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There are external enclosures for 2.5" drives too, you know...

Did Intel release a firmware update to correct the AES-256 defect on their 520 series?

I believe Western Digital has a testing utility for Windows that can verify external drives. I don't know about other manufacturers.

Have you read the customers' reviews? While I don't believe their computer knowledge is always sufficiently high, the trend is clear.

Found a 4-port SATA 6Gbps card that fits in a PCI-E 4x if that speed grade is mandatory. No idea how good it is, but I've have relatively good experiences with Startech's products in the past. They are generally a bit expensive, but they get the job done.

Windows 7 is listed as a supported operating system on Syba's product page. I'm not saying this cheapo card is comparable to an LSI controller, but it should be good enough for a consumer system.

Reliable and RAID 0 are mutually exclusive ; it's an oxymoron. That being said, I would get the same card they used in the famous Backblaze 135TB server : Syba SY-PEX40008. If it was reliable enough for Backblaze, it should be for you too. Syba might have released a newer model with SATA...

Well I did above 5Mph for 3 hours. It was indeed uncomfortable at the end.

Thanks!

Yes. I crossed almost all of Montréal's island from South to North. And Google expect a walker to go at ~4.8Km/h, so I was not that slow.

I now have to configure 4 network interfaces within the zones, but I only have two physical NICs. With anet, I can only create a temporary VNIC that will disappear when the zone is shutdown. I need permanent VNICs working in the zones. So far, I haven't found a solution. This is only for the...

This evening, I walked 16.3Km to get back to my car from work instead of taking the metro. Took me 3h01m. I did not run at all. I saved 3$ for the ticket. I walked the first hour at 5.4Km/h, the second at 5.8Km/h and the last one at ~5.0Km/h because my feet started to hurt. I had new cheap...

Is that jeans clothing on the chairs? First time in my life I see that.

Am I the only one here eager to get my hands on the upcoming Silverstone SG09? Put an Asus Rampage IV Gene into it, with a Xeon E5-2687W, a Cooler Master TPC-812 cooler, a 32GB 1600MHz memory kit, a slim slot-load DVD drive, 2x 4TB Hitachi 7K4000 drives and 4x Samsung 830 series SSD and you've...

Back to something more related to the original topic of the thread : anyone here ever used Waterfox? I'm browsing on it right now. It's a 64-bit version of Firefox. They supposedly added some optimizations instead of simply compiling Firefox's source code in 64-bit. Unfortunately, there's...

My only answer to that is :

I never did this kind of weightlifting. Too hard on the back and on the joints in the long term. I did lift that on a bench press though and I've been able to lift 100Kg on the military press. I also did lift ~500Kg in what we call the deadlift (lifting a bar with weights from the floor up to...

No, I just didn't find the right number to make it restart the second number sequence. By the fifth sequence, my wires touched. I refuse to talk to their system. Everything should be done simply by pressing numbers on the phone.

I destroyed my phone again. Thanks to the stupid Windows activation center this time. I should create a chronicle of these events and make statistics out of it. I don't know exactly how frequently I terminate my home phone, but it must happen four or five times a year for sure.

Congratulations, but why? Except for the Tennessee river, where the Hell can you dive near Chattanooga? And like most rivers near industrial cities, I don't think you should dive into it. I can't dive since I don't float. Well, technically, I can dive, but I'll drown because I won't be able...

Yes, tell them they are all defective and they should be returned. "Spread wide, Mom"

Ah ok. For such a pricey machine, you should at least have asked a substantial deposit before building it. It's not like you're made of money...oh wait...nevermind.

Who, me? You make close to ten times my earnings, are you shitting me? Your reward is your achievement in "the game". Nothing else. If I'd make as much money as you do, I would probably build myself a quad-node/2U SuperMicro rackmount server with 8x Xeon E5-2670 in it. Would cost me ~17K$...

You're so wrong.

I've found a production server, charged of displaying one of our two main web sites (which customers pay to access), that has a RAID 0 configured as its boot drive and without any redundancy (no daily/weekly backups, not even another computer setup identically in order to replace in case there's...

Contrarily to what I wrote in the past, RAID0 is in fact a form of RAID, except that the "R" doesn't mean "redundant", but "risky".

Tell that to GM and the Buick "Lacrosse" they sell here.

