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This case looks like it might be a reasonable option.

I've already got a decent PSU. About the 300... I'm not a fan (no pun intended) of that huge 140mm fan and protruding top grille, nor the placement of the PSU at the bottom since most motherboards have their power connectors at the very top.

What do you have against alcohol?

Without would be preferred...

What budget ATX mid-tower cases are you guys using / recommending these days? (that holds at least 6 3.5" HD's internally)

Nevermind... I found something on ebay that I bought that should work. Not quite as cheap as I wanted, but I'll live. :o

So, I'm looking to buy something cheap that has at least 1 66MHz / 64bit PCI slot or PCI-X slot for an experiment. Socket A or Socket 478 using DDR preferred unless it comes with a processor and RAM. Thanks!

Probably a SiliconDust HD Homerun. I have two of them.

Shooting with an ultrawide angle lens at f8 tends to make sure you've got an excess of DOF.

A few more from outside our office taken with the Tokina 11-16 f/2.8.

Assuming you're talking about the Samsung 1.5 5400 RPM's? Then Yes...

Samsung is already at 1.5TB. I'm not sure it'll take them a year to get to 2TB, but I suppose it's possible.

So recently I had a hankering to shoot IR, but IR film is basically gone with the exception of Ilford's extended response SFX200 (not true IR). In addition to the lack of film choices, film based IR requires a filter, long exposures, and a lot of guess work because the meter is largely useless...

Good SLC flash is good for 100,000+ write cycles. MLC flash is less.

LM already has several of them. :scratch:

I didn't think CF cards had infant mortality problems. They're probably good for at least 1000 cycles.

Merc should be along shortly. :D

My plan is to get the nVidia GTS220 (with 7.1 HDMI audio) when they eventually start offering them outside of OEM systems. I tried an ATI card in my HTPC and it didn't work.

I can't justify the money for either of the two HDMI sound cards. A stand along BD player is significantly cheaper.

They are 1:1. Apparently the 5D had the 100mm F2.8 macro on it and the 7D had it's zoom lens on it which accounts for the softness in the 7D shot.

Someone on POTN posted a comparison between the 7D and the 5D MkI and it's not pretty. The 5D smokes it in image quality. link

And a real HD for good measure... 500GB WD Passport:

It doesn't focus at f8. FWIW, I think it would have been a better camera at 12MP at 12FPS instead of 18MP at 8FPS. I also don't understand why it only has a 15 shot buffer for RAW. :erm:

A few more random data points 8GB Sandisk Extreme IV CF 45MB/sec in Kingston 19in1 (UDMA) USB2.0 reader: 8GB Sandisk Extreme III SD 20MB/sec in Kingston 19in1 (UDMA) USB2.0 reader: 4GB Lexar 133x SDHC in Kingston 19in1 (UDMA) USB2.0 reader: FWIW, my Lexar SDHC reader is a little faster...

My USB2.0 flash drives. None were blank, but I don't think it matters. 1GB Buffalo RUF2-S: 4GB Buffalo RUF2-S: 4GB Patriot Xporter XT: 512MB OCZ Rally2: 2GB Generic: 2GB Corsair Flash Voyager:

You ran the default 256MB Lenth / Queue depth of 4 / Direct I/O / Overlapped I/O test?

Were those all on blank drives, or what?

ATTO of course!

They had discontinued all of their GT drives for a while, but I guess they came back for the 16GB size. Previous GT drives used SLC memory, but that one uses MLC memory, and the reviews are mixed.

Maybe the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX or Patriot Xporter XT Boost. :scratch:

AMCC took a bath on that deal. They paid 150 million cash and assumed their stock options. They sold 'em for $20 million cash.

Fast and cheap don't go together when it comes to USB flash drives. The fastest ones are the Buffalo quad channel SLC ones that aren't sold in the US, but the 16GB model is ~$300. Unfortunately it seems that flash drive makers weren't able to convince most consumers that faster performance was...

So Canon has announced their 7D. Dpreview.com has a preview with images from the camera.

It's not as elegant as you probably think. It puts up a little graphic on the screen with arrow keys and an enter button that you then click on with your mouse to navigate the menus.

The A900 didn't exactly blow the doors off the competition with it's noisy performance. I wouldn't expect the A850 to differ. Still, I hope they put some price pressure on Canon (who is busy playing games with 5D Mk II supply to keep the price artificially high).

Most Blu-Ray Discs don't support a mouse. Idiots!

Thanks for the offer, but it doesn't really matter since I'm retiring the card this weekend. My new array is up and running having passed stress tests, lots of benchmarking, and all that jazz. I'm copying all the data to it now. Here's the final benchmark. It's an Iometer run set up to mimic...

Somehow I don't think that's exactly what you meant to say. :bstd:

Why wouldn't a doctor want to see an uninsured patient paying cash? :confused: Doctors love to be paid cash instead of dealing with insurance companies. Usually you can get a pretty healthy discount paying cash as well. Perhaps telling them you're uninsured is the wrong approach. Maybe you...

Well, if you want to accurately compare different stripe sizes and other settings, or compare different drives, number of drives, etc to find the best settings for your intended uses it helps a lot if the benchmark is accurate. :nono: I'm sure they will. I haven't yet put any data on them. I...

Here's why you can't trust ATTO on a RAID controller or disk with a very large cache. The 256MB data length is just too small to get accurate results. Here's 5 back to back runs with ATTO v2.41 on my 6 x Samsung 5400RPM 1.5TB RAID-5 array on a Dell Perc 5/i with 256MB of cache. First...

It's not exactly what 3ware advertised or claimed for the 7506 series.

I'm still waiting for the dual core model. :sunny:

I use a Wacom tablet on my desktop. My wife uses the mouse and I use the pen. I guess that counts as wireless. :D

Some 3ware ATTO results at different queue depths:

I buy cheap non OEM batteries on Ebay.

I may have spoke too soon. It seems the RAID card was busy doing things in the background which might have been causing the results to bounce all over. Two successive runs on my 3ware RAID card produced very similar (though terrible) results.

So, apparently ATTO is largely worthless. You can run it 5 times in a row and get drastically different results each time. Now I'm seeing if I can set up IOmeter to basically do the same thing.

Yes, we clearly need more frivolous lawsuits.

As long as the key and the version you have match, ie: both OEM it should work.