Recent content by lbbeurmann

I do have a large subwoofer, but it is in a separate location from the rest of my machine. Also, due to the fact that I have a large subwoofer, the wife insists on me using headphones about 85% of the time, so I really can't see that being much of a factor.

Well, as far as my power supplies, they have both been Antec 550 Watt PSU's. Cooling shouldn't be much of an issue as my system is water cooled. When they start to go bad, my system runs slowly. I notice that when the system starts to hang, that I can hear the drive spin up loudly and make a...

Does anyone know what could cause hard drives to keep going bad? Over the past 3 years I have had 4 Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8, 7200 rpm, 40 GB, drives go bad. The first 2 were in a RAID 0 array, and I thought that I had traced the cause to a failing power supply due to the fact that my floppy...