Posts by Kramy

Quote:Originally Posted by Landon Heat Didn't newegg have the 600gb one for the same price not too long ago?The 600GB model is a generation older and thus will be slower. Given where the price of 1TB drives is (~$60 on sale), I...

Not a bad price on one of the very largest drives available. That said, 3TB drives are often on sale for ~$120. You certainly pay a premium for having the largest out there. It could still make economic sense if you (for example)...

Good call. Mismatched RAID may have issues down the road. Better to deal with it now.

SATA2 maxes at around 286MiB/sec, so basically any current hard drive won't be inhibited very much. It'll only limit burst rates, and those don't affect very much. The Seagate drives are the ST1000DM003 (1TB), ST3000DM001 (3TB),...

Quote:Originally Posted by A Bad Day I'd hate to bump this thread, but the trial license key files' download links are completely broken, thus I can't use the software. Does anyone know where else can I get the files?On their...

Looking good. It's worth noting though that HDTune v255 only tests the first 1TB of a drive to determine access times. HDTune Pro is required to get a more accurate reading, or to perform short stroke tests. For partition-specific...

Quote:Originally Posted by GeoWillWalls Deleted it and got 13Gb back after steam said it was only 3Gb downloaded so something must have gone wrong there.... o.OMaybe it downloaded 3GB and decompressed it to 13GB? Quote:Originally...

Quote:Originally Posted by chip94 Quote:Originally Posted by lurker2501 Can I raid 0 this drive with a Samsung F3 same size? Yes you can RAID 0 this drive with a Samsung F3 of same size. But note that your array will only be as...

Drives can get all the power they require from the +12v line; missing the +5v line isn't a huge concern. 100MB/sec... very nice for a NAS. It's probably a combination of all of the above - faster switch, more memory for buffering...

Quote:Originally Posted by sh1nt4x Any noticeable difference in performance between this and pII x4 965?Thubans have slightly more IOPS, more cache, run cooler, etc. For a budget CPU they're quite decent. I got mine for a little...