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Quite so. I was racing from LA to Hawaii once (transpac), and the night shifts were the worst; minimal crew, everyone is tired (6 on, 4 off - shorthanded). The only thing that made it worthwhile was the stars at night, but if you looked for too long you would lose your balance and fall over.

I just woke up. I'll be in workshops all weekend, so you won't see me around much.

Looks like you have things well under control. I noticed a significant RADI5 write speed improvement when I added the battery backup unit and set the card to "performance" mode. I would expect to see speeds around 130MB/s with that setup.

That is a nice (and expensive!) solution Blake. Perhaps I did something wrong, but I configured an MD1000 with 750GB drives and the controller and it came to $15k.

That case looks fine. It also features an inverted motherboard tray, but depending on your motherboard that should be fine. If this machine is going to be near humans, I recommend replacing the 92mm fans on the Supermicro enclosures with quieter ones. If they are low-rpm fans, you might have to...

True. But they still only use regular SATA plugs on the back. If I'm going to be stuck with regular SATA plugs, I'll use the Supermicro enclosures (higher drive density and swappable fans for reasonably quiet operation).

Couldn't agree more. That is why I love teaching (Argentine Tango) at Stanford; all the students have a solid frame of reference and come prepared.

What I'm looking for is a hot-swap enclosure that supports multi-lane plugs directly (multi-lane is a single cable that carries 4 SATA channels) to clean up the cabling. My 3Ware card currently has multi-lane connectors on it, and the break-out cables make a mess.

I'm going to try and talk you out of that case as well. I have one sitting by my front door as we speak. It used to be my main case (I think it is still in my sig). Cooling for the drives is awful; the 120mm intake fan is completely choked off and the 2 optional 80mm fans in the rear need to be...

The thing that has always pushed me towards the Shuffle/Nano is the fact that none of them are big enough to hold the entire music collection. I'd love to see a 250GB version. Barring that, something smaller makes more sense; if I need to sync to change music anyway, there is no point in trying...

There are a number of 3rd party apps that will work. If you are willing to pay, I really liked Anapod.

After getting lost, this package was theoretically "out for delivery" two days running, but he never made it to my door. I've finally had it, and put it on hold in another city, where I can pick it up myself. Hopefully I won't miss the camera while I'm out.

It is darn steep, but I need to get the Raptors out of my system to make room for more data drives.

I read elsewhere that if your temps are off by more than a degree or two, you might want to re-seat your heatsink. But all those temps are low enough that I might not bother.

I managed to talk Tannin out of one of his in a moment of weakness. ;) I'm hoping it will arrive tomorrow. Yep. And if it is as good as I hope, I'll be putting a 1.8" PATA in my ASUS R2Hv-A1.

Ordered some new stuff from Newegg, UPS next-day shipping on 8/31/07. It is now 9/5/07 and I still don't have my goodies. First it was the three-day weekend that I had forgotten about, then they sent it to the wrong city, and now it has been "out for delivery" for 17 hours! It's 10:30PM! And of...

Yay, I get to argue with someone else ;) (I re-arranged some of the subjects for my response, if you feel this altered your points, I apologize) First off, where we agree: Agreed! Corporations having the rights of individuals makes no sense. Also agreed! A large group of is incredibly...

The options I provided were simply the ones that came to mind. Please feel free to explain your own reasoning outside of that framework. Very, very true. Which is why I only read articles from the most popular sites, and (importantly) I'm sure to read the comments as well. Slashdot seems to be...

Abusive and evasive...brilliant (or not ;)) One of the easiest ways to determine the trustworthiness of a source is to look at their motives. Another good way is to have a long track record with the source. The third would be to have extensive knowledge of the material. In politics, everyone...

There is a difference between being told how to think and being given reliable information. Were we to talk issues, I doubt some of our opinions would vary as much as you think; I am a small-government fiscal conservative. I just think you are sticking your chin out a bit too far, perhaps...

I have another minute or so, so I'll bite. How? Do you already have first-hand knowledge of the event? Did you originally hear it from a "known good" source? Does it pass a "smell test" based on other information? If you don't know that the source you are reading is trustworthy, what good...

I just don't have that kind of time. Each story from an untrustworthy source would need to be verified by other sources, and those would need to be verified. Blogging and "news" websites have become such a haven for fud-incest and astroturfing that I give them practically no credibility. At...

Perhaps we could first come to an agreement about what (if any) relatively 'neutral' sources there are out there, then use them as a source? Sticking to more major outlets might be a good start; as soon as I saw the url (worldnetdaily? never heard of them), I didn't bother to go further.

Thanks for the time to investigate and inform, Merc. Wonderful. I'm using the web interface for DNS management, and it looks good from there. How frustrating. I can only hope that deleting the line and adding it again does the trick. Other suggestions?

Especially especially if you won't be able to get to the array to replace the drive immediately. Especially especially especially if you won't have active fault monitoring on the array.

I just went to the management page and it looks good, what is wrong with it?

I'm setting up another domain for an existing client. tomssiteservices.com (horribly long, I know, I didn't pick it out) At present all I want is e-mail, directed to our exchange server. For easy maintenance, I keep the exchange server at donchapin.dyndns.org and redirect all the MX records...

This is probably your best bet, Tony. 1. Get a basic machine that nobody uses for regular work, it is just your image source. 2. Maintain an up-to-date install with all your usual apps already on, updated, and configured. 3. Whenever you need to do an install, put your destination drive in...

The most important thing for OS support is that it can handle GPT partitions. IIRC, this includes XP x64, 2003 Server, and Vista. If it is an external array, it could, in theory, use any type of connector imaginable regardless of the disk interface type; there is a RAID controller between the...

It looks to me like it has a pair of fiber channel ports for data access, and an RJ45 for management.

I did that for an old place I used to live. Cut out all the wiring of the house, and routed a single line to the attic. There I installed the modem directly to a single splitter that went to the fax and cordless phone. This did help speeds and minor outages significantly. Of course, the house...

Are you after a full NAS solution? Or something to connect directly to an existing computer? There are quite a few cases that support that many drives, if you want local access.

I'll second Mark. My array started with 4 750GB drives (2.25TB) and is now 6 750GB drives (3.75TB). The rebuild that does the online storage expansion took 3+ days to add the 6th drive.

"At lest 10-12 times a day" is probably what I would say as well, though I suspect the number is much, much higher. It's the first thing I do when I get up and the last before I go to bed. I check as soon as I get back from somewhere (like, the fridge) and before I leave for somewhere (like, the...

Excellent. Good to see you around, Merc. Red Bull, nasty stuff...especially if you have lost some of your caffeine resistance. I have actually raised my rates on clients who are a particular PITA. Not the ones that have difficult problems, but the ones that make things more difficult than they...

Just curious how many people (besides me) checked the site many times throughout the day, hoping someone else would post something that they could read/contribute to? There was that one thread in the computer forum, but Merc said the only thing I could think of saying.

Less than a minute is tricky, as many will require at least one reboot.

Seagate 7200.10 Firmware "AAK" significantly worse than other versions. Of course, 4 of mine are AAK with one AAE and one AAD. Doesn't really matter as I'm saturating the bus with the number of drives I have now.

A responsible parent wouldn't be trying to block the content at all. Inform the kid, let them know what is safe and what is right, then let them make decisions. Going on the internet is like going out into the world. It's all there; good and bad, safe and dangerous. Inform the kid before they...

...oh, well. There's always Samsung...

In the world of 1080p programming, I can see where something like this is needed. But it kicking in during MP3 playback is useless, and it doesn't kick in enough when I'm watching HD video...WTF?

On the page you linked. It's not a full "official" review, just some customer's comments, but for objective things that is usually good enough. Of course, that doesn't mean the one you receive will have Samsung drives, I'm sure they use whatever they can get cheap.

I haven't heard of that company before, so I can't say. But one reviewer says it uses Samsung drives, and that is a good thing.

I'm familiar with the sound issues getting a Vista machine to run XP. I haven't run across one I couldn't make work eventually. Usually involving MS' UAA driver and a driver from some other laptop.

Who here has used an Acer in the last few years? I have no experience with them.

Option #1: Change what depresses you. Option #2: Cover up what depresses you. I'm having a hard time coming up with an option #3...

500GB of redundancy connected to a Mac laptop? Sounds like you want a 2-drive external enlcosure that supports firewire. I'd recommend the Buffalo DriveStation Duo 1TB. It ships with 2 500GB drives and has USB and Firewire connections. Keep in mind that since the two drives are storing...

Backups vary based on how important your data is and how much of it you have. The size of a disk image has more to do with the amount of data on the drive than the size of the drive itself. If all you are trying to do is backup data, just copy the files. If you want to be able to restore the...

It doesn't actually bother me, as all my resources are local ;)

From what I understand B&H online is still a reputable place; and B&M has always made stores more honest.