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That pegged my CPU for a bit, but I didn't see anything abnormal beyond that. What does the computer do when it starts stuttering?

All I can say is this thing rocks. I haven't used this notebook much since installing it, or tweaked anything for it yet, but it's way faster than the conventional HD that was in here.

I would run 32-bit. Application compatibility is a big unknown (to me at least) under 64-bit. I can't think of any benefit you'd get from running XP 64-bit. It seems like all potential pitfalls with no benefit.

You mean the old put a 2nd HD in the modular bay instead of an optical drive trick? I'd rather put a 2nd battery or optical drive in there. If set up your system to permanently use the 2nd drive (like the pagefile) you'll be hard pressed to take it out and use the other options.

What laptop has more than one drive?

I like Media Player Classic Home Cinema myself.

I'm going to be putting one in my old Dell laptop which has 2GB of RAM. For what I do with it I could probably turn the pagefile off though I'm not sure that will really lengthen the life of the drive significantly.

Does anyone ideas why OCZ suggests turning off hibernation support for SSDs? Also, do you guys turn off the pagefile?

My recordings become commercial free too after I edit them with the misnamed HDTVtoMPEG2. :D

Don't think so. My HTPC runs XP just fine, but XP and ATI's driver writing incompetence preventing a Radeon HD4550 from delivering 7.1 LPCM audio under XP. The nVidia IGP's don't have the same problem.

That's an easy way to do it, but the picture quality isn't as good. There's nothing quite like the pristine 1080i broadcast (aside from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD).

That's what I said when I got my 1.5TB drives for ~$100. Wireless will be very likely be fine for DVD images. HD playback will be iffy (depending on signal strength and other factors).

We all must have very different ideas of silent. I don't see how you can put multiple 3.5" HDs in a PC and call it silent. Under some conditions (no audio playing + quiet house) I can hear the highly praised (for being quiet) 40GB Toshiba 4200RPM 2.5" laptop drive in my HTPC. I currently have...

I wouldn't have spent the money, but it's quite a bit different from buying a 1.5TB 5400RPM drive for $150-$160 when you can get a 1.5TB 7200RPM drive for $~100-120. In the case of your Intel SSD, you can't get a higher performing SSD for 2/3rds the price (that I'm aware of).

The E8400 is unnecessary. The E5200 will work just fine for you and save you some money. You also don't need 4GB of RAM although I realize it isn't expensive. Are you trying to make this PC silent? If so, I'd look at a SSD and put the storage somewhere else on your network. Also, what OS do...

Forget the velociraptor. Get an Intel X-25E. :D

Regardless, they're all out to lunch. Seagate 7200RPM 1.5's have dipped as low as ~$100. Paying ~$150 for a 5400RPM 1.5TB drive is just stupid.

Supposedly the Samsung 1.5TB 5400RPM drive will be cheaper. link

Negative... That would be the 320GB WD. link

I know that. It was a joke.

Well, I just more or less picked 80GB out of the air and made the partition that size. :D This was driven by the STR graph here and the fact that the old drive was ~80GB and still had plenty of room left on it.

Well, I scored a T7400 for $90 shipped, so I went ahead with this plan. Also, FWIW, the short stroked 500GB HD made a huge improvement to the performance of the machine. That may be mostly due to the much higher STR, and not the reduced access times, but either way, it's vastly improved.

Get a 5D Mk II if you want wide angle HD video. :p

I would go with the largest PATA drive you can get since it will be the fastest.

I understand the concept. I'm just saying that I've never seen a RAID controller that actually does it.

I don't think there are any RAID controllers that actually spread the reads across the drives for improved performance.

Does RAID-1 make any sense for a SSD? Obviously a SSD can fail, but I would think that more likely it would be the cycles on the drive that would cause it to fail. In which case RAID-1 doesn't buy you much of anything against that type of failure.

And, not content to stop there, I just ordered a 30GB OCZ Vertex Series SSD. I'm out of control! :D

Well, I ordered a 64GB PATA SSD to play with in either my HTPC, or my older Dell laptop, or maybe I'll try it in both. :eek:

I guess there could be some advantage even for a spinning disk. Maybe I'll try it with my new 500GB 2.5" drive.

Has anyone tried the whole partition alignment thing talked about here?

The article makes quite the jump to its conclusions. There are variety of possible explanations of the data set they assembled. Maybe conservatives are more likely to pay for their porn whereas non conservatives steal it online? Maybe the non conservatives who life in red states feel more...

It appears to be time lapse combined with this technique.

Tom's Hardware did a review of short stroking. It made a very noticeable improvement. link

I think I'll wait for the SSD field to settle a little bit more before jumping in. I think I'll try my luck with short stroking a HD with a very high areal density first.

Financially I'm not sure this makes any sense. A solid SSD would probably make a much more noticeable improvement to the system. :confused:

FSB is the same. Dell was doing Microcode updates all the way into mid 2007 though the bios updates don't explicitly say what CPUs they support. I found some mentions on other forums as the T7200, T7400, and T7600 are supported.

More like 2.5x times as much for a drive 33% bigger.

So I have a few year old Dell E1505 with a 1.83gHz Core Duo (Yonah) and I'm trying to figure out if I can upgrade it to a Mobile Core 2 Duo (Merom). From what I I can tell they are both Socket M. Dell also continued to sell the E1505 well into the Core 2 Duo era, so I think BIOS support is there...

I've got news for you... The aviation industry employs a lot of people. Corporations buying and using private jets keeps a lot people working. That's apparently bad, but big wasteful and unnecessary public works projects pushed by the gov't to employ people are apparently ok. Why do the #1...

Is that reason the outrageous price?

Doubtful... The rest of the EcoGreen drives from Samsung are 5400RPM.

But do you have any SLC drives that aren't Intel? :p

Are SLC drives immune to the stuttering, or is that a function of the Jmicron controller? My HTPC has a very small install of XP on it, and I don't need a large drive. I didn't realize the one I linked to at Amazon was an older OCZ model, so I will be passing on it.

I'm running XP Pro on my HTPC. I'm not interested to mess with anything other than cloning the install to the new drive. I use the HTPC basically only for media playback (DVD ISO's over the network, .mkv files over the network, and Blu-Ray and HD-DVD from the optical drive in the system) so I...

So, is the 60GB OCZ SSD for $102 after rebate from Amazon going to drive me nuts if I put it in my HTPC that's currently running a 40GB 4200RPM Toshiba IDE 2.5" drive, or am I unlikely to notice any stuttering? I'm not looking for a speed boost as much as I am in removing one more noise source...

It doesn't.

If you're single I could maybe see Facebook / Myspace being useful if you're into the whole dating scene and are outgoing. However, I'm shocked at the amount of information people put up for everyone to see.

The 12.1" size of the NC20 is probably my biggest hangup on it. I wish someone would come out with a netbook using the nVidia Ion platform and a 10" screen. That would be :cool: The Dell Mini 10 could be an interesting one if they get their HD ( 1366x768 ) screen out soon. They're using the...

FWIW, I don't see any use to them either.