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Isn't there a TRIM utility to format it and give it close to its original performance level?

That's very good for a 2.5" drive. I don't think the 1TB drive in my Toshiba Canvio would match this, even if I removed it from its USB 2.0 enclosure (it is a 5200rpm drive).

I added another Core i7 this evening, but I should remove the Core i5 760 with the 450GTS later this week. It is good to see LiamC restarting to help our team, but I'm worried because Mark, Doug, David and Pradeep still haven't produced points so far today. Please don't let us down guys.

I did find it a few minutes after posting. I simply didn't post to mention it.

Unless you have a powerful graphic card, a side case fan makes little sense IMO. Put one very low-speed fan pushing air on the hard drives. Elsewhere, a rear and top fans are more than you should need. I don't think the temperature inside your enclosure should climb over 40C. But even at...

As a consolation prize, we like to talk to you here. And it's still better to depress the shit out of a guy than to use it to make a dirty Sanchez.

I'm still looking for Mark Sanchez eating his hot dog BTW.

Removing the webcam driver and software didn't fix it. I'm doing a system restore to a state much earlier in the installation process. I've left the office and I'll only know tomorrow if it worked or not.

People are just sick In the same line of unsuspected meaning as what I discovered there, I've been recently surprised by the results Google gave me on something else. I'm a football fan (real, manly American football, not that soccer game where a bunch of wuss throw themselves to the ground...

I'm curently saving all the user data on another drive and I plan to reinstall everything. It's either a driver or something screwed up by one of the late updates from WindowsUpdate. I might try to uninstall the Creative Lab integrated webcam before reinstalling to see if it fixes the issue...

I have a laptop here, Dell Inspiron 1525, on which I did a fresh Vista installation. I did not notice when it started to happen, but now it hangs during shutdown. Only in normal mode. It doesn't in safe mode. I tried to deactivate everything in msconfig to no avail. I even uninstalled the...

You watched too much of the Jetson when you were a kid.

Combine both and you get this : Only the older members knew this existed.

IMO, we should all drive 6 tons electric fork lift. I really liked to drive those.

Do you operate it with your left foot, the same one you use to power on/turn off the system?

Cheaper, more effective : anything with two GeForce 450GTS (or more). Two of those cards cost ~250$ and yield +20000ppd. They don't need that much energy either and they are fairly quiet.

I don't think it will last very long, but I'm quite proud when I look at the daily production I've been able to sustain for the last seven days.

See, lots of potatoes and...no rice. You want to grow tall and strong : eat potatoes. Seriously, I didn't read anything about his diet, but just the fact that he's Polish insured that he ate a lot of potatoes. Poland is potato-land.

What will the poor Philippinos do without rice? Import potatoes from Poland? Potatoes are good and make you strong. See what they did for Mariusz Pudzianowski.

Don't expect to break 110MBpps on a PCI bus. The Areca should work fine since it is a PCI 2.2 card (altough the motherboard must not be more than PCI 2.1 compliant). I doubt that even with perfect performances from the Areca you'll be able to come even close to saturate the PCI bus. You'll...

You don't want to ship a hard drive in a padded bag and you certainly don't want to ship it slowly. Only express shipping for hard drives. The least amount of time a mecanical hard drive spends in shipping warehouse or trucks, the better for its lifespan. Said from a guy who worked at Purolator.

You don't think you'll live another seven years? Are you that sick?

I ended up searching the product ID in Google and finally found the driver online. The installer failled, but I was able to push the driver down Windows' throat manually. Thanks for bringing this back to my memory.

Even trying to find the driver with a disk containing driver packs from www.driverpacks.net isn't working. I simply have no way of installing that damn wireless network card. Very professional, Toshiba. Great customer support. I'll please myself tomorrow and make sure the first customer...

What's wrong with the Silverstone FT01B combined with the ICY Dock MB994SP-4S? It covers all your needs. You have your 4 5.25" bays, your 6 internal 3.5" bays, space for 4 2.5" SSD inside the ICY Dock. The case has good ventilation and is relatively quiet. The overall price is a tad on the...

I have a crappy Toshiba Satellite A210 here in which I had to replace the hard drive because the old one had many bad sectors. The old installation was screwed and even if it wasn't, I couldn't copy it to the new hard drive because of the numerous bad sectors. There's only a Vista Home Premium...

