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By speed do you mean by their RPM or their cache etc..? Cuz they are both 7200RPM, it's just the caviar black have 32MB cache and 2processors which makes it faster...(Read around 115MB/sec, right now my drive read is around 77.8MB/sec). so you are saying the extra cache and processor won't be used..? or did you mean by the RPM of the drive..? Read and write speed will be at the lowest speed, so yes, there's going to be some processing power that's not used. That's why it's ideal to have similar hard drives, but not necessary. Hmm...but i thought JBOD is referring to when you combine multiple drives into one large logical volume...? But i'm not planning on doing that whatsoever...They will be running as completely independent drives(Each HD is divided into multiple partitions, like how i'm using my 2 HDs atm).. So I don't think the drive speed will be effected if they are running independently...? Since they are not RAM sticks.. I'm i wrong or did you read my question wrong..? Just want to make sure. Cuz it's not making a lot sense to me atm.. Thank you for clearing thing up for me Oh, I think I've read your question wrong then. I thought you were making a single logical drive out of them. Yeah, if you're using multiple partitions then files contained within the new drive will load faster than files within the old drive, so performance will vary on the program/file you're running. Ok, I got it. thank you for the help

same thing here, my laptop raised by about 10C by going to 64 bit windows 7 from XP 32bit as well. I guess 64 bit Os just use more CPU power compared to 32? lol

By speed do you mean by their RPM or their cache etc..? Cuz they are both 7200RPM, it's just the caviar black have 32MB cache and 2processors which makes it faster...(Read around 115MB/sec, right now my drive read is around 77.8MB/sec). so you are saying the extra cache and processor won't be used..? or did you mean by the RPM of the drive..? Read and write speed will be at the lowest speed, so yes, there's going to be some processing power that's not used. That's why it's ideal to have similar hard drives, but not necessary. Hmm...but i thought JBOD is referring to when you combine multiple drives into one large logical volume...? But i'm not planning on doing that whatsoever...They will be running as completely independent drives(Each HD is divided into multiple partitions, like how i'm using my 2 HDs atm).. So I don't think the drive speed will be effected if they are running independently...? Since they are not RAM sticks.. I'm i wrong or did you read my question wrong..? Just want to make sure. Cuz it's not making a lot sense to me atm.. Thank you for clearing thing up for me Yea i'll be dividing it into multiple partitions for sure. The computer itself is a prebuild, however i have upgraded the PSU and graphics card for it already, so i don't think the PSU is going to be an issue. I'll try that tip when i get my hard drive.

oh cool. i'm asking this because i remembered when i plugged a western digital 400GB in to recovery data(the OS on that hard drive is messed up), my computer starts to respond real slowly etc..and the drive won't show up. But maybe that's just the drive's problem. If it is not the primary drive you are installing, I believe that you have to initialize and format the drive before it becomes usable. Though, I am not sure if you did this or not. Did you want to correct the problem you just mentioned, with the drive not being recognized? Oh, i will put the new drive as the primary drive this time for sure. When i was doing that i did not. ok, now i know what's wrong. By speed do you mean by their RPM or their cache etc..? Cuz they are both 7200RPM, it's just the caviar black have 32MB cache and 2processors which makes it faster...(Read around 115MB/sec, right now my drive read is around 77.8MB/sec). so you are saying the extra cache and processor won't be used..? or did you mean by the RPM of the drive..?

oh cool. i'm asking this because i remembered when i plugged a western digital 400GB in to recovery data(the OS on that hard drive is messed up), my computer starts to respond real slowly etc..and the drive won't show up. But maybe that's just the drive's problem.

Hi there, my hard drive is really running out of space, i currently have 2 360GB seagate hard drive, with only 8MB cache each, and cannot be put into a RAID 0.. <_< so althrough it's 7200RPM, it's really slow when loading stuff But my space is running out too, 720GB is just simply not enough to hold all my stuff. I'm thinking of adding another 1TB to it. So i looked and decided on a Western Digital 1TB. Which is the Western Digital Caviar Black. I heard it's fast and reliable. However my question is, can i put a western digital hard drive in with seagate ones without causing any problems? I cannot remove the original 720GB because then the storage would still not be enough.. Normally people just go for one brand only, but i heard seagate's 1TB hard drive got a lot of bad reviews...with crashes and firmware issues etc, and is not as fast and the Caviar Black... So..any ideas? Thanks!

let's see...i shut it off every night, turn it on when i wake up and leave it on for the day. So it's on for about 16-17 hours a day, and around 7-8 hours off. and my laptop, um...it's almost always in stand by, flip the cover when i use it, close when i'm not, and at night i put it in hibernate(Since i have to turn off my UPS, or the light on it will kill me). My laptop did not shut down or reboot for a long time now...

i don't really think so.... i guess prevent downloading stuff when you are playing is the only way.... since this is not a computer problem anyway...it's a connection problem. And connection cannot be improved unless you upgrade it.. or buy an expensive router with speedboost, like D link 655 one is a good one, boost up my cable speed by a lot, also cost $100. But i don't think it's gonna help that much in your case since your connection is amazingly slow...

