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Because the cheapest 1TB 7200 RPM drive I would buy is $70 shipped (WD / Seagate / Samsung). The 500GB 7200.12's were $39 each shipped. I could have gotten by with 40GB drives, so there's no point getting 1TB drives when they're not much cheaper per GB than the 500GB drives.

I was referring to Seagate's past firmware problems. :rofl: I suppose I shouldn't mock them too much since I just bought two 500GB 7200.12's for my new backup server build. :skepo: For years all I bought was Seagate HD's (mainly due to the 5 year warranty) and had no issues with them. More...

I got stuck at the Seagate part. :bigeek:

I reinstalled my Acer Timeline 1810T from scratch with Windows 7 and Acer had all the drivers nicely organized and available on their website. :confused:

It can do RAID level migration, and it also supports Online Capacity Expansion. I'm not sure if you can do both at the same time. Seems like you can. link

I hope your mirror has some smarts keeping it from automatically reflecting the data loss when one assumes room temp. :cheese:

Are you planning to play the online capacity expansion lottery?

You operate the optical drives and buttons on the case with your left toes? :rofl:

Well, it's about 2x the cost of what I'm looking at with no advantage for my application other than being Intel (and still lacking solid caps). It does have RAID though according to the Newegg listing for the motherboard.

I've got 9 of those already (8 in the RAID-6 array + a spare). I don't know what I'd do with more, although I suppose I could have built another identical array instead of using the 2.0GB F3's. :cyclops:

I believe I'm good now. Order away... I think I have enough now. I still only have 1 in my hands so I can't say for sure. Most are in transit. One way or another I will get my 9 drives (8 + spare). FWIW, Tigerdirect has 'em in stock too for $119.99 each and shipping is pretty cheap (<$7 for...

Uh... What width? x16? In general if it will mechanically plug into the slot it should work electrically.

Now that you mention it... I have been meaning to buy a new system, but I might need a while to evaluate it.

I don't think I could stand the noise from those. :frusty:

It it one of those new metaphysical computer systems complete with OS disc and key?

Probably also pretty expensive. :erm: Somehow those two seem to go together...

Anyone got an extra unused OEM Windows XP x64 disc + license they're willing to sell?

You're sure those are Fermi cards? 3D display capability and video codec acceleration.

I appreciate you doing the digging, but it's missing gigabit LAN, missing on board video, solid caps is unclear, only SATA-I (though it has RAID-1), and only supports power hungry Pentium D processors (no Core 2 Duo). The lack of gigabit LAN and on board video are basically show stoppers. I...

I don't think so. The standard ICH 7, ICH 8, or ICH9, etc do not support RAID. You need the ICH xR or xDO variants to support RAID.

Well, a quick search of the egg didn't turn up much. LGA 775 + onboard graphics + on board RAID-1 + gigbit LAN gave me these 7 results. None give me a warm and fuzzy. The ASUS P5N7A-VM Micro ATX Mobo seems to be the best of them, but I'm not a big ASUS fan though it does have all solid caps...

So, you're talking about a LGA 775 based system?

This is a really cheap combo for a low end server (MSI 880GM-E41 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX Mobo + Sempron 145 Sargas 2.8GHz Socket AM3 45W Single-Core CPU - $93). I'm leaning toward this combo though ( MSI 880GM-E41 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX Mobo + Athlon II X2 260 Regor 3.2GHz Socket AM3...

The 10% off was for the PSU, not the HD's. I don't know anything about a 10% off code for HD's. You have to add the powersupply / mobo combo to get to that price. I think I will go with the MSI board. It's got less features (no 1394), but that's really less to go wrong. I must have been...

Uh... The Fermi cards are HDMI 1.4 and have a feature set equivalent to UVD3. The Radeon cards are playing catch up this time around.

Thanks for the site, but I couldn't really find the sort of system I was looking for. All the cheap motherboards were built on ancient chipsets that didn't have the features I am after.

So, should I go with this motherboard + DDR3 RAM instead of the Gigabyte + DDR2 since it's all solid caps? MSI 880GM-E41 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory I also just noticed that both...

It looks like MSI offers AM3 motherboards that are all solid caps, not just the CPU VRM's capacitors.

Sure, save more than 2TB of data. :poke:

So, you need a SSD working at 300MB/sec in that setup for that use why?

That's not real impressive for 3 SSD's. Here's what 5 x Seagate 7200RPM drives in RAID-5 on a 3ware 7506-8 does: You'll notice why I wasn't real impressed. You have to edit the registry and turn off FUA in order to get decent write performance: In contrast here's what 8 x 1.5TB Samsung...

Good catch... I missed that It doesn't look like there are any AM2+/AM3 motherboards that use all solid caps (at least not from Gigabyte). It looks like it's CPU VRM only.

Here's what I'm thinking: Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)...

It's a good thing she didn't give you a larger bill. :bomb:

I'm still skeptical of 3ware. The 7506-8 I bought years ago was less than impressive. I'm not sure I want to roll the dice on a legacy product trying to use it with large drives (beyond what it was ever tested with) making a giant RAID array (beyond what it was ever tested with), especially...

Well, it's got all solid caps, and I'm not about to pay for server class components. Every server I've ever built has used consumer grade components (with the exception of the Dell PERC RAID cards) and I've never had any issues that I could track down to the non-server components (aside from...

Here's what I'm thinking: Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)...

Something like this combo would let me re-use the power supply + case for less than the cost of one of those 3ware cards. Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop...

Well, I suppose that's a possibility too. I already have the Dell PERC cards though and it looks like a 3ware 9550SXU-8LP is what I'd need and they're ~$275 on ebay. I think I can basically build the new machine for that price.

Ok, so I need to build a inexpensive but solid server. This will either replace my backup server or replace my primary server (which will then become my backup server). Current Backup Server: P4-3gHz w/ HT 2GB RAM 3ware PATA raid card with 2TB RAID-5 array PATA OS HD On-board 8MB ATI Rage...

Here it's $18.50

It's retro baby!

Pepsi did a while back. It was called Pepsi Throwback. I bought some.

I think they taste slightly different, but the I have no doubt the evils of High Fructose Corn Syrup are highly exaggerated.

Go to Costco then. They sell Mexican Coke there in glass bottles made with real sugar.

No, ebay had nothing to do with it.

This one looks like some sort of machine tried to pick it up from the center hole, missed, and crushed the disc just to the side of the center hole.

This is not how I expected a brand new SACD to look. The case was perfect still in the cellophane when I got it. But, that's how the disc looked inside. :crap:

HDtune isn't going to show much of anything. IOmeter and latency tests would show the performance issues. However, previously I read over there that people were having issues with the 4k drives on HW raid cards though no one ever really got into details. Of course now I've got an unknown...

I sent them a note, they haven't replied yet. Another vendor is trying to do the same thing to me too :( Saying they only have 1 HD203WI and want to give me the HD204UI. I told them no way. I'm pretty convinced there's no way I'm going to end up with the number of these I want. :???: