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Corsair oven's HDD cage will be an oven for 6 hard drives. Get old-fashioned cabinets like Antec 300 for air to flow from 2 front 120mm fans on to the hard drives properly without any blockage. You can seal the side vent in such cases as you don't have hot CPU or graphics card to cool. Sealing...

Is it a typo and it is actually "uncompressible" ? Or you really had that unlikely observation?

USB 3.0 support is needed in cabinets so that you don't have to reach to the back of cabinet to use it. No other reason.

Marvell controllers are notorious for poor performance. Be sure to try the AMD controller, if only temporarily. And the specs for P8Z77-V PRO say only 2 from Intel controller and 2 from ASMedia controller are 6 Gbps. Rest 4 ports are 3 Gbps from the Intel controller. Are these specs also wrong...

There is a marvell controller and the native AMD controller on your motherboard. Have you tried both?

You were. From your statement about "alcohol based" , you disagreed about my statement about these liquids having water. Which means claiming they are anhydrous. Yes, and drills can be used as hammers. It is neither good for the drill nor good as a hammer. As I said, at the wrong place on...

Alcohol based does not mean anhydrous. COMPLETELY different concepts. And Old Monk rum, the 48% alcohol rum? What do you think the other 52% is made of ? Oil? One doesn't need to "water down" rum. Rum making process already adds water. Gillette is reliable after shave so use it as electronics...

dangerous. Many cleaners contain water. After shaves do not even mention ingredients on the bottle. Electrolytes in dust mixed with water can become conducting and at the wrong place cause damage to the hardware. If using such liquids, thorough cleaning of the motherboard before and after the...

The i5 laptop hanging could be because 1. Less RAM - how much memory are your virtual machines and applications taking? For 8 GB RAM, that should be less than 7 GB total. 2. Overheating, as you say. 3. Issue with operating system or drivers. 4. Low processing power of i5 is a very...

See Antec 300 for a nice traditional layout. You'll need to buy 2 fans for front, though.

Expecting 10 times the speed is unrealistic. This is a low power hard disk because it does not need external power. 70 MB/s i.e. 3.5 times USB 2.0 is the Max you can expect, typically from such drives in a sustained manner. USB uses CPU. Keep your CPU idle for proper testing.

If CPU is not the culprit, no need to mess with CPU cooler. To determine the culprit, run a CPU benchmark from BenchmarkHQ . If system doesn't behave abnormally, CPU is blameless and power supply is also not so bad that it cannot even cope with a CPU under load. Remaining possibilities are...

One of the major reasons is that first time buyers are too scared of assembling issues. Since the dealer assures a hassle free assembly, they feel they are dependent on the dealer. This is why many don't do comparison shopping for each component and get all from the dealer who assembles. Such...

300$ is expensive. Would a guy spending 300$ just for cooling hesitate in either : 1. Going prebuilt , somewhat less effective cooling systems from , say Corsair, or Cooler Master. Saved money can be spent in better performing PC, or an early upgrade. 2. Upping to 400$. ? If you open a new...

This option anyway doesn't make sense for the drive holding the boot image, so I don't see why you would have trouble booting. And the world has moved on to live CDs for recovery. Same effect as of idle power savings advertized by the new fangled "Green" drives, multiple times whenever the...

Nice, Intel's SATA controllers should be better than Gigabyte's. And yes, so far there is no advantage of SATA 6gbps over 3. For building a throw-away server, Atom is nice today. Intel's profit increases as people want to buy new servers once cheap hard-disk start getting bottlenecked by SATA...

Hard disk is in standby, that's what happens, which is what I've been saying.

Obviously. Not if you call "hdparm -s" on it using Linux. Atom? You remember which one? My friend's was a single core one, combo with motherboard, bought around 2.5 years ago, not sure of the model. Anyway, for NAS kind of box, there is no competition between 6 SATA 6gbps ports and 2 + 2...

1. Power supply : It is not necessary to spin up all the hard disks immediately on boot. Not sure how to do that in windows, but using linux, I have successfully set up a server which spins up drives only when accessed. Useful to limit the total power consumption in multi-disk scenarios on boot...

Yes, but this recent trend of rotating the HDD cage is intentional crippling of the cabinet. Many people will not notice that and buy the cabinet. Almost 420. Most cabinet manufacturers seem to think of it as a feature rather than a design problem, because relatively higher end cabinets have...