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  1. Georgeisdead

    Intel SSD Reliability

    This is a note to address several articles I have come across lately that state intel's reputation for quality and reliability in the SSD market as if it is a given. These comments are from my personal experience with intel's drives. I have owned 3 intel solid state drives, one X25-M G1, and...
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    Intel X25-M G1 Drive Will Not Boot Anymore

    I have an intel X25-M G1 with the 8820 firmware that my wife used in her laptop. She has windows vista home basic 32 bit installed and one morning she was surfing the internet and she started to experience intermittent "hangs" in the OS. After a while, the computer flashed a black screen up that...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme E6400

    I recently purchased a thermalright ultra 120 extreme in the hopes of achieving lower temperatures on my overclocked E6400. Before I started, I took some baseline readings with the heatsink that came with my alienware. It looks like a Masscool 8WA741 cooler. At a 400FSB and a multiplier of 6, I...
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    tRD and EVGA 680i

    I have an EVGA 680i sli motherboard with the P29 bios revision. Does EVGA call tRD something else like tRTW? I cannot find a tRD setting within my bios. The only reference I have heard of with this setting on a nvidia platform is the Asus 780i. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    Changing from RAID-1 to RAID-5 on the fly

    We are currently running a server with 2 36GB SCSI drives in a RAID-1 array. We want to add a third drive to make RAID-5 possible. Our drives are all hot-swappable so adding the hard drive is not a problem. The problem comes from changing the array to a RAID-5. Is it possible to change from a...
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    Slaves to our age

    My friend and I recently went on vacation. We decided to just get in the car and drive until we hit a good beach. Then when we had enough of that place, we would move on and check out some other place and continue the cycle until funds ran short. Anyway, we ended up in Daytona beach as our first...