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It is designed as a laptop replacement drive (2.5"); I suppose the majority of laptops are still PATA. Mine is SATA, so it wouldn't help me there either.

Wow, it actually checks the hardware in the machine to see if you are eligible. I'm not sure that it's worth it...

Sweet. I'll need to break out my old X1600 for the serial I suppose... I hate Steam, but I can kill it later.

That would be quite the uneducated guess on your part. I'm fairly certain it starts with a cow ;)

Does anyone know if AMD's quad-core will be Socket AM2 or something completely different?

The new google maps streets view catches my apartment and my car. Neat.

Interesting. But I'm really liking the multilane connectors as well.

I thought that a QoS-capable router would drop incoming frames, forcing the download stream to slow down?

If they can manage 128GB for under $2k, I'm sure they'll have a market.

If I had to choose, it would be the Zalman stuff that comes in a "nail polish" glass jar with brush. Mainly because it is much easier to apply properly.

The 32GB model is down to $480. I suspect a couple of them will be part of my next system build.

Your point is taken Mark, but I want a chef when I have a steak; I need a chef when I have rabbit food.

sweet.

vegan chef...there's a contradiction in terms.

From the "fix" Bozo pointed to, it seems things just work better if one OS partition can't see the other OS partition. This is basically the same as using a boot manager or removable hard drives. I don't think any of these issues would impact a data drive.

The reason I thought Supersize Me was a publicity stunt was because I'm the counter-point. I ate fast food 2-3 times a day for at least 3 years without issue. If I did eat somewhere else, it was Pizza or Burgers. No weight gain, no heart-attack, nothing. I still eat fast food at least once a...

??? I'm missing the correlation? One backed by tons of scientists and countless findings over many years, one backed by a journalist?

Perhaps Bozo could clarify. When you use System Restore in XP, how does Vista do anything? If you are running XP, isn't it XP that is messing things up?

He being a she doesn't help her argument, and it wasn't a pleasant read in the first place, so I'll duck out of the thread now.

Thanks Chewy, will check it out. I haven't liked any of their newer stuff as much as The Downward Spiral. The Fragile just didn't do it for me.

Fortunately we know where it went ;)

The potential for boot managers to mess things up has always concerned me. When I need to run multiple OSes I give each a hard drive and use the BIOS to pick which one; or just use VMWare.

I don't think mine has ever crashed...

I know Vonage sells a router that includes the VoIP gateway, I'd assume that it has QoS built-in.

yep.

We can talk about how robust to make the system and how secure you want your data forever. Considering the primary storage location for your data is on your computer and this is only in case the first fails, crazy redundancy is just that. I don't think you need RAID at all, your redundancy is in...

If you are OK with the power consumption of your existing PC, that would obviously be the easiest solution. Considering that it will be in another room, noise and space aren't really issues. I'd just throw a hard drive in there and use the Microsoft SyncToy to send things over, it works really well.

As soon as you disable the NIC, it will dissappear from the taskbar.

Vista is compatible with XP, but XP is not entirely compatible with Vista. I'd assume this is all one could ask for, considering Vista didn't exist when XP was written.

Mine takes on the order of 10 minutes to start, due mainly to the 2 different RAID controllers I have initializing. Do what I do, leave it on ;)

For the record, this is the .bat file I'm feeding to smartmontools to get the info I need. @echo off echo smartctl 3Ware Port 0 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p0 pause echo smartctl 3Ware Port 1 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p1 pause echo smartctl 3Ware Port 2 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p2 pause echo...

Thanks Mark. That is the one that 3Ware pointed me to, but it seemed intimidating (command line stuff that's oddly documented) so I was hoping for a GUI'd tool. After your suggestion, I've revisited it and after some fiddling gotten some stuff to function.

Reminds me of the demonstration march all the illegal immigrants put on in LA a month or so ago. My first thought was "How convenient that they gathered themselves all in one place." I'm sure this will be another wasted opportunity.

Writes on RAID-5 depend on quite a lot. Because of the checksum calculation, you will never get write speeds that are faster than one drive; and if the processor on your RAID card isn't fast enough, it may be much slower than that. My Bufallo Terastation is CPU limited to 6.5MB/sec for writes...

Bozo, Are you saying that those programs can read the SMART info for the drives behind my 3Ware RAID controller? Or that I can copy/paste the raw data into them somewhere? Because I can't see any information either way about either program...

PCP&C have always had a reputation as very reliable and loud power supplies. I think they have lost more than they've gained in terms of reputation with this deal.

So let me get this straight...he is saying that men are watching porn and therefore becoming uninterested in their spouse? So is the opposite of this that women use sex toys and are uninterested in their spouse? My first response would be that it's liberating people who are in unhappy...

RAID-5 arrays have many problems; slow write speed, difficulty of data recovery if more than one drive fails, slow rebuilds/verifys. These are only "worth it" IMO if you can get some form of redundancy with very little drive overhead. For my array, only 17% of my drive capacity is taken up with...

Jewess is passable, I actually had a lesbian friend who referred to herself as the sexy jewess (you've got to own it ;)). But saying "you are going to hell unless I get a refund" is truly hilarious.

dunno. I know my GPT partitions are not compatible...

Also, doing RAID-5 arrays of 3 drives is simply not efficient. Use larger numbers of drives or RAID-10.

Does your computer really take that long to power up? I think your two options are the BIOS "Wake on time" setting, or setting the BIOS "power restore" mode to "always on"/"full on" and getting a separate timer.

Well, I have 6 Seagate 7200.10 750GB SATA drives connected to my 3Ware RAID controller. By connecting to the web interface of the RAID controller, I can get the SMART data in the format shown above. Really all I want is the temperature, but I'm not sure where exactly to look. I don't know of any...

I've built a bunch of systems with that board; including my own when it was S939. It's still the board I would recommend for S939.

Provided your RAID card supports "On-line RAID-5 expansion" or something similar, it should be fine. I'm in the middle of doing the same (going from 5 to 6 drives). It will have to rebuild the entire array, mine has taken 4 days so far (out of an estimated 6).

Porn. He's gaining on you ;)

Does anyone know of a program that can take raw SMART data like this: 0A 00 01 0F 00 77 5C 68 62 06 0C 00 00 00 03 03 00 60 5E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 64 64 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 33 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 0F 00 48 3C 44 34 F5 00 00 00 00 09 32 00 64 64 9C 00 00 00 00 00...

Yay. I'm able to copy from the RAID-5 to the RAID-0 at over 100MB/s sustained. That makes me happy.

I have 1 desktop/server and 2 laptops (one for me, one for the GF). I'm trying to talk the GF into letting me mount an LCD near the bed and mirroring my main display, but she saw that I had done the same in my last GF's house, and doesn't like the parallels. The main system has 2 keyboards/mice...

Can someone provide a link to this miracle $30 case? I didn't even bother looking. I've only used Antec, Silverstone, and Lian-Li. Every time I see an actual "beige box", it just screams "cheap junk".