Recent content by skubany

I have the MB now and my old Areca works in the first slot so I assume the 1883ix will as well.

I plan to buy Asus Maximus VII Hero and place ARC-1883ix-12 into the first red (PCI-E 3.0 16x) slot. Will this work without issues? I expect it to, after all PCI-E should be a general bus that accepts anything with that interface. I have M2N32-SLI with an ARC-1231D-ML running perfectly...

:) Well, we ask to get points of reference. How else will we know if value X is correct or something we should be worried about. Luckily my PSU voltages and CPU temperature are all in order :) Although these are different, comparing to hard drive benchmarks, as the voltage and...

I've redone the post... lmccrary you are right, I'm just curious as to what others benched as the numbers are quite off from what OCZ markets. I do own a Vertex 1 30GB (the original working [no stutter] SSD) in my server and I'm very happy with how fast the OS loads and how fast the...

Cross-shipment means that when you report a defective in-warranty hard drive to WD, they will send you a replacement drive (refurbished, both Seagate and WD send refurbished replacements in my experience, which ain't bad) BEFORE receiving your defective drive. Temporary charge to your credit...

Well, if we go by NewEgg's comments then WDs are more reliable :) Not sure if you're planning to keep a backup of that 2TB of data, you should, but it's up to you. I can tell you why I prefer WD over Seagate. I usually bought WDs. In the past 2 years I bought more Seagate because they...

system: M2N32-SLI Dlx, WinXP SP2 64bit benchmark software: HDTune 4.50, test block size 64KB (default) firmware: OCZ Vertex 2 60gb 1.24 diskpart.exe: clean, align=64kb, active I've done read tests first, followed by write tests and at the end I've done an actual file transfer test finishing...