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Write Back. Something is wrong, I'm setting it up for a massive RAID-0 now.

Better, but not great. 319MB/s max. I'm wondering if softRAID would actually be faster?

I can tell you that a Coolermaster Stacker fits quite a few of those Supermicro drive enclosures without any mods. That was the combo for my first mondo file server.

Um, no. Disabling the fan and not handling the cooling some other way would cause them to run 30-ish above ambient. Still in many peoples comfort zones depending on what ambient is. Or just silence the alarm and put in a quieter fan.

I meant, I wasn't supposed to have enough time to start it. The missus and I are supposed to be driving to Shadowbrook for dinner before dancing...but she's still "not ready", even though I would have declared her "ready" before she started. It's running now, along with MS Update, but they are...

There is a jumper to disable the fan, or allow a fan swap. If you don't use the jumper the alarm will be very annoying.

That I completely forgot about the array? I'll see what I can do when I get back to the office.

Don't bother drilling holes, double-sided poster tape does a great job with 2.5" drives. I've been doing it for years without issue. I also wouldn't fool around with 4 separate consumer-grade hotswap bays. Just get one of these and don't worry about it anymore. It also ups your max drive count...

I'll second the 'dude, and also recommend against a CF->IDE in this instance. The headache I'm dealing with today revolves around corrupted filesystems on CF cards after unclean reboots. It seems to be worse and more frequent than with regular drives. I'd use a 2.5" drive for the power savings...

You don't lose anything, you just restore from backup. This is the part of your position that I don't understand. Here is my example setup: I have a RAID-0 array and a RAID-6 array. They each contain the same information. Therefore my information is stored in two locations, one of them having...

I have backups of the data on my arrays, so that doesn't matter too much, anyway.

General purpose lighting, but some utility capabilities would be nice. I'll be doing work at night and in attics and crawlspaces, so the ability to illuminate an area would be nice. Something I can keep in my small work bag for when I need it. I'm thinking of a pair of these.

Same here

So what is the latest hotness in flashlights? I find myself in need of one.

It was in the most recent one. It only worked in the newer firmwares, but all the one's I've bought in the last 3+ months have had it.

It works well ;) That super article earlier in this thread explained it pretty well, I'll see if I can find it.

The garbage collection on the newer Vertex drives is great, no need for TRIM.

Seconded. No RAID, just eight ports. Merc should love it.

That is your problem. They do work very well if the drive letter is there.

Just for grins I dropped a PCIe 1x 4350 in next to my 5870. I had to re-install the drivers (didn't have to with nVidia) but you do get 4 in XP x64

Yup. When I went from a fast AMD system to a C2D I was blown away. There is a snappiness there that isn't elsewhere. And the boards/drivers are excellent these days. The only things I buy are Gigabyte boards with Intel chipsets and Intel boards with Intel chipsets.

I'll install a 295GTX in the same system as a 250GTX tonight and see what happens.

There is no such thing as a "sweet spot", more drives=more throughput. Add drives until you saturate the bus and call it good. Onboard controllers use the CPU and RAM, so "fast processors" and "lots of cache" are understatements. With SSDs in large arrays saturating the entire bus, you don't...

Using the new ATI cards with their new drivers to represent all 4 monitors as a single display (in 2x2 layout) would be awesome for larger Excel spreadsheets...

My main reason for wanting a faster CPU was for single-threaded app performance. It's difficult to max out all the cores for very long, but maxing out one is easy. The reason for getting the EE is that you can't turn up the FSB much with that much RAM, it just doesn't like it.

It is better than the rest of the office. The most remarkable thing about it is the lack of glare on my computer monitor, possibly because the color temps are about the same?

I'd submit my build, but it might be over-budget ;)

A 25-pack of the correct bulbs arrived today. They never got back to me, nor requested the old bulbs back, just shipped me the right ones. They are 6000K, which is quite a shock compared to the 3500K standard in my office, but things are easier to see and read. Unfortunatly, the CRI (or...

With SLI, it sometimes required a reboot to switch. Not very happy with the long startup times of a RAID array.

Yup. You don't need identical cards, either. I've even done ATI/nVidia combos...but that is the devil's work. Keep in mind that you can also have a pair of 9500s in SLI driving a single monitor and another 9500 driving other monitors on it's own.

I suggest going with 3 Intel drives instead. I currently have 3 Vertex in RAID-0 and it just saturates the bus. The slightly faster access times of the Intel would be appreciated.

Probably a 90% chance of it not being the user, but rather a compromised machine, doing the hacking. Didn't Comcast recently say they would be contacting subscribers whose machines were likely compromised? Unplug-em is what I say...

Now that I have a wife, my impulsive, impetuous, financially irresponsible traits are thoroughly trampled upon already, thanks. That car only has 10k miles on it, so it still has 40k miles on the original warranty. Getting a car with better mileage isn't a concern, it seems to have much more...

If I ever open a tavern, I'll have to call it the "Humpty Doo Tavern".

FYI: The G2s do ship with an adapter. It's basically just a metal plate, mounting the 2.5" drive from the bottom and the 3.5" from the side. There is no way it is compatible with any kind of hot-swap, as the 2.5" drive is centered in the 3.5" space.

Basically what I'm looking for is an AWD mud-capable station wagon with a decent non-manual transmission. From what I can tell they are only made my Audi. Subaru still thinks that 4 speeds are acceptable. The only exception might be the Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback with a dual-clutch. Crazy thing...

So tempting....

On the golf course all day yesterday working...low-50s with windchill.

Thank you for all the hard work Stereodude, and a very interesting conclusion! Those results are so non-intuitive, that I would have to wonder about their statistical significance. Any insight about the standard deviation of your numbers?

It turns out that none of my Samsung 1.5TB drives have failed; it was the backplane. I like them.

Ugh. Screw that. I'm fairly certain I'm getting better performance with local storage. It'll be a sure thing when I get the SSDs in there.

For the record, it looks like you can get VMWare's Platinum 24x7 tech support on the free ESXi platform. The only thing I miss from the free management agents is the ability to see multiple servers at the same time. I can do migrations with the VMWare converter or scripts, the free VMWare...

Well, as winter is coming in, I'll probably start folding with my two workstations. Both are roughly the one in my sig, one with a 5870 and one with a GTX295.

Thanks for the link. They make LED replacements to my landscaping bulbs....tempting.

Another good point in favor of a VMWare solution; compatibility across their product line. I have migrated VMs from VMWare workstation, onto VMWare Server (the one that runs on another OS), and then onto the ESXi machine. I've then pulled a misbehaving VM back onto my local machine running...

Doesn't look like it's there yet, I need to run ATI's latest beta drivers to get the card to work at all.

My maintenance/backup window is about 3 hours these days. The backup takes about 90 minutes. If I can get what I need done in the remaining time, I just shut it down. This is also my first tier of backups; the backup system has a complete "startable" copy of every production machine that is...

Car prices are crazy across the board. The 2005 Audi Allroads are actually selling for 10-20% more now then they were 6 months ago!

Just my 2 cents: I've only used it once, and the computer was pretty messed up, but the machine wouldn't boot at all afterward.

Both interesting facts. I have a pair here that haven't been allocated yet. I'll have to look into both of those. Thanks.