Posted in Review on April 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Recently introduced Western Digital GreenPower hard drives seem to be suffering from overly aggressive head parking under some workloads. By default, idle timer before heads are unloaded is set to eight seconds, so with a hypothetical workload where disk is accessed every nine seconds it would do several hundreds of unload cycles per hour. Since [...]
Posted in Review on February 10th, 2008 No Comments »
After recently having built a small PC using Antec NSK 1300 case I felt to share my thoughts about it.
Having read a couple of reviews and owner impressions myself, I was expecting a pretty mature and solid product. Both because the case is not first in line but a successor to Antec Aria and the [...]
Posted in Review on September 24th, 2006 No Comments »
One of my recent acquisitions, bought to replace ThinkPad R40 as a primary home PC, is this cool little desktop from HP. Actual model number in the UK is s7510.uk, while elsewhere it can be also found named as s7000 or s7500.
First of all I must say that it isn’t as quiet as I expected [...]