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Just about any RAID controller will work. The pre-packaged one I purchased includes 4 OCZ Vertex drives and an LSI SAS controller.

I have made basically my entire system HDMI, except the Wii and the VCR, which I can't. I don't want to run extra cables all the way up to the ceiling-mounted projector, and use an extra remote just for them.

That is an option, I'm more tempted to run a bunch of XP VMs...I hate all the crap involved with a terminal server.

20 times a day? (Quickbooks files, they are an accountancy) I'll Google that after some food.

You get to keep your desktop wallpaper?

I set up something similar for a while using that private P2P tool...sewer, gutter, something like that.

Anyone have experience with MS System Center Operations Manager? It looks like serious overkill (and a mouthful)...

Thanks Handruin. I realize that I worded it incorrectly, and the emphasis should be on the DFS replication performance. I will take another look at Servers Alive, as it has been a while.

I have a company with three locations. Each is being served by a cable modem connected to a WRT54GL that establishes the VPN link between them. At each office is a Server 2003R2 machine acting as DC, DNS, DHCP, and DFS. Everything is working as expected except the DFS. It tends to not like files...

I had a couple of those cheap NAS devices at one point. The fastest I could manage out of one (that had GbE, no less) was 7MB/sec. None of them performed decently. If I didn't have all my storage local to one of my machines, I'd be getting a Windows Home Server.

If you are looking at one specific capacity of drives (say, 2TB) whether it is a unit price or a price/GB doesn't change the leader in any way.

lol. Already forwarded it to our mayor...yes please.

The graph above breaks it out by capacity. What else would you be looking for?

Yup

A simple web presentation would be useful for me. A graph that displayed $/GB of the different capacities for different mfgrs would be great. Excuse my photoshoped bogus data...

I'll stick with my i7 965 @ 4Ghz, the servers have 5580s in them.

I'll throw in another voice for not bringing any baggage along. Get a Gigabyte or Intel board with an i5 or i7 and a solid video card. Stick your SSDs in it. Connect this system with your other system via GbE.

Try scrolling?

I don't really understand this whole thing. I know that many people don't like Klipsch because of "Horn-loaded tweeters" or something. No idea what that means, or what the deal is. What I like about them is that they sound good down to really low volume.

If it is Socket 775, I have the stock cooler that came with my Extreme Edition CPU sitting around. Compact, fairly quiet, a cinch to install, and capable of dealing with a significant amount of heat.

I have Klipsch at the office, and I do like them.

Thanks for all the advice so far. It looks like I will be trying to acquire some Polk in-wall speakers via eBay as I can. I suspect I'll be looking at the TCi and not the LCi, but compromises are what they are. I'm currently battling to get an RS4, so I can let this slide.

I do. I just haven't used it enough to trust it yet.

Yeah, just filled a Crutchfield cart with $3300 worth of Artison stuff...that isn't going to fly, ever.

My wife has voiced her...concern...over the size and appearance of some of the speakers I'm looking at. What are people's thoughts on in-wall/in-ceiling speakers/subs? This (compromising with her) is one of the ways I can grow my budget.

Yeah. Don't do the Smart Security. It isn't so smart, nor any more secure then the good stuff (NOD32).

I don't think that's right. I think it would be more appropriate to say that we expect progress. When I go to replace an old camera, I expect something comparable to be less, or to get more for the same money. It seems noise is no longer acceptable at all. I know on my XSi I cringe whenever I...

My opinion is that they can stop anytime with this whole megapixel thing. It is very rare for me to get a pixel-sharp image. I know a significant amount of it is lack of skill, with poor lens quality backing that up, but enough is enough. Often I downsample the image before posting, sometimes by...

Yup. 5 speakers and a sub for under a grand. Decent in this case refers to something appreciably better than what I have. The set I have now needs to go somewhere else, so I can't just upgrade some of them. I am not opposed to buying used, but know nothing about speakers or where to get them.

That will definitely be the route to take if it turns out I'll be spending any significant amount of money. The speakers I have now are the ones that came with my $300 Onkyo HTiB kit a few years ago(1). To be honest, these speakers are just fine for my needs, but need to be allocated...

Indeed. Not sharp, funky colors, lots of noise. Is that an artistic thing?

Will do. Not sure where to look at the moment, nor how much I should be considering spending.

Wow, that sounds like a proper mess you have going ;) The modem should still do the modem part, but I haven't used that hardware, ever. I prefer to keep my modem and router as separate devices.

Of course, but only to reflect the reality of the situation ;)

By being born a year later every 365 days. That way you only age a year every 1460 years. Very handy.

Turned out to be a configuration issue. Though I'm now tentatively looking at a complete 5.1 speaker setup. I'll probably start with the fronts and the sub if I don't get them all at once.

I stopped when I hit this one:

ESET makes the good program, NOD32, which is a great antivirus app (IMHO, the best) They also make "System Security" or some such that tries to replicate all the crap that Norton and McAffee do; firewall, app scanning, internet nannying, etc.

I seem to be running into a different issue. Only the HDMI port works. Ever. Even shutting down, disconnecting all the cables, and reconnecting only one of the DVI monitors yields no video. Leaving it on and plugging in the HDMI instantly brings it up. Tempted to order an active DisplayPort...

Quite so: This sucks.

Interesting bit here. I still can't get my 5870 to detect my other monitors. I have three connected (42" LCD via HDMI (detected), 27" LCD & 24" LCD via DVI (not detected)). The other two screens don't appear at all. I just re-installed the latest drivers and Hydravision, and still no luck.

Thanks for the tips, Merc. I had no idea that PSTs sucked that much.

You guys have been dearly missed. Welcome back. What stories of adventure do you bring?

Yeah, if you could squeeze in a 60GB Vertex, that would be a significant move.

As far as bank/buck is concerned, that is a great build. Of course, I'd try to sneak in an SSD, but it would be tough to do that and keep a high-capacity disk under budget.

Scratch that. That is with the whole rig mounted on a Nodal Ninja. Much faster without all those additional levers.

Not sure how to measure that, MLU doesn't work when liveview is enabled. The camera takes about 4 seconds to completely stabilize after my hand comes off it. I'm using a wireless remote, so that isn't that big a deal.

Yup. Thanks.

I'd love to tell you, but I have no idea what you are asking.

I'm fine with e-everything, just do it right.