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    Is motherboard RAID safe?

    Maybe so, but they are portable... ;)
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    Steam and SSDs

    Steam will auto kick-off that process if it detects the game cache files are fragmented enough.
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    Is motherboard RAID safe?

    There was a review which tested this theory a while back - can't remember which site had it. I believe the outcome was that you could usually mount a previous array on matching hardware vendor chipsets, usually with no problems if going from previous to next generation hardware. If I remember...
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    Is motherboard RAID safe?

    Indeed, but many people forgot one other aspect - what happens if your motherboard fails?? If the RAID set contains any data you absolutely need to get your hands on, you would need to find another Intel chipset board with RAID capability to be able to mount the RAID array - other manufacturer...
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    Steam and SSDs

    Depends completely on the types of games you play. Your best bet on finding out about any game you play and how much HDD access it does in game is to probably google for forums/optimization guides for that game. In some cases an SSD will improve load times but make no difference actually in the...
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    When was main memory only as fast as SATA 3.0?

    Transfer rate is one thing - latency would be quite another. Especially in terms of write speed - normal RAM doesn't have half as much complication compared to SSD garbage collection and TRIM. I think SSDs are still a bit away from measuring latency and access times in nanoseconds - part of...
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    Samsung Announces 840 Series SSDs

    I have a 256GB 830 SSD, it doesn't even get warm in normal use - maybe if you did a constant write operation for hours it might possibly warm up.... The main thing I take away from this is not the speed bump, etc., but the fact they are targeting the consumer and pro / enterprise market with...
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    SB 710 AHCI drivers will not install on XP

    Once it's set to IDE mode the controller presents a different hardware ID which the AHCI drivers will not match up to, so Windows will not update the drivers as such. Do not perform the following unless you are sure you are installing the right driver for the hardware present - To install...
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    New Samsung 830 256GB SSD with minor problems...

    RE: Crystal Disk Info, what do the other drives show for the: Reported Uncorrectable Errors Ultra DMA CRC Error Count Command Timeout Since it worked fine with just the SSD drive connected it may not be that drive. Also, install something like SpeedFan or some other monitoring program -...
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    New Samsung 830 256GB SSD with minor problems...

    Are you using the latest SATA AHCI drivers from AMD (game.amd.com) or from the motherboard maker website, or ones that came on the motherboard CD? It could be a simple software error when the extra devices are plugged in. Keep in mind the PC may freeze if there is an I/O timeout or error in...
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    Please recommend between these 2 SSD's

    Fair enough, if I remember rightly from most of those suffering the BSOD problems, they were mainly when the drive was the boot/OS drive. I assume you're playing games that do a lot of data access in game / graphics texture streaming - that'll help with the quick random access and higher...
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    About to RMA drive - but TrueCrypt cleared errors - still return it??

    Oh I'm aware of that, but a disk scan showed a collection of low performing sectors around the bad sectors, so consider that a drive has marginal media in that area - yes the bad sectors have been remapped so now you have a collection of good LBAs located smack bang in the middle of potentially...
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    Consumer SSDs (M4) for RAID-5 server use?

    Thinking about this logically, the wear rate will be impacted due to a single block update causing writes to at least 2 drives, but I think the problem is being exaggerated. As per the diagram/demo from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5 A standard simple RAID 0...
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    16GB RAM: Go with (4x4GB) or (2x8GB)?

    If your board supports it (and assuming you are limited to dual-channel) and the price premium is not stupid, go with 2x8 - think of the upgrade potential.... :)
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    Please recommend between these 2 SSD's

    @Jocelyn84I suspect the choice is more cost based leaving these 2 options... @OP I wouldn't recommend as little as 60/64GB for OS and games unless you are really really sure you're not gonna run out of space - once Windows Vista or 7 (and small software like Office, AV, etc.) is on there you...
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    About to RMA drive - but TrueCrypt cleared errors - still return it??

    Yeah, its gone now anyway. I have done the other thing before on an older drive (force a wipe and force a drive to reallocate bad sectors) and its still going but even then, with the precaution of partitioning around the 'bad' LBA's to avoid any stored data getting caught up with potential...
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    About to RMA drive - but TrueCrypt cleared errors - still return it??

    Sorry, as an update, the drive finally ended up with (based on the SMART data from HDD Sentinel and Crystal disk info) over a few hundred reallocated sectors, the 1 unrecoverable sector (which I assume is a statistical bit of data and was also reallocated), and 14053 Reported Uncorrectable...
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    I/O error, system slowing to a crawl. Signs of a dying hard drive?

    Not a bad idea - I did something similar a while back with a drive and just partitioned around the area.
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    I/O error, system slowing to a crawl. Signs of a dying hard drive?

    I assume you mean a particular video file and not just any video file. Probably could be bad data causing the problem. Have you used chkdsk /r or other diagnostic to check for bad sectors (warning, can take a while)? HD Sentinel does a pretty decent job of interpreting the SMART data from a...
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    Sick of SSD life questions? Lets squash this rumor.

    Well, keep in mind you only need to get one NAND element to fail before you could technically write off the drive as being faulty and having failing reliability..... I suppose you could theoretically exploit a weak spot of a device if you know how, or through blind luck, extreme amounts of...
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    Just blew 4G of DDR2 Ram

    Yeah, I had the side of the case checking the cabling as the whole SCSI bus was acting up and the LVD U160/320 cabling is oh so delicate - in hindsight I assume the faulty electronics on the drive were causing problems. Hadn't changed anything, just checked it wasn't snagged or anything, pressed...
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    Just blew 4G of DDR2 Ram

    Never got RAM to do that. Managed to get a small firecracker off of an old Atlas 10K drive when one of the rectifier/polarity diodes flamed out. Was it DDR2 RAM? I only ask as these days your now paying over the odds to replace it compared to DDR3 :( Have you tested to check the sockets the...
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    About to RMA drive - but TrueCrypt cleared errors - still return it??

