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Now that I'll be living in a residential neighborhood, I wanted to do my part to pollute the wireless spectrum. Linksys is helping out by providing a device that can transmit 802.11n in both 2.4 and 5Ghz simultaneously!

Even without the gun, situational awareness would have likely kept you safe on it's own.

I'll second TrueCrypt. So long as you can have the software on the machines you are accessing it from, it is by far the best option.

True, but that would be one hell of a cache for a larger storage system.

Most likely. That board is only $1k.

I'm not particularly concerned. While the armed robberies make the news, the vast majority of these idiots don't even bring the right tools to steal what they came for without damaging it. Further, the odds of whomever was out there being able to hit the Maglite (which was 3 feet from where I...

I've got my 42", 27" and 24" monitors at the office, and everyone knows what they are missing ;) I told them that they, like me, are free to buy what they want and I'll hook it up for them.

Just happened to be at my desk at 10PM, when something on a secondary monitor caught my eye. Live surveillance video of one of our locations, and it looked like a guy jumping the fence. Call the boss, drive over there myself. No sign of a person, but I've blocked in his car. While camping out...

This is Server 2003, so no luck there. Source and Target are different volumes on the same machine.

Not that I can see, but I wouldn't try to complicate my life like that, anyway. Is your Firefox instance consuming 4GB of RAM?

This only went about 25GB in before it threw an "insufficient memory" error. This machine has 8GB of RAM, and the target has 8TB free. Thoughts?

A 2 minute phone call. No identifying information beyond the activation code. I do it a dozen times a week.

Reactivating is easy. Don't forget to rename one of them if they will be on the same network.

That looks perfect, Stereodude. Is that a software-only upgrade compatible with the RS, or do I need a proper Smart-UPS?

CloneZilla has worked for me, but day to day I use Acronis TrueImage.

What I really want is a logging capability with graphs for voltage over time and flagged events. Not sure where I need to go to get such things.

Merc, any speculation on where the break-even point is for storage? Of course, the loss of on-line capabilities is tough to quantify, but at what point does buying tapes instead of drives pay for the library system?

Full strength Coke or Dr Pepper. Trying hard to keep it at one can a day.

So far I haven't been faced with the issue. Storage technology is growing faster than our data needs. In other words, we keep everything. All-in, a single full backup of everything is about 2TB. The offline/offsite backup is still a single 3.5" HDD.

No comment ;) I (and those I've talked about it with) drink sodas for the chemical effects. You have essentially removed the good ones (caffeine and sugar) and replaced it with a mild laxative (Splenda) yet you still have to pay for it.

By 2015, all storage in this office will be SSD. Possibly by 2013. I don't believe SSDs have enough time and volume in the market to know acutal figures, but an order of magnitude above HDDs would not surprise me. Further, the much higher IOPS will allow array rebuilds at much larger capacities...

Caffeine Free Diet Coke is for people who like condoms but hate sex.

I didn't bother with a Smart-UPS for the house, this does more than I need.

The thing you need to keep in mind is that nothing is absolute. It is in the layers of different kinds of solutions that provides true redundancy. If I had two identical arrays of identical drives, a miscalculation on reliability would have far worse consequences.

I haven't experienced that issue, but I was seeing transfer rates in the 50-60MB/s range off the single 2TB WD Green drives. If that were closer to 100MB/s I would feel much better streaming multiple BR movies off it.

Wow. Where did you find a machine?

At the moment all my RAID-5 arrays are 1.5TB Samsungs, so 6TB. I was always under the impression that the risk of outright losing a second drive before the array recovers was the biggest fault in RAID-5.

Yup. It is actually 4 drives in the 512GB and 1TB models. IIRC, the 256GB model is only two drives.

One of my complaints about WHS is that there are no performance enhancing RAID levels available. Your options are essentially RAID-1 or single drive. My new plan involves creating two-drive stripes, then adding those as 4TB "drives" into WHS. I'm doubling the chances of failure, but as I specify...

Nearly. You need to factor in the odds of the backup systems failing as well. I ended up with a system where the farther you are from production, the less reliable you are. Production: RAID-10 Backup: low disk count RAID-5 Secondary backup: high disk count RAID-5

If they are removable and SATA, then they are just a compact backplane? If they aren't SATA, then they are expensive and proprietary? If you want it more compact, than making it non-modular would be better.

Just call them up and have them give you a new authorization. If you want to be absolutely legal and not bother them, do a repair install using the new disk and code. Apps should still run.

The OCZ Z-drive I'm using now is an LSI SAS RAID controller with some OCZ SSDs on it. So technically, they are already in that market.

I just did it in my head. I always got in trouble for not showing my work in school. Thought process as I read it. O is big Q is bigger P is smaller than both Assume Q is the highest - the rest falls quickly into place. Under a minute.

Could be, I don't know the difference.

The video camera arrived today. The good news is that it only weighs 3.3oz! The bad news is that the 1080P video quality is not excellent. The good news is that the 848x480@60FPS is really darn...decent. Better than the others I was looking at at least. Finally got the RockSim software working...

Lets see if serious sleep deprivation helps on this one...I'm guessing not. With that information, we know that P=2, O=4, and Q=5. We still need to know whether M or N is heavier.

Where did people end up with this? I've been using FileBack PC, but it is starting to choke on this size of data set (2TB, ~5,000,000 files). I've also come to the conclusion that I need the target to simply be an exact copy of the original (including permissions), so Merc's suggestion would...

Most server-class RAID cards expect very significant airflow around the card. I ended up replacing the tiny aluminum heatsink on my 3Ware 9650-16ML with a much larger copper one, and outright added a large aluminum heatsink to a chip that was bare otherwise. Even with these changes, I had to add...

The 40GB Intel SSDs are very nice drives. Not as quick in STR as their big brothers, but very nice anyway. If you are looking for snap in a system, consider an Intel chip. Regardless of benchmarks, Intel chips have felt snappier in my experience since the C2D was released. Overall a good price...

It allows you to monitor a bunch of the stuff you have on the RS' screen on your PC. It also has a "shut down when there are x minutes left of battery" which I assume requires the software.

Meh. ;) Who else has had two hours of sleep since Sunday morning at 9AM.

So the odds of losing one stripe of data (corrupting one file) is greater than 50% if the volume size is greater than 12TB? And if the volume is less than half full, that makes it 25%? I'm cool with that. ;) I'm presently downsizing all my RAID-5 arrays to 5 drives, should rebuild quickly enough.

13 Drives in RAID-5 is enough for the reliability asked of a 2nd-tier backup solution, provided you have a hot-spare in the system. From the Slashdot Comments on the article:

That depends on how it implements RAID 5. The older approach involves each stripe being composed of n-1 drives in (essentially) RAID 0 with the last drive in each composing CRC info. The drive that stores CRC info does cycle from drive to drive for each stripe. This was the main performance...

I just installed VMWare Player on my workstation and installed a clean XP on for use with RockSim. Free, easy, consumes a small amount of resources 24x7, but they all do (the have to load their own device drivers, etc.)

:p Indeed.

That would be a good first question Greg, where are you now?

If they would get out of the stone ages and offer an i7, then yes, I would buy a 17" MBP were price no option. But it (of course) is. Just because I buy higher on the price/performance curve doesn't mean I don't aim to be on the price performance curve. Apple computers haven't been on that curve...

Price?