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Seagate has a supply deal with both Toshiba and Samsung... However the 600 series uses Toshiba 19nm MLC NAND. (Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6935/seagate-600-ssd-review/2 ) As for other Seagate models, no idea if they use either Toshiba or Samsung NAND parts...

MCE are a CPU hardware fault.... Most common causes in good hardware are: heat stress or not enough juice... 1. reset the heat sink/fan... 2. New PSU... or, the CPU and/or motherboard are toast... (bad caps, dying chipset, etc).

When I used to do IT work for pharmacies, we heard of a lot break ins for various drugs... One funny case was, a brand new pharmacy (opening in a weeks time, still outfitting the store), approx AU$70K worth of servers/desktops/printers all still in boxes were left in the back office, but they...

Wow, we don't here of it happening here? Maybe something else to watch for... Insurance cover it? Or not worth the increase in premiums?

WTF, what value is there in a catalytic converter on the black market? VIN plates, rego plates, etc I can understand, but a catalytic converter? And how did someone not notice a couple of people doing major work on a car? What about CCTV cameras? Surely there are cameras on the parking lot?

Australia has a new Prime Minister - Kevin Rudd... (Yep, he's back). http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-pulse-live/politics-wrap-june-26-2013-20130626-2ovyx.html So Australia's next federal election in September will be very interesting...

Went and saw Star Trek - really enjoyed it. But, everytime I saw John Cho (Sulu), I was expecting him to come out with a stoner joke and a joint!

Nope, not a monster... A monument build of epic technology... :tgif: Seriously, I tend to consider it to be a monster build once you start using non-consumer grade equipment - Xeons/Opterons, Reg ECC RAM, large SAS RAID controllers, Tape drives, etc. What I've spec'ed is largely all consumer...

What about the Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler? According to Noctua, it'll fit on the Gigabyte board, and the RAM is only 30mm high (the D14 requires DIMMs to be less than 44mm). The spec sheet has it's height at 160mm, 20mm below the clearance for the Fractal Design ARC R2? The only concern in the...

Also the True Spirit is next to impossible to get here (without ordering internationally) - I can only find 1 stockist in Australia that carries the Thermalright brand.

I'll add the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo to the list then...

Oh, crap, missed the lack of USB 3.0 on the front... Thanks. :( There is a USB version of the case, just not available here (yet). I'll swap the case for a Fractal Design ARC R2 Mid Tower Case Black (USB3.0), considering it's only $20 more than the Design Core 3000.

LOL :rotfl: I tend to consider a monster build to be dual CPU (Xeon or Opteron), 64GB+ RegECC RAM, multiple GPUs, etc... (Sorry, Dave). Plus, I'm reusing my old nVidia Quadro card as well... Severe dislike for all Samsung, and the Seagate has similar performance to the Samsung 840 Pro. I would...

Recommendations? (Assuming it must fit into the case I've listed).

My wife has been bugging me for what to get me for my birthday/fathers day/christmas present lately (my birthday is mid-August), and to be honest there's not a lot I need/want. Other than a new backup drive (as previously mentioned). She's also aware my desktop is 3.5yrs old and that I have been...

I wish, but I've always been good in getting rid of old stuff not in use. Our current list includes: HP ProBook (wifes) - i5, 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD. HP xw4600 (mine) - C2Q-Q9400, 4GB RAM, 2TB HDD + 250GB HDD Asus 1015PX netbook (mine) - Atom N570, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD 2x Asus 1001HA netbooks (kids) -...

I personally use ZFS on single volumes simple for the CRC and block level hashing to know my data hasn't suffered from bit rot.... That's a big thing for backups

haters are going to hate... that is all... (Little bitchy whiners). I'm surprised they're not bitching because they don't get a free lap dance and blow job to go with it...

Well, it is Alpha quality... submit a bug report then...

xbone spec analysis: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-spec-analysis-xbox-one Early PS4 review: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-hands-on-with-playstation-4

For those that loved Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, here is another one like it: Planetary Annihilation. http://www.uberent.com/pa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omg0JWIgJv4 http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/planetary-annihilation-begins-its-linux-onslaught.2089 Currently in...

Oh crap, Dave's reply is taking a while... he might actually be considering what I put up? (I was only joking).

Apologies, the 64GB DIMMs I linked are a kit of 4x 16GB DIMMs...

I certainly believe that if you want one of the next-gen consoles, the Sony is the better one on paper... I guess it'll come down to what games are available on each platform as to who the winner of this round will be. The only benefit I see with both units being based on the x86 platform with...

It was only fast because even grandma knew the DRM on xbone wasn't worth it.

This is making news everywhere, but MS has done a 180" on most of DRM and used game issues... http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/219244/microsoft-kills-xbox-one-phone-home-drm So I wonder who in MS got a chair thrown at them?

Being silly here, but why not: Supermicro X9DA7 - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DA7.cfm 2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W ( 8 core) - http://ark.intel.com/products/64582/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2687W-20M-Cache-3_10-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI 4x Kingston 64GB RegECC DDR3-1600 -...

Anything in the Xorg log? It should give you the information on the GPU and DVI setup...

Thanks for the input. Been doing some research on a lot of the smaller NASes, and basically they all have issues (some more severe than others) but the Synology range seems to have the least issues and most liked. Any of the single drive solutions are basically POS, crippled with slow CPUs, low...

Just some reviews on newegg about the Seagate option, basically it's a POS to be avoided... Still interested in the WDC or other similar devices though. PS...

PS. I meant the Seagate GoFlex Home Network Storage System, and not the FreeAgent.

Getting back on topic Hi Guys, In an attempt to get this thread back on topic, in the next month will be looking at updating our external HDD used for backup (currently a 500GB w/firewire and USB2.0) and am considering something network attached... Options are: 1. Stick with a stock external...

I also think this should raise another question, are we seeing the end of performance improvements per core in desktop computing? Intel is now using a 22nm process on the CPUs, with a 14nm on the roadmap... but at 14nm the distances in trace width and gap width is now measured in atoms? (30...

I've heard that as well... The $10K fee was more of an incentive to ensure their games were well developed and didn't need constant patching, but $10K to publish is excessive... Even iOS and Android developers don't get stung that hard... Mind you, on the PS3 front, you did need to go out and...

Sorry for the confusion, but it was more a statement of how developers know less about server setup and the whole infrastructure picture than a sysadmin... I would expect a software developer to have a good understanding of the whole ecosystem in which they are developing more than a fresh...

Having just read a lengthy review on HardOCP on Haswell, there doesn't seem a lot in Haswell for the desktop user who already has SB or IB. As Liam said, 5-10% at most... Is it worth it for the cost of a new motherboard as well? Reading Kyle's comments on [H], he doesn't seem overly impressed...

Not this will affect too many here, but there is a lot of talk about Indie developers for the xbone requiring an external publisher to get their games on XBLA with xbone... But Indie's can self-publish on PS4 and WiiU... Seems like MS think they are losing grip on the market, and like all good...

Not to mention it's also cheaper to purchase (per unit) 30,000 of a single connector than it is to purchase 15,000 of one type and 15,000 of another type. Makes inventory management easier as well if you only have to stock and use 1 connector in place of many different types.

Be careful, a lot of companies will use DVI-I (dual link) connectors even on single link devices. (AGP cards and early PCIe cards suffered from this). Also, while the GPU/CPU support dual link, if the motherboard is missing the second TDMS link, it'll limit the whole setup to single link...

Like TW, I've found a lot of developers that only do windows programming with .NET (be it desktop or ASP.NET) to have a lower understanding of the overall architecture and how things work underneath. Even when configuring the servers the application to run on, most of less knowledge on server...

That sounds about right for ZFS. ZFS by it's very design relies a lot on cache and will use anything it can get...

Finished Uni last week (last assessment was handed in on Wed), and start fulltime work today. So that was 3 yrs at Uni, and set to graduate (all going well) in mid July.

Thank you, but fathers day in Oz is in September...

Disclaimer: Highly doubt we'll buy either, heck we're still playing our original N64 and PS One. A few things that strike me with the XBOne Kinect is always on and watching, which means power draw for an essentially ideal device. Also what are the privacy implications since it's actively...

Dave, one critical point, for a PCB swap to work you'll most likely need to copy the flash storage from the dead PCB to the live one. The onboard flash will have motor timings, dead/reallocated sector map and a few other settings to make it a 90% chance of working instead of a 5% chance of...

Start of Armageddon? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/coffee-rust-epidemic/all/

Hi Guys, I'll start by stating this is not an attempt to start a flamewar, but more of an interest in the current Intel vs AMD situation, particularly at the higher end of the scale. With the buzz of Haswell now out, most are building Haswell based systems. However is anyone here building AMD...

Saw this posted on Slashdot... Made me laugh... http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/1/4/geek-vs-nerd-infographic.html

FYI: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7051/computex-2013-asus-pq321-3840-x-2160-display-3799

Mmmmm... thermite.... fires, explosions, what's not to like? http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/