Recent content by hifiaudio2

Man that is a really good deal, and I love all the extra pata/sata power ports for extra cables (although I cannot find where you can buy just these regular power cables for cheap... will keep looking), but this system will only take 100-150 watts tops while running, so I would be sooo far...

I am thinking about this 430 watt Enermax.. thoughts on its capability to drive *and connect power to* 10-12 HDS ultimately? (6-7 at first) http://www.enermax.com/home.php?fn=eng/product_a1_1_2&lv0=1&lv1=71&no=248

Do I need to get a modular supply that has many "peripheral" connections listed? I notice some only have one outlet labelled as that. Or is one or more fine and I just keep using splitters to power all the hard drives?

Ended up getting the Noxonia Deep Silence 5. Thanks a ton for the advice, I almost got the Lian Li but the DS 5 was $150 delivered from Wayfair.com and seemed so well made. Thanks again!

Cool, thanks! This looks like a better option.

Not sure.. it will be running on Windows 2012 R2 essentials with a LSI 9201-16i card for the drives. I dont know if that card has some sort of option for staggered spin up or not.

Ok thanks. Its the 5v rail I need to worry about on hard drive power, right? Do I need to worry about how many sata power cables are on the power supply or just get some sort of expanders?

I am going to build a media server around the Asrock C2750D4I MB / 8 core Atom / Avoton chip combo with 16GB of ECC ram. Hard drives will be a sas / sata mix and could ultimately be 12-14 drives, depending on the expansion of the case I end up getting. I don't want to overdo it on the...

I am going to build a large media server based around the Asrock C2750D4I MB / 8 core Atom / Avoton chip. I basically need a large tower case capable of holding 10+ drives. I was interested in the Antec 1900 but have seen quite a few negative reviews of it, with the most concerning part...

Is there a consolidated list of optimizations for the G2 x25-m for Win7 somewhere? In this thread it was stated that none are needed for this drive... so leave "everything" at default?

so the real question is... has anyone heard any other news at all about these coming out? Im pretty sure this is the timeframe the original article talked about them launching. Ill try to find that article...was probably from March or so...

yeah I am certainly not very interested in 1 watt savings or fake save the environment issues... just interested in lower voltages supposely being better for overclocked system stability....

I was thinking that the lower voltage would help with the issues of pushing the Core i7 procs and chipsets past 1.65v and the long term stability... if we got high memory clocks and low latency from a 1.35v chip, that would be great. So are we supposed to see products based on the new tech...

There was an article a few months ago on Dailytech about DDR3 manufacturing processes changing and we would all be looking at brand new high speed DDR3 with voltages down in the 1.2 - 1.3 ranges. I havent seen any other news of this. Did I miss it?

I have a Gigabyte UD3P motherboard and it annoys me how long it takes for the thing to get past the post stage. Nothing is wrong with it, but it just takes time to initialize the sata controller, etc. Do most newer motherboards have to go through this longer process since more and more...