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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 26 Mar 2010, at 22:21, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH |
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>> voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 |
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>> SATA headers on this motherboard but I don't know how much it can |
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>> realistically handle at once. Hopefully all of my disks. :) |
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> Honestly, I'm not sure that I'd do that. |
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> If I thought it was a power issue - and that seems quite a reasonable |
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> possibility - I would replace the PSU first. |
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> What PSU are you using at the moment? Brand / wattage? |
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> I think these are probably overkill: |
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> http://www.bluepoint.net/AKAPSU066 |
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> http://www.bluepoint.net/AKAPSU071 |
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> However, if you're using a 450W PSU at the moment, you can get an OCZ |
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> branded 600W for less than £50. I tend to be suspicious of cheap unbranded |
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> and Wong Fu 350W - 450W PSUs. Often a 350W PSU from a manufacturer with a |
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> half-decent brand (eg Trust) will be better than a no-name 450W PSU. |
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> It seems important not only the actual wattage that the PSU gives out |
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> (measured with an analogue-needle multimeter) but also how stable that |
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> voltage is, how smooth, consistent and reliable it is. Unless your PSU is |
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> absolute top-notch quality, try to under-utilise it. |
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> With 6 x hard-drives, I would be generous with supplying power - I think a |
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> 600W PSU would easily be justified. |
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> Stroller. |
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I have a 750W Corsair 750TX which should be plenty (if not overkill). |
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Seems to have all the bells and whistles (though I wish I had bought |
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the modular version). I definitely agree about the cheap no-name PSUs, |
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I've seen some USD$10 ones go up in smoke after just a few minutes of |
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use. |
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Based on the little info I could find Googling it seems the most |
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likely explanations are: |
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IRQ handling weirdness (but that was more probable in older |
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motherboards and kernels) |
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ahci driver issues (I will reboot with the controllers in "legacy" |
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mode to use the non-ahci drivers and see what happens) |
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a bad drive, bad cable, bad controller, bad sector, something physically bad. |
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Overnight I copied several hundred gigs of data (and still going) and |
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the error has not been reproduced. Before installing, I did a full |
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SMART test (a few hours) and a badblocks read-only test (even more |
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hours) and neither showed any errors. I did not do a full read/write |
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test, though. |
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I haven't heard any unexpected noises coming from the drives (no |
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clicks of doom), though I have so many fans going it may be hard to |
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hear. |
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Thanks. |
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