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Well, at least your hall is much better than mine!!! But that was like in 2004/2005 and throughout the academic year, i felt like the table was going to break!!!

Okie. Just tidy up my desk. Looks better now. Desk from far: Desk proper: My PC and wireless router: Left of my desk: Centre of my desk: Right of my desk: Top shelf of my desk holding my NAS:

Test setup: Intel E6300 Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro 2 x 1gb Kingston DDR2-533 Hitachi T7K250 SAS controller: Adaptec 4805SAS without BBU Performance of 2 individual Seagate Savvios 15k.1 Performance of both in Raid 0 with stripe size of 64kb (did 2 tests)

its a DAS box. (Direct Attached Storage) its for backup for my PC

actually, from my experience, Samsung 2.5" drives are one of the coolest and quietest around. But don't expect good performance.

nothing much except hot-swap capability.

The new AAKS are great at STR, but i think their response time is pretty bad at ard 16ms, which is kinda low for 7.2k rpm hdds, which should average 15ms.

I would recommend getting another WD740ADFD (or WD740GD, depending on which one you have currently) and put it in a Raid 0 for OS, applications and games. But do make sure that you have another hdd for storage and backup of the files on ** Raid 0 array

Once again, I think it depends greatly on your budget. If you're on a low budget, I would suggest that you use Raid 1 with 2 hdds using your motherboard's Raid controller. In addition to this, you can get an external hdd enclosure with an eSATA interface to do a regular (weekly or monthly) back...

It should suffice for me. I won't be running a lot of hdds in them anyway. 2 of them will house an Asus P5B-VM DO and a Asus P5WDG2-WS Pro motherboard. I don't see a point of getting bigger case as i wont' be able to utilise the extra 5.25" slots.

It greatly depends on your budget. Raid 5 requires a minimum of 3 hdds and its common to see 4 hdds in a Raid 5 array. It would be better to use a hardware Raid controller if you would like to use Raid 5 but they don't come cheap. Raid 0+1 requires a minimum of 4 hdds.

Hmm.. i'm going to change to a Lian Li A05B case. not jsut 1, but 2 of them.. hehe.. i think the CPU cooler can wait.

Its a Logitech diNovo Laser Media. The MX1000 mouse is getting a bit irritating these couple of days. Yeap. The diNovo Edge is really cool!!!

Its not really noisy. Resistors are added to the 2 fans at the back of the DAS to reduce the spinning speed. however, i find my PC case is noisier... :(

You know what, try using XP drivers!!! I had that same problem and i managed to install Vista using XP drivers on my Asus P5WDG2-WS Pro and Asus P5B-VM DO. Worth a try. And since you've already created a Raid 0 array, there should only 1 unpartitioned array shown.

Here's how it is connected to my PC: And the mess at the 6 SATA ports.

In case, you're wondering what's the thing beside my case. Here's what it is: At the back

Had some time to do some re-arrangement. Here's the new setup, but its already in a mess right now!!! haha This time the cables are much neater.

I think you'll need to get the nVidia Raid drivers on a thumbdrive.

hmm... The specs looks good. it is reviewed here http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/storage/highpoint_raid_3520/ Hmm.. are u interested in Adaptec 4805SAS instead?