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OK, long time no update, but perhaps some useful information (I hope). Turn key NAS devices are appliances—like washing machines. NAS gives you a bit more without the overhead (learning curve) of a full-blown server OS. But there is a difference between an appliance device and FreeNAS (or...

I think I bought it circa 2003 or so, and it's been running 24/7 just about ever since. And it's still noticeably quicker in a lot of things than today's SATA best. The good news is that I used a tool on the UBCD 5.03 CD called VIVARD. It's 0.4 but it worked. It found the dud sectors and...

My Maxtor Atlas II 15K SCSI drive finally bit the dust (I think). Yesterday, I got a lot of write errors while running. When I attempted to reboot, I got a BSOD Stop Error 0x00000024. Nothing seems to fix this. This happens attempting to boot Windows XP in normal and safe mode. If you...

Socket 1156 is going to be supplanted by Socket 1155 in about 1 month (Jan 5), so I'm not sure how much longevity you'll get out 1156 chips/mobos. Handy, thanks for the info on VMWare and NICs., but it's probably worth noting that this would apply to Intel (and I assume Broadcom) NIC's but not...

Another + for RAID 10 over RAID 5. Sure, you get more usable disk from RAID 5, but if you've ever had to put up with accessing a RAID 5 share when a disk has failed, you'll know that the thing is practically unusable while the array rebuilds. Disk is cheap, multiple workers sitting around...

Storage size: If the people are using OpenOffice or MS Office 2007 +, then document storage won't be a problem If they are using Office 2003 or earlier, I've seen many 20MB+ single files. In this case, storage volume could be an issue. Online extension. Why not Freenas or OpenFiler? Use...

+1 for Avast! for all of Mercs reasons

I was running an X6 @ 3.4GHz and two (Intel) Q9550s @ 3.4GHz. On some units, the X6 was only slightly better than the Intel's. On others, you got maybe up to 50% better. The downside is that the Intel Core2Quads are more efficient power wise. I cannot comment on how they stack up versus...

via IPO. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20101107132159.html Wonder how this will affect their R&D, like microwave assisted magnetic recording...

Aren't power supplies very inefficient when running low loads? If that is the case, then it doesn't make sense to go for a power supply with a large margin.

When I bought Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, the shop gave me a copy of Planescape: Torment for free. I've got it still, unopened.

I installed Windows 7 Home Premium on a K6-III 400 with 768MB & NVIDIA GeForce 4MX 440 just for shits and giggles. Was it usable? Sort of--the odd pause for a few seconds. It wasn't painful to load apps, but I didn't load a lot of things simultaneously. No where near as painful as Vista on a...

//rant on I don't know how people have been snowed by Gigabyte. Long after the S478/S462 motherboards were all dying from bad caps--and people knew what the problem was, Gigabyte was shipping S754 motherboards with dodgy caps. Therefore Gigabyte knowingly shipped these products. I've had...

If any benchmark swings 20% or more between runs, I questions that benchmarks methodology, because it's telling you precisely jack... That isn't a benchmark, that's a lottery.

I think Tech Report do a better graph, perf/$$, because the xbit graph doesn't tell you how the relative cpus perform. Frequency is interesting if you run single thread apps, but fall down mightily for threaded apps. http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/18799/15

:) http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091205 You can go back three or four panels to get the whole thread...

My understanding is that SSDs are addressed similarly to memory (row + column), so what magik is happening in the MFT is interesting. Given that, it doesn't matter if files are fragmented in an SSD as the the access penalty (and I'm not sure that there is one) is miniscule compared to the...

It was $931. 13.9c up 14.2c. Price increase near the end of the quarter.

I'm giving up again for the time being. My electricity bill for the last quarter was just over $900. I think I need to rethink how I go about this. For the same quarter: 07 $549 08 $681 09 $738 10 $900 KW/h/day 07 08 51 09 56 10 60 Running 5 computers flat out doesn't help

Why isn't it a good sign? Those numbers look very good to me for an SSD.

Chewy, that's an absolutely awesome snippet. Thanks. And Merc, I never knew you could use 172...

And it's not good in that enclosure

I assume you are using the GA-H55M-USB3 as the Inwin is a m-atx case? Have you considered the Silverstone SG02-F? m-atx as well, but more a "cube" case design, and similar pricing, but it takes standard ATX PSUs rather than the SFX ones in the Inwin.

Funny y'all should mention this. SanDisk Ultra and Extreme SD/SDHC cards comfortably exceed their rated class speeds. Some of their normal SD card range does as well, but some do not, or the packaging omits to mention that it does anyway. PQI is another that sells 150X (CD ROM speed) cards...

