I don't want my thread to die, I was enjoying this one.

Another IDE question. After connecting to the board, does it matter which plug the slave and master attach to on the cable or does it just matter that their not both set to the same one? Is the master supposed to be the furthest one? Also, anybody use SATA yet? I'm assuming there's no jumpers or any way to screw plugging it in, but I just wanted to check.

 

80-wire IDE cables have specific master and slave plugs. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure what it's dependant on.
I haven't used SATA yet, but I'm assuming it doesn't have master/slave settings 'cause if you hook up 2 hard drives, it's gonna be in RAID...both set as master basically.

 

Alright, cool. I'll have to watch for it and try different configurations. I think SATA you only get 1 drive per channel so there is no slave or master but I'm not sure. I'm going to try the dual raptors in a RAID 0 and see how it runs.

 

yeah, there's only 1 drive per channel on SATA.
I wish those Raptors had a little more capacity, I'd get them too. Maybe I'll just wait till they come out with >50G ones.

 

I was reading about them and I guess WD though they'd only be for server applications where size isn't as big of an issue so they weren't rushing larger capicty drives to the market. I think ~70ish Gigs will be enough for me. I plan to add a second larger storage drive later. I think I might be moving out soon too so I may rebuild an old machine for a file server so I can do external backups and the storage on this machine won't be such an issue.

 

reason why pentium and not AMD

http://www12.tomshardware.com/images...PU_Cooling.zip

 

:shocked:
That's pretty cool, though. I knew AMDs fried when their coolers failed, but those are some crazy temps.

proving once again, Intel > AMD.

 

i'm freaking scared to own a AMD now.
I have a 2.4C@3.0 and the temps are 65C extreme load(prime95 testing) but i know it'll be near impossible to fry

 

lol, I remember prime95. Didn't matter though, since I've got so many fans and I haven't even overclocked my P4 1.4GHz...

 

One plug will be labelled channel 1 and the other, channel 2.


Enterprise drives have always come in 9.1, 18.2, 36.4, 72.8GB sizes. I have no idea why. Maybe with a specific platter size they can speed up RPMs.