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Thanks for the details and the benchmark results. Much appreciated.

Very interesting. I look forward to reading some more details. Thanks for posting.

Yep, with improved BIOS/driver support and refinements on hardware we could see even bigger gains from NVMe too. It's quite an exciting prospect.

It depends on the members and implementation. One of the promises of NVMe (which early consumer drives, including the Samsung SM951 and Intel 750 have delivered on, to slightly differing extents) is the reduction in overhead should improve latency and IOPS. The hardware in the SM951 AHCI and...

That looks as though they're not creating a bootable RAID volume though, which is what I was trying to do. I didn't actually try creating a non-bootable RAID (i.e. installing Windows on a different SSD and using the M.2 RAID 0 volume as additional storage), so I don't know if that would have...

Interesting. Thanks for the link - at least this should give us hope for the future...

In my original plan for the build I was going to use a single 256GB drive (at the time I wasn't sure if I'd be using the AHCI or NVMe version), but I ended up going for the two 128GB drives for 2 reasons: availability was better for the 128GB drives at the time and I was enticed by the potential...

Sorry for the late reply. First off, I did manage to boot into the RAID 0 volume (unfortunately I didn't copy down the successful BIOS settings I tried though, I was basically just trying every single combination in CSM and Boot settings menus), but I had constant problems with system stability...

I'm trying to get a bootable PCIe RAID 0 working on an ASUS Z170-A, but I'm stuck. The RAID volume appears in the Intel RST section of the BIOS as bootable, but the volume doesn't appear in the Boot Menu of the BIOS. I have managed to install Windows 8.1 on the RAID volume (by installing from a...

I hadn't even considered that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Hi, all. I was just checking my router's firewall log and I noticed a couple of entries which appear somewhat suspicious, amongst all the 'normal' background radiation of (mainly) Russian and Chinese IPs: The source IP for these 'attacks' is/was unused on my internal network. My router is a...

Possibly, but I don't want to buy any additional hardware. Hmm, I took a look for that RAM and found it here. At the time of posting they have 6 in stock, but it's crazily expensive (£151.98 for the 2 * 4GB kit). That site did give me some more kits to look at though, including this...

Preface: In the thread title I've specified a floppy connector as being required. This is due to the fact that I want to install XP Pro x64 on a SATA boot drive. The only ways (AFAIK) to install without a floppy connector on the board are a USB floppy drive or slipstreaming the SATA drivers into...

Fantastic! Thanks, this works perfectly :D

I'm trying to use a Corsair CX400W in an application where it's not going to be connected to a motherboard. This means I won't be using the push on/off button on the front of the case to turn on the PSU, I just want to use the 0/1 switch on the back of the PSU. After doing a bit of searching it...

Yeah, I didn't actually buy the card you linked to but I've taken your advice on board.

Ok, thanks for the advice :)

Hmm, I was looking at this card and it's got 1GB of DDR2 128 bit RAM. Problem is I can't find any benchmarks which compare this card to the 512MB version (in either DDR2 or DDR3). Does anyone know what the order of performance would be in normal desktop usage, high definition video playback and...

I'm going to be RMA'ing my current graphics card (ATi HD3870x2) because there's a problem with the fan. I don't know exactly how long it will take to get the card back or for it to be replaced if they decide not to repair it. It could be anything from 3 days to 4 weeks. So, I'm looking at...

After doing the above the problem hasn't re-occured yet, so it looks as though that fixed it. Still no closer to understanding why it happened after months of perfect operation though.

Thanks for the reply. As the article suggested I looked for the "Computer Broswer" service in Administrative Tools -> Services. Both PC1 and PC2 had this service started, so I have disabled it on PC2 and will see if it stops the problems from arising.

Hi, everybody. I'm having an issue here and really struggling trying to diagnose and solve it. I'd appreciate any help you could give me. Background on the situation: There are 3 PCs in my home network. PC1 - My gaming and general usage machine. OS: Vista Home Premium 32 bit, NIC: Intel Pro...

You need to check the boot device order in the BIOS. A typical boot order would be floppy drive first, DVD drive second and then the boot hard drive third. This means that the PC will look for bootable media first in the floppy drive, then in the DVD drive and if none is found in either of those...

He wants it for gaming and virtualisation, so it's got to be fast and stable. In my experience XP Pro is more stable than Vista Home Premium and I've had numerous issues with Vista I just didn't have with XP (including the infamous KSOD and throttling of network transfers).

Glad to help :) Ok, good point. It's up to you if you want to go for a smaller drive for the OS/Games/Apps but you'll generally find that drives < 500 GB are now worse value for money than ones of 640 GB - 1 TB (and that's not even counting the 'special' drives like Raptors and...

Vista has been proven (to be sh*t) and 7 is still a beta. XP Pro x64 is based on Server 2k3 so it's the most stable option of the 3.

XP Pro x64. Until Windows 7 comes out and is proven.

Your choices are good and your plan is solid, but I would do things differently. Just now you effectively have about 300GB of data you need to keep (on the Seagate 320 GB drive). You're planning to invest in a total of about 1.5 TB at the moment. This will obviously give you a lot of...

Can you take a screenshot of the exact error or write down exactly what it says? Does the same problem occur when copying a single file over or does it only occur when you try to copy the whole folder over?

Contact a hardware supplier like Dell, Sun, HP etc. They will talk you through a process of requirements specification. This basically means they ask you questions about what you'd like to do, what your needs and wants are then they will advise you as to the possibilities they can supply for...

I have a problem with my Antec P182 (not a small case by any means!) and my Radeon HD3870x2 (such a large card it makes the original XBOX designers look like geniuses). The card covers 4 of the 6 SATA ports on my motherboard (ASUS P5K-E). I've managed to use 2 of the 4 that are covered by using...

Honestly I couldn't say for certain one way or the other. Nexus are obviously a well known brand, so it should be a good quality unit, but I don't know enough about PSUs to say for sure. You should create a new thread in the power supplies sub forum detailing the situation. You'll hopefully get...

There is no such thing as a backup RAID You could use RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10 etc to provide data redundancy but this is NOT a proper backup solution. You have made numerous topics in the recent past asking what are essentially very fundamental questions. If you're being entrusted with...

Best readily available consumer CPU for rendering: i7 965 Best bang for buck: Q6600 or i7 920 I expect this will be quite hotly debated though... edit: If you get a system based on one of the i7 Nehalem CPUs you should be able to drop in the octo-core Nehalems when they are released (I'm...

Verification completed OK with no errors. Since this is just a new setup I deleted the RAID5 to create some different configurations to see what kind of speeds I could get. RAID0, 8 drives, 160 GB total (20 GB per drive): RAID0, 4 drives (2 on each channel), maximum capacity (2.72 TB)...

A thread like this does not require logic.

I installed the WebGUI management for the card and I can now see that the block size for the array is 64k and the sector size is 512 bytes. When I was creating the partition on the drive (using Disk Management in Administrative Tools) presumably I should have matched the "Allocation Unit Size"...

The onboard RAID controller on your mobo (Intel ICH9R) is actually pretty good and should give you close to the sort of performance as you'd get from a dedicated RAID card (plus it means you won't be tying up a PCIe slot). Can you explain more about the stability problems you're experiencing and...

Useless reply. I've literally just bought this RR card. Reviews I read about it were showing far superior performance to what I'm getting just now.

I got the 2314 in yesterday afternoon. I needed to update the drivers and BIOS to the latest from their website in order to use all 8 of the drives (i.e. there wasn't port multiplier support out of the box for my enclosure). Once I'd done that I created a single RAID5 volume using all of the...