    Bit disappointed if Seatools can't distinguish between a partition data error and an actual physical error - after all at the hardware level surely it should be irrelevant what data is stored on the disk. Did check cables but didn't make any difference, I have locking SATA cables on my drives...
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    How do I make sure my SATA-II hard disk is being used to its full potential?

    I understand that, i.e. the command set will fall back to ATAPI 5/6 and of course that will inhibit performance, but whenever I've checked the drives are still listed as operating (at the hardware level) at SATA1/2 speeds and modes. I've just tested it on an old PC set to Compatible IDE...
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    How do I make sure my SATA-II hard disk is being used to its full potential?

    I assume he means it shows something like this: Personally I'd verify with another program - it may just be showing compatibility information that the drive may support..... Although you stated it does list the standard as SATA so surely the SATA bandwidth and command set must be in...
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    How do I make sure my SATA-II hard disk is being used to its full potential?

    Good point, but even then, the device/controller/BIOS *should* still negotiate the best link speed regardless of the device being set to AHCI/ATA/Compatible modes - the only exception being if there is a setting which allows it to be limited (not common). Looking at the website for HD Tune...
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    How do I make sure my SATA-II hard disk is being used to its full potential?

    Not sure about HD Tune, but a lot of software still lists the UDMA transfer modes supported (I guess its a guaranteed legacy protocol thing), even some BIOS messages at POST drive detection still just list UDMA speeds regardless of the connection method. You could use Sisoft Sandra which will...
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    About to RMA drive - but TrueCrypt cleared errors - still return it??

    There is a definite issue - the smart data shows the drive has dumped a load reallocated sectors and still reports 1 uncorrectable sector.... :| Just waiting for the Full erase to finish and then see what status it comes back with....
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    About to RMA drive - but TrueCrypt cleared errors - still return it??

    Hi all, Title may seem bizarre but is a pretty good summary of the dilemma. Essentially, during about a week ago, during a large file copy the hard drive in question stopped transferring data and essentially disappeared from the drive list - after rebooting it would be back however...
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    Why did WD switch to 2.5" for the velociraptors

    As Lonyo said. There are other reasons not mentioned which, mechanically speaking, work in favor of the 2.5 inch format. It's easier to balance a smaller spinning mass, or I should say, it's likely to be less imbalanced compared to trying to spin a 3.5 inch disc at 10000 or higher RPM. Apart...
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    SAS hits 12Gbit/sec, when will SATA match that?

    There is one other aspect that is missed out as part of the cost.... Warranty and support. Like it or not, you are paying a premium in the corporate/enterprise market for the expectation that it works and if it doesn't that you get a professional response. From experience, you get a definite...
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    SAS hits 12Gbit/sec, when will SATA match that?

    Not to mention the significantly increased core logic requirements such controllers usually have onboard to help push the extra performance, as well as allowing for features in some cases like battery backed up cache ram, etc. SCSI and SAS as its successor will always have far more complicated...
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    SSD Caching drives - Do they cache just the boot drive/partition or all drives?

    I suspected more or less that may be the outcome.... but look forward to seeing if you can pull off an alternate configuration. Well, in that case I'm surprised more hybrid HDDs haven't appeared as that would address that minor annoyance. Tempted by a Momentus XT but I can't help think a 3.5"...
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    SAS hits 12Gbit/sec, when will SATA match that?

    I think the thing to keep in mind here is the additional flexibility of SAS and how it might be used with switches / multipliers. I suppose in a scenario where you had 4 x 3 Gigabit drives on a SAS switch/multiplier you'd need the 12 Gb/sec link to keep them all fed, assuming they could all...
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    New Samsung 830 256GB SSD with minor problems...

    Have a check the Event Log in Windows 7 - I have to say to its credit in a few cases where I've seen some PCs at work lagging and freezing due to drive errors, it has managed to log a problem with the ATA bus, etc. before the system fully grinds to a halt. Normally it's not the first place...
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    SSD Caching drives - Do they cache just the boot drive/partition or all drives?

    Quick question for anyone who either has an SSD caching drive setup or is familiar with how they work... Do the caching drives using either the Dataplex (or other) software or the Intel RST software cache just the system drive/partition read and writes or do they try to cover reads/writes for...
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    I had 2 hard drives fail today

    Just suffered from the same thing, except that practically, it's impossible to know exactly when the issue on one of my drives actually really developed, the difference being that both drives are years apart and completely different make, size, etc. Basically I have a 1.5TB drive which, as I...
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    DPAD Daily User Stats 27-04-10

    Will try to 'borrow' the use of a dual CPU Nahalem Xeon Quad core for a week just to see what 'could' happen..... :twisted:
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    DPAD Daily User Stats 11 & 16-03-10

    One machine with a Core2 Duo E6xx0 and another with Core2 Duo E7xx0 series processor (I forget the specific CPUs). Nothing particularly fancy. At some point I've gotta get my 2.6GHz quad-core PC doing something - probably might get that doing folding or something with the GPU client (as good...
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    DPAD Daily User Stats 11 & 16-03-10

    Yeah, haven't done any DC for a while whilst my work and home PCs have been in a state of constant flux.
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