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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    @Pooky: interference can come from the motherboard's own PCB layout as well. They don't always put a lot of thought into audio shielding. That said, it doesn't sound like this is your issue. And yes, most audio sources are pretty shit to begin with.

    @Bod: Crucial M4 or Samsung 830 for the SSD. Samsung Spinpoint F3 for the HDD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bodzilla View Post
    And i'm not sure what a good HDD is anymore. But i'm not getting another WD.
    Western Digital supremacy. I've had fucking three Seagate drives fail on me in in the past 12 months alone. Two FreeAgent goflex 2.5 drives and one regular 1TB Barracuda drive that I bought two months ago. Fuck. That. Shit. And generally I've had good experience with Seagate, but they just don't make them the way they used to. Never had a WD drive fail on me. Never. And I own a lot of them from years past. The oldest one I have is a 20GB IDE drive from 2001. I bought many more over the years. All are still working. in machines that I have running right now.
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    I've had a WD Green drive that's bad, still have it. It's not unusable, just don't do anything that requires access to it for more than a few seconds. That said, I had failed to do my research because everybody knew the Green drives were terrible at the time. I just saw WD, lots of GB, and a low price and thought it was a bargain. Oops.

    That said, I still generally choose WD over everybody else. The Samsung Spinpoints, however, are looking attractive for their price, and they have good performance for a platter drive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bodzilla View Post
    Hey bro's, after the 3rd HDD failure in 3 years (2 of them in a raid set up >_>. >________________> ohgfoahogihaspihlihgoasihsgoihsa (i think i've lost everything)) I'm looking at a good SDD with a standard HDD for the bulk of my system.

    from what i've heard, this is a very good one, at a good price and a really good warranty.
    OCZ 256G Vertex 4 Series SSD
    Internet Price: $217.00
    http://umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=5

    And i'm not sure what a good HDD is anymore. But i'm not getting another WD.
    OCZ's are good for speed but bad for reliability. They've stepped up their reliability somewhat in the past year but Crucial M4 or Intel SSD's are still king of reliability.

    Get a WD Black or Red drive for long term storage reliability with decent performance. And with your track record, you should get 4+ and setup a RAID-6 so if any two drives fail your data is still secure. lol.
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    Running 2 WD Green and 1 Black..never had any issues. Theres my fanboyism.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    i had 2 WD black 2tb drives, in mirror, both died within 6 months of each other.

    and i had another 1 die a year before that. I've lost 3 in in a year and a half. I'm not getting another WD
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Quote Originally Posted by me
    Crucial M4 or Samsung 830 for the SSD. Samsung Spinpoint F3 for the HDD.
    The Samsung 830 and Crucial M4 are basically equal in terms of reliability and speed, and they yo-yo each other on price. I hope to grab a 256 GB version of one or the other, and my 128GB M4 has been awesome.

    The Spinpoints are known for being quiet and reliable with comparable performance to WD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bodzilla View Post
    i had 2 WD black 2tb drives, in mirror, both died within 6 months of each other.

    and i had another 1 die a year before that. I've lost 3 in in a year and a half. I'm not getting another WD
    Crucial M4 and Samsung Spinpoint. Your dreams are complete.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    windows isn't recognizing my second HDD.

    i used to have a raid setup, but i've since then replaced it with a SSD with my OS and a HDD for data. I put all the factory defaults for my bios back to normal, and when i was installing i could see both Hard drives, but i can only see the partition i created for windows when i'm IN windows.

    i can see it in bios though.

    anyone else had this? send halp.
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    So you partitioned a drive and can only see part of it correct?

    Are you sure the second partition is actually in a Windows usable format?

    Did you go into the Windows Disk Management and assign a drive letter for the other partition?


    I'd just like to highly recommend the following Mini-ITX case if anyone ever wants to built a portable system:
    http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/pr...assis/prodigy/
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