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Missed the Thinkpad, but the current review is just awesome. It ends with "this is probably just crap."

Wow. I had heard about it on the news, but they never give enough numbers to understand the scale. That is massive. Best of luck. It flooded here when I was a kid, but the area is so flat that it would need to spread for a hundred square miles before it rose from my street to my house. By then...

Depending on how mild the steel is, you might have luck with tin snips.

If it is anything like here, you have access to the website and can download iso files for everything and get all your program keys. I don't even bother with the physical disks from MS.

On the workstation. Even MS Backup would be able to do it. Have the backups run on the workstation, then take the daily diffs, encrypt them, and stick them in the share to be copied. There is no way to have the server do the diffs if you don't want the server to have knowledge of the data.

The only way it would work is to make the backup a differential, then compress/encrypt that for upload. I know the compression/encryption would be slow, that I why you would do it in advance.

With the server changing IP address and being unavailable, the server will need to initiate the connection. I would probably have the server power up on a timer, automatically connect via VPN, and then start pulling the data from a shared folder. I would make that shared folder contain a...

RAID controllers usually play nicely as you mentioned, but I've had some SoftRAIDs mess around with the beginning of the drive.

As an additional note, Chewy is correct, and it also works with the OS drive if you feel like it.

If it is only B&W and without features (duplexing, etc), you would probably have better luck.

I tried a few years ago. They were so much trouble that I've since just bought printers with network capability in them.

Gotcha. Thanks.

Excuse my ignorance, but how would you bi-amp with a 608? It doesn't have active crossovers or the ability to assign extra amp channels to L/C/R?

I will, in time.

MS Office, most OS/App files, most program data files, some databases. The only files where major effort has been put into compression is multimedia.

If you are working with compressed RAW and JPEG, I don't blame you.

Interestingly enough, my new rig is running the CPU at 41C using a cheap-ish ZeroTherm cooler. I also have some Zalman CNPS9900NT coolers here that I might play with.

My new home system (sig) is based on this build, and is amazingly fast.

Which of your cameras allow dual CF cards in backup mode? I know of a few with CF/SD backup support.

Yes.

My cards are already 90MB/s. I think I'm good.

That's actually where I was going, but I'm nice ;)

I share Merc's distaste for Facebook. All of his points are valid, but the one that annoys me the most is the following: Facebook has recently surpassed Walmart as the thing that reduces my faith in humanity the most. That sense that the bulk of the populace are merely cattle, acting in their...

At one point I built a(n) (R)AID-0 from 8 2TB WD Green drives. Worked it hard for about two weeks without issue, before I chickened out and went RAID-10 ;)

There will be 6-core chips later on, 8-core will only be the in the Xeons. Neither will be out for a while. You still have the fastest CPU (980X).

Intel's controller is faster than the Realtek, USB will likely stay more prevalent than eSATA, the rest doesn't matter. I still don't like ASUS boards. They have never worked the way I expect them to out of the box; changing some random setting in the BIOS or doing a full BIOS upgrade has been...

Nope. I believe the acronym lost it's meaning at some point.

BS. And it isn't specifically MS. My Oracle/Sun rep called today to offer training on cloud-something. Normally I'm not so short with him.

The R in RAID stands for redundant. Therefore, the R does not belong. I leave it to avoid confusion.

What is your concern?

Being able to run with a single drive (or a RAID-1 of them) would be nice.

Grrr. Back in stock with free shipping for about 30 minutes. Not long enough. :(

Ram prices @ 1 year low.

Sold out. Crap.

So that is what is required, no? The TX-NR708 is only $550 @ Newegg right now. In the cart as we speak.

The amp is 100W @ 8 ohms per channel, and the speakers are 125W @ 4 ohms. Not sure how that works.

The Onkyo site has a semi-decent way of explaining what you get with every upgrade. The next version up gives Pandora and USB support, which would be a waste considering the primary input is a computer. The one I'm looking at already has 7.2 support, HDMI 1.4a, Faroudja DCDi upconversion, and...

Looking for a place to buy them, and there is a massive price difference between vendors, with the usual suspects being on the high end (Crutchfield - $450, Safe and Sound - $220). Any tips?

Wow, what a coincidence. It makes sense to have a pair in the center, but while I don't have anything in the center, is there a trick to make my surround sound stuff work through just the stereo set?

I've also just about settled on some Polk LC80i speakers for the home theater. This avoids the cabinet depth issues we had discussed earlier. They seem to get good reviews, and are just far enough out of my budget that I might be able to swing 2 channels soon, a center in a while, and surrounds...

Look on the bright side; it will take that much longer to reach any cap by your ISP ;) I've decided to run a pair of torrent machines, a "high risk" that runs through BTGuard and a "low risk" that doesn't. Not exactly sure what criteria to use, but recent releases of anything are certainly high...

I've found myself in possession of two Onkyo TX-8255 stereo receivers that I would like to use to power the speakers in the rest of the house. I'm planning on just stacking them on top of each other, and on top of the TX-SR507 and another surround capable unit (TBD) for the rooms with video. Of...

Got BTGuard, but I've encountered some issues. 1. Using their encryption, speed sucks. I'm managing 8kB/s instead of 2MB/s. Are you confident that the proxy is sufficient? 2. No incoming connections, so any service that is ratio based (TVTorrents, for example) won't work. What is your experience?

But there is a difference between 2TB and 3TB and there isn't one between 3TB and 4TB. Were you to produce a matrix of technologies which support each capacity, the list would have significant differences between 2TB and 3TB, and no differences between 3TB and 4TB+. IIRC, there isn't another...

Except that it has. Just because they don't have a good excuse seems irrelevant. Home server can't handle drives larger than 2TB, many RAID cards can't handle them either. But I suspect that you knew this, so the position you took in your last post seems curious.

Indeed. I wish you the best. Siting here playing pictionary with family and friends. Good times.

A thanks to time for all of his...time.

May the next year be better than the last for everyone here, even Merc ;)

Time to step up, Coug. That looks like a permanent investment on his part.

AFAIK, SATA is a subset of the SAS command set.