Friday, 4 August 2006
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| Athlon x2 4800+ ? Larry Hodges 01:37:39 |
| | What I've got:
Athlon x2 4800+ 939, Toledo:
https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80728-R
My mobo is an Abit KN8:
http://abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=284
Ram is Patriot DDR400 stepping at 2-3-2-5. 2gigs
Ok. My BIOS allows me to change the CPU FSB clock, which is 200 by default.
I've been told not to set this above about 205 or I can fry the CPU. Is
that true? Got a recommended setting? CPU has stock cooling.
The multiplyer is changable, but is already maxed out at 12x.
I can adjust CPU core voltage. Also RAM voltage and Ref voltage. There is
also nForce4 voltage and HyperTransport voltage.
Any recommendations?
-Larry
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Thursday, 3 August 2006
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| Another dead Maxtor Noozer 22:50:02 |
| | Not a rant here... Just an FYI...
I had a 120gig Maxtor fail on me last night. About a years use on it. It was
a replacement for a previously failed drive. Luckily nothing important was
lost.
At least getting an Advance RMA was easy. Just waiting for the new drive to
arrive.
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| NiMH in a mouse ? Osiris 21:56:32 |
| | from wikipedia:
"Care must also be taken during discharge to ensure that one or more
cells in a series-connected battery pack, like the common arrangement
of four AA cells in series in a digital camera, do not become
completely discharged and go into polarity reversal. Cells are never
absolutely identical, and inevitably, one will be completely
discharged before the others. When this happens, the "good" cells will
start to "drive" the discharged cell in reverse, which can cause
permanent damage to that cell."
NiMH cells deliver energy at a very constant rate. They do not "slow
down" very much.
But they drop down in capacity very fast towards the end of a charge.
Hypothesis:
For modern mice, that use very little power, NiMH would not be a good
choice, because before you know it, you're at the end of a charge and
reversing occurs.
Plausible ?
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| Interference on Acer AL1916W George 21:49:02 |
| | Hi,
I have a the above mentioned screen and have the following system:
AMD Athlon XP2400+
WD 80Gig hardrive
Toshiba 250 external drive
1 gig of ram
Nvidia Tornado GeForce 4 MX agp4
Ubuntu Linux workstation
I'm getting a problem of what seems to be hundreds of small horizontal
lines moving vertically down the screen. It looks like interference of
some sort. Does any one have any ideas of what it might be?
Cheers
George
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| best balance in new PC? Jip 21:19:42 |
| | Hi
I'm planning on building a new PC and will be using Photoshop CS2 vs 9 +
Quark Express 6.1. Will be doing maily photo and graphics editing and DTP.
Could anyone please comment on the relative importance of the PCs processor,
memory and graphics card please - I know the best of all three woudl be
best, but I have a budget of Ј1000 and would welcome comment on which
components make most difference in performance/speed.
Thanks
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| Cloning different size drives using Ghost 9 Louise 21:19:21 |
| | I have a 160 gig SATA Samsung drive which has been the
object of much discussion recently because it is
showing an error and hutil reports it has "defects".
Fearing failure, I've purchased a replacement drive: I've
gotten the Seagate ST3300622AS SATA 2 300 gig drive. This
drive can be run on my Asus P4C800 E Deluxe at 1.5
I own Ghost 9 and would like to use it to clone the 160 gig
Samsung to the 300 gig Seagate.
Is this likely to work? And assuming it works, is there any
way to clone the Samsung but have the new Seagate be seen as
my C drive with the full size (300 gig).
In other words, if I clone the 160 gig drive, I don't want
to land up with a new C drive which thinks it is 160 gig
when it is actually 300 gig. And I would prefer to have the
whole 300 gig as one partition.
Can I do this with Ghost 9? If not, can it be done another
way?
I run many different programs and each is "customized" with
all my preferences etc. I would very much like to avoid
having to re-load the entire drive - so much so, that if
that's the only way, I may just wait for the Samsung to fail
(yes, I do backup every day).
Thanks to all of you for your help and explorations of this
situation.
Louise
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| Whats the deal with 24pin ATX PSU connectors Pete 20:02:21 |
| | I have just bought a Ultra Xconnect power supply 400watts to use in
conjunction with a AMD 3500+ and skt 939 board.
Here it is:
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=42&pPath=296&productID=304
It says it supports Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs and meets ATX version 2.03 and
ATX 12V version 1.2 specification.