Higher STR will only make Santilli happy when he'll run benchmarks to entertain himself. Otherwise, it will have very little impact on the perceived speed of the drive from a user experience.

Well maybe it's time to do like your lesbian friends and to get out of the closet. Otherwise, with modern equipment, you are bound to have heat issues. About the cables all going out from a wall inside the closet ; ask yourself : "What would Coug do to that wall and the one next to it that...

There are wall-mounted rackmount cabinets. Nothing forbids you to buy more than one to fitt all your servers too if one's not enough. You won't tell me there isn't a wall that's free for a rackmount cabinet, won't you?

Apparently, it is a good thing those "new" cards are based on the older design since (this will make some random guy in Indiana happy) a problem with Kepler cause them to lose performance after heavy usage. Kepler looks like the design that will sink Nvidia.

As a mentor to these mentals, you have a certain level of responsability regarding their radical acts. I'm glad Chewy posted the news. I would have thought that Nvidia would release new generation budget cards, not rebadged previous generation cards. Considering the manufacturing problems...

Just so you all know, tata means "dumb" in French. So tata motors doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

From what I see on their website, it would cost us ~6700$ for a 3 years support contract (that we don't need) for the two servers we plan to deploy. No thanks.

BTW, do you have an idea how much it would cost to get a right to use Solaris 11 on two different 4 sockets systems, each socket having 8 real cores and 16 threads? I assume it would be tremendously expensive?

Me and the command line are no friends. While I do almost everything on the servers in the Terminal, I like having a windowed environment to open several Terminal windows simultaneously. I'll look into crossbow, even though it looks like I'll have no choice but to opt for OI. Thanks for the...

I'd also like to use LXDE instead of Gnome, but it looks complicated. Compiling stuff on Unix is not my force.

I plan to move all our native Solaris setups to zones. It will sit on a computer that will be isolated on the network, without direct internet access. Our company doesn't plan to pay for support from Oracle for the operating system. I know Chewy told me to run from this situation, but I want...

The fact that Apache is now responsible for the development of OpenOffice is new to me. I thought it felt into the grasp of Oracle. I don't remember Oracle absorbing Apache, but I could have missed the news. So now we have LibreOffice on one side and Apache OpenOffice on the other. I thought...

I went out to look at it at the precise time it was at its closest point to Earth. It was still round, still whitish with darker spots and still too far to throw a rock to. I didn't notice the 10% size increased compared to normal, but the 30% increased brightness was obvious. Maybe it would...

You're trying to decide wether you want a 3-year warranty drive or a 2-year warranty drive?

I was about to call you a fat liar after seeing this page, then I realized that it was Solaris 11 that ran on those Xeon E5-2690-based servers. Support for Intel's latest Xeon makes me happy and it will greatly ease my life in the upcoming months. Besides, according to Oracle's documentation...

I'm not familiar with those measurements. Is that cholesterol levels? If it is, what are the healthy range for both?

Try to execute "regsvr32 wuaueng.dll". It often worked for me to fix a broken WindowsUpdate service. Also, regarding the rootkit, visit www.bleepingcomputers.com, go to their spyware removal section and download combofix. You can ask them for help too (I think they have a forum).

I too wear jeans, T-shirt and listen to heavy metal music. Give me my PhD. \m/

I guess the forum was ungry and ate your post.

Actually, that's another of my points for trying to avoid an all-SuperMicro solution. How's your experience with Asus' Z9PE-D8 WS? Have you finally fixed your issue with it? How helpful (or not) was Asus' support? I've found the Asus RS720Q-E7/RS12 for ~2500$ and I think all I'd need is to...

There's been a power outage today that lasted ~3 hours and I wasn't home for another ~1.5 hours after the power came back. It runined my production for the day.

The Asus motherboards cost 420$ each while the equivalent Supermicro is closer to 600$ while not supporting the RAM I would put on the Asus. If the difference in size is real and not from unit conversion, I'll have bought 1700$ of motherboards and ~2500$ of RAM that I won't be able to use, plus...

Would this motherboard fit inside a node of that enclosure? I prefer the Asus motherboard for the wider memory support and lower cost, but there are no compatible Asus quad rackmount enclosure with 2.5" hot-swap front bays, only 3.5" bays. I'm trying to fit an entire 42U setup inside a 2U...