easy, steal a flash bulb from a disposable, solder it in :D
should be able to get a used disposable for free if you ask nicely. say it's for a project.
and make sure it's the bulb that's blown. the bulb is just a tube filled with xenon. there's no filament like an incandescent.
fc is like an ethernet network but of hard drives. for example, you can have a fc switch and hook up lots of drives onto the switch, then ano computer with a fc card can connect to the network and use any drive
look up iscsi, it's allows block level access to a device over an ethernet network...
use flux when you solder, it helps the solder flow
that's definitely an electrolytic cap
not only electrolytics are polarized, tantalums are polarized too
120gxps and later drives are just as reliable as any other brand, in fact look at the reliability rating for the 180 gxp on sr, it rates higher than >90% of all other models. i'd trust my data to a hitachi as much as a wd or seagate
hard drive capacity has been increasing at a rate of about...
a cpu that's just been manufactured and the speed that it can run at has yet to be determined. the reason I'm wondering is if it's possible to duplicate the rating process then we can oc a processor, test it again, and know that the processor will be 100% stable for any purpose
does anyone know how amd or intel determines what speed an unrated cpu can run at? is it just running stress tests, or do they have special hardware to plug the cpus into to test them.
notice that there is a small chip right on the flexible circuit near the bearing for the rw arm. it's partially hidden behind the flexible cable.... I guess this might be a signal processor, moved as close to the heads as possible
I also took apart the fdb motor but didn't get any pics. imagine...
they would never take apart the hda, too much contamination. any fixing will not involve disassembling the drive. you'll get another drive that was returned but the manufacturer tested and found no problems (or just formatted the bad sectors away)
I did some more searching. the wd5000aaks does not use pmr, although the wd1600aajs (laptop drive) does, which is probably where the confusion started. the wd5000aaks uses 160 GB (166 for 500gb drives) platters and lmr technology...
to make a correction,
the wd5000ks does not use pmr (no wd desktop drives do), and there are two scales on the hdtach graph, one on the left in MB/s and the right one in ms
system drive
wd1200jb
raid 5 - 6 x 320gb
t7k500
7200.10
4 x 3200jb
not using
3x 2500jb
2x uber cheap sil0680 based controllers
dge-530t (gige), rtl8139
axp 1600+ (cpu is actually a 2100+ but I have to run it at 133 fsb because the stupid via chipset which should work at 166...