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I found this, humorously titled "VPN (the easy way)". Is that what you mean? Or is there an actually easy way?

If it weren't for the power requirements, Smoothwall would be my #1 choice. I have a VIA EPIA system sitting here as a last resort. If I could just hook up two small boxes, that would be great. I know that DD-WRT supports VPN stuff, but it is far from simple.

That was my first guess, Fushigi. Any recommendations on an appliance that could manage that? It seems a really simple task, and I'd hate to stick a computer in when I don't have to (one of the locations is a solar-powered tower, less power draw is better).

That would be my first guess. It would also be the reason I wouldn't consider buying. If the brains are cashing out, then even if it wasn't time to jump ship, it will behave differently with someone else in control.

We will be using another companies WAN infrastructure to reach a branch office. I have an Ethernet port to their network at both of my offices. Main office <-> Their network <-> Our Branch Office 192.168.168.2 <-> whatever <-> 192.168.168.3 I can ping directly across the link, so there isn't...

Ordered, along with some 2x4' surface mount fixtures for my workbench.

Have a case of those 960s you linked in the shopping cart...probably tomorrow.

Never bothered myself, but I would be interested in your results.

I just read a chunk of that article. It and your post confirm something that I have felt (high CRI doesn't explicitly make a bulb good). Can you point me in the direction of some quality linear tubes? I don't know the type, they are in my office fixtures (built 5 years ago, 4' long). I'm looking...

I have heard the same thing, though all my machines (even my servers) just use the onboard NIC. If I were to get an add-on NIC, I would be looking for one with hardware offloading of stuff and perhaps encryption acceleration.

There was an article somewhere that talked about the eye-candy in 7 being good at distracting you from the slowness. Showing the desktop before you can do anything, splitting the startup tasks between before/after login, misc shiny/swirly bits while it scrambles to load your app. But it isn't...

If there is a lot going on here, I can manage 20 in a day. But I think that is my max. The post counts here are mainly limited because the number of conversations is limited. Not a bad thing, I like being able to read everything, and the S/N is the best anywhere. But it will keep the post...

That actually looks pretty good, and has a number of the features I like in mine.

Yeah, over 42k posts in 5 years...crazy.

That is one of the reasons I'm more tempted to put it into production (albeit a heavy load), that way at least I get the benefit of it before it croaks. I was tempted to do it with an -E, -M and OCZ Vertex, but I'm getting cold feet.

Could it log SMART values as well?

I remember reading that the X25-E had something like 50% extra set aside, the -M had 25%, and the OCZ drives 10%. As soon as the hot-swap adapters arrive, along with some Intel G2 SSDs from Buck, I'll beat the crap out of them on an ESXi machine hosting a dozen DB-intensive VMs until they die.

There are many complaints out there about front-loader washing machines not rinsing sufficiently. I know mine has tons of sensors and does the rinse in phases, adding and draining water at staggered intervals until it knows the water is clean.

Tempting, but I'm doing my best to keep the quality even close to his...

Not a chance. This exact same hardware went from XP64 to Ubuntu to 7 and back to XP64 within a month. 7 beat a completely untuned Ubuntu install, but for everything from startup to app launching to shutdown to game performance, XP64 was faster in everything. By a long ways.

I'll third Samsung, but I bought the top end ones...I think it was $4kUSD for the pair. They are right next to the bedroom, and we can't hear them at all.

Didn't notice, maybe yesterday?

An SSD failing is the same as a spindled drive failing. If you are a business and aren't prepared for that, you're screwed either way.

Found 'em. I have some on the way, so I'll let you know how they work.

Got NFS:Shift last night. My GTX295 can't do it on max...

...And Merc does it again, adding life and knowledge to the forums. Congrats and thanks on 12k!

Glad to hear you got a good deal. Welcome to StorageForum!

I haven't run SSDs in RAID 5 or 6 yet (concerned the parity calcs will kill performance), but I have run them in 0, 1, and 10 and performance is fine. Once a 1TB array of SSDs gets cheap enough, I'll put them in a server under considerable load and see what happens ;)

I've heard at least two people say something along the line of "7 is slower than XP, but faster than Vista, so I'll be switching" WTF? XP is faster on any hardware than 7. Why consider switching at all?

Never. I'm over MS, and am pushing hard to get all our major apps ported to the web (cloud or local web server) soonest. I've already gotten assurances from our major software vendors that they are going in that direction already. I have enough XP licenses to hold me over until they are ready...

Back when I was a SPCR fanatic I looked into it, and many other solutions for diskless workstations. If we end up building a house, I'll consider wiring the house for it.

Why would spinning disks even bother developing for the new SATA standard? It's not like they are going to need it...

I'm glad my needs aren't that complex. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my level of stuff.

The 3Ware is not in service at the moment. Not sure what I'm going to do with it. Indeed. 1280ML with 2GB memory upgrade and battery backup unit. Because that would be even more expensive.

Oh, yeah. Very. But it is in an environmentally sealed rackmount enclosure with dedicated air conditioning and UPS/generator in a cinderblock building over a mile away connected via gigabit fiber-optic. So I don't need to listen to it ;)

The 24 drive system is in a Supermicro rackmount chassis. The 5x2TB is in the wallmount system.

Yup, mine is company bought/paid, phone and service. Really not much room to complain. Just trying to make the thing work for me.

That's kind of exactly what I'm using it for. All the new movies I'm getting are BR and I'm ripping the correct m2ts file and storing that directly. ~20GB a movie. All the audio CDs as stored as FLAC. If there was a way to "containerize" DVDs (store the entire disk, including menus, as a single...

Not really. That is just the local, fast copy. Everything is replicated to a 24x 1.5TB array running RAID-6 on an Areca 1280ML ;)

Perhaps you missed the rest of my post? I don't need it, but my clients need me to have it. That is the difference.

My server was my workstation as well. I was tired of the network being the bottleneck between my data and my machine. Having 10TB+ of 600MB/s+ data locally is something you get used to. Now it is running 5 2TB WDs in RAID-0, and is only running one high-end AMD GPU (forget which one), doesn't...

If you find it for sale, let me know. I would expect it to be 2-4x the $/GB of the Intel drives.

That machine at it's hottest was: 3Ware 9650SE 16x 750GB 7200RPM drives 2x GTX295s i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz (massive overvolt) ...and a bunch of other stuff, but that was the bulk of the draw. At that point I had a pair of Seasonic M12 850W PSUs wired to power on/off together. Now it is half that, but...

It should be very good. It will appear as it's own controller with a hard drive attached. All the really high-end stuff is going that way, as even the upcoming SATA spec isn't fast enough for these guys. Of course, this will be stupid expensive, but I want one.

My home server is currently running 9x120mm Antec Tri-cools at medium. That was good for about 1100W of sustained draw with spikes to 1500W before the upgrades.

Oh yeah. And it wasn't that long ago. I had a 60%+ failure rate for first-gen 36GB Raptors, and I scrapped them all before the warranty expired because they weren't worth the trouble. My failure rate on the "JB" or "Special Edition" drives (the ones with 8MB of cache when everyone else was at...

In anything less than 0F I don't even want to do that.

And you are in Chicago. That is saying something. (70C and sunny, thanks)

Nice choice IMHO. A friend has one and it is quite fun.

I don't know of any that do. I suspect he was talking about the internal light. That and the kitchen hood are both fairly harsh environments (humidity, temp extremes, etc).