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    Asrock Extreme4 Z87 RAID 0 recovery ? Am I fuct ???

    OK.. I might really have fuct up. My desktop started acting strange, with very slow boot ups. Even the first Bios screen had like a 40 second delay. The PC in general was acting weird, and my RST Intel program kept warning me, but nothing seemed to be wrong. Anyways, I decided to...
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    Where is the Radeon R7 265?

    I read it should be hitting the streets march 1st so I would expect to see it very soon
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    Is the 4th Gen Intel Core i3 Underrated

    Lol both running off hdd ? Da fuq? Both would be slow!
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    5TB 3.5” Enterprise HDD from Toshiba Announced

    What's the street price going to be ?
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    Western Digital Blacks .. poor quality ?

    I have RMA every WD hdd I have owned in the last 5 years. That's 15 hard drives, I'm disappointed
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    "Green" style head parking back on WD reds?

    All WD 5400rpm hdds suck IMO. They are slow and over priced and the reliability has traditionally been worse than a 7200rpm variant that's faster and cheaper and basically uses the same energy. It's not 2010 anymore.
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    Using an old storage hard drive in a new build

    SSD or die. It's doesn't really matter how. Gunshot, leap from a biulding, fire .... Etc. it's all a better choice than using HDD for OS.
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    Which HDD brands are good for bucks????

    Seagate is best bang for your buck right now.
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    WD HD fails, then replacement drive fails

    Green drives are less reliable it appears
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    Is there a hard drive burn-in utility?

    Is it worth it to "burn in". ? Why bother at all?
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    Quick way to find bad memory?

    Memetest
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    What's the most reliable 512GB SSD for ~$300?

    Lets hope cause I'd love a Sammy pro or Vector. I'm not interested at all in the Crucial garbage though.
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    What's the most reliable 512GB SSD for ~$300?

    This makes no sense and your viewpoint is biased. Fail post is a total fail. Why do people think past singular issues with OCZ on early released products rushed to market suggest every OCZ drive is the same ? Even if we all concede to you on the garbage data your suggesting about OCZ...
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    SSD for an HTPC build

    SSD is mandatory
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    Seagate Now Shipping World's First 4TB Hard Drive with 1TB Platters

    Probably but those drives will also probably fail early like most of the new WD drives. Is it me or is WD slowly losing its superior position ?
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    What's the most reliable 512GB SSD for ~$300?

    Fear is strong in this thread. OP isn't scared though...
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    Best Cheap Raid Controller

    IBM m1015 for $80. You can cross flash it too and make it a $250 card.
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    New 128gb SSD advice (M4 vs Sammy 840 vs Vertex 4)

    This* Vertex 4. Then Sammy (with lesser NAND). I'd light my reproductive organ on fire and put out that fire with a sledge hammer over using a Crucial M4. It's easily the most overrated SSD ever sold. It's not cheaper, it's not faster, and its not more reliable. Those are facts...
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    Seagate Now Shipping World's First 4TB Hard Drive with 1TB Platters

    The speed increase of 1tb platter density is offset by the lower 5900rom spindle speed. Performance of both the 4TB with 5 platters if 800gb and performance if 4 platters of 1TB is basically the same. The Seagate 7200 rpm with 3 1TB platters is still the heavyweight champion in today's market...
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    WD HD fails, then replacement drive fails

    WD lowered the warranty
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    Best way to setup 3 2TB Reds in whs11

    I would just copy the data over. There is no point bothering with raid.
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    Western Digital Green - life expectancy?

    All at the same time ? That sucks!!!
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    Do I dare? (Vertex 2)

    There's something about Anand and hating on OCZ that takes it beyond opinion and into emotionally charged religious hatred. I never understand it. The motivation for people to be so against something is not evident to me. It's just a piece of pc hardware. Lol.
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    Western Digital Green - life expectancy?

    Why not get a RED ?
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    128GB SSD: Crucial or Samsung

    Well... It's certainly two years older than Samsung and.... It's certainly slower in general. Not sure where your argument is derived from ? Probably personal preference or personal defense of your own purchase decision ??? There is little fact to be debated about what I said.
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    FlexRAID (or any other RAID for that matter) and using drives in the same batch.....

    I have 15 Seagates (3TB) and never had issue (yet) It's the best selling HDD in market now so if it had major reliability issues you'd already know about it.
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    Do I dare? (Vertex 2)

    Those drives are overrated and generally a poor value.
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    FlexRAID (or any other RAID for that matter) and using drives in the same batch.....

    I think it's pure luck. It's as reasonable to assume you got a "good" batch that would have high reliability as anything else so I'd work on that assumption and plan for the worst for safety.
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    128GB SSD: Crucial or Samsung

    M4 is an old slow pig
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    Please set the record straight. Does WD green drives have head parking ?

    Much of HDD life is luck. Green drives just appear to have generally low endurance.
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    Has anyone tried disabling head parking on WD's 2TB Green drives (EADS)

    Is this still the best practice for these drives?
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    Please set the record straight. Does WD green drives have head parking ?

    Not very much and you get a longer warranty making it better value.
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    Please set the record straight. Does WD green drives have head parking ?

    So disabling head parking actually made them stop clicking ?
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    Please set the record straight. Does WD green drives have head parking ?

    Does that mean that the WD Green drives do or do not park the head after 8 seconds causing higher number of on/off cycles in 27/7 NAS or Server operations? I've seen conflicting information and I am confused. Does or does not WD green have head parking ...
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    Wanted: ZFS NAS + Thunderbolt i/o

    If rather build a server. If you need local speed just RAID 0 two 3 TB HDDs and cache with an SSD. Storage and performance are different. anyone who needs raid hardware speed over thunderbolt it better off just installing locally.