When I bought it I thought it was the dogs bollocks but now I see
motherboards with 24 pin PSU connectors and wonder what's going on.
Have I bought a lemon? Is it out of date? Has the ATX spec moved on?
Can you plug a 20pin ATX connector from the power supply onto a 24pin
connector on the motherboard and then use a 4 pin lead for the remaining 4
pins or would I need a convertor?
The motherboard I want to use it with has the following connectors:
24-pin ATX Power connector
4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
Would I need to buy extra cables / convertors to use it with this board?
Thanks
Pete
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| SATA Drives Question Israel Richner 19:32:44 |
| | My IDE 80 GB drive just failed  , but I do have a WD SATA 120 GB
150mb/s drive  . So what I want to do now is buy another SATA drive
and set them up for redundency.
Questions:
1) Do I need to get a drive of the same size?
2) My mother board only supports SATA transfers of 150mb/s, and my
current SATA drive is 150 mb/s, can I buy a 300 mb/s SATA drive or do I
have to buy a 150. I realize if the 300 will work, it will scale itself
down to match the other drive, the only reason I would buy the 300mb/s
drive is for future upgrades.
In case you need to know I'm using the ABIT IC7-MAX3 mother board and
my OS is WinXP Pro.
my final goal is to have 2 drives working as one and if one fails the
other will keep on working.
Thankd for your help,
Izzy
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| Lightning Surge, what should I do? Guest 19:16:30 |
| | Recently a thunderstorm and a nearby lightning strike, sent a surge
through my ineffective surge protectors, I have since gotten a much
better one, and fried something in my computer. After the initial
surge, it tried starting up, and now all that happens during power up
is I believe the HD trying to spin(or something else spinning). Do you
think that it's the mobo that's fried or perhaps something more
replaceable like a power supply?
John
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| Computer at 10 meters or more form keyboard, mouse and flatscreen Osiris 17:35:34 |
| | If I would like to put the noisy computer case away from my desk, in
another room for instance, how would I go about that ?
How long may video, mouse and keyboard cables be ?
Would I have to use some kind of amplifiers ?
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| FS: Maxtor 120GB SATA 7200rpm 8mb cache hard drive S-ATA Michael B. 16:47:34 |
| | Maxtor 120GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Series
Serial (S-ATA) / 150 Internal Hard Drive
Product Model: 6Y120M0
The drive features
Series: DiamondMax 9 Plus
Model: 6Y120M0
Capacity: 120GB
Cache: 8MB
RPM: 7200 RPM
Motor: FBD (Fluid Dynamic Bearings for Silent Operations)
Average Seek Time: 9.3ms
Interface: S-ATA/150
Form Factor: 3.5"
Best offer over US $15 gets it.
Bids being taken only until Aug-09-06 18:57:36 PDT here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320013570295
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| Raid compatability - IDE Mitchell Ben 16:31:42 |
| | Hi,
This is my first post, I hope it in the right place!
I'm new to PC modding, except for adding memory or a New graphics card.
I want to speed up my current PC as I play BF2 Online & I am almost the
last one to get in.
My Current setup is
Medion P4 2.6
1GB Pc2700 333mhz
160GB Samsung ATA
ATI X800 Pro
What would be the best way speeding up the data access
I did buy a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300gb 16mb cache with an idea run the
game from here, but talking to a couple of guys has told me that this
wont do a lot to speed things up & I need to think about a raid setup.
I have two IDE channels, currently IDE 0 has the Samung as master & a
DVD-Rom as slave
the other IDE channel has a DVD-RW
what do I need in place to go ahead with a raid setup
any suggestions welcome
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| Xilence power PSU DustWolf 14:55:14 |
| | I've got a computer here with a Xilence power 550W PSU.
That PSU is built for silence as is the entire computer.
The PSU's large fan does not spin innitially when turning on the
computer, and does not spin up for some time unless gently nudged with
a stick.
Even tho such behaviour would seem normal if the PSU's temperature
regulation is providing the fan insufficient voltage to start up when
the PSU is still cold, I am not used to seeing it. My usual brand of
PSUs is LC Power and their regulated speed PSU fans always spin when
the PSU is turned on.
Anyone with experience using these Xilence Power PSU's? Is it normal
for their fans not to spin innitially or am I looking at a brand new
computer supplied with a PSU with a partialy busted fan?
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| Bios Question Mac 13:16:54 |
| | In a Windows Crash Report, it says to disable BIOS Caching or Shadowing...
So I did. What is the downside of doing that? I don't know what these
features do. Will impact performance?
Thanks,
mac
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| A hot running SL6PG Stephan Carydakis 11:38:54 |
| | Hi All,
I have posted this question to another group
(alt.comp.hardware.overclocking) just recently. In an attempt to find
similar experiences or further suggestions, I thought I would post here as
well.
I recently purchased a used P4 SL6PG
(http://processorfinder.intel.com/Details.aspx?sSpec=SL6PG). Basically, the
idle temps are very high but the full load temps are within the Intel specs.
At first, with a stock cooler, I had socket temps of 58c idle / 64c full
load after running Prime95 for 2 or so hours and under-volted at 1.5 volts.
The mobo temps are 27/29, HDD are around 32 and the ambient temp is 23c. I
have 80mm inlet and exhaust fans. I purchased a Scythe Samurai Z in an
attempt to get lower temps and this was the case. The idle temp dropped to
51c and full load to 55c. Remember that these are socket sensor temps and
not CPU diode temps. Switching to the diode sensor adds 7 or 8 degrees
Celsius to the stated temps. Currently, the CPU diode temps read 58c idle
and 62c full load (again Prime95 maximum heat tests for over 3 hours for the
load temps).
My system seems to be very stable however I am concerned with the high idle
temp. Even though I have a stable system, does anyone's experienced opinion
say that these readings indicate a 'badly' overclocked (insufficient
cooling, over volted etc) CPU? I'm hesitant to believe that the mobo is
giving false or inaccurate readings because the CPU that came out of the
same system, a P4 2.4b @ 2.88 and 1.6 volts, ran at 49c idle / 64c full load
on stock Intel cooling.
My OS is Win2k AS and I use Motherboard Monitor 5 to get these readings.
Thanks in advance,
Steph.
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| Getting the most out of a Geforce FX 5700 Cronzor 09:37:03 |
| | Alrighty, so I've recently upgraded my system memory as I run a lot of
memory-intensive apps, and the clear bottleneck for gaming is my old
vidcard. I don't plan on plunking much more money into this PC, so I
intend on waiting, then buying the best AGP card available when it's
cheaper, then riding the wave til this PC is obsolete..(in other words,
I won't be going for a PCI-E card. My mobo doesn't support PCI-E and
all the upgrades will not be worth it).
That said, I'm gonna need to use this Geforce FX 5700 (ASUS V9570 TD
256MB) until the 7xxx class cards cost about half of what they do now.
I was wondering if I could get some help getting the most out of it. I
have attempted overclocking with Coolbits: Overclocking the memory a
mere 1 Mhz does not cause artifacts or instability, but makes
everything EXTREMELY SLOW. Games and benchmarks slow to a CRAWL (maybe
1/10th the normal FPS - brutal and very noticeable). I refuse to
believe that a 1 Mhz difference over stock speeds is doing this -
something is up.
Anything I'm doing wrong, and any other tips (like disabling useless
features that take too much power for my card)? Primarily looking for
those settings I can tweak that won't take too much out of my gaming
experience. Any help appreciated.
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| ATI loses bus license from Intel Yousuf Khan 07:24:39 |
| | Ha! No kidding, who woulda thought?
ATI loses bus license from Intel | TG Daily
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/24/ati_intel_bus_license/
Yousuf Khan
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| I am singl girl please help me with it problem. I can't joi Nadenkkka0741 06:03:11 |
| | Hello i am singl girl and i can't find friend in my city because it is
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| Need to know more about the different lines of processors Yugo 05:37:35 |
| | JohnS@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:15:29 -0400, Yugo <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: > I know VERY little about processors, but I believe I read somewhere --
cache to meet Intel's prices. Isn't this the cause of the price drop? Still,
according to Bazzy Smith's link -- Thanks Bazzy! I've bookmarked this link --
AMD scores best for the first 11 processors. >>
I believe an AMD 64 3500+ should suit me fine... the day I upgrade. I now
OTOH, until then, I might find something interesting in the garbage... >>
Who cares for processing speed nowadays, except gamers and database users,
old days. Man, that was costly! >
Dont go by that chart for a future upgrade unless by future you dont > mean too far off.
Was: Price differentials in AMd processors are out of control
JohnS@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:15:29 -0400, Yugo <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: > I know VERY little about processors, but I believe I read somewhere --
cache to meet Intel's prices. Isn't this the cause of the price drop? Still,
according to Bazzy Smith's link -- Thanks Bazzy! I've bookmarked this link --
AMD scores best for the first 11 processors. >>
I believe an AMD 64 3500+ should suit me fine... the day I upgrade. I now
OTOH, until then, I might find something interesting in the garbage... >>
Who cares for processing speed nowadays, except gamers and database users,
old days. Man, that was costly! >
Dont go by that chart for a future upgrade unless by future you dont > mean too far off.
I thought В«that chartВ» was updated regularly. So, my final choice might not be
an AMD 64 3500+. Just before I buy a new computer, I read reviews, listen to
what "some" salesmen say, and make a decison on a 100$ processor mainly for
word processing and cropping a few pictures to use as backgrounds. If I was
using databases, editing film... or playing games, it would be a whole
different story.
Ten years ago, I was more aware of the hardware scene. It was easier because
there weren't that many different lines of processors and I had to keep an
interest in the matter since a new processor + more faster memory was always a
blessing. But today... I couldn't care less if Vista required 1 G of RAM, I'll
never use that crap! I wouldn't use it if they paid me!
Still, sometimes, I'd like to understand better what's going on on the
processor scene. I know 64 bit processors have arrived on the popular market a
few years ago and that, nowadays, it's better to buy a 64 bit processor. I
know some basics: what a register is, what cache is, what a dual core
processor is, what 65 nanometer means vs 90 nm. Still, because I don't read
much on the subject, I'm quite confused.
For instance, AMD used to offer only Athlons, then Semprons, CPUs. Now they
have an FX, an AM2 and what, an X series? Trying to sort out the processors of
only one manufacturer is really a pain. They seem much more interested in
serving you a big publicity hoopla than the bare basics.
So, before following your exposГ© on 754s, 939s, Conroes E6300, D805s, X2s,
AM2s, I would need to know a little bit about the different lines of
processors. You know, what's the conceptual scheme behind them. Is there any
place I can find this information or can you give a *short* description of the
different lines of processors. Don't insist too much on OC capabilities, I'm
really not much into this.
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| Merged AMD-ATI monster embarks on monopoly-busting AirRaid Mach 2.5 05:15:18 |
| | http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33230
Intel in the crosshairs, as execs explain themselves
By Paul Hales: Monday 24 July 2006, 14:31
BEST MATES AMD and ATI held a conference call today in which the
companies' biggest cheeses sought justify their new cohabitation.
The 'excited' executives were led by AMD CEO Hector Ruiz who lauded the
deal as re-shaping the future of the industry. "We're excited about
what we can do together in a market dominated for years by one
company," in the first of many digs at arch-competitor Intel.
AMD confirmed that much of ATI's operation will be brought in-house,
but AMD will remain, "committed to ATI's customers, employers and
Canada," said Ruiz.
He added that he didn't expect lay-offs "in any significant numbers".
Ruiz confessed that AMD had been mulling its best options for a
partnership over the past two to three years and it is ATI's expertise
in the mobility space as well as its chipset business that makes the
firm such a good fit with AMD.
The ATI team will play and key role in the joint future of the company
he said, adding he was confident that the companies and their
respective cultures would integrate well together, their products
having occupied "adjacent real-estate on motherboards" for so long.
The executives, Ruiz and ATI CEO Dave Orton, along with Dirk Meyer and
chief AMD bean counter Bob Rivet were agreed the deal would provide
better value to customers and shareholders in both companies. Bob said
the merged company would be better positioned to achieve AMD's stated
objective to "break the monopoly".
AMD's customers had been insisting AMD play a bigger role in the
"eco-system" of its mobility and consumer electronics marketplaces,
said Meyer.
He said he expected the PC to continue to play a central role in both
the business environment and the home, suggesting that "non-general
purpose" processing units such as GPUs would be integrated into
computing platforms much like the floating point co-processor had
disappeared over the past ten to fifteen years.
Dave Orton confessed to being as excited as anyone. Be said the
combined company would be able to look beyond the CPU, GPU and chipset
landscapes and increase its penetration into enterprise, mobile
computing and consumer electronics sectors.
"AMD has great CPUs, we have great GPUs," he said. He reckoned the next
stage for the merged company would be to integrate its offerings,
combining two or more products to create devices that improve on the
sum of their two parts.
The new company will achieve "cost synergies" worth $75 million by the
end of 2007, increasing to $125 million by the end of 2008. By then the
company will be well into its "integration plan", more details on which
it promised to deliver soon.
The company expects to lose ATI revenues from it work on Intel
platforms which bean-counting Bob said was worth about $100 million per
quarter, a loss Ruiz is confident the company will make up for.
Dave Orton said ATI would continue to deliver Intel chipsets for as
long as its customer wanted it to.
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| Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400?? Dutch 03:22:47 |
| | Dear Colleagues,
I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance.
I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with
Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a
mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs
mostly on the processor.
I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400
processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my
primary concern.
The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a
dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am
better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the
dual core. . . or not?
Advice is greatly appreciated.
The Flying Dutchman
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| FAT CITY on the Viewsonic VX2025wm Johns 03:22:34 |
| |
The fix was simple ... duuuuuh! In the
nVidia 6800 driver, there is an option to do
a custom resolution. I took a calculator
and reduced the 1680 x 1050 setting
by 75% to 1264 x 788, and it worked
perfectly. AutoCAD is not distorted. The
fonts look normal at the defaults. I haven't
tried the games again, but I think that is
much less a problem than the nearly
invisible fonts at the 1680 setting. Much
progress indeed. NOW I have a nice
toy
johns
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| Error on Samsung? Louise 03:01:25 |
| | Samsung Spinpoint 160mg about a year old with heavy use.
I went to run Norton Ghost and was told the image couldn't
be created because of a disk error.
I ran chkdsk /f
Norton ran fine
I ran the Samsung Diagnostics and all was fine in the quick
tests. Then I went ahead and went into the deeper level of
checking. I am getting an error:
C:2665 H:1 S:863 Error: a media error is detected.
I ran chkdsk /f again and then the deep level Samsung.
Samsung came up with the same error.
The disk appears fine in its day to day activities.
Should I worry about this? Do I need to run out and replace
the disk? Will I suddenly have no disk?
TIA
Louise
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| Please Help - Intel D975XBX Conroe X6800 Terrys Datanet Account 02:01:57 |
| | Guys.
Can anyone here can help me please.
I am building a new High spec PC and cannot get it to boot.
The system starts and sits at a blank screen - No post, No Post beep.
Here's the spec
Intel D975XDX Rev 304 Motherboard
Intel Conroe Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU
Corsair TWIN2X 8500C5 DDR2, 2048MB CL5, Kit w/two 1GB Dimm's, E.P.P
Technology
Gainward GeForce 7950GX2 1GB,1.4ns GDDR3
,PCI-Express,"BP7950GX2-1000-TV-DD",HDCP
PSU - I have tried 2
Antec 550W
and
Hiper Modular PSU 580 true power ATX 2.2 compatible
I connect al the components and boot the PC. all fans start but nothing
happens. no post, no beep nothing.
I have disconnected everything but the Graphics card, memory and CPU still
no good.
If I remove the memory altogether I get the memory failed beeps.
I have seen other PCs on the net with the same Mobo and Graphics card but
different memory.I have seen PCs on the net with the same Mobo and memory
but different graphics card both specs working fine.
I have tried another lower spec CPU to see if it was the BIOS or board rev
but that didn't boot either.
The Nvidia 9750 chipset is on the Intel D975XDX supported list
The Nvidia Intel Conroe Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU is on the Intel D975XDX
supported list
Corsair memory is supported by the Intel D975XDX but probably not Corsair
TWIN2X 8500C5. However there are a number of people on the net who are using
it on this board with the X6800 CPU.
The only anomaly at the moment is this motherboard comes with a 2x4 CPU
power connector instead of the usual 2x2 but Intel supply a 2x2 to 2x4
converter cable. I have tried a Pentium D processor of a much lower spec
with the same lack of result.
Is there any difference between using a power supply with a 2x4 connector
and a power supply with a 2x2 and using a 2x2 to 2x4 converter? I wouldn't
have thought so.
I know this is a pretty rare spec box at the mo but I hope someone can help.
I'm fed up with looking at a Ј2,000 paper weight .
Thanks Guys
Regards
Terry
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| warning!!!! maxtor 120GB 160GB drives - unreliable Hodw 01:55:23 |
| | I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.
In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.
Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.
Hod
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