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Grr...my inconsistencies are preventing me from getting a 6-figures 24hour average.

Wow that is a big unit with both fans going...

Looks like a good unit. I prefer horizontal airflow because the motherboards are mounted in my case such that GPU and CPU exhaust air is all directed upwards.

In the BIOS it is listed as "YATAPDONG BAREFOOT" Googling this shows threads in the OCZ forum where techs actually responded. Not good news, though.

The MKV files play nicely in MPC-HC, which is the same app I use for everything else. MakeMKV, in my experience, is the fastest, easiest, and most successful method of getting DVDs and BRs into single files. No AnyDVD, no special anything.

In device manager it appears as "Marvell 91xx Config ATA Device", not a drive at all.

Microsoft has typically been very good at making things appear easy and clean to the users. They have also been good at making things appear clean on the admin side. However, by making things appear clean and easy on the admin side, they have essentially hidden the nuts and bolts; making it...

Had an original Vertex 120GB go bad. Hard to blame the drive, though, the laptop it was in had a failed fan and the drive was so hot the label blistered. However. This drive contained important data without a backup, and I have been tasked with doing just about anything to recover it. At the...

Yeah, I'd rather just rip with MakeMKV, leave it alone, and buy more drives ;)

So glad I don't have any users on Outlook anymore.

I'm getting good performance with a Zalman tower. Only drawback is that you can't swap the fan. Not that the one it has is bad or noisy, I just prefer having control. i7-970 @ 3.9Ghz including some overvolt, 100% load @ <50C.

Sorry, my post was late. I was referring to all the programs you are using for your compression in the first place.

Yeah, I need to start doing some diagnostic on that machine. I think the RAM is unstable at anything over stock. Just haven't put the time into it.

Frustrating that an i7-860 @ stock misses the preferred deadline for big units by ~4 hours. It might be that it is also handling the GTX570 in the system. And this rig is not stable with any kind of OC.

I'm not. Does it log that anywhere?

Nice astrophotography project.

I just sent an MKV to Handbrake and MPC-HC couldn't render the result? I'll try another preset and try again.

746GB is nowhere near the limits for FAT or MBR. That is due to an incompatibility between the drive and your SATA chipset. I suspect you are running it in AHCI mode? Try IDE.

Wow, that is a lot of work, Stereodude. I was considering just sending it to Handbrake or Format Factory.

When you formatted the thumb drive for booting, it likely made it a FAT partition (2GB max). You'll need to re-format that as well.

MBR will not get you past 2TB. You will need to re-initialize as GPT.

I haven't used either, but I prefer the look and cooling design of the Silverstone.

That is impressive, Stereodude. I'm considering running some compression on my BDs that have been ripped using MakeMKV; they are averaging 27GB a piece, and that gets big, fast.

Sure. If you are willing to buy an entire new license as well. I just took the next copy I bought from MS and copied the disk.

I really don't do it ever, though I know it is a good thing. I'm lucky if I can get in the system just to blow it out. Considering how tricky it is to remove most of the heatsinks I use (requiring removal of the motherboard in most cases), I just don't.

...and your printer is older than all of it. I had a 4L until I got the current CP2025.

;) I always welcome a close fight.

Indeed. I had to turn on another machine ;)

Thor was not awful. I'm not a big fantasy guy, but just one plot twist shouldn't be too much to hope for.

Lunar, Another reason to slipstream as many updates as possible is the dreaded <> folder, which stores all the old versions of DLLs and other crap from before updates. The only completely safe way to reduce the size of this folder is to do an install with all the updates already in it. Also, if...

In order to get USB3 on the front of a case, I ended up sticking the USBA plug out the back and jacking it directly into the USB3 header.

That sounds about right. I tell users who have gone 3 years that they are beyond the average and those whose machines have done 5 without failure to count themselves lucky and start planning for the worst.

That is a good idea blakerwry, I'll see what I can do. Thanks!

I'll look into that USB NIC idea...that might work. I've been using a fanless VIA miniITX system out there in an air-tight finned aluminum enclosure with a CF card for storage. Very low power draw, very low heat output, very solid. Still dies. I don't want anything out there to be fancy...

That looks great.

Agreed. Last time I worked on one, it had more disk IO after sitting idle for hours than my workstation while I was using it.

All the other sites use Smoothwall. I like it, those who need to use it are familiar with it, and it's VPN connections aren't directly compatible with other appliances. VMWare workstation is a software license, and as such would not be destroyed on site. Simply restore from image and continue...

The problem is not in the cloning software, it is in making sure the laptop already has the storage drivers for the desktop installed before you start. This can be a pretty challenging process, it is probably easier to install the OS/Apps from scratch on the desktop and move the data.

There really isn't any place out here that is less hazardous, and I want to maintain the standalone fail-over capability, so RDCing back to the main office is out. I really need the VM to run on a windows machine that can still be used as a windows machine. From what I can tell this cuts down...

They do, but it is cheaper to replace everything every 6 months so long as I keep it simple and generic. The power out here is so bad that it has blown industrial motors and detonated light bulbs. Keeping it cheap and disposable is probably prudent.

An interesting idea, but ESXi won't let you expose one of the VMs to the console. If they did that would be awesome. The machine running the VM also needs to be a workstation.

I have a really nasty industrial location. Kills computers quarterly. I'd love to get the site down to two computers so there would be less to replace. Having the Smoothwall on a VM would also make it easier to backup and maintain. Topping that, the HCL for Smoothwalls is getting trickier to...

Particularly the 6-core variety. I'm sending BR MKVs to be resampled just for fun.

I'm exploring this idea further. The machine has 2 NICs on board, and I would like to assign one as RED and one as GREEN. The RED NIC I would like to be isolated from the host OS (Windows) so that only the VM can see it and interact with it. The GREEN NIC I would like to be shared with the...

Officially, MS OEM software is tied to a motherboard. If you lose the motherboard, you lose your software license.

I thought in colder climates you just went to a ground-source heat pump rather than an air-source one?

If it isn't going to be needed regularly, you can rent one from your cell provider. Just goes onto your regular bill when you get back.

High efficiency heat pump + solar panels. Why pay others for anything?

...and Howell just hit 3k. Thanks for being part of the scene. ;)

A bicycle headlight. Nice unit, just would no longer hold a charge.