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Biggest cost savings is actually going to be in your power and cooling department. A high efficency power supply and a low consumption processor make the biggest difference. Modern video cards are power trolls and should be avoided if looking for cost savings. I actually overclock my processors...

Almost all commercial RAID controllers support these features. Also, I do not recommend anyone use a cheap $200 and under or onboard RAID controller for anything other than RAID 1 or RAID 0. The ability to rebuild and performance of RAID 5 and 6 makes it a waste of good hard drives.

wow I didn't expect a PM storm nor any activity on these. All four are gone now to a good home. :D

What's up with the insane spam? I wouldn't buy any of this now on the principal that I believe you are a chinese gold farmer. :D

I couldn't justify the price difference difference on a hot swap case vs fixed mount since, in all reality, I'll never be pulling the drives where I can't have a little downtime. Saved $300 on the case that I can use to buy another 4.5TB worth of storage :p

I bought two HD4850s a week before they released (scammed Best Buy into pulling them from the back) and got them dirt cheap (scammed Best Buy again because the ati cards were all 25% off inprep for the 4800 launch the next week) and loved them for the longest. However, driver problems plagued me...

I have four of the dual core 2.0ghz Allendale Celerons I don't know what to do with. Newegg was giving them away free with Acera RAID controllers for some reason...

I hope for you sake you never do either.

I don't forsee BD ever doing anything. It's a poor technology that was rushed to compete with Toshiba and do the whole war scene and now that there is no competition, Sony has made the classic case of putting it out of reach from their audience. USB based storage is becoming the norm for large...

I know AVG isn't any good but I've had extremely great results with Avast Professional edition. I get a hold of some very nasty content and it has held true perfectly. My only complaint for Avast is having marked some basic network tools as viruses, when they clearly are not at all harmful to...

I was referring to all of the legit options there are today where it is video on demand, not pirate on demand. Example services such as Hulu or Netflix which allow high quality streaming.

What's the nick name for the people who stream their movies, both HD and SD, off the Internet and don't pay a dime? I shall take that name.

Nothing like a group of people who try to talk a problem to death huh? We've had more than 125 enterprise Seagate drives recovered in a clean room with a success rate of more than 90% performed by Aero Data Recovery, success defined as all data recovered. All done without sitting in a room while...

I have had countless horribly packaged hard drive shipments from Newegg. My personal favorite is when they throw the hard drives in the bottom of a box with nothing but their antistatic bags and then fill the box full of peanuts. No bubble wrap. When you open the box, they've been slamming...

Drive for drive, spinning drives do fail more often due to long term vibration while SSD drives fail due to a hung deep error recovery attempt in my enterprise test lab. I don't recommend SSDs to anyone in a desktop but in the laptop world, they are quite the blessing for both performance...

Unless you have a real RAID controller, which is often $300 or more, forget RAID 5 completely. I'm a fan of a RAID 0 solution personally. I don't want to have to think about where I'm installing or storing a file every time I do it. Several drives in RAID 0 will surpass an SSD in terms of...

You need to perform a low level disk defragmentation and then you will be able to extend the volume 50% of your free space. Rinse and repeat to get it to the max size.

I'd recommend forking up another $30 and getting a GTX275. Massive jump for such a small difference with some of the deals out there.

People still pay for physical media movies? :D

I just noticed you can get the Samsung F2 drives with a nice quantity discount if you buy at least 2. The price is $119 each but 17% volume discount so $99 a drive with free shipping. The Western Digital 1.5TB drive has much better performance in terms of I/O operations but the Samsung is the...

Aye! You need a nice system to fully appreciate them. Majority of people can't tell the difference because they are using Logitec speakers...

Were your RMA drives DOAs or failures?

No doubt about that. I have to wonder what affect harsher shipping methods have on these as well since I've noticed most of my boxes always come damaged and the hard drives are always horribly packed.

I work for a company that resells them as part of a product solution so I got mine at cost through procurement department. We sell enough to get them from Myricom directly but the only other place I've ever seen them for sell is Dell but I'm sure there is better than that. My setup is using the...

High end RAID controllers allow for some tremendous transfer rates (400+ MB/s) with larger drive quantities. Same quantity with the green drives has produced almost half the rate of 7200 drives. Specifically, in file transfer role, a 1TB WD Black drive is hitting 150 I/O operations in the...

If you feel confident you can resize the partitions with ease after the fact, you can simply do a raw bit for bit copy using any low level copy and raw conversion tool. I use "dd" for such a task, which is a Linux based tool. You could use a live linux disk to do such in your scenario. You...

Seagate still makes the best SAS drive on the market in terms of performance but I wouldn't recommend their SATA drives to anyone right now.

I can't talk myself into putting these drives in a system with a nice, high performance RAID controller that costs as much as the drives. I'd rather pay the extra $22 a year (based on .10 cents a KwH) and enjoy happiness. Someone talk some sense into me. :mad:

I've done some limited testing on my hardware and the loading time difference is nothing to ignore. Modern PC games have huge texture files and the seq read performance is a dramatic improvement. It obviously isn't going to yield any extra frame rate but makes everything else about life more...

Does your motherboard set one PCIe slot to 16x when the other slot is empty? I see that it does 8x/8x but as long as it runs one at 16x using the 1.0 spec, you're good to go on either card.

Agreed. They are in trouble considering their biggest competitor, HP, is bringing their sales and support back to the USA.

Let me find that video that proves people can actually fly if they use the right kind of duck tape and a copper paperclip. :D

Why are there so many of these refurbs? I've seen this model sold on many web sites as cheap refurbs.

I bought the sound card from Woot! about a year ago but it didn't replace the Creative X-Fi card I have since Creative still had EAX4 tied down when the cuda was produced, which has changed since. The music sound quality was great though. Very high quality DACs.

I see there isn't much Microsoft knowledge here so I must chime in. Microsoft makes a huge chunk of their profit from Enterprise License Agreements and very few companies have been forking up the millions to Microsoft as of late. As a result, this quarter you can get one significantly cheaper...

I've heard this noise on other peoples computers that thought they could just buy a bunch of parts and throw them together. It was always a system configuration mismatch caused by the power supply or timings. Good luck with it!

My apologies!

Majority of the Mini 9's actually came with Windows XP on them and Dell did a decent job of tuning the system to run responsively. I had every intention of blowing Windows away as soon as I got mine when I bought a cheap refrub back in Feb but it's been running so well that I left Windows XP on it.

The Samsung F2 green drives are significantly louder than the F1 series, upwards of 8 decibels. I used to be a big Seagate guy but I've gone over to the Western Digital side of life the last few years and they haven't given any reason for me to look back so far.

It isn't about a game or application using the extra cores as much as it is having extra thread handlers to take care of IRQ interupts and background processes. Benchmarks are practically useless other than comparing similar family devices because no one formats their computer each time before...