Got a 570Watt supply from Maplin’s this morning, 1p under £40, but with all the connections I need – 4xSATA 4xAUX etc.
Took it home and fitted it, and that’s when I found that the HDD was not even spinning up! Took it out for a look, and saw that some component on the controller card was blown out!!
A trip to PCWorld at Birmingham, resulted in an Hitachi 750GB SATA drive (£90!!!!), It is bloody fast tho’ Copying 81GB of MP3’s across from the backup drive was an impressive 45 to 51 MB/Sec, the previous Samsung drive was 28 to 32 MB/Sec, and I had been impressed with that!
Ah well, lets re-install windows again :-(
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