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Dan S.

Dan S.

Joined on 04/12/03

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Hitachi GST Deskstar HD31000 IDK/7K (0S00163) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Retail
Hitachi GST Deskstar HD31000 IDK/7K (0S00163) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Retail

Pros: Works reliably in RAID arrays! Fast, quiet, cheap.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I never thought I'd buy another 'Deathstar' drive. Back in the IBM days, I had a couple of drives that had to be frozen in order to retrieve data. I setup a pair of these Hitachi 1TB drives in a RAID 1 on a ICH10R controller. Speed is very good. With the blatant cash-grab efforts of WD and Seagate of disabling TLER to make consumer level drives fail out of RAID arrays, this drive is the new best buy for cheap RAID.

DG45ID

Intel BOXDG45ID LGA 775 Intel G45 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel BOXDG45ID LGA 775 Intel G45 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Small, quiet, 5 SATA, Matrix RAID, no legacy support (PS/2, parallel port)

Cons: Header pins for reset, HDD LED, power switch did not match the quick start document.

Overall Review: Updated the BIOS and installed SBS 2008 x64. Every driver/application Intel lists as Win 7 x64 worked in SBS 2008. Now running as a headless server.