Recent content by wildwestgoh

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    How worse are WD Greens and do I need to worry about the parking problem?

    The seller probably does not know or just lie to make you buy them. Anyway, Green (Eco) drive is not meant for OS/boot drive, the idle park issue is one of the main attributes of power saving, your OS will feel slower (5,400rpm) and may sometimes even feel sluggish and "hang" for couple of...
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    Probox 8-bay & eSATA card

    Wow nice cheap Rackable, but not available locally and may not ship here as well, shame. So, I'll just go for the SIL3132 then, with non-RAID, I think I will not hit the 3Gbps ceiling anytime soon, max speed for each hard disk is not even reaches 100MB/s (Eco green drives). Thank you all for...
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    Probox 8-bay & eSATA card

    So you meant to say buy the 2 cards and let you know the result? USD60 including shipping... *opps* let me think about it...
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    Probox 8-bay & eSATA card

    Just got reply from Hotway (another company?) for the same unit H82-SU3S2. And according to him, it can connect to both the SIL3132 eSATA port without issue, I guess the Probox's JMB321 already does the Port Multiplier? Kinda understand a bit now. Next question would be if I want to make full...
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    Probox 8-bay & eSATA card

    Hi all, I am planning on extend my little home server's storage and found this review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6128/mediasonic-probox-8bay-35-usb-30-esata-das-review The solution is cheap extends of my needs and I searched high and low for a compatible eSATA card. Asked the...