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Psh, I'd be happy with 10Mb at the moment...

The 5-in-3 enclosures have 5 SATA ports on the back, so you can use them any way you want. The stock fans are loud, but move a crapload of air. If you are the OCing type, your system is probably not quiet to begin with. Perhaps including a complete system spec would be a good thing, so we can...

As I'm sure you've noticed, going to an external array gives some crappy choices in terms of connection and RAID card (as well as costing quite a bit). Considering the cost of just the enhance enclosure alone, I'd look at getting a larger computer case and doing it internally. Based on my...

I never take home left-overs from restaurants for this reason; they always become science experiments. I also only try to keep a few items in the fridge, that way nothing is forgotten for too long. This would be a good use for the LCD-screened refrigerators; forget building a shopping list, I...

Of course it's disturbing. It's lazy, self-protecting, and shows a lack of caring for the customer's best interest. Traits very common to MS-only tech houses. I don't like it; that's why I keep screwing around with Linux.

Merc, It was good to read your post. Well spoken views, that are relatively centrist, that I disagree with ;) I was a republican before they made religion, reduction of personal freedoms, and monumental corruption part of the package. If they would get rid of that crap and go back to a small...

Ditto. As it is, I'm about to deal with the Silicon Valley traffic again, so make mine a double ;)

Thanks for the link...my chinglish was getting rusty. And that is good news.

Finished copying all the data to the drive. Considering it is my multimedia storage, read speeds are what is important. With the drives in RAID-5 and GbE with 7k jumbo frames, I'm getting 9MB/second; plenty for my needs.

This reminds me of some things my old couple's therapist said. Even if a couple start by nearly agreeing on a topic, they will slowly change their views in an attempt to make the average between them represent where they actually stand. Of course, since both people are doing this at the same...

My bad. It was the "K" edition that I was thinking of, and it's for Korea.

This is the version for some Asian country that I can't remember. They refused to get WMP IIRC...

That sounds like the winning ticket. Shame there isn't an easier way...

Nope Nit, you did the right thing in providing a work-around to a possibly annoying and undocumented issue; we're just giving you a hard time ;)

I understand that that is true of 90%+ of the US population (aka. morons, unwashed masses, sheep, etc.); but if one were interested in starting a conversation with intelligent people, it would make more sense to get the common ground established, so it could be used as a basis for debate. No?

...but that is more than their web store. Why bother? Did you happen to notice the combo Newegg is currently offering with NOD32? Vista Business Edition!

Dunno. But the performance pressure in the kitchen can be amazing. I've spent a (very limited) amount of time in some 4-star kitchens...there is no way I could cope.

I've bought hundreds of licenses for NOD32, but I've never even seen a CD...I didn't even know it was available anywhere but their website.

Yay! More polarizing input! Why can't we ever start with what we agree on and go from there, instead of picking the most off-center voice we can find just to start some shit.

Nice find. Thanks Merc.

Cooks in high-end restaurants. Coke/weed in amazing quantities.

All drives are Hitachi retail, except for the 750 (Seagate). Prices are current Newegg.com So, yes, 750 is more/GB, but not by that much (comparable to the 400GB drives)

It's been a while since I've put together a $/GB graph...processing...

When I was taking a massage class at a local JC (I am a certified massage therapist, BTW); I got all kinds of educational software. Photoshop and Maya were required for my classes ;)

Ditto. Keep them the same. You could do a RAID 1 with the WD drives; then they might be as reliable as the Seagate, and you have the same 320GB of fairly reliable storage ;)

My (brief and unqualified) opinion: If you are not in a position to make decisions for others, and what you have is working fine, than you shouldn't care about the OS wars. If, however, you are a "decision maker"; it's part of your job description to know everything about everything and be able...

One of the reviews I read said it best: "I don't need one, but the thought of a 1TB drive puts a smile on my face"

500GB are cheap. 750GB drives are falling below $250 (that's pretty cheap right there).

Legally, you would be outside the law (assuming you are not eligible yourself), but I bet it would work just as well.

I can't believe I need to buy a dell to get them. That means I need to wait for a client to order an XPS, and then add some options ;)

I need 4 for my terastation...that would double it's capacity...mmm

This 3Ware card I have here would likely post some impressive numbers as well, but 16 disks is a lot of drives.

I leave all the windows and patio doors open from 11AM until about 6PM. Temperature range is 62F to 72F and back down. As soon as it's below 62F I close the doors and windows, at which point the computers and lights keep it around 65-68F.

Depends on your volume. Embedded@SanDisk.com is the place to ask.

Ian Hobday...there's a name I haven't heard in a while...

Looks like those drives are ~$650US each, and the controller is another ~$800US. So 650*4+800= $3400. These are reportedly $350 each and boast: 32GB capacity 62MB/sec transfer rate 0.12ms access time 4 of those in RAID0 (of course) on one of these So 350*4+280=$1680 You end up with half the...

Any of them, really. 90% of mainstream stuff is seek limited, and just about any SSD will have much faster seek times. For that kind of money you could likely get a decent-sized one with good STR as well. I'll have a look and get back with some options.

Merc, Can you post the complete specs of that system?

perhaps check the boot.ini file?

Considering how much they spent on HDDs and CPUs, I'm dissapointed at the small maount of RAM; I would have gone with at least 8GB. Further, I would have gone without the 15K SAS array all together, getting an SSD instead.

$7k for a nice system in a nice case. But the spec can easily exceed $12k (like I just did). It's amazing what options like 6x 750GB hard drive and 2x Blu-Ray will do ;)

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This one is user upgradeable as well, but it runs IDE drives, so I could only test with smaller capacity drives I had laying around. It will be interesting to see whether I can add the USB drives to the same RAID array...

Just bought one of these. Looking good, though my network is having other issues, causing me to connect to it @100Mbit. At this rate (4MB/sec), it will take "5 days and 10 hours" to copy 1.2TB worth of stuff over to it.

I just need them to be able to verify the backups. Your client needs a TeraStation at home and upgraded internet connections. The FTP server built-in should provide adequate security for the backup, and it would be separate from the kiddie-killer.

Wife? I'm afraid she's already completed her "burn in" process, so overclocking will be difficult. Though with larger heatsinks (made of gold, of course) it might be possible to run at higher speeds for short periods of time.

This client is ~150 miles away and has no in-house tech. I'm hoping to make it as bullet-proof as possible. Besides, I know not these programs you speak of, my Linux learning project got sidetracked...

One of my clients uses nothing but Macs, even their server is an iMac. I have 7 USB thumbdrives, one for every day of the week, that I want to set up overnight backups to. That way, any- (or every-)one can check that the correct drive is connected before it does a backup that night. I could do...

Seconded.

I had to wake up this morning and turn on the heater...45F (7.2C) outside, and only 59F inside!