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OK. Yes, this programs works with the settings named above. It does still show the error message when pressing either button, it isn't saving it's settings, and I'm still nervous about powering down a mounted drive, but the rest is working perfectly. Thank you so much!

Can't sleep. This sucks.

Additionally, does anyone have suggestions about what to do to be sure there is no activity to the drive when I power it down? 3Ware suggest removing the drive letter, but it would still be shared, no? How do you unmount a drive in Windows?

Yay! Have some error messages! Situation: launcher.exe copied to c:\Program Files (x86)\ Ran the app from that location Entered the following lines to the "Settings" Tab: C:\Program Files\AMCC\CLI\tw_cli.exe /c0 rescan /c0 commit Then I pressed the "Prepare to Stop Array" button and...

That's nothing, imagine a Beowolf cluster of these...it will sound like a swarm of bees from hell...

Thanks for the tip CougTek.

It doesn't max my cores on minimize, but it does consume about 12MB of memory. Not an issue (the desktop window manager alone is taking 260MB), and I have plenty, just letting you know in case that wasn't expected.

After my Russia trip, I will never again be carrying only one body to something important. I will have two bodies, likely one with the 10-22 and the other with the 75-300 as the default configuration, swapping primes and a midrange zoom into the one least likely to be useful for a situation.

Yup, but it sounds like a chainsaw.

Sounds like XP is the OS for you.

You got it Handruin. I have the CLI installed at that location, but they won't give me the API. Your application ran fine, so no need to optimize for 64-bit-ness. Everything sounds great so far.

Oh, and the CLI lives in it's default folder, at C:\Program Files\AMCC\CLI

Unfortunatly, I can't have the API. But the rescan looks to do exactly what I want, and the commit and flush commands are darn useful as well. It will probably be broken down into a "start" and "stop" sequence with a prompt "Please turn on the array" before a rescan and an "it is now safe to...

Synergy seems amazing...I'll have to check that out more.

Thanks for the heads-up Gilbo, I'll be getting on that upgrade as well...

I use a sledge, 12lb (5.5kg). One shot per drive is enough, and it effectively convinces the client that their data is secure.

Sweet, thanks Handy. It even has a right-click menu from the system tray (very cool).

That would be in a public restroom? A 'stall' as I believe they are called? In that case, no. I have, however fallen asleep in the shower and split my head on the hot water knob before hitting the floor. Nothing better than waking up in a pool of blood ;)

Nah, I've found perhaps a hundred that I've liked. Not a good percentage, I'll grant you ;)

It seems that they meant the CLI was on the CD (which it is, and the manual for it is here). I've sent a more specific e-mail now, and hope to get a better answer.

Meh. One week every few years to add capacity, and the rest of the time I don't need to worry about distributing the data or explaining to the S.O. why the movies are on drive M except for the documentaries because they didn't fit...so they are on drive T with the TV shows... I will happily...

If it is anywhere near as bad in Beijing as it was when I was there, even pictures from the bleachers will be hazy; 30m+ is about as far as you could go and get a clear shot.

For anyone who missed the joke...

I really appreciate the thought/effort, and I will get to it soon. For the record, I won't want to test anything until the array finishes rebuilding. 5 days so far and it's at 48%.

I don't know what the CPU cost would be for resizing files on the fly, but it is likely worthwhile to only cache the popular ones in every size. I keep my images as close to the 10MB/image limit as possible and currently have 590 images uploaded.

700k is plenty for Vonage. It matters more what else you are doing at the time. If you are gaming online or downloading stuff on Bittorrent, it really doesn't matter how much bandwidth you have. If you are just surfing around, it also doesn't matter how much bandwidth you have.

The mentioned something about it being on the CD, but I haven't looked yet. Work has been really crazy lately. Sorry.

There is a governor on the modem, the question is whether it is set above what your cable supports or not.

Very likely. I've heard they prosecute that stuff rather thoroughly. Plus, if the cabling sucks, I doubt the modem is capping anything.

...and that they have a data store that grows at that rate long term...1.4TB/hour...holy crap.

For as long as I've been looking (about 30 minutes), Flickr has been averaging 6000+ pictures uploaded per minute. Taking the broad leap that this is an actual average, and a broader leap that the average filesize is about 4MB, that means that their download speed is at least 400MB/s...sweet.

Well, if you use a new OS and turn off the new features, you end up with...not much. ;)

And my array hasn't even finished initializing yet...

The most fundamental difference between DSL and cable: Cable is one large pipe for you and all your neighbors, DSL is a smaller pipe just for you. Typically this doesn't matter because the local pipe is big enough and the ISP is oversold on bandwidth anyway. That doesn't seem to be the case...

Gaah! *Bangs head against wall*

Nice find Uda. If only I had any excuse to dump the MFC I have now...

Nice find Uda. If only I had any excuse to dump the MFC I have now...

If you haven't made changes to your system, you likely aren't the issue. As Blake and Bozo said, the biggest differences are the webservers and the ISP itself. The tech (DSL/Cable/whatever) makes very little difference for simple surfing. Even a $500/mo T-1 gives timeouts if the 'net in general...

Gotta love a helpful (or at least immobile) subject... I like the top composition better.

I used to run CrysatalCPUID to dynamically underclock/volt my system. I suspect you currently have your system underclocked/volted as far as it will go, but there is no reason not to have some extra horsepower for a few seconds when you need it ;)

I have an Intel DG31PR motherboard, 1.8Ghz single-core Celeron (35W max), and an Antec Earthwatts 380W PSU here that were purchased with the specific intent of being low power. Of course, I never ended up using them. Who knows what could be done with some underclocking...I may give it a shot...

The fans would be good for 3-4 watts, not really worth the risk. The biggest improvement would be to replace all those drives with 1 or 2 drives, bonus points for using 2x500GB 2.5" in RAID-1 for data protection. That would save you a whole lot. Paying for itself? I don't think so.

Those do look interesting...

I wish they were doing something like this around here; the offshore farms would work very well, and I would love to sail out and have a look.

This worked great. Install, update, full scan, delete.

I'll still be able to return the drive, but the SATA cable has had it ;) I'll have pictures later.

And right in time for a timely post, I just broke the SATA data connector on a 750GB SATA hard drive. That was part of the temporary RAID-0 that houses all my data. Fortunatly, I've managed to manually wire the data pins to where they are supposed to go, and I'll have the last of my data back...

I suspect it can handle 40 miles...for the rest I'll have my solar panels ready to go ;)

I hadn't heard about it, but I've been ordering from Newegg or Amazon...so I'm further down the inventory chain...