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A year ago it would have had a 10k SATA drive in it, possibly even a stock 7.2k drive. But the SSDs are getting amazing reviews. I'm not even telling them what is in the box, and they can tell the difference. I recently replaced a P4 3Ghz/2GB/7.2k machine with a 2.66Ghz C2D/4GB/X25-M machine and...

This one looks interesting. HDMI into the monitor and then SPDIF out to some decent speakers. What is the max length of HDMI, anyway?

So if I were to order tomorrow, and wanted something as snappy as an X25-M that was at least 30GB, the best deal is still the X25-M 80GB? I'm building a low-end (for me) workstation and that is a little steep.

There is no way that any administration will give up the control that comes with a paranoid populace, they will just change the tune. At least all the money poured into welfare programs and clean energy aren't killing people.

Yup, I read about that. The crack in the system that makes it unworkable is that the Amtrak corporate security are actual cops. The rules for dealing with private security are quite straightforward, and your options for recourse are much larger.

I'm actually looking for smaller 1080p screens, so I can mirror my main display to other rooms in the house without scaling issues. 1080p projectors are still steep, though.

I vaguely recall something about a fire ax and a misbehaving computer. And a steel-toe boot to the reset button...

I heard that he liked to eat puppies, too.

You have that many independent drives? I have 4 (X25-E, X25-M, Velociraptor, 2TB) standalone and the array, and it is already messy. When I read the review of 4x X25-E drives, the part that struck me was the complex controller slowing it down; I would stick the quick drives on the local bus and...

I would hate to see the carpet in your place ;)

Seagate and WD...the two companies I don't want to buy HDs from at the moment. WD's reputation is getting better, and Seagate is getting worse. Hitachi and Samsung just cruise along, staying out of the headlines.

They are technically compatible both ways, an 8x in a 1x slot and a 1x in an 8x slot. Unfortunately, no one told the motherboard manufacturers; they are putting an end on the slots and locating caps in the way of a larger card.

Someone did a review of 4 of the X-25E in RAID-0 on a high-end controller, and it actually showed performance loss in low-load scenarios. Otherwise I would be all over it. I may need to do it anyway, I only have 10GB free of the 32GB.

Wow, that was a long time ago. IIRC, only XP was limited to GPT/64-bit. Server 2003 supports it in all versions, and I think Vista/7 does as well.

The only systems I've run ECC memory on are those that require it. I've never had system instability/file system corruption/etc that could be attributed to memory issues. I don't think ECC is worth much of anything.

Nope. The last few times I have used ATI cards in more complex configurations, things haven't gone well. Then again, I haven't used one since the 9800GT. My last few cards were a 9800GTX+, 8800GTX, 7950GT and a 6800-something.

A GeForce 295GTX showed up with my X-25M 160GB today ;) So I read that this card supports 2 monitors while in SLI mode and 3 when in non-SLI mode, perfect for my needs. However, it seems that both displays need to be identical resolution, which won't work for me (1920x1080, and 1200x1600). I...

So this is just everyone being bitter that there actually IS a reason to upgrade an 8 year old OS? All my systems with >2TB arrays run XP x64. Also, this drive is at the limit, not above it. So we really haven't hit this issue, yet.

GPT is the easy and painless fix. It isn't a workaround, it really does just solve the problem. It is compatible with *nix and (I think) Mac. No performance penalties or funky drivers. This problem has been solved for at least 6 years.

Dynamic disks do work, unless you are looking for *nix compatibility (tried it with mixed results). But everything from XP x64 forward (Vista, 2003, 7) supports GPT...so it isn't that big a deal.

Thanks sechs, that was the one I meant.

I am just finishing a Vista-XP upgrade as we speak. The SATA ports were in AHCI mode and not detected by the XP SP3 CD. After switching them to "compatibility mode", it worked fine. I downloaded the Intel file called "AllNetworkAdapterDrivers_13_5.zip" and installed that. That got the NIC...

I found that going into the BIOS and setting it to "legacy" or "compatibility" mode allowed XP installs without slipstreamed drivers for all but that really annoying period when the SATA ports were on an expansion card.

Fixed that for ya.

Fail. For that, you'll want to stop pretending you are using a competitive platform and just get the real thing.

Eh...oh, yeah...haha... ;)

Yup. I'm the only one with access to the whole thing. I think I'll make our offsite server a "pull" system that isn't a member of the domain and requires different credentials. That way it can pull the data it needs to backup, but no other machine can access/control it.

I have multi-site redundancy, and many-copy archiving, but all the systems are online and connected to the same network via VPN, Fiber, wireless, etc. A virus or malicious user with admin access could kill it all, in theory.

I know that RAID is not a backup, but now it seems that online backups aren't enough, either. Time to go back to a copy powered off in a fire safe.

I won't be buying any of these. SSDs are high enough capacity for my mobile needs. The only spinning-platter disks I'll be getting will be the largest for major storage.

Actually, I have 8TB of data that I would like another copy of. Working (RAID-10), backup (RAID-5), off-site (RAID-5).

Limit 1 per customer....dammit!

The very fact that we don't know what the result will be, and are changing the entire planet in a way that we can't easily reverse should be enough. It's not like we have a backup. You are arguing that the uncertainty means we can continue. I'm arguing that the uncertainty means we have to stop.

But we can regulate CO2 emissions. Just not as easily. I was looking at the 10-year schedule for our truck fleet. Based on the newly regulated schedule, 50% of our fleet gets scrapped within the next 3 years and 75% in the next 10. That is a massive, massive cost to reduce CO2. Nevertheless, it...

Nope. Home Premium, Business Premium, and Ultimate IIRC support this. Hence my earlier post.

You could touch bases with with tech museum out here (biggest of its kind, IIRC)...though they will probably just take the rare stuff.

It is the same as Vista; you can't control it and Vista defrags when idle. I prefer to have control.

Recode is useful, as is Burning ROM. I don't install the rest. It is a lot like Winamp in that the basic functionality is sweet, but you can't accept a default install or it blows.

Oh, yeah. ;) It's OK, the computer purchases will stop soon. The sailboat racing season starts in a few months, and I need to get my boat ready.

I typically don't have a problem getting people into a higher budget after something has failed. I just phrase it as "what you had obviously wasn't good enough, here is something better". This means Seasonic power supplies, Intel NICs, and Auzentech sound cards. If someone has a desktop, I will...

Focusing on elements that we can't control (like our distance from the sun) is a waste of time.

Well, when XP came out, and MS wasn't entirely evil, they had a way to make most of it look like 2000. When Vista came out, and MS was entirely evil, they didn't. The only way I know to make Vista look like XP is the above method. And I don't mind Inspiron laptops; they are cheaper than...

Hey, I did wait 3 days...give me some credit ;)

If it were USB 1.1, that would be brilliant. This is merely humorous.

I'm certainly not going to argue that fossil fuels aren't necessary today, but not working toward reducing our dependency on a limited resource is stupid anyway.

They dropped the price...I couldn't help it. At least I didn't buy two...RAID-0 was very tempting.

The public can download the Beta right now (the link is further up this thread). It will be available to buy in the Q4-09/Q1-10 range.

1. Download the relevant XP drivers for the laptop and burn them to a CD 2. Erase the hard drive and install XP 3. Install the drivers onto the machine Simple ;)

That is true, but it is a seperate issue. Which one of the following do you disagree with. 1. That combustion of fossil fuels produces CO2, Methane and other gasses 2. That humans are using more fossil fuels and producing more of these gasses 3. That our increased production of these gases is...

Just bought the Intel 160GB for $799 from Newegg. ;)