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Nice find. Thanks Merc.

Cooks in high-end restaurants. Coke/weed in amazing quantities.

All drives are Hitachi retail, except for the 750 (Seagate). Prices are current Newegg.com So, yes, 750 is more/GB, but not by that much (comparable to the 400GB drives)

It's been a while since I've put together a $/GB graph...processing...

When I was taking a massage class at a local JC (I am a certified massage therapist, BTW); I got all kinds of educational software. Photoshop and Maya were required for my classes ;)

Ditto. Keep them the same. You could do a RAID 1 with the WD drives; then they might be as reliable as the Seagate, and you have the same 320GB of fairly reliable storage ;)

My (brief and unqualified) opinion: If you are not in a position to make decisions for others, and what you have is working fine, than you shouldn't care about the OS wars. If, however, you are a "decision maker"; it's part of your job description to know everything about everything and be able...

One of the reviews I read said it best: "I don't need one, but the thought of a 1TB drive puts a smile on my face"

500GB are cheap. 750GB drives are falling below $250 (that's pretty cheap right there).

Legally, you would be outside the law (assuming you are not eligible yourself), but I bet it would work just as well.

I can't believe I need to buy a dell to get them. That means I need to wait for a client to order an XPS, and then add some options ;)

I need 4 for my terastation...that would double it's capacity...mmm

This 3Ware card I have here would likely post some impressive numbers as well, but 16 disks is a lot of drives.

I leave all the windows and patio doors open from 11AM until about 6PM. Temperature range is 62F to 72F and back down. As soon as it's below 62F I close the doors and windows, at which point the computers and lights keep it around 65-68F.

Depends on your volume. Embedded@SanDisk.com is the place to ask.

Ian Hobday...there's a name I haven't heard in a while...

Looks like those drives are ~$650US each, and the controller is another ~$800US. So 650*4+800= $3400. These are reportedly $350 each and boast: 32GB capacity 62MB/sec transfer rate 0.12ms access time 4 of those in RAID0 (of course) on one of these So 350*4+280=$1680 You end up with half the...

Any of them, really. 90% of mainstream stuff is seek limited, and just about any SSD will have much faster seek times. For that kind of money you could likely get a decent-sized one with good STR as well. I'll have a look and get back with some options.

Merc, Can you post the complete specs of that system?

perhaps check the boot.ini file?

Considering how much they spent on HDDs and CPUs, I'm dissapointed at the small maount of RAM; I would have gone with at least 8GB. Further, I would have gone without the 15K SAS array all together, getting an SSD instead.

$7k for a nice system in a nice case. But the spec can easily exceed $12k (like I just did). It's amazing what options like 6x 750GB hard drive and 2x Blu-Ray will do ;)

:crap:

This one is user upgradeable as well, but it runs IDE drives, so I could only test with smaller capacity drives I had laying around. It will be interesting to see whether I can add the USB drives to the same RAID array...

Just bought one of these. Looking good, though my network is having other issues, causing me to connect to it @100Mbit. At this rate (4MB/sec), it will take "5 days and 10 hours" to copy 1.2TB worth of stuff over to it.

I just need them to be able to verify the backups. Your client needs a TeraStation at home and upgraded internet connections. The FTP server built-in should provide adequate security for the backup, and it would be separate from the kiddie-killer.

Wife? I'm afraid she's already completed her "burn in" process, so overclocking will be difficult. Though with larger heatsinks (made of gold, of course) it might be possible to run at higher speeds for short periods of time.

This client is ~150 miles away and has no in-house tech. I'm hoping to make it as bullet-proof as possible. Besides, I know not these programs you speak of, my Linux learning project got sidetracked...

One of my clients uses nothing but Macs, even their server is an iMac. I have 7 USB thumbdrives, one for every day of the week, that I want to set up overnight backups to. That way, any- (or every-)one can check that the correct drive is connected before it does a backup that night. I could do...

Seconded.

I had to wake up this morning and turn on the heater...45F (7.2C) outside, and only 59F inside!

There are, and this is one of them. Boutique practice; cash only, ~150 patients/doctor, referrals to the best the area (incl. Stanford) has to offer, all for ~$350/mo.

My system is detecting 3.53GB of my 4GB...

What would I do if I failed an EKG? Ignore it, probably. Considering it would be informal; the equipment is in her office, she has experience with it, and no-one would mind us fooling around. Were I to look into health/life insurance at some point, it wouldn't be part of any record.

Yep, my GF really wants to run an EKG on me based on some intermittent issues I have.

I suspect this is the x86 version?

The response was "nice, by 50 everyone is a cardio patient; but there isn't that much you can do...people die."

I shared the news with my GF (studying USMLE step one as we speak) and her question was "what is his specialty?" If that's not prying too much...

Congrats Adcadet, I hope you have warm clothing...

Don't bother JoJo; unless you are running >3.5GB of RAM or 64-bit native programs, you won't notice a bit of difference.

Just ordered one of these in 96"x60" with beveled edges; $280 after tax (for a piece of plastic!). 1/4" thick ought to be enough; they have a 5/16" thick one, but it is far from transparent.

Found these guys...not as expensive as I thought...

A buddy of mine is going to Africa and needs to rent a sat-phone. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Firefox? ;)

I don't care whether my drive is seeking or not. When it's time for an upgrade, performance monitor tells me what I need (the one in Vista is very nice and easy to read). The rest of the time, either it will get there eventually (watching the pot never helps) or it won't (broken, no point in...

I don't hook up power or HDD leds, I actually remove them and their cable to clean things up a bit.

Thanks for the heads-up.

The ones designed for this purpose (IIRC) are a pergo material with a really hard coating. I too have destroyed oak flooring with a rolling chair; it's not the chair, as much as the grit that accumulates and is rolled into/around the surface.

Nope. A piece of finished hardwood floor, with the underside reinforced so it can sit on carpet and act as a chairmat.

I got a (very prompt) response from the owner of the company, saying that for my needs it would have to be two parts. Total including shipping was ~$750, and total weight was ~130lbs. The GFAF* is too low, so now I'm looking at either wood or polycarbonate. *girlfriend acceptance factor