I was fortunate enough to win a prize, received the notification email and filled out the provided forms, notarized, and sent back but have not heard anything back. Any other winners get confirmation of their prizes shipping? The two purch reps haven't even responded to any of my emails asking...
I'm curious if you guys think there's a cheaper option than the Synology 215j if all I want to do is have a 2-bay NAS to aggregate data from 2 desktops and 2 tablets, mirror the hdd for redundancy and then use an external hdd to periodically back the NAS up to. My usage would be just storage, no...
Thanks. Hopefully unplugging everything will do the trick. Yeah I think I have a Hiren's Boot CD lying around here somewhere with GParted on it. Yeah worse case I'll just clone the Vertex 2.
Decided to buy myself a couple xmas presents (512GB Toshiba SSD and Asus AMD 7870) and had installed the new GPU and used that a bit the last few weeks. Last night finally decided to install the new SSD and using it to replace my Vertex 2 as my OS drive. Seems like no problem, unplug the old...
Think I shot my own theory down. After backing up the "bad" drive, I put it back in the current computer and so far its powering up and being recognized just fine, though I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it. Any ideas? Think a couple weeks of downtime simply had the head(s) stuck and the...
No, I read that doing a "violent" frisbee motion will move them and indeed it did. I didn't think it took too much force in the motion to get the platters to move, but definitely heard the low whir of the platter.
So I started with forcing the platter to move and plugged it back in. Voila it powered up, however my computer still won't see it. Plugged it into my other desktop and appears with no issue so I'm backing it up now.
Now I started to think what could be the issue. The hdd in question is a...
So a couple weeks ago I set up a fresh windows 7 install on my new OCZ vertex 2 and as I feared I lost another hard drive. My WD 320gb hdd seems to have died on me. Was working for a few days after the initial install but now seems to not power up. There's no spinning or vibration when I turn on...
Now I'm feeling stupid even asking the next question but want a 2nd opinion anyhow due to past issues. So I have had my SSD for almost a week now but have not hooked it up yet. The issue is when I installed it in the case I ran into the problem that my psu only has 4 sata pwr connectors. I have...
so after OS installation, I'm trying to figure out what apps to put on the SSD and what to leave on a HDD. Any sites that show a quick and dirty list of applications that benefit from a SSD and those not recommended to be on a SSD due to heavy writes/deletes?
Some of my typical apps are Winamp...
So my drive shipped quickly, a little quicker than expected. So quick question. I'm going to do a clean install of Win7 64-bit on it. From what I've read
Install Win7
Install Intel Rapid Storage Technology 9.6
Install Intel chipset drivers
Enable God Mode...
With all your guys' help I had narrowed down to the Crucial C300 and OCZ Vertex 2 over the last couple days and now I think I'm going to go with the Vertex 2, although I'm going to contact buy.com about their price matching because amazon has cheaper prices without rebates, cheap enough that if...
The 120gb drive you see there is in a 3.5" format instead of 2.5" so that's why that's cheaper, why by that much I don't know. and the 50 vs 60, looks like from the product code I'd say the 60gb is the extended version of the 50, aka less reserve space for the controller to work with. That's my...
Buy.com doesn't list any OWC Mercury drives and that's where I'm restricted to due to the gift certificates.
Right now it'll be used in my primary desktop and will probably be used for OS a few apps (MSOffice) and a few games (Steam related mostly) Everything else will be on other HDDs. It may...
Have some gift certificates to use and am looking at using them on an SSD.
OCZ Vertex 2 90gb $265
OCZ Agility 2 90gb $209
Crucial RealSSD 128GB $271
Intel 80GB g2 $229
Corsair Nova 128GB $265
Crucial (value line?) 128gb $287
PNY 128gb $240
Which do you guys think is the best...
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