If you want to keep power consumption comparable, then there's not much you can do before Sandy Bridge goes out. Replacing yous 3.6GHz Core i5 680 with quad cores will increase your power needs substantially. The best thing you can do is wait.

That's the closest I can find : Silverstone SST-FT01B It has almost everything you ask for. You simply have to find a way to fit your 3-4 SSD in one 5.25 bay and one internal 3.5 bay.

In my case, the room warms up. I plan to shut down one or two systems during next summer. I didn't this year because I was in a race against LiamC and I also tried to close the gap with Mark, but I had to endure incomfortable temperatures. Good thing I spent a lot of time outside the house...

IIRC, the only computers you have at home, besides your laptop, are those in your coffin. Again, IIRC, your entire coffin draws less than 300W. You don't heat a house with 300W. One room perhaps, but not a house. You 4GHz i7 EE is at your office, isn't it?

With my increased production and Handruin's substantial participation (combined to the return of Ddrueding, Bozo, Pradeep and Fushigi), LiamC's vanishing has been erased. It took one month and a half, but we're now back to the level we were in August. I could add another 15000ppd with a...

I think they have 48 different cases, so your question seems quite vague. I often sell their Elite RC 310 and 335 for basic computers. They look good and let me place decent power supplies in them, but they aren't quiet. They are basic enclosures (which is why I only sell them for entry-level...

There is currently a transition from the 2GB DIMM modules to the 4GB DIMM modules. The price premium for the higher capacity modules have almost disappeared. Most of your servers must already use 4GB modules, but for the consumer market, they are just beginning to make sense. Yesterday, I...

My new system rests inside a Compucase CI-6919 of a beautiful beige color. I had to use a 2005 DVD burner because beige optical drives no longer exist today. The enclosure is quite well made, but the rear system fan is very noisy. I had to unplug it to make the system's noise tolerable...

All Western Digital Caviar Green. No matter what Mercutio can think about Western Digital, their 2TB drives are A LOT more reliable than the Seagate of similar capacity.

Do you have to wear leather clothes and does your job envolves being whipped and sodomized too?

I saw him among the logged members last night or early this morning. He's ok and he still has Internet access.

Yes, they do. Confirmed. And on this statement, I'm Storage morphed to another Hairy Aussie. I invented the title and I now wear it.

Then just let it hang over the edge and wait for it to fall. Then they'll have to buy you an LCD because no one sells CRT anymore. BTW, always looking on the side for your monitor can cause neck and back problems. It's a lot better to have it in front of you. Medical treatments for back...

Everything is now operating under Windows 7.

Just want to be sure that our Philippino representative is ok. The typhon center passed a bit North of Bulacan but it still must have rocked down there.

I have four computers currently running the client. I often watch movies on two of them and I haven't experienced stutters. The hardware is relatively high-end, comparable to what you usually assemble, although all my graphic cards are modest (the strongest one is the GeForce 450GTS). All my...

I started both with the Bozo tool just before leaving the office today. I'll have the answer tomorrow morning.

A 450GTS gives 11938.9ppd according to the monitoring software Bozo dig. It's not bad for a 130$ investment.

They both give the same temperature readings on my Xeon X3350. I guess it's up to what interface you prefer.

What's wrong with Speedfan? I'll try Core Temp and see if the temperatures it reports are different than Speedfan.

I started to run the GPU3 client on a GeForce 450GTS and the utility Bozo found tells me that it predicts 1694ppd. It better be a fucking joke. A mid-range Fermi GPU should yield ~6000ppd, not less than 1700ppd. I guess I'll know tomorrow. I only have the card untill Monday morning. I hope...

You need to have a good airflow inside your enclosure for the passive Radeon HD 5670. Inside a case with poor ventilation, it will cram. It is not a good card for most HTPC because of this. Unless your HTPC case is something like the Silverstone GD05. The passively-cooled Radeon HD 5450 can...

Now I know why the fan is noisy : it idles between 55C and 58C. I won't try running the FAH client on this system until I replace this piece of junk. I'll try the Thermaltake Contac 29 and see how it fares. This is a tower heatsink similar to the Xigmatek HDT1283 that I use in my other two...