I got this issue recently when i upgraded my Nvidia driver to the newest 190.38. For some reason, it just cannot remember my settings! It's weird, but it's true. After installing the driver, i realized that my core temp and QQ TM are not starting up with windows, so i checked in msconfig, and they just disappeared in the msconfig list! and i realized that their "Start up with windows" setting is also disabled. I was like ok, so i enabled them again, and made sure that they are in the msconfig setting as well, and restarted once again. But it's the same problem! They won't start up with windows, so i went into msconfig again, and apparently THEY ARE GONE AGAIN!!! And this is happening to every single software im adding after that driver installation... none of them would start up on boot....and their entry would not appear in msconfig at all....but i did install Core temp and QQ TM before the driver tho so...idk what the problem is... does anyone know how to fix this msconfig forgetting stuff issue? i mean this is really annoying.... EDIT: i even tried put msconfig at normal start up, where it load everything, but they still won't load up, as for some reason they just keep disappearing in the msconfig list...

oh...DAMN! so that explains why i don't get any internet on my computer... (btw i managed to get power button working, even tho the power light is not, but no big deal... but how do i remove it and reconnect it? where is it connected to? I found the wire that is going to the light, but what are those 2 black wires? are they the antenna? They go all the way to the top of the case which cannot be opened....>______<...how can i possibly remove it...

o.O really? i thought the wireless card is supposed to be in a PCI slot....how do i transfer this thing to the antec 300 tho...? and i have looked REAL closely..and i found where to plug them..however i cannot find the manual on it whatsoever, and there is no label on where i should plug each one....

Hi, i'm currenty in the middle of switching my M9150f computer's case to the Antec 300 i just got, since i'm upgrading the graphic card to a 9800GTX and the HP case is just not big enough.....(Delaying the plan for a brand new computer) anyways, as i was unplugging everything, i noticed that on the motherboard there is no place to plug in the power and reset button, and also no place for the HD and power light. Then i found a wire that's running all the way to the back of the case, and looks like it's connected to where the power button is located, but the question is... how do i move this to my new case?? and there's no plug for te power button, only 2 wires...I have taken some pics below...sorry about the pic being a bit blurry this is how that thing looks like...the white plugs seems to be the lights, while the black one seems to be the power button this is the kind of lock it got, which i can't find a place to put it on the Antec 300.... and this is where it used to be... i'll be waitng for reply online, since i already took my computer apart... and i might be totally wrong about the power... if im wrong, can you guys tell me where it is? cuz i've been looking for it, and i just can't find it...... Thank you for helping

well i just noticed a bug where firefox use up to 60% of my CPU, and it's from a tab i just opened, the page is very laggy too, theres no animation or anything, just ads and words.... So i closed the tab and opened it again, and everything is normal...never experienced that before...

there was a firefox 3.5?! :shock: I didn't hear anything about it until today..... so basically for all of this time they are running beta tests etc on 3.5 while i didn't know anything about it? o.O Anyway...going to upgrade now ---upgraded...o wow...imageshack toolbar doesn't work...and i seriously think the old icon is better....Plus i think that open a new tab thing is useless, since i usually just click homepage when i want to open a new tab lol...But i do get a feeling that its slightly faster, so yah! lol :thumbsup:

Well....for some reason, when i turn on my computer today, my XP drive is down to 28.2GB today! UGH! :evil: I did not install or download anything yesterday at all...i run disk cleanup, but it only came up with 328KB of files.... to ultimania92, i do use fraps, however i delete all the things i recorded after i upload my videos. Plus, it's recording to a different drive anyways. I used moleskinsoft directory size, and i end up with 76884.34MB, which i think is 76.8GB of space used(still surprising..cuz i REALLY didn't install anything...) So i used 76.8GB of space out of my 120GB drive, and i'm supposed to have 28.2GB of free space left?? They don't add up to 120 in anyways..(Windows show up as 117, but those numbers still don't add up....) i'm still missing 43.2GB here....it does not looks like someone hacked into my computer and used my computer as storage, cuz then it should show up in the software as a giant file(or should it..?) plus i got all clean from all of my AV and AS softwares. I just shrink the space allowed for system restore points from max to min...(from 14GB to 1GB), and i got 7GB of my space back(DAMN! why do they take up so much space??) So now i'm missing 36.2GB... where could that be? I searched all over google, and system restore points is like the last place i can get from google...so idk....where else can i go to find my space back? xD