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Congratulations e_dawg! I may be going down the same road sooner rather than later.

Congrats Timwhit!

Intel's latest RAID drivers will pass through TRIM commands to single drives, even if there's a RAID attached elsewhere. TRIM commands are not passed to the attached RAIDed drives. eg: Take a configuration like the following: 2x Crucial C300 in RAID 0 1x Crucial C300 solitary The lone disk...

So hot... Damn you Canada. Freezing me in the winter, baking me in the summer. It's 11PM and it's 29C and about 100% humidity.

The problem with iSCSI is that the target exports direct block access to the device to the initiator. This means I'm stuck with initiator's OS, which, in this case, is Windows with all the shitty limitations for storage management it entails. Even if I export disks in a Linux box to the...

I see what you're getting at. If I bought and filled, say, a 5-drive bay at once, and added more boxes over time, I would have parity and expandibility. Because they appear to Windows as a single drive, I could expand the volume via JBOD. That's certainly an option. I've always been a bit...

The problem with Flash memory cards and USB sticks is they don't have as effective wear levelling algorithms as SSDs, if they have any at all. They also use significantly lower quality NAND chips. Combine those two factors and wear should be minimized. They fail faster than they 'should'...

I looked up the prices of those yesterday, just in case ;) . $500-600 Canadian up here. I was considering it, but I can't devote those types of funds in the near future, and I need to expand my storage in the next couple weeks unfortunately. That said, the hard-core geek side of me kind of...

Good to know. I used (still use) XFS on the Linux fileserver that used to handle these files. It's always performed tremendously well. I don't think I can run the teamed NICs directly to teamed NICs in Windows though right? Windows doesn't support NIC teaming, or, if it does, it's a...

I'm glad someone else has noticed. It's actually shocking to me how difficult Lightroom makes it avoid duplicates and back things up. I use it because I'm not aware of anything better, but there a few simple improvements that would save me a lot of time.

It's worth mentioning that I tried setting up some local space on Windows just for the files I'm working on at the moment, but keeping everything in sync and backing it up was a nightmare. I'm kind of forgetful and end up with a lot of duplicates for fear of losing something. A massive...

Loading large image files is a pain. Lightroom really doesn't like the latency and available bandwidth of a network share. In fact, it would actually crash a lot in v2 (which was a known issue). v3 is better in this respect, but it's still a big PITA. I moved the files to a software RAID on...

I'm trying to rework my storage situation at the moment. My main home desktop has to be a Windows PC because I need Photoshop & Lightroom on it. Unfortunately, the storage management options in Windows have left me a bit disappointed. What I'm thinking at the moment is that I'd like to have...

Thanks Chewy, I figured the 9 DIMM configs would require registered RAM. Speed drops all the way to DDR3 800 eh? If I was ever going to cram a bunch of RAM in a PC, it would be for photo processing, and a lot of those operations are memory bandwidth constrained. Having to make the tradeoff...

Does anyone know if the Xeons support 3 DIMMs on a channel with standard, unbuffered, non-ECC RAM? Or do you need special DIMMs to fill all the slots on that board?

Wow. They're outright arresting private citizens for photographing police abuses, charging them with a crime, and successfully convicting them. That's fucked if you'll excuse my language.

Blech. Just installed Windows 7 on one of my laptops, and it looks like new security related to the CIFS/SMB protocol has essentially broken the connection to my home Linux SMB server. Navigating folders on the server is ridiculously slow, large files transfer corrupted (silently) or fail to...

At least you have the most kickass Javascript engine out there. It makes for a noticeable interactivity improvement with my 4.5MB TiddlyWiki Notes file.

I use rdiff-backup via Cygwin on Windows for this sort of stuff. It works the same way as rsync. It just adds deltas and a few other backup-specific (rather than sync-specific) features. I'm going to checkout SyncBack though. This is a problem I regularly have to solve. I've also been...

You got it Dave! I changed the primary DNS server to the Domain Controller and magically my entire directory reappeared. I know I should be able to figure out why that setting caused this, but off-hand I can't? I'd still like to be able to use the Linux DNS server (it's just more convenient...

Nope. The workstation at issue uses a different server for DNS (a Linux box). Problem?

Yep. (If you mean whether or not it's in the Active Directory.) However, "Trust Computer for delegation" is not checked. My understanding is that that option shouldn't affect this situation. EDIT: Also, this is a Windows 2000 Domain Controller. The member computer at issue is a Windows XP...

I'm looking at getting a Bluetooth Microphone. Most don't deliver anything close to the type of quality needed for voice recognition. The most highly-recommended ones I've found thus far (for this particular use) are the: 1. VXi BlueParrot Xpressway 2. Sennheiser BW900 Finding reviews and...

For some reason I can't add any domain users as Remote Desktop users to an XP Pro machine. I've tried from both the Domain Administrator, and the Local Administrator accounts. In both cases the only "Location" available is the Local Machine. Domain Users can't be added! I've Googled to no...

I have an HP 2730P tablet, and, to be honest, one of the coolest things about it is holding it on my lap in tablet mode and watching TV or movies on the couch. I think the iPad is really going to take off. There's a Star Trek appeal to a slim tablet that you don't appreciate until you sit down...

Oops, I'm wrong. It must be the smaller Sony laptops that need the Micro SATA connectors. My AW190 takes normal 2.5" drives with the standard SATA data & power connectors. It does need a proprietary ribbon to the motherboard. Like ddrueding says, MicroSATA is used on the 1.8" devices like...

Micro SATA HDDs would be useful too actually. I want to add storage as well. It'll probably be a hybrid setup. 1 or 2 SSDs and then a hard drive for storage.

Anyone aware of any good Micro SATA drives? I know the Intel X18-M is MicroSATA, but are there any other decent drives out there? I've encountered a SuperTalent and Photofast one, but can't figure out the controller on either. I've got a Sony AW190 I'm looking to upgrade with some SSDs, but...

I rip the whole disk, folder structure intact, and then play it as a DVD. This way I keep menus, special features etc. It's identical, in terms of archiving, to ripping the ISO, which I noticed a lot of people above recommended. It does however take up a lot of space, because you're stuck...

The server was deprecated, ran out of diskspace because backups were discontinued and was no longer used. Now however, they want old emails off that server. Outlook web Access works, but because the server is completely out of space it behaves unpredictably and is crashy. I'll check out...

Hey guys, I'm trying to get all the email out of an old exchange server. Two questions: 1) I can't connect via IMAP. I get "Cannot connect to host." I'm on the same network, including the same subnet. I'm using the IP address for the server. IMAP is enabled when I check in Active Directory...

I think ink jets are typically better at this because they don't need to warm up and can start printing right away.

The ability to host a Remote Desktop isn't available on Premium. For me, that was the dealbreaker. I can't recall any other major deficiencies off-hand.

Anyone seen the generation 2 X18-M SSD available anywhere? Anyone seen it in Canada? I have a laptop that runs Windows and I'm upgrading it to Windows 7. I was hoping to switch out the HDD at the same time, since I'm going to reformat anyway. It's not looking like that's going to happen...

The big game changer here is Sony's new WX1. It can take multiple shots and combine them compensating for subject motion, while reducing noise. You can do this yourself, but it only works on a tripod (people photographing starscapes do it a lot). Apparently there's some sort of gyro in the...

All the ones I found at NewEgg are using just the USB connection from what I see. I don't think they'll operate at PCIe speeds.

Options? I've been googling away, but have found nothing. Back with PCMCIA cards you used to be able to do this. If anyone is wondering why, it's because the latest generation of CompactFlash card readers run noticeably faster in ExpressCards than off Firewire, and USB has long been...

That's a pretty nice feature.

I'd be very interested to hear your experiences with it Handruin. I was looking at that monitor myself. It's getting harder and harder (and expensive) to find IPS panels. Do you know what the difference between S-IPS and H-IPS is?

Do you ever buy anything? So far as I can tell, from DSLRs to SSDs, nothing is capable of doing the job for you.

It turns out there is a way to have shared contacts using Google Apps. The Google