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I think I'll setup the new system completely, and then add the disks in afterwards. As for why Dynamic Disks are useful, for me, they provide an easy way to add space to a logical volume. I like to be able to keep my data on a single logical volume, so I use JBOD in Dynamic Disks so I can add...

I want to upgrade my desktop to Windows 7. It has a set of 4 HDDs in a Dynamic Disk stripe for Photoshop files. Will this data survive the upgrade? My OS disk is separate drive. The dynamic disks won't be touched, but I will format the OS disk.

The vast majority of the bad guys are in your own government. Government attracts and tolerates: 1) incompetent people, 2) corrupt people. This is not a new thing. It was that way in the French Monarchy, in the Roman Empire, in Ancient Egypt, and in Babylon. Right now police kill more...

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Also American conservatives have already emphatically demonstrated their belief that revealing in-field, operating intelligence agents publically is legally, and morally acceptable. Sorry about the politics. I don't want to get into it too much but the hypocrisy, and outright insanity being...

I don't think telling the truth can create "an environment of distrust.". That's self-contradictory by definition. As for endangering the lives of a few informants, there's a case to be made that revealing this information will save far more lives than it harms. If it helps reign in rampant US...

Actually, now that I think about it, it probably exists more for RAID controller manufucturers to save money on connectors on their boards.

Thanks Dave! Howell, the reason I was asking is that an SFF-8087 cable is just 4 SATA cables bundled together (probably with some shielding), so I figured things should be alright. It only really exists to minimize mess in servers. Some folks at Ars Technica (where I cross-posted this)...

I know the opposite exists: you can buy a cable to take you from SFF-8087 to 4x SATA connectors. I want to go the other direction. Do such cables exist? Can I just use the above cable backwards (I've never seen one. Are the connections unidirectional? I think SATA is the same at both...

The other big difference is that you only have three downs. This forces much more aggressive play calling than you see in US football, making for, frankly a more exciting game (if only we had the same caliber of players). You can't just fall forward for 3 yards every play.

Cool :) .

Nuclear plants also like to boil water :) .

Tritium is easy to make. Anyone who uses Canada's fission reactor technology can produce nice amounts of it as a by product of the cooling & moderating liquid. Personally, I think solar & wind are unsuitable for the world's future energy requirements. Modern fission reactor designs represent a...

The Corsair 750HX is just as efficient as Seasonic's X750. I don't know it there's a 650 Watt version. The advantage is the Corsair can be had for less. The disadvantage is it's not quite as quiet.

Just use the search. It's faster and easier.

I use Google Chrome's built-in PDF plugin for reading PDFs now. You can enable the plugin in Chrome by going to chrome://plugins. Then you just have to set it as your default PDF reader in Windows. You have to do this manually in the file association dialog or via the "Open With" menu...

I've also heard great thinks about the Nikon 60mm. It's APS-C like the Pentax 35mm f/2 right?

Also, I pledged to pay for the product on the pledge page they started in response to demand for a for-pay service.

I think only the Firefox plugin supports syncing to a WebDAV share. You won't get cross-platform sync (although that's not an issue for your usage).

Some certainly --at least in terms of sharpness--, the Tamron 90mm f/2.8 which is razor sharp, quite free of other aberrations and with unobjectionable out-of-focus rendering (although with crappy plasticky build quality) was a very good lens, and outstanding for its price, despite the build...

That's my thinking as well. The low-light AF performance was my only real complaint with the K10D, which was a wonderful, durable tank of a body. Luckily, while I've heard little regarding the continuous AF performance, everything I've heard about the low-light performance has been very...

I use BetterPrivacy on Firefox to keep from being bothered with Flash cookies. I don't have an extension for deleting them on Chrome yet though. I think Chrome might have built-in management of Flash cookies, since it comes with Flash. May have read that somewhere sometime. HTML 5 is...

My 200GB OWC SSD (an original Sandforce SF-1500 based one) died a few days ago, just BSODed the laptop and ten refused to show up in the BIOS. It lived for about 9 months with minimal writes. My first SSD experience has not instilled confidence. OWC has agreed to RMA it. Bleh. Highly...

I see no solution to cross-browser syncing though. I use both Chrome & Firefox. I like Chrome's speed & responsiveness, but I still can't love without some Firefox extensions. Also, Mozilla's sync has never worked properly for me. It just straight up doesn't actually sync properly...

These 5K RPM drives are getting really cheap.

Displayport, compatible video card + drivers, OS support, AND application support... (Photoshop is not compatible.) 10-bit support is pretty much worthless. Now larger bit-range hardware LUTs in the monitor can help, but that's a different kettle of tea.

