Shady hardware specs?

[SonsOfLiberty]

I have dual WD MyBooks (the black ones), a 500GB and 1TB both stable and run pretty quick on Win7, just using standard USB 2.0, external though, but they are great for backing up, just have a dual setup up of shitty internals, since I never store anything on them (partition them as well) and I can just plug and play with them....will be adding another TB soon, and will be getting a internal 1TB or bigger and dumping my old duals, but I will stay with WD nothing but good luck here with them.

[MadIrish]

Now if I could only get my ATI cards to not sound like a fricking jet engine...

If you ever do, please let me know how

I've been debating this - http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/pro...-xtreme-4870x2, not so much for the heat as the noise reduction. Problem is I bought a top end card to last and I really can't afford to break it after less than 18 months

[Detale]

You can adjust the fan speed in catalyst guys. The ATI in my HTPC doesn't sound bad at all. This is my card.

[Skiz]

Seems to be running fine, and quiet. Silent actually.

Transferred over 220GB of music in 40 minutes. I thought it was going to take a lot longer than that.

[Detale]

Skiz did you run any HDD tests at all? I use sisoft sandra now and like it alot.

[MadIrish]

You can adjust the fan speed in catalyst guys. The ATI in my HTPC doesn't sound bad at all. This is my card.

Is that a reference cooler?

I've tried messing with the fan speed in catalyst, and with custom profiles, and I've come to the conclusion that the reference 4870x2 just has a pathetic fan system/design . Its the one big flaw with ATI's top end cards, especially the dual gpu ones, which I notice they still haven't fixed with the new 5970 (why's that not 5870x2?) - see bottom of this review

Seems to be running fine, and quiet. Silent actually.

Transferred over 220GB of music in 40 minutes. I thought it was going to take a lot longer than that.

That does seem pretty fast.

[Skiz]

Skiz did you run any HDD tests at all? I use sisoft sandra now and like it alot.

What would I be testing it for?

[Snee]

Speed.

[Skiz]

I just had to post about this.

This thread started out as me looking for a TB drive to utilize as a backup. I have 215GB of music as well as various folders I don't want to loose (everything from college, various PSDs, etc).

I started doing backups two Monday's ago I believe. Today, when I got back into town and fired up my PC, there was a lot of clicking noise coming from computer, and now the original drive isn't showing up in My Computer.

Talk about good timing...

[Detale]

Damn man thats great. It's very rare to hear a success story about a HDD going bad. Glad it was you bro