Recent content by Tronyx

Just another update. I found a post about a utility to change the idle time from 8 seconds to 300 seconds to increase performance with the WD green drives. I put the drives in another machine, found the idle time was set to 8 seconds, and changed it to 300 as advised. Honestly, it looks like...

Well, looks like two of the disks may be having some S.M.A.R.T. issues: Read Error Rate rawValue="0" Spin-Up Time in millisecs rawValue="4391" Start/Stop Count rawValue="366" Reallocated Sectors Count rawValue="0" Seek Error Rate rawValue="0" Power-On Hours rawValue="3720" Spin Retry Count...

Only thing you could really do if you want to actually increase your main drive capacity is to get a new drive and clone your existing one to it using something like Clonezilla Live CD. Since you're already on an SSD it shouldn't be a problem. If it were me, I'd get a 2nd of your SSD, take a...

You'd probably have better luck posting this in the Graphics & Displays http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum-33.html section of the forum rather than the Storage section.

Follow this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/134735/how-to-see-if-your-hard-drive-is-dying/ and see what the results are. There could be many other factors as well, but that should at least give you some info on your drive.

CrystalDiskInfo is a great program, but, to me, seems to be a bit paranoid. I would try an actual S.M.A.R.T. test as well. To do a quick S.M.A.R.T. check without installing any third-party software, you can use a few commands included with Windows. First, open a Command Prompt window. (Press...

For an SSD, definitely a +1 for the Samsung 8X0 series. I'm usuing 2x840 Pro 512GB in a RAID 0. No personal experience with the Evo versions, but I love the pros.

Before I start I just want to say that I've done a TON of research on this and have tried everything that I can find, short of getting a different controller, to resolve the write speed issues that I am seeing. Current Rig: OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D...

Well, I hate to double-post, but it won't let me edit my last one... Update: I ordered the 750w version of my current PSU just to cover my bases, but I seem to have "fixed" the issue. I had my ram set to 1066 (its stock frequency, when the board downs it to 800 by default) and I figured...

Well, I guess I'll shell out another 100 for the 750w version of my current PSU and see what happens. I'm gonna try just taking the damn thing out and seeing if my system is completely stable like it was before I installed the X-Fi...

I disabled the on-board audio in the BIOS before I installed the card and I had ran memtest86+ for over 24 hours without any issues what so ever 2 days before installing the card. This is my first nForce board, so I haven't used any Creative cards with that type of board yet, but with a few...

Here are my system specs since I know that is the first response I'm going to get: EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW Intel Q9300 Quad Core - Stock OCZ Reaper 4x2Gb @1066 Corsair vx550w nVidia GTX 280 WD 320Gb HDD Vista Business 64-bit So I just bought the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty...