sata version, and actually it's jumperless. So far I've only had the chance to try it with Asus motherboards, which to be clear I tried the 6gb/s and 3gb/s ports both. So far it's been a Vantec dock that actually managed to pull it up under Disk Management. HGST was surprisingly...

As I said, we also tried (and tried and tried) a 2015 mobo in what was actually a liquid cooled high end gaming build they had on display. Looks the same as their current lineup. A couple of guys from the store were surprisingly knowledgeable and agree, this is weird. I forgot to mention I...

Just picked up a pair of He10 drives. I've been really looking forward to owning HGSTs since I heard about them. I'm finding they just don't work with my 2012 or 2013 Asus motherboards. The folks at Fry's Electronics even tested them on a 2015 one and confirmed with me that it does not even come...

Ahaha! It's $4,000 USD!

I've been using hddparm for the past several days with no improvements :( I can't imagine what would do this...

I've put together a new PC with good specs, but am encountering something I never did with my last build. In both cases I'm running Windows 8 x64 Consumer Preview. I have three 2 TB drives. Two are Caviar Blacks and one is a newly added Caviar Green. Now what's truly backwards is I get a delay...

I was impressed with how the BenQ actually chewed through those tests where most drives, yes including today's, come up short. Since perfect FLAC rips are all I'm looking for in an optical drive, I was just very happy to find a trusty one. I love this drive and would have gone to greater...

As usual, such great answers from Hardforum. Alternatives that hadn't even crossed my mind. I believe my friend has that Rosewill RC-204, but he maybe ran into the issue that it doesn't work for applications where the 4 pin molex goes in directly alongside the IDE? I could be making this up...

I realize IDE is on its way out, but I have a pretty special CD drive (to me anyway, a BenQ DW1655) I'd like to migrate to my new build. The Asus P8Z77-V Pro is naturally without support. I was so ready to grab this card, but one reviewer had to go and mention its BIOS requires you to press a...

Thanks guys. These are going in my build, and I'll report back on how they do. Also I'll be comparing a Lazer Platinum 560W PSU to the Antec CP-850. The Lazer arrived today and will hang in my old build for a bit.

Alright, I just ordered one of Intel's X1 single ports. My Atheros L1 either hates Windows 8 or is dying because all it takes is trying to transfer a 350 GB file for it to drop dead, requiring "Troubleshoot problems" :/

I was just wondering if a card like this would saturate a gigabyte connection better, or if it's all the same as long as everything's going by gigabit ethernet. Is the hard drive the only bottleneck? Any advantages over today's on-board at all?

Wow, I didn't know PWM Slip Streams came out. If their sonic characteristics are good... I don't want to get ahead of myself, but on paper it seems possible this could transparently double time between idle and load like I've been describing. Everything from sounding like the 800s to outpacing...

Yeah I'm not sweating the ~20 dB range. You know, I never really find anyone saying they like or love the TriCools, only reviews (of the latest P183 V3) saying "I was unimpressed with the stock fans" and ctrl+f noisy gets results encroaching on how many "quiets" are on the page. Granted it's...

Yeah it hasn't even got a chance to garner Newegg reviews yet. I bet Sapphire won't mind being free of the 12.3 and below driver reviews. Geeeze, I totally expected this, betraying Nvidia for the first time in 10 years, but AMD earns its rep for spottiness. Still the only Nvidias almost pulling...

I bought a Sapphire 7950 OC at the end of March for $469. Shortly afterward the item was discontinued on Newegg, even though it hadn't been out long. Now a revised version has come out featuring a few changes. The dvi is black instead of white, the board is black instead of blue, the core clock...

As close as I can get to Puget's 11-14 dB window, I'd be happy. I'm not unrealistic about rocking the boat with a 7950 and incurring some dB's, but besides it and three 2 terabyte drives (2 Caviar Blacks and I'll give the latest Green another chance), the fans moving enough air should be the...

I've hit a wall with my new build's objectives, and to be perfectly transparent, it's because I'm trying to accomplish two things in one machine. I'd essentially like to go with the standard Puget Serenity blueprint, optioned out with an Intel 3770K and 16 GB of RAM. However I'd also like to...

See, this was Intel's wisdom in switching to thermal paste.. yeah.....

To be honest I am not ecstatic about this display coming off the NEC PA301W, but I got it because it doesn't seem to exhibit pulse width modulation. Brightness Controller is a life saver. Apple is so ridiculous... I tried installing boot camp 3.0 to Windows 8 thinking between this and a magic...

As a fellow owner of triple FW900s merely oriented in the factory recommended landscape position can I just say AAAADFKJGFKJDL;SKJLJF;K!!

It is impossible for me to assess what causes eyestrain for you as an individual, but for some people it's the refresh rate of CRTs, or that of fluorescent backlights, or the pulse width modulation used to dim LED monitors. If that seems to be your issue, some LED screens at full brightness can...

Thanks for the thread guys. I took the 8800 GTX out and it made a huge difference. That thing was a good buy, but is a dinosaur at this point! I have no doubt a new build will finish cooling things off. One point I'm still not sure of is the silent pc (Antec 183) vs. the pretty quiet...

Yes cameras and phones. But bigger screens not costing $6000? I can't wait, but why do I feel some hitches coming on.

What if the company launches April 1 and this whole consumer OLED thing goes the way of SED?

I'm afraid a serious photo editor would not ideally use a plasma at all.

I'm talking about the "viewing" count, neverminding the bias inherent to posting this in displays

I feel like you can look at the number of users carousing any given forum to see where [H] places its emphases.

Plasma displays achieve quite good blacks by effectively blocking the power to dark pixels whereas LCDs actually exert the most power to "emit" blacks, twisting crystals to obscure light. However this limits Plasmas' ability to produce greyscale and hinders color accuracy, even though it looks...

I keep hearing the Apple 30 has anti-glare and that it doesn't. Which is it? Were there two kinds?

I got super sketched by this mod after people experienced "graining" wherein some of the now exposed polarizing layer came away in fine strips. I'm afraid it hasn't been limited to soak time issues or direction following. Two things. First, apparently in some cases an initially invisible layer...

Couldn't agree more. The FW900 will always be special to me and I stand by CRTs even if I'm allergic. They are beautiful and the world is not better off. I anticipate this year's sparkly antiglare coating and perhaps a hint of ghosting/input lag will be the first things making me nostalgic. Of...

Back in like '08 I threw some nice sounding components into a Silverstone TJ-09. It probably wasn't a very strategic build and hasn't especially achieved its goals as I failed to overclock anything or get it quiet (forces in opposition I realize). It's a X48 Rampage Formula with a Q9450, an OC'd...