They're the best lenses I've ever used. I have a Canon 35mm f/ 1.4L which is great, but honestly not on the same level. I'm hoping the price comes down quickly on the K-5. It's not realistically in the cards in the near future otherwise.

These 4K drives are causing all sorts of problems with hardware RAID, software RAID, modern filesystems like ZFS & BTRFS, not to mention logical volume management like LVM. I'd avoid them if you want to use them in any role like that. Until they start honestly reporting their sector size as 4K...

I've been following the Photokina news. The Pentax K-5 looks great. It's tempting me mightily. I still have my Limited 31mm f/1.8 & 77mm f/1.7, both of which I can't bear to part with. My only concern would be the low-light autofocus since I use those primes for social photography which is...

Ya, 5900 RPM. All these green drives have non-traditional, wierd RPMs.

I think I'll stay away then. The Hitachi's & Samsung's I've traditionally used are only about $15 more each. It also turns out that they're the 5400 RPM ones... yech.

I remember reading about several reliabiliity issues with the large capacity Seagate drives. Are those resolved now? A retailer near me has excellent pricing on some disks, and I was considering buying some.

Everything about you smells like a scam Darshin. 1. You don't even know how your company solved massive copyright licensing issues that have frustrated people for years? When any reasonable individual in your position with half a dose of an education in filesystems or software development...

I wouldn't expect parts based on next-generation, 25nm flash to be available in volume, and with price advantages until the middle of Q1 of next year. I know intel roadmaps say Q4, but I doubt we'll see much quantity.

I'm pretty sure dust (and kitties) is what killed my desktop. I cleaned it out but I think the damage was done.

I'm considering moving my office over to Asterisk when we move locations later this year, so I may be going through the same thing. I'm definitely very interested in how things go.

Very disappointing.

I don't think Google would compromise substantially on net neutrality, so I consider the rumors to be unlikely. It would be concerning if it were true however. In Canada our communications industry is regulated by ex-oligopolist executives. The odds of us having ever having a neutral net are...

It's not a bad Windows install. I ran Prime95 from a live OpenSUSE disc and got a the same hard freeze after only about 10-15 minutes. So I ordered a new PSU from Newegg.ca (who seem to have consistently lower prices than my good old NCIX these days), a Corsair 750HX. I've seen it rated...

Yep. They've been my choice thus far. Although Windows 7 will align the partitions and activate TRIM automatically when doing a fresh install, so as long as you stick with the latest version of Windows even the finicky drives behave well (so long as you don't RAID them).

The longest surviving motherboards I presently have in service are Gigabyte AMD motherboards. Can't remember make or chipset off-hand, but the last competition died off about 2 months ago.

Yep, but they're fixed now. With respect to speed, it's used performance, without TRIM, can be significantly worse than SandForce or Intel, but with an aligned filesystem (i.e. Windows 7) and an OS with TRIM, it's consistently the fastest disk available.

That's exactly true sechs. Anandtech, at least, has started adding uncompressible, random data tests to determine the worst case performance of the SandForce drives. Look for the "random" data tests in this review. The drive is still an excellent performer, even in the worst case. I'd...

Now that I went looking for it, I'm realizing I might have imagined it ;) . What the X6 series added, that I confused with power gating, was clock scaling like Intel's "Turbo". AMD can downclock some cores, and up-clock others, but it's not power gating (i.e. it doesn't solve the leakage...

Bozo, No I hadn't. I did though when I saw your post. I was hoping maybe I'd find some sort of driver error near when the crashes happened, but there's nothing with any correlation. I don't think Windows has a chance to log anything. One second everything is fine, the next, nothing moves...

The software can't tell. The OS will take advantage, but you'll usually need multiple applications doing simultaneous IO to raise the queue depth. Databases are still, after all this time, about the only pieces of software written to do multithreaded IO. A big annoyance for me is Adobe...

Ya, with the Intel chips with integrated memory controllers, it's usually a good bet to buy one speed class above if you're going to populate all slots.

Time, I think the new X6's can shutoff cores when they aren't needed now, but all the older offerings cannot. It's one of the big advantages of the new chips, and was key for the Magny Cours chips that share the X6 microarchitecture. However, Intel's new Westmere derivatives (anything 32nm)...

The bottleneck is generally in the software. Desktop software generally still does all IO single-threaded, at a queue depth of 1. It requests data, waits to receive it, requests more. This provides better performance with rotating magnetic storage, because it avoids thrashing the disk, but...

My main desktop has recently become unstable. It hard freezes randomly (apparently). This isn't a BSOD, but a hard freeze. The music keeps sounding, frozen at the moment the freeze happens. The computer doesn't crash or reboot, the screen continues to refresh (doesn't go black), but...