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When you formatted the thumb drive for booting, it likely made it a FAT partition (2GB max). You'll need to re-format that as well.

MBR will not get you past 2TB. You will need to re-initialize as GPT.

I haven't used either, but I prefer the look and cooling design of the Silverstone.

That is impressive, Stereodude. I'm considering running some compression on my BDs that have been ripped using MakeMKV; they are averaging 27GB a piece, and that gets big, fast.

Sure. If you are willing to buy an entire new license as well. I just took the next copy I bought from MS and copied the disk.

I really don't do it ever, though I know it is a good thing. I'm lucky if I can get in the system just to blow it out. Considering how tricky it is to remove most of the heatsinks I use (requiring removal of the motherboard in most cases), I just don't.

...and your printer is older than all of it. I had a 4L until I got the current CP2025.

;) I always welcome a close fight.

Indeed. I had to turn on another machine ;)

Thor was not awful. I'm not a big fantasy guy, but just one plot twist shouldn't be too much to hope for.

Lunar, Another reason to slipstream as many updates as possible is the dreaded <> folder, which stores all the old versions of DLLs and other crap from before updates. The only completely safe way to reduce the size of this folder is to do an install with all the updates already in it. Also, if...

In order to get USB3 on the front of a case, I ended up sticking the USBA plug out the back and jacking it directly into the USB3 header.

That sounds about right. I tell users who have gone 3 years that they are beyond the average and those whose machines have done 5 without failure to count themselves lucky and start planning for the worst.

That is a good idea blakerwry, I'll see what I can do. Thanks!

I'll look into that USB NIC idea...that might work. I've been using a fanless VIA miniITX system out there in an air-tight finned aluminum enclosure with a CF card for storage. Very low power draw, very low heat output, very solid. Still dies. I don't want anything out there to be fancy...

That looks great.

Agreed. Last time I worked on one, it had more disk IO after sitting idle for hours than my workstation while I was using it.

All the other sites use Smoothwall. I like it, those who need to use it are familiar with it, and it's VPN connections aren't directly compatible with other appliances. VMWare workstation is a software license, and as such would not be destroyed on site. Simply restore from image and continue...

The problem is not in the cloning software, it is in making sure the laptop already has the storage drivers for the desktop installed before you start. This can be a pretty challenging process, it is probably easier to install the OS/Apps from scratch on the desktop and move the data.

There really isn't any place out here that is less hazardous, and I want to maintain the standalone fail-over capability, so RDCing back to the main office is out. I really need the VM to run on a windows machine that can still be used as a windows machine. From what I can tell this cuts down...

They do, but it is cheaper to replace everything every 6 months so long as I keep it simple and generic. The power out here is so bad that it has blown industrial motors and detonated light bulbs. Keeping it cheap and disposable is probably prudent.

An interesting idea, but ESXi won't let you expose one of the VMs to the console. If they did that would be awesome. The machine running the VM also needs to be a workstation.

I have a really nasty industrial location. Kills computers quarterly. I'd love to get the site down to two computers so there would be less to replace. Having the Smoothwall on a VM would also make it easier to backup and maintain. Topping that, the HCL for Smoothwalls is getting trickier to...

Particularly the 6-core variety. I'm sending BR MKVs to be resampled just for fun.

I'm exploring this idea further. The machine has 2 NICs on board, and I would like to assign one as RED and one as GREEN. The RED NIC I would like to be isolated from the host OS (Windows) so that only the VM can see it and interact with it. The GREEN NIC I would like to be shared with the...

Officially, MS OEM software is tied to a motherboard. If you lose the motherboard, you lose your software license.

I thought in colder climates you just went to a ground-source heat pump rather than an air-source one?

If it isn't going to be needed regularly, you can rent one from your cell provider. Just goes onto your regular bill when you get back.

High efficiency heat pump + solar panels. Why pay others for anything?

...and Howell just hit 3k. Thanks for being part of the scene. ;)

A bicycle headlight. Nice unit, just would no longer hold a charge.

He didn't say he bought it ;)

Thanks. E-bay is difficult due to Paypal, but I'll see what I can do.

I did shut down F@H, but I don't at this point...doesn't seem to make a difference on my "Home 1.5" machine. The graphics are not bad.

Batteries. I'm looking for some of these (2, actually). And can't find a place to buy less than 1,000. Does anyone here have an idea?

Nah. Single. I've found someone who is interested in CoOp, so I've bought a second copy for my other home gaming machine.

Thanks to Mercutio for 14,000+ funny, informative and helpful posts. I can't imagine a StorageForum without your contributions.

So did I.

Portal 2 was awesome. But I beat it in 9 hours? I'll need to look at the other modes and challenges.

Don't they all?

LiamC's overtaking me for the lead directly coincided with my acquisition of Portal 2. Go figure ;) Congrats LiamC.

While it is present, it isn't a big deal unless you make it one. It is still the nicest of the larger cities in the country.

I hate that as well, though you can bypass it by going back more than one page at a time (it is just a redirect).

And the Clinton dent ;)

I'd be perfectly happy capping spending WRT GDP. That certainly simplifies the debate. I'd also be happy to pay my share to kill off the national debt entirely, provided they required every budget going forward to be balanced.

Indeed. The text with the pic Handy included:

My now several year-old m84 512GB Sequential Read : 428.340 MB/s Sequential Write : 487.829 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 460.070 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 462.049 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 22.524 MB/s [ 5498.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) ...

As Time suggested, doing a write is very slow, irrespective of the size of that write. Doing fewer, bigger writes is much, much faster than doing many smaller ones.

Depends on where you are going. The north is...messy and has a fair bit of crime. Bangkok is just a disaster, poor planning, tons of pollution, and not much of interest. Phuket in the south is morally bankrupt; underage prostitution is rampant, but there is no crime to speak of, everyone is...

At least a large percentage posses guns in that area?