Recent content by Pinecone-sw

I have an Antec 300 and just put in Corsair H80 water cooler. LOVE IT.

For me, I just switched to Win 7. :) But still maintain some WinXP boxes.

I prefer partitioning. As has been said, I can reinstall the OS without issues. I can backup my data more easily. And if you are worried about the moving target of partition size, there are several utilities that will resize your partitions without loss of data. I use EASEUS Partition...

Actually 5 1/4" But how about 8" floppies before that? :D

800 or 1600 bpi? :D

Personally, I would use SSD for boot, OS and programs. HD for data.

As long as the dust is not conductive, not a problem.

A question, what happens if you go the Registry Edit (or run the MS utility) and then NOT run AHCI? I assume that the driver will be enabled, but just not used?

Or for those of us who have been around a LONG time, $5000 for 5MB. Yes, that is right, FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for 5 MEGA bytes. But not as good as the $59.95 each for 1 TB drives I paid a couple of years ago.

I leave my computers on 24/7. I used to turn them off for extended time away from home, but every failure I have had (excepting fans) have been a power on. Not that there have been many. And I have been doing this for some 25 years of having computers in my home. Mainly monitors (CRT type)...

BTW modern fighter aircraft can generate 9G. A lot has to do with the direction of the G force. If you are lying down, it is easy. Standing up, not so easy. That is why the seat in the F-16 is tilted back 30 degrees. Also, a pressure of 3 atmospheres is nothing. Like diving to 66 feet. No...

Are you planning on partitioning the bigger SSD? If so, just copy the HDD to the partition on the SSD. If not, you may have to reinstall some programs (typically no loss of settings) or at least change pointers. Some drive utilities have the ability to "move" programs and pointers.

An update, while rebooting, I noticed when the POST does the drive listing and RAID information, there is a line that says AHCI BIOS Not Installed.

It was mounted correctly.

In Device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, I have: ATA Channel 0 ATA Channel 1 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller Under Storage Controllers: Intel(R) Desktop/WOrkstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller. No mention of AHCI. Manual says only that RAID...