Recent content by HammerBot

You are mixing things up. Acoustic management can be changed with hdparm, but this is not what I'm doing. Acoustic management reduces noise when the drive is active. I think it does this by reducing the acceleration of the drive heads. Spin down time is a different parameter and my Seagate...

There have been written a lot about WD Green Caviar and Standby / spin-down. But I still have not been able to figure this out. I have 3 WD Green drives: WD15EADS - 1.5TB 32MB Cache - Firmware 01.00A01 WD10EACS - 1.0TB 16MB Cache - Firmware 01.01A01 WD10EAVS - 1.0TB 8MB Cache - Firmware...

I'm sorry. Your USB stick is probably dead beyond recovery. This happens. Has happened to me a couple of times. Even on a relatively new stick. I never use USB sticks for important data exactly for this reason. If you know some Linux experts, try putting the stick in a Linux machine. These...

There should be some extra pins (besides the 44 for the connector) where you place a jumper. If not, this drive is probably fixed as master. This is not a problem if you can make your CD drive slave. <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

Any IDE controller only supports a maximum of two drives. To add a third you'll need another cable and connect it to your secondary IDE controller. If you dont have a secondary controller, you are limited to two drives. <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you...

Do the math yourself! If you download 1GB a day, your 160GB drive will be full in 160 days. Your 250GB drive will last 250 days. Its up to you! Nobody, except yourself, can answer your question. <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

Yes, you can connect PATA drives to a SATA controller with an adaptor. From the OS point of view, you RAID array is just one big drive. You can partition it etc., just as if it was a non-RAIDed drive. Since you only have one drive, I recommend to forget about that one and buy two new SATA...

Yes. Although on desktop PCs, the connector is has a 2.54mm pitch and is only 40 pin. On laptops it's a 2mm pitch and 44 pins. The 4 extra pins are for +5V supply. 2.5" drives uses only +5V supply, 3.5" drives uses both 5V and 12V supplies. <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you...

Have you run memtest86? <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

That old HD may easily become a bottleneck in your new fine system. You can use the old HD, but I don't recommend it. Simply moving the HD to a new mobo will not work. The system will attempt booting but when windows starts loading drivers you will get problems due to the very different...

What kind of problems do you have? It's not like a slow harddrive will give you lower fps. If your harddrive is slow you will mostly notice it during 'scene' change and not gameplay. If you suspect the HD to be the problem, try running some HD benchmarks to troubleshoot further...

Yes <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

Yes, you can use HDs of different size and manufacturer, but your array will be limited by the smallest and slowest drive. RAID 0 increases both read and write performance. Although, in some situations (e.g. random access to many small files) RAID 0 may be slower than a single drive. You can...

Yes. 350W is more than enough. BTW, your card didn't die because of you 300W PSU. An overloaded PSU just doesn't do that. Actually a good 300W PSU should be enough for your system. <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

No. +/- 5% is fine. Usually I accept +/-10% on the 12V rail. <i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>