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Hello peeps, Been a while so I'm out of touch somewhat. I've been looking around SSD's lately as I'm wanting to upgrade (still using Raptors :eek: well they've done me very well for very long ;) ) but am aware of issues with some Sandforce based SSD's. Can someone clarify whether this is...

Question (coming from one a little out of touch and trying to brush up on what's current again), wouldn't this HD6850 be slightly better value (given it includes CODMW2 despite being a tenner more)? I realise the 5850 is arguably ever so slightly faster than the 6850 (but by how much) and does...

Hello all, And a merry Christmas to all in anticipation! ;) I've been a bit out of touch with the forums for a while now, been contentedly using my last budget build for the last oh, 2.5 or whatever years, nicely overclocked Core2 rig. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end...

You'd think that OCZ would know better than to use non-standard SMART bits... I mean... why!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! All it does is cause confusion to users and work for their staff!!!

You might try TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (If you only really deleted the parition table this will likely recover it.)

You guys with Dell Mini's and the appetite for installing stuff on it, should try out "moblin"... it boots from grub prompt to X loaded (though not yet a full desktop) in about a second. Jaw dropping. See here: http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-netbook-intro

You might try booting with a Linux LiveCD, Linux will recognize many different BIOS RAID signatures and may be able to mount the RAID set regardless of the chipset in use. (No guarantees though.) It would need a bit of pratting about to see if this will work for you (but suffice it to say that...

+1 for the last poster... :)

fdisk from what OS? (fdisk from DOS is not the same animal as fdisk from Windows Vista for example.)

+1 Specifically there seems to be a problem with the JMicron controller in use in many MLC SSD's today (but not in Intel's, they made their own.)

Yeah apparently all MLC drives using the JMicron controller suffers from this stutttering problem. The exception apparently is the superb Intel X25-M which does not use the JMicron controller (obviously) and doesn't exhibit the stuttering problems. It's all here in Anandtech's review of the...

Or better yet, use Testdisk.

Yes. Although the higher the seek time, the higher the access time, so the two are correlated. Neverhteless and as pointed out above, the seek time is only one part of the access time -- there's *also* rotational delay which forms a substantal part of the access time on a conventional hard...

A disk image (or clone onto another disk) is a binary bit-for-bit duplicate of the entire original disk without regard to filesystem or anything else, and so contains everything the original does (of course subject to the imaging software being capable of duplicating the original taking into...

Immediately stop using anything that writes to the disk as that is a recipe for further data corruption loss on a disk with both deleted files and physical problems. I would proceed as follows: 1) Make an image of the existing disk onto another healthy disk (or an image file), then 2) try...

Funny you should say that, I've also had this nagging feeling that the image quality was slightly better as well on the ATI's I've had , although admittedly there's very little in it in reality... given that you can't point at anything specific generally.... (some time ago switched from 3850 to...

The problem with hard drives is more that the pace of technology will make them obsolete well before 60 years. Consider that hard disks from 20 years ago (e.g. 20MB MFM PC/XT hard disks) is unusable in todays pc's. So, what will probably happen is that every couple of years you'll migrate your...

There are several Gigabyte P35 boards, which model exactly do you have? Anyhow, most motherboards have a speaker output. Connect the little PC speaker (which most cases have) to the pin out on your motherboard. Fortunately it doesnt matter which way round you connect this, and it's usually...

Your rendering software must then make use of the GPU somehow... Anyway, to answer your question: The F1 is as quick/slightly quicker as the Raptor for linear sustained transfers, however the Raptor still has the seek time/random access time advantage. If your usage pattern is going to...

This works in the case of a drive with a few bad blocks, by effectively forcing the drive to remap those to working spares. It does not however mean the drive is neccesarily in reality "perfect" afterwards, since you then still have bad blocks on the disk, albeit invisible to the operating...