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  • #1

    Upgrading hdd

    I'm upgrading from the 74gb wd raptor to the wd Velicoraptor 300gb

    I never thought the 150gb raptor was worth the upgrade, but this is

    Hopefully my next boot drive will be an SSD but at the price they are at now it'll take year or 2 before they are down to humane prices
    Last edited by Technoid; 5 July 2008, 13:48.
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
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  • #2
    about twice as fast and about the same in noise, except a whine in the 19-20kHz range, a verry verry annoying whine that I can't stand

    I've got enough irritation from my own tinitus to listen to that all day

    So sadly its going back to the shop....
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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    • #3
      Well, a bit of research on dampening that annoying whine (the normal crunch crunch sound doesn't bother me at all ) I happened uppon the SPCR forum where they have discovered that the ICEpack causes most of that whine.

      Great

      Ill get rid of the ICE pack and hopefully the whine will be lessened until I can't hear it
      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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      • #4
        Just make sure you put a fan blowing on that HDD. That's not a lot of surface area to disipate heat.
        “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
        –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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        • #5
          Pic of one of the drive bays for my coolermaster stacker case
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          If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

          Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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          • #6
            So, how do you plan mounting it? Are there generic 2.5"->3.5" adapters?

            You could also get server barebones with 2.5 boats and SAS/SATA bacpkplane, but that in itself would be too noisy and you'd have no room for big 3.5" storage drives. Also, can you post a HDTach screenshot?

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            • #7
              I'll post a screen shot tommorow, i'll hook it up to my work computer (no I'm using the 74gb raptor again )

              I'll probably suspent it in the drive cage with rubbercord (hardware store sells some that I know from usage can take years of abuse without breaking)
              If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

              Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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              • #8
                I was going to suggest that actually. I've always wanted to try suspending the HDD, I hear it works amazingly well to isolate the HDD from the case and seriously dampen vibration noise. Let me know how it works.
                “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                • #9
                  I've done the suspension thing before and it does work wonders, unfortunatley I've seen alot of the "proffesional" suspension rigs fail with rubberbands that breaks
                  If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                  Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                  • #10
                    The hdtach screenshot as requested:
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                    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                    • #11
                      This is what you need next Technoid:

                      Just a moment...
                      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817998037


                      ...and three more Velociraptors to fill it
                      “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                      –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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