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My MSDN expired right before Server 2008 :( otherwise I would be all over it. I would still be on XP Pro, but for needing >4GB of RAM and >2TB partitions.

They are for the OS and most commonly used apps. Currently on the array are: Vista x64 GRID (driving simulator) Photoshop CS3 Firefox PTGui Photomatix Canon DPP Winamp With the exceptions of the top three, everything else is very small and loads very fast. The rest of the heavy apps (Office...

For those curious as to how I can add power supplies without worrying about space, just check my sig. timwhit, just show your GF the last picture on my sig...it looks pretty!

In essence, that is what the cable Bozo linked to does. The only cables that cross are the ones to power the PSU up and down (take a look at the zoomed picture). All other rails are not connected.

Interesting tidbit. I couldn't find a way to directly disable Hibernation in Vista (and save the 8GB of hard drive space). But when I ran Disk Cleanup, it let me delete the Hibernation file and disabled hibernation for me. Sweet!

Excellent find! Thanks Bozo!

That was my thought, I was even thinking of experimenting with powering off the 12 750GB HDDs and 3 120mm fans that drive them when I don't need the data array (gaming, surfing, whatever). Not sure how the OS would like it, but it's worth looking into.

Tempted, but I really want to avoid this. I need 15 SATA power connectors, only 4 Molex, 1 6-pin PCI-E, 1 8-pin Motherboard, and the larger ATX connection. What I had to do with the Seasonic was order more SATA modular power cables; if they are wired in I don't have that option.

See attached image. I currently have a Seasonic 700W PSU that I am very happy with. Except for the fact that my system is currently maxing out at 699W while behaving in a slightly unstable way. Event manager is showing random drive spin-downs and IO errors. I suspect I have pushed this PSU too...

It's sure doing something; power consumption is 60W higher than at idle...

Yup. About 30 minutes to download the 179MB file. Another 10 in windows before the reboot, and another 10 in Stages 1 and 2. Stage 3 is absolutely crawling; I suspect it is due to the fairly complex hardware configuration (can't think of another reason). Now at 58% after about 90 minutes.

Vista SP1 is doing the slowest install I've ever seen. My machine isn't exactly a dinosaur, but it is taking 7-10 minutes per percentage point of "Installing Service Pack: Stage 3 of 3" after the reboot.

Vista SP1 is doing the slowest install I've ever seen. My machine isn't exactly a dinosaur, but it is taking 7-10 minutes per percentage point of "Installing Service Pack: Stage 3 of 3" after the reboot.

If you mapped them all to the same machine, it would look pretty impressive.

A Windows Dynamic Disk that wouldn't re-mount. Not only was it dynamic, but it was also GPT and had a JBOD of two different partitions. I made a mess of it and Power Data Recovery Pro fixed it for me. And it only took 2 days to copy the data one way! Looks like it will go back to it's original...

Yup, I concede. But I bet his is much louder. My Movies looks great, like something I was trying to write a while ago...

One at a time the RAID card can handle it fine. Having two in RAID-0 nearly doubled performance, but adding the third only increased another 15% or so, so I think I then hit the bottleneck. I'm fairly certain I'm getting the most speed I can, I just don't think the drives are the weak link.

My data recovery saga continues...

I agree. Even if it does do something crazy that destroys the Earth, that would be cool, too.

Yes and yes. I think we will see the releases moving closer and closer to see how often Steve can take money for his brainwashed masses. It's not that their user base has grown, just the frequency that they have to replace their crap.

Nope. That would make it actually useful. That is against Steve's religion.

It's still steep. Though one of the guys I was hanging out with last night might be up for a multi-boat campaign (his money)...that could be fun.

Nope all the SSDs I have are in RAID-0 configurations. The 750s are in RAID-5.

Make sure the RAID card can handle it. I suspect that my card is the bottleneck, and the onboard RAID didn't do any better.

That is a long way to drive with a boat. Spinnaker Cup (SF to Monterey) will be this year, and next year I'm planning on single-handing the TransPac. My boat managed 5th some years ago.

Last night's sailboat race was interesting. Started off by accidentally skying a halyard, only to discover after sending someone to the top of the mast that we had broken it in the process. Then I had a tire on the trailer blow when pulling the boat out, with no spare no jack and no wrench...