Almost pulled the trigger on a Mushkin SandForce 60GB SSD today. Given the capacity increases in that Intel roadmap, I'm glad I didn't. It will make 160GB drives ~ $$$ of todays 50-64GB drives. That would be a good thing.

Sorry HD322HJ. Spinpoint F1. 320GB platters. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?type=94&subtype=98&model_cd=238

Of course... Hands in the air and back away from the keyboard slowly... :)

I too see that on a 3 yr old Dell Inspiron 6400. My current thinking is that it's a trackpad issue. The trackpad seems to be more sensitive with the default Windows 7 drivers. Just having my wrist pressing on the palm rest immediately to the side seems to make the cursor jump.

The advantages over an elevated monorail are?

I also don't see Mercutio's slowdown on my three Win 7 boxen. Of the three UI's XP/Vista/7, I like Vista's the least. I like quite a few things about 7's UI, but Vista's File Explorer drives me spare every time I open it. The thing I don't like about 7 is it's networking tools. I'd imagine...

When netbooks and CULV pentiums (1.1~1.3GHz single core) came out, I dug in the parts bin: VIA 694T motherboard + Tualatin 1266MHz P!!!-S (512KB L2). Reasonable HDD but not super modern. 1.5GB SDRAM (Ebay, AU$10) and Radeon 9800. Add WinXP and it's surprisingly snappy. Heck, swap out the...

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/18448 depends on the task. The tasks that interest me (converting free to air recorded TV mpeg2 to mpeg4 primarily) seem to benefit from real cores rather than HT. I don't do enough file compression to care, making mp3s takes little enough time on any...

Hmm. I don't build for a living so add salt. I just recently replaced my Q9550 with A Phenom X6. It runs a little warmer, but not a lot. For single threaded tasks, I suppose the Q9550 would have been a better bet, but in my back to back comparisons, I never noticed. The Phenom X6 is better...

I'm trialling it now, and it seems snappier than bog standard FF on a javascript heavy site like www.news.com.au. The downside is security updates will take longer

Are you sure the Delayed Write failure was related to the drive/Port expander? Q? Do you have any motherboard attached to your network with using a Marvell gigabit port? My experiences with Delayed Write Failure was with the Marvell NIC/gigabit network rather than the drives. If you are...

It depends on the compiler you use. And the care with which the compile options are chosen, which depends on the knowledge level of the person(s) doing the build. Yep, the latest builds of gcc, VC++ and Intel's compiler give very good results out of the box. But there are a lot of places still...

The flip side is that your variables can double in size if you're not careful, and your code base will be significantly larger no matter what you do thereby effectively halving the amount of cache compared to 32-bit and slowing down memory accesses as your code base is much larger, so you have...

I actually like the Cooler Master GeminiII S - 4.88" x 4.76" x 2.95" or 124 x 121 x 75. Was reasonably cheap and better/quieter than the stock 775

Yep indeedy. I saw the same. Downloaded WMWare server, and say that it has changed significantly. Haven't invested the time to sort it to yet...

100Mb (wired) in this day? GigE or nothing...

Phenom X6 does it in about 6:20 minutes on average Q9550 does it in 8:55

A final note: Phenom X6 isn't a bad folder. It's not bad clock for clock compared to Core 2 Quad, but will lose out in power, but it's not a really hungry beast. On some projects though--6014??, it really smashes the Core 2 Quads...

Oh yeah, what Coug said about ATi. You get good points, but not as good as NVIDIA, and the points/watt are horrendous

dd, Core A3 Windows is (according to bruce and/or kasson from the project) better than the Linux A2 core. If you have Win32 boxes, run the SMP Deino client with passkey. If you have Win64 boxes, you must run the SMP MPICH client (with passkey)--it's a little flakey when you lose your IP, but...

Being Canadian is bad? :confused: :drl::lol::smack:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article949-page3.html

I have had good luck with undervolting Athlon II 250s--as per a SPCR article. I got a cheap Gigabyte (second hand) GA-MA74GM-S2H, Athlon II 250 and underclock it to around 2.0GHz. Just under 1.1V and seems stable. Just under AUS$100 (had memory sitting around)

Ahh, a lurker. Fold for team 10047... You know you want to... :poke: :smack:

Closer to 30 500 :mrgrn: But I tried folding on a Core Duo (original, not a Core 2 Duo), but it took 2 days to do a single 481 point unit. Having said that, everything is at stock clocks, so that needs to change 8-)

Me too. What happened?