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If there is a lot going on here, I can manage 20 in a day. But I think that is my max. The post counts here are mainly limited because the number of conversations is limited. Not a bad thing, I like being able to read everything, and the S/N is the best anywhere. But it will keep the post...

That actually looks pretty good, and has a number of the features I like in mine.

Yeah, over 42k posts in 5 years...crazy.

That is one of the reasons I'm more tempted to put it into production (albeit a heavy load), that way at least I get the benefit of it before it croaks. I was tempted to do it with an -E, -M and OCZ Vertex, but I'm getting cold feet.

Could it log SMART values as well?

I remember reading that the X25-E had something like 50% extra set aside, the -M had 25%, and the OCZ drives 10%. As soon as the hot-swap adapters arrive, along with some Intel G2 SSDs from Buck, I'll beat the crap out of them on an ESXi machine hosting a dozen DB-intensive VMs until they die.

There are many complaints out there about front-loader washing machines not rinsing sufficiently. I know mine has tons of sensors and does the rinse in phases, adding and draining water at staggered intervals until it knows the water is clean.

Tempting, but I'm doing my best to keep the quality even close to his...

Not a chance. This exact same hardware went from XP64 to Ubuntu to 7 and back to XP64 within a month. 7 beat a completely untuned Ubuntu install, but for everything from startup to app launching to shutdown to game performance, XP64 was faster in everything. By a long ways.

I'll third Samsung, but I bought the top end ones...I think it was $4kUSD for the pair. They are right next to the bedroom, and we can't hear them at all.

Didn't notice, maybe yesterday?

An SSD failing is the same as a spindled drive failing. If you are a business and aren't prepared for that, you're screwed either way.

Found 'em. I have some on the way, so I'll let you know how they work.

Got NFS:Shift last night. My GTX295 can't do it on max...

...And Merc does it again, adding life and knowledge to the forums. Congrats and thanks on 12k!

Glad to hear you got a good deal. Welcome to StorageForum!

I haven't run SSDs in RAID 5 or 6 yet (concerned the parity calcs will kill performance), but I have run them in 0, 1, and 10 and performance is fine. Once a 1TB array of SSDs gets cheap enough, I'll put them in a server under considerable load and see what happens ;)

I've heard at least two people say something along the line of "7 is slower than XP, but faster than Vista, so I'll be switching" WTF? XP is faster on any hardware than 7. Why consider switching at all?

Never. I'm over MS, and am pushing hard to get all our major apps ported to the web (cloud or local web server) soonest. I've already gotten assurances from our major software vendors that they are going in that direction already. I have enough XP licenses to hold me over until they are ready...

Back when I was a SPCR fanatic I looked into it, and many other solutions for diskless workstations. If we end up building a house, I'll consider wiring the house for it.

Why would spinning disks even bother developing for the new SATA standard? It's not like they are going to need it...

I'm glad my needs aren't that complex. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my level of stuff.

The 3Ware is not in service at the moment. Not sure what I'm going to do with it. Indeed. 1280ML with 2GB memory upgrade and battery backup unit. Because that would be even more expensive.

Oh, yeah. Very. But it is in an environmentally sealed rackmount enclosure with dedicated air conditioning and UPS/generator in a cinderblock building over a mile away connected via gigabit fiber-optic. So I don't need to listen to it ;)

The 24 drive system is in a Supermicro rackmount chassis. The 5x2TB is in the wallmount system.

Yup, mine is company bought/paid, phone and service. Really not much room to complain. Just trying to make the thing work for me.

That's kind of exactly what I'm using it for. All the new movies I'm getting are BR and I'm ripping the correct m2ts file and storing that directly. ~20GB a movie. All the audio CDs as stored as FLAC. If there was a way to "containerize" DVDs (store the entire disk, including menus, as a single...

Not really. That is just the local, fast copy. Everything is replicated to a 24x 1.5TB array running RAID-6 on an Areca 1280ML ;)

Perhaps you missed the rest of my post? I don't need it, but my clients need me to have it. That is the difference.

My server was my workstation as well. I was tired of the network being the bottleneck between my data and my machine. Having 10TB+ of 600MB/s+ data locally is something you get used to. Now it is running 5 2TB WDs in RAID-0, and is only running one high-end AMD GPU (forget which one), doesn't...

If you find it for sale, let me know. I would expect it to be 2-4x the $/GB of the Intel drives.

That machine at it's hottest was: 3Ware 9650SE 16x 750GB 7200RPM drives 2x GTX295s i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz (massive overvolt) ...and a bunch of other stuff, but that was the bulk of the draw. At that point I had a pair of Seasonic M12 850W PSUs wired to power on/off together. Now it is half that, but...

It should be very good. It will appear as it's own controller with a hard drive attached. All the really high-end stuff is going that way, as even the upcoming SATA spec isn't fast enough for these guys. Of course, this will be stupid expensive, but I want one.

My home server is currently running 9x120mm Antec Tri-cools at medium. That was good for about 1100W of sustained draw with spikes to 1500W before the upgrades.

Oh yeah. And it wasn't that long ago. I had a 60%+ failure rate for first-gen 36GB Raptors, and I scrapped them all before the warranty expired because they weren't worth the trouble. My failure rate on the "JB" or "Special Edition" drives (the ones with 8MB of cache when everyone else was at...

In anything less than 0F I don't even want to do that.

And you are in Chicago. That is saying something. (70C and sunny, thanks)

Nice choice IMHO. A friend has one and it is quite fun.

I don't know of any that do. I suspect he was talking about the internal light. That and the kitchen hood are both fairly harsh environments (humidity, temp extremes, etc).

Funny enough, that exact capability is exactly why I need one ;) I hate phone calls, and despise voice mail. The only way people will choose to contact me via e-mail for "priority" or "emergency" stuff is if it is just as fast as calling me. I've had to directly demonstrate this to a couple of...

I can second that. When I buy fans, this is what I get.

That "unlimited" sounds wrong. The chips will wear out if they are NAND. It might take 10 years, but it isn't unlimited.

I used to buy really expensive fans and rheobus units (I even have some of the BigNG supercontrollers around), but I just use the Antec 3-speed fans. They are plenty good and really quiet. They aren't SPCR "silent", but that's OK for us "normal" people.

Panasonic 60W(equivalent) LED bulb. 19 year lifespan for $40?

Same here.

I hate blackberries. I knew this before I bought one. I didn't really know why, but I knew I hated them. I've had the phone for a couple months, so it is well past time for me to set up my contacts. I have lots. Hand-keying them into the phone seems like a really awful way to waste 3-5 hours...

That is an option, but an expensive one. This is just supposed to be an incremental upgrade to an existing machine.

I'm looking to install some SSDs in a server that has a Supermicro chassis with hotswap bays built in. Is there any particular bracket that people have tried or heard works?

My handle there is the same as here...if you care to add me as a friend for multiplayer. I'm not very good ;)

It does seem like it is a configuration issue and not the speaker. Playing BR movies works fine, but DVDs lose huge amounts of dialog. It is a complex setup, so I'll investigate further and likely open a new thread. Thank you for the replies, I'll look into a new center channel anyway ;)