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So, I've got quite a few PCs in my house. All are running XP. I'm interested in Win 7 (though I haven't tried it yet). A friend of mine told me I should join MS's Technet for a year ($349) as a relatively cheap way to effectively get 10 copies of just about every OS and program MS makes...

The motherboard & CPU combo I bought on ebay for my backup server did not have the retention clip on the board. Apparently it's optional from Supermicro. It has a screaming 60mm or so fan on the HSF that uses it's own mounting plate on the back and screws. It's way too loud and I don't like...

I've never seen a 15" with a number pad. I've seen larger sizes with 'em.

It's ok. I bought two from ebay already since I didn't get any bites here or on the Hardforum.

Why are you using IE?

The beauty of mp3s is that you don't have to. :lol: Seriously though, I've got way more than 32GB of MP3s ripped from CDs I've bought.

I've got a 16GB microSDHC in my 8GB Sandisk Sansa Fuze, for a total of 24GB of music. Unfortunately the SDHC standard stops at 32GB, so that's the end of the road.

It's 3 years. From http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Default.aspx

You've had them for more than 3 years?

RMA time! :idea:

So uh... the iPod classic is back to 160GB (though in the thinner form factor). Too bad they don't still offer the slightly thicker iPod classic because it would be 320GB now. :cool: Like it or not, the 160GB iPod classic is the largest capacity player out there. However, I still won't use...

Thanks for checking. :)

Just call me curious. :rofl: After six years this the first real chance I've had to do any extensive testing on it. When it's holding your data your not likely to start experimenting putting the data and the array at risk. And, in the same vein, you can't run IOmeter on a disk that has...

So there are the 3 long IOmeter runs compared. Overall I'd say the tests don't show any change or improvement. No tweaks (default): FUA ignored: FUA & flush cache commands ignored:

I guess I'm impatient. I bought two from a seller on ebay.

FWIW, ATTO showed no real improvements when SRB flush commands and/or SCSI flush commands were ignored. I'm working on finishing up some longer IOmeter runs to see if the different settings for FUA and ignoring the flush commands have any impact on IOmeter performance.

Did you ever have any problems with data corruption or the "Delayed Write Failed" problem described here? Microsoft can't seem to make up their mind. In this KB page they say, "Support for the FUA bit is optional, and only some SCSI and Fiber Channel (FC) devices, typically individual drives...

By comparing the ATTO results with FUA enabled and FUA ignored and doing some math it would appear the 3ware card inserts a 15-16ms delay after it dumps it's own cache to disk every time it's hit with a FUA. Here's what ATTO does with FUA ignored.

Microcenter has been running specials on CPUs for quite a while. They were selling Q6600's for $199 when every other place had them for $250+. They had the Core i7 920 for $199 for a while now too (I think).

Just one of the areas they went wrong. :bstd:

There are AWD version of the Vibe and Matrix floating around.

After thinking about this even more I bet I can calculate the length of the delay the 3ware card inserts after each FUA from ATTO. :geek:

From what I was able to gather from my digging online. Prior to Win2k SP3 the SCSI driver in Windows didn't honor the FUA (Force Unit Access) command, or the various cache flushing commands. That was added with SP3 to Win2k and it seems the 3ware card doesn't have a good way to deal with them...

The 7500 and later the 7506 (7500 but with 66MHz PCI support) were the first PATA RAID cards to have a hardware XOR engine for (supposedly) fast RAID-5 writes. My 7506-8 saved my bacon a few times with drive failures as well. I likewise have to admit that I was never impressed with it though.

I believe AVSforum.com blocks embedded links until you have a certain # of posts.

Anyone have any Intel Socket 478 HSF's from the Prescott era lying around they'd be willing to part with? These are the ones with the copper slug in the center and radial aluminum fins, not the all aluminum variety. I'm looking for one of these two versions: 1) 2) I'm not looking for...

I'll also second the idea that we need a few more spam deleters.

Great, now we have spammers posting pornographic images with their SPAM. Can't we implement something where embedded links and images are restricted to users with at least 10 posts or something? I've seen that on other forums before.

I think I found it. link Is that what you remember?

I have the latest firmware for the card (has been installed on it for years) and have tried a few different versions of the drivers (including the most recent beta drivers) all with similar results. Do you happen to remember the registry hack?

What? No one wants to discuss a 6 year old PATA RAID controller? :???: You guys really let me down. :rotfl:

So back in July of 2003 I bought a 3ware 7506-8 for a storage server. I put 6 200GB 7200RPM drives on it in RAID-5 and 2 60GB 5400RPM drives on it in RAID-1. Over time the RAID-1 array turned into 2 320GB 7200 RPM drives, the RAID-5 array turned into 5 500GB 7200RPM drives, and the card moved...

It's not really very crippled. The lack of a 3rd DDR3 channel doesn't really show up in the performance. The missing PCIe lanes on the other hand might under some scenarios.

I for one won't be running out to buy one, but it looks pretty nice from what I saw over at Tom's.

FWIW, I read that Rsync isn't very fast on a high speed connection (ie: LANs). Supposedly it is unbeatable for backing up over the internet, but apparently it can't take advantage of the capability of a LAN connection. Most the data I'm messing with doesn't change. There are plenty of big...

That's what the article said. It's using software RAID-6 (with three total drives worth of parity data) under Linux.

SyncBackPro might fit the bill. According to their comparison chart it can "Copy open/locked (in-use) files (XP/Vista/2003/2008)". They have a trial you can download to try out. Note it does not have deltacopy like functionality like Rsync.

Ones meant for UHF although a few OTA digital stations are VHF. Antennaweb should help you there.

I found this Wikipedia article with some program comparisons.

That article should be titled, "Slow Petabytes on a Budget". They could have spent a little more money and got much much better performance. But, I suppose for their application it doesn't matter.

I guess I should also mention that if possible I would like the backup server to pull the data from the main server as opposed to having the main server push the data to the backup server (I think this is not how rsync works). Here's the current process I'm envisioning: - Main server sends WOL...

This looks like a potential option I'm not sure I want to rely on the archive bit (which both of those programs do) in order to ensure that my backup is complete. :bomb:

Isn't WHS the OS you can't buy? That rules it out.

I'm after the ability to automate the back up of a large amounts of data where very little of it has changed or is new on a day to day basis, but the sheer size of the data set vs the network throughput (even with gigabit Ethernet) makes it extremely impractical to copy the entire thing over...

I'd try swapping one of your front L or R speakers with the center before you conclude that the speaker is bad.

I would think SRAM would be a much better choice than flash, but I'm sure it'd be more expensive.

Well I went and checked the power supply I have. It looks like the main ATX power connector is long enough to reach from the bottom of the case to the top, so I guess I can consider cases with the power supply at the bottom.

I came across the P4SCT but it's $$$ (even used) whereas the P4SCI is much cheaper. Assuming my experiment works will work just fine for the intended target application.

That looks like a pretty nice case, but I'm not a fan of the power suppy at the bottom. I'm not sure the power supply I have would reach to the top.

I saw the Cooler Master Elite 335 before I found the Enermax, but I like the large open grillework on the side of the Enermax version better. Noise isn't much of a concern because this case would sit in the basement next to my server. However, the results of my PCI-X experiment have to be...