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[67thRaptorBull]

QUOTE (OpEnUpYoUrEyE @ Jun 23 2004, 11:40 PM)

I know with todays pc cases and fans (depending on water cooling) I havent herd my hard drive ever! I I can hear is air moving unless you have a compaq that the hard drive sounds like a jack-hammer like my friends Computer. but yeah.. I'd go with the 37s and if you need more space go for a 200 or so SATA or IDE. I have been thinking about upgrading my self to the 10,000RPM, but just can bring my self to spend that kind of money on the little of space to save 10 sec or so. And speaking of money this is just my 2cents!

well, i am going the water cooling way, so i guess they will be the loudest things in there  

and the space, meh, i dont mind it, as i said, ive never really used over 15 gigs on my current computer

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

how?

i'm using 220 gb and i'm running on bare minuim....

wait...
i'm a videophile.... nevermind

[67thRaptorBull]

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jun 24 2004, 12:00 PM)

how? i'm using 220 gb and i'm running on bare minuim.... wait... i'm a videophile.... nevermind

well, i only have 3 or 4 games on my computer at the minimum (so 9 or 10 gigs, depepnding)

i have about 2 and a half gigs of halo movies, funny pictures and xbox apps

another 2 gigs in music

and like 9 gigs of apps (AIM, IE, Ares, other stuff)

plus the OS, so that leaves me with only 24 gigs taken, at the most

im not much for photoshop, or video editing, or shit like that ne ways.....

[Boba_Fett]

QUOTE (KingViper @ Jun 21 2004, 07:01 AM)

4.  Approx 8% of a drive is unavailable after a format.  So, 2 36.7gb drives would yield about 68gb after format, and an installation is roughly 2-3gb.  So i would say 65gb available.

Ick... this is a common misconception that I must clear up. When you "format" a HDD for use with windows XP (NTFS), you lose nothing (lets assume we're all using SP1 LBA 48 here). 67thRaptorBull's two 36gb WD Raptors (72gb total) would show up in windows as a 66.24gb drive in RAID-0. "But, Boba_Fett" you ask, "you just said that you don't lose anything in a format!". Listen for a second, jeeze... HD makers (and media makers... ever wonder why you can only fit 4.38gb on a 4.7gb DVD-R?) define 1000 megabytes as 1 gigabyte when in reality, more like 1024 megabytes equals 1 gigabyte. What does this mean to you? Well, when you see a 100gb drive in windows saying it's a 93gb drive, they technically arn't lying (Windows reads 1 gigabyte as 1024mb). Sneaky, eh? A easy way to see the "true" capacity of any drive is to multiply the advertised capacity by 93%, that will get you what windows sees. Bastard HDD companies... If they said 100 gibibytes (1 gibibyte equals 1000 megabytes) instead of 100 gigabytes (1 gigabyte equals 1024 megabytes) it would make sense, but this is total deception...

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

same diff

end result is the same

it's all symantics

[67thRaptorBull]

i juts need a cheap way of cooling these fuckers

i was gonna do water cooling, but it costs to much to add the hard drives in the loop with the cpu and gpu

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

i tink vantec has some active cooling heatsinks that go on top of an hdd
and zalman has som eheatpipe based passive coolers.

[67thRaptorBull]

yea, but those are expensive

i guess i could get 1 or 2 50mm fans and just mount them on the underside to pull air off of them, would that be ok, as i have 2 80mm fans right in front of the hdd rack in my case blowing cold air onto them also

[67thRaptorBull]

when im setting these two up in a RAID 0 array, the manual for my Asus A7 deluxe mobo say i need to tell the stripe size i want on each hdd, what should i set that as??
or should i leave it on default?


o and i found some cheap aluminum hdd fans, good ole ebay

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

linky? (fans)

a and fo rth raid just set it to the max (that should be auto) so that the array uses all of both drives

[67thRaptorBull]

heres the fans, $1 each, with reasonable shipping

and the highest amount for the striping value, i should set it at?
what is striping value or whatever the hell its talking about??

[67thRaptorBull]

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jun 21 2004, 05:20 PM)

i know a ghetto-tatcular way

chicken scratch, in reality, if i used some high strength commercial rubberbands and did that ghetto way, would it work at all at keeping vibrations and noise of the hdd down???

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

ys, but you would not want to move your comp like this

[67thRaptorBull]

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jun 27 2004, 08:50 PM)

ys, but you would not want to move your comp like this

yea, i figured that, as a precaution

but it would help? thats good


also, when im setting up my RAID 0 array, my motherboard (Asus A7 deluxe) askes what i want the chunk size of data on each drive to be.....what should i set it at (it says chunk size is equivalant to the stripe size of data, and the incriments are  8, 16, 32, 64, and 128)??

thanks

[67thRaptorBull]

QUOTE (67thRaptorBull @ Jun 27 2004, 09:25 PM)

yea, i figured that, as a precaution but it would help? thats good also, when im setting up my RAID 0 array, my motherboard (Asus A7 deluxe) askes what i want the chunk size of data on each drive to be.....what should i set it at (it says chunk size is equivalant to the stripe size of data, and the incriments are  8, 16, 32, 64, and 128)?? thanks

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