The lowest lifetime I saw was 33 years at 50GB/day and 1,000,000+ hours MTBF. That argument died a long time ago. As we know from hard drives, warranty length doesn't correlate with drive quality.

You can't get fired for buying Dell, they are the standard. This sounds like the power connector inside the laptop has broken and shorted. Do you feel like shorting a power adapter to see if it exhibits the same LED behavior? IIRC, on the 6000 the DC plug was still directly soldered onto the...

Flash is a tool, a very powerful tool. It is highly misused, as most powerful tools are. The software implementation does have its issues.

I don't recall him encouraging forcing. I remember him saying that encouraging suburbs in the first place was a mistake, and that encouraging urban living through better public transportation and less tax incentives for home ownership was a good thing, and I agree with all that.

Although I agree that jtr wants everyone to live in large buildings in large cities, and I agree with him that the math works out better that way (even though I don't want it). I don't think he ever said "gov't run housing". Having recently come back from Moscow, I can't imagine a worse idea.

Following my logic, who's to say that the gov't won't follow the examples of Middle America and run up the credit card bills before filing bankruptcy.

I think you are onto something here. The US hasn't paid it's debts at all during this administration. Politicians are learning from CEOs, maximum shareholder/voter popularity in the time frame that they care about does not come from solid practices; it comes from squeezing everything you can...

I think that is the problem. Giving all those advantages yet still allowing them to be a for-profit enterprise was the failure. I've read that Freddie and Fannie helped significantly to put large numbers of people into their own homes. Whether or not this is a good thing is a different...

I think looking to other countries isn't a bad idea here...IIRC, many others include this service in the gov't.

The govt failure was trusting a public service to a private company. If the service really was vital to the country (and it seems that it was), it needs to be completely run by the gov't. If it isn't mandatory, then let it be private and let it fail.

I agree with your assessment and conclusions, but you don't have to be nearby, I suspect this will screw over the rest of the planet soon enough...

That isn't a lot of carbon fiber, this is a lot of carbon fiber.

Who has released Blu-ray audio disks so far?

I can second that. They didn't exist in my area before the boom, now they are everywhere. I suspect they must have played fast and loose to get there so quickly. But Stereodude is right; these banks will only collapse if everyone pulls their money. I wouldn't be surprised to see their stock...

That is what they said about the 8C in the latest episode. Someone at a museum said a car can't be art because art must be made with no other purpose in mind. They then submitted that the 8C is so pretty to look at and so useless as a car, that it should qualify.

I like Foxit, too. But too many pages were coming up wrong. The last specific ones I can cite are the Visa application forms for Russia, and the passport renewal forms for the US. Those are ones I had to get right.

Lovin' the frogs. You are going to want some significant noise reduction, but that will lose some detail. 8x10 should still be doable.

Well it doesn't look like the 9650SE supports online capacity expansion with RAID-50, so I'm ruling it out for technical reasons. After I get my data off I still might test it. Looks like another day or so...

That would work, but I'm looking for the most performance with what I have. Besides, I'm out of PCI-E slots ;)

I know RAID-50 is supposed to be faster, but what if the computations are happening on a dedicated card (specifically my 3Ware 9650SE)? From what I understand, reads from RAID-5 are essentially as fast as RAID-0 anyway (the data is striped, but to one less drive) and writes are limited to the...

Has anyone tried to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on a new Firefox install lately? It is impressively bad. There is a Firefox add-in that is just the download manager for the program, and if you don't uncheck a box, you get an e-bay toolbar for your trouble. Edit: And it requires a...

Did you watch last week's "Top Gear"? Alfa Romeo Challenge

Lets see if I understand this correctly: 1. Investors want "in" on some plays that are too risky to be insured by FDIC. 2. "Investment banks" are created for this purpose. 3. These institutions are able to show better performance during good economic times due to being able to take bigger risk...

It depends on what you do, but it probably won't make much difference. I would set it to the higher speed and run a cursory memory check (eg. MemTest86+, included as a boot option on Ubuntu install disks) just to make sure nothing goes wonky. Most of the "800Mhz" memory I have plays nice up to...