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I might have framed "painted" a little wider, but that is really nitpicking ;) Really, other than some minor cropping issues I do really like them. Doubt I could do as well.

I am working on a video surveillance system at the moment...that would be really fun to build ;)

Nice pictures, paugie.

The kids are one thing, and having a decent CPA is another. I know corps are willing to pay accountants and lawyers $0.99 to save $1 in taxes, and I must admit that I don't skimp on the professional services myself, paying on average $500/year to save probably $3-5k/year over doing it myself. I...

I would buy it if anyone could tell me if it would work or not. Otherwise it'll be a PC-80.

Windows softRAID should work on any controller in passthrough mode. I would just make sure that the controller the drives are on isn't even listed as a boot option in the BIOS.

I really like the look of the Lian Li PC-X2000F, but I can't get confirmation that it'll fit. It looks huge.

980X

In this case, two of them will be for video cards, one for a RAID controller, and one for a RevoDrive ;)

That'll work. Thanks.

Product Link XL-ATX Form Factor; 34.5cm x 26.3cm Antec P193 is a couple inches short unless I rotate the board 90 degrees. Tempting. The usual taste applies. Prefer black, no windows, as plain as possible. Low noise a plus, cost fairly irrelevant.

My 193 just arrived ;)

Interesting. Is this possibly a BIOS disk boot order thing? How far into startup does it get?

There are motherboards that are larger than ATX. I have several that won't fit in an Antec P183.

Were you expecting the array to work with the drive powered down? I don't see how that could work...

Yup, I've done Ashland twice. Probably the best in the country.

I usually make it to at least one of the performances at Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

I have a Corsair AX750 sitting here that I had in mind. For sure I will use a fully modular design.

Thanks Coug. This rig's only SATA drive will be an optical.

I really hate ASUS, but it looks to be the only high-end motherboard that is both 1366 and miniATX. In fact, I scrubbed miniATX just because I would have had to deal with an ASUS board.

Is there another socket that gives me 6 Intel hyperthreaded cores?

Most soot will go right through an air filter. The stuff that doesn't will stick to the bits of lint on the filter (because it is sticky, particularly in high humidity) and effectively block all air from passing through. Also very hard to get off the filter.

The ASUS Rampage III Gene seems to be the motherboard for high-end builds in this chassis? Looking at one with an i7-970, 24GB of RAM, a GIGABYTE GV-N580SO-15I GeForce GTX 580 and a RevoDrive for a gaming customer. Seems to be a good LAN-party machine.

We'll see how the price/performance works out. Intel needs to decide whether they are going to compete with OCZ or price higher and pretend they don't exist. I feel that Intel can make a lot of money either way (many won't put OCZ products in enterprise environments), but I would of course...

Yeah...2600...that is what I meant :( I didn't know any of them didn't make it to 4Ghz.

That price is low enough to get me interested. I still haven't had any issues with the RevoDrives, but I wouldn't mind keeping my machines all Intel.

Is the i7-2700k not still the price/performance leader once you get a decent OC from it?

Very much ouch.

I just run SATA->eSATA cables out a missing bracket.

JBOD is "just a bunch of drives". If you manage the RAID arrays in Windows you will have an easier time of it. It does support JBOD (spanning) and RAID-0 (striping) in all versions that can handle dynamic disks.

If you have an account on the Facebook, you can try my time-waster of choice.

I avoid confusion by having one drive be letter "z" and the other be drive letter "y". The letter is the same no matter which computer you are on. Z is the master and Y is the backup, even if you are working on the computer with the Y drive on it, you still work on the Z drive. I was toying with...

Sweet. I'm looking forward to the winter, I've amassed a nice collection of 6-core Intel machines.

Sounds pretty good. You could keep the two RAID-0 arrays on the same computer as well, but I have had a PSU go ballistic and take everything with it before. I like having the two copies of the data on two different machines. Better protection against viruses as well.

500MB/s is the benchmark score test. The fastest I can do between the two RAID0 arrays over the network is 118MB/s.

GbE is fine if you can get it set right. If one of your computers has two GbE NICs on it, the easiest way is to bridge them in Windows and then connect one using a crossover directly to the other. "Rest of Network" -> "Regular Cable" -> "Computer with 2 NICs bridged" -> "Crossover Cable" ->...

What complexity and mediocre performance? 500MB/s isn't bad. What do you use for backups now?

So long as the two RAID-0 arrays are on different computers with a time-delayed (or manual) backup, it is far more secure than 10 or 01.

The drives were fine. One was a blown motherboard, the other was an OS change.

If the drives are OK, just plug them into another computer and import the array. Done it several times.

I'll mix brands. I have no problem with that, particularly with Windows-based "soft-raid".

I have 2 6-disk RAID-0 arrays with Hitachi 3TB drives, and I get 500MB/s+ read and write. Better than single drives, that's for sure.

I never mentioned RAID-5 or RAID-6. Those, as you say, waste space. I mentioned RAID-0, which is not far from JBOD in terms of reliability and much faster. You still get to use all your space and consolidate drive letters. The only drawbacks are that you need to use drives of the same size and...

I have built perfectly good dual-core atom machines with healthy amounts of RAM and SSDs to good effect. Very quiet, very low power consumption, very small. Depending on the video options, it could hold it's own. I don't know what the current winner is in the low-power CPU, but I think it is AMD?

Is 10 enough?

It is a lot of work. And that house has two full racks, not including the phone and lighting control system which fill a 20'x6' wall in the attic with equipment cabinets.

DNS

This is one of the home theater rigs that I handle. Note that the satellite receivers didn't fit in the rack and are buried in the back.

Can't do it. Companies require infrastructure and cost the state and feds money. They should cover those costs. And to restate what I wrote earlier, we will never have the lowest corporate tax rate so long as their are countries who will collect some tiny amount of money (practically a bribe)...

She knows ;) She actually set up that arrangement when I told her I was working on my Pilot's license.