Building Cherry

Cherry PC logoHere I build a Mini-ITX PC to my mum. It will replace a Shuttle XPC with a Pentium D and 1GB memory.  My goal was to make it very pretty, and very high quality. That is, a solid feel, competely quiet and fast. Like an Apple product or a Microsoft Surface RT. There are so many cheap and low quality PCs out there.  So I spent months scouring the internet for a good quality Mini-ITX case.

 

 

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Seagate Cheetah 15.K7 write performance issue

I bought a Seagate Cheetah 600GB ST3600057SS SAS hard drive and it has a problem with file transfers. I have tested it on three different PCs and three different SAS Controllers. Transfer rate with a Seagate Cheetah 15.7k and a WD VelociRaptor 600GB is initially fast, 80-100MB/s, but later it slows down to 10MB/s and stays there.

Seagate 600GB SAS slow file move Windows 8

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