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http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-804 This case has a somewhat unusual drive cage arrangement (one in front of the other, so the rear cage gets warm air blown over it from the front one). I have had trouble finding information about airflow in this area of the...

I'm helping out a friend whose mom has an old PC that is showing symptoms that look like a dying video card. I'm trying to find a good cheap AGP card to try. Something in the $20-30 range sounds about right. Looking on eBay, I see a lot of Radeon 9550 and Geforce FX 5500s in that price range...

Hi all, I have a system composed of a 256GB Crucial M4 as the Windows boot drive, and 1TB WD black drive as the secondary/bulk storage drive. Recently, one of my SMART diagnostic tools (SpeedFan) has been reporting some pending sectors on the mechanical drive, so I decided to try running...

I currently have a Win7 HTPC/XBMC setup that is hooked to a 16:10 monitor through a Marantz NR1501 AV receiver. The PC is driving the monitor at 1920x1200. This mostly works well, except that I can occasionally see pixel shimmering in certain colors that appear to be somewhere around middle...

I'm currently running my server with FreeBSD 8.2 and ZFSGuru. The OS drive is a single 320GB laptop drive formatted with ZFS. It has been showing some reallocated sectors, so I'd like to replace it with a new 30GB SSD (Kingston 30GB SSDNow). The OS install is only using about 20GB of space...

Where I work, I'm being upgraded to a new laptop -- a Dell Latitude E6510 with a Dell "Encrypted Mobility" 128MB SSD. Does anyone know who actually makes this? I think Dell uses the Samsung controllers, which I've heard mixed things about. I'd be interested to know things like whether TRIM...

I still have a year left on my iPhone 3gs contract, but I'm intrigued by WP7. I figure by the time I'm ready to upgrade it should have been out on the market for a while, and I'll be able to look at it in comparison to the next iPhone, as well as the rapidly maturing Android. However, the...

I just got an OCZ ModXStreme Pro 700W (fantastic combo deal at Newegg with a Norco 4220 case, by the way - 15.00 shipped). This PSU uses modular cables, and it turns out that ideally I'd like more of the Molex connector-style cables than the PSU came with, in order to power the drive backplanes...

I've just started getting in to virtualization using the free Hyper-V download, and so far I've had great success merging several hosts (including my WHS) onto one physical machine. One remaining piece I haven't figured out yet though, is how to back up the drive hosting the .VHDs. I've seen...

I've been thinking about building a new home server for running virtual machines (Mainly WHS v1, Vail preview, and at least one Linux VM) and a fairly large array of drives (8-10 at least). The hypervisor I'm using right now is Hyper-V. My main requirement is that there be enough PCIe slots...

I just got a new Filco Majestouch keyboard from elitekeyboards.com. It comes with a nifty red Escape key that I'd like to install, but I forgot to purchase the keycap removal tool they sell. Does anyone have pointers on how to safely pop off the existing (black) Esc keycap without damaging...

I have an Intel SSD as my boot drive (Win7 Pro x64). Though I have scheduled defrag turned off (I verified this by checking the Task Scheduler), Event Viewer shows that defrag is running on my C: drive at 8PM every night. I'm not sure if it's doing a full defrag or just an Analyze Disk, but...

I have a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard that has been exhibiting a wierd problem booting off an Intel X25-M SSD. I detailed the problem over in the Data Storage forum in this thread, but in a nutshell, when I have the SSD connected to the ICH10R controller, and AHCI is enabled in the BIOS...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, because I can't tell if the problem is the with the motherboard, the OS, or the drive, but I'm having a problem where installing Windows 7 RTM on my Intel SSD is causing my computer to hang in the BIOS drive detection process, before the BIOS...