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We need a place to dump these, as there are more and more on the market. My interest stems from accelerating large file shares. Getting 100-500GB of SSD in front of 2-6TB of HDD would be something I could sell a lot of. OCZ just announced the RevoDrive Hybrid. An all-in-one solution that would...

We need a place to dump these, as there are more and more on the market. My interest stems from accelerating large file shares. Getting 100-500GB of SSD in front of 2-6TB of HDD would be something I could sell a lot of. OCZ just announced the RevoDrive Hybrid. An all-in-one solution that would...

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Awesome. I suspect out of my budget; but I would take one in a heartbeat.

Most likely lighter fluid, but line voltage would be cooler.

While I'm sure that these companies have a presence all over the globe, none are headquartered in the EU? (Japan, S. Korea and two in California, IIRC). While they could theoretically play "hard ball", these mergers include every hard drive maker there is, so banning their products would be...

SR or SF? I haven't been to SR in ages.

IIRC, peak efficiency for a PSU is at 50% load? So my 1200W PSUs sucking 580W of juice are ideal? Good to know at least two of these things are being used where they should be.

That is unfortunate. Sorry if I was picking on you too much... As a matter of fact, I think Taco Bell is in my near future...

That Intel drive is SLC, so you would think it to be fairly durable. It better be performing that kind of task. I wonder if mSATA is SATA 3.0 compatible? If larger drives are available? It makes perfect sense for SSDs to mount directly to the board.

TeraCopy was significantly slower than the default windows copy in my scenario. 6x 3TB Hitachi "R"AID-0 on both ends, connected via Intel PCIe server NICs and a crossover cable. The arrays are capable of 630MB/s reads and 450MB/s writes; windows copy "pull" was able to do 98MB/s while Teracopy...

Ah. As opposed to the impersonal taco, prepared with the feet.

That is what the internet is actually made of. And why safesearch exists ;)

Thanks for that. I'll be reading up.

Yeah, no idea. I'm not a web guy at all. The company has a friend who is doing some repairs, updates, and restoring backups when it gets hit. But I don't think they are up to doing anything beyond that. It's hosted. I'm not even sure where yet. I just got the call when I posted here, I don't...

I've been given a role in cleaning up a hacked webpage that was running an old version of wordpress. Cleaned it up, updated to the newest version, but it is still getting vandalized about once a day. Other than changing all the passwords to accounts, what else should I be doing?

Actually looks good in black.

Or build an ESXi box. It takes more hardware but is also free.

And now an even easier and cleaner way to get storage on a board. Designed for Intel's Smart Response Technology, it can also just be used as the main drive. This makes single-board high-powered workstations a reality. Sweet!

Ideally, I wouldn't know any passwords. I do have the ability to change them, and would use that if I have to. Because this is required for backup, I set the passwords and inform the users. This has the advantage of being good passwords on a reasonable rotation that aren't duplicates.

An app that logs into each mailbox and syncs with a local message store. I don't remember the name of it, I just googled for something. Yes, I need to know the password to every mailbox, and yes, that is a PITA.

On many of my RAID cards they have LED connectors per channel, but I have no idea how to make it work with the onboard stuff. My only thought would be to write a custom bit of software that monitored for activity and sent it out the serial port header or something.

Indeed. A T3i and an EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS would probably do you well. Though a 60D and an EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM would be better.

I have an on-site copy of all my "cloud" data in an open and accessible format. I could re-create all the services and data locally in half a day. I could get all the clients redirected and staff trained within a week. This disaster recovery plan has been approved by the boss. I'm thinking that...

Glad to help. I don't use them myself; I can't stand the extra bulk and haven't actually broken one yet. However, it did keep a Droid alive after being stepped on by a horse.

These guys make the best protective cases I've seen so far. Not cheap, though.

Sorry, LiamC, I see that we are agreed on the matter. I find it difficult to get mad at the tools though, the middle managers are the target of my frustrations. Implementing more and more expensive patches and upgrades to cover their butts when the first decision didn't pan out is my least...

IPOy?

You are the first I've heard use the phrase "one size fits all" referencing hosted software. I also don't use the term "Cloud", as it glosses over many of the particulars. There are servers somewhere, run by someone else, that provide us a service. As you have alluded to, this is not the...

Is a "good" number of dead bodies high or low?

Still beats the heck out of administering those services/servers myself. Google's longest outage was was shorter than my longest call with MS on an Exchange issue by at least 12 hours.

My home machines are not going to be folding for a while. They now drive the ambient high enough that it makes my OC unstable. And I need the OC for my other work.

The other day a friend and I took an extended lunch break, rented an aircraft, and flew 100 miles just for lunch at the airport and a prompt return. Probably the most expensive lunch I've ever had (including the plane nearly $300), but man that was fun.

It is interesting, but it is not a play I would bet my own money on.

Work as just been crazy. Google rolled out a new update to their apps platform; took several users offline for an hour or more. A couple conflicts with projects that used to be separate and are now integrated (YouTube).

Also make sure it is 1080p. 1080i is no better than 720p.

Agreed. DFI scored remarkably well if 100% is good, but if it is the other way around, the hard drives look wrong.

That is a great looking screen, I've been happy with all my Dell UltraSharp monitors. I want one of those for home, but don't think I could justify it at the moment.

Don't you mean video card? I assume you will be going HDMI...

I used to run a 9650 in a Gigabyte X58 motherboard without issue. Now I use the onboard and softRAID.

I'll try to find it again, but the story I read was that an error while pouring the concrete was covered up. Edit: The newest reactor designs can go completely cold while dry. I would consider that a mandatory safety feature.

True, but it is also wasteful to spend your time pruning other people's messages when they are unlikely to read their own words anyway.

It's only crap after (if) it fails. Until then it is the performance deal of the moment.

I live (and did at the time) ~30 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. I was hit with some glass from a blown-out window, but nothing weighing 3lbs. Still 22 years ago we had something that killed less people than a number of tornadoes this month, or even the normal snowy...

Ugh. I hate having the new text on the bottom. It just means I need to scroll more to read long threads. Not to mention the disaster when one person decides to make their reply on the bottom and everyone else leaves it on the top. After a few rounds of that you need to look at time stamps to...

You're right. That had nothing to do with a nuclear reactor of ancient design that was badly built.

No worries, Time. If I was without speakers, I'd be cranky too ;) I have to disagree with you on the "familiar vs. unfamiliar risk", though. Driving a car: people are familiar and therefore underestimate the risk. Flying a plane: people are less familiar and therefore overestimate the risk...

Got a pressure washer to prep the outside of the house for paint. I didn't want the trouble of a gas motor so I got the most powerful electric available locally (1800psi). I've never played with one of these before, it looks pretty fun.

I can only imagine the other mod when he wants to put in a full-height GPU ;)

The total count he quotes is 11 drives. My personal collection is larger than that; not including the ones I've sold and used for work. If you are going to bring anecdotal evidence to challenge my anecdotal evidence, at least make it a larger sample. And what's up with the "blind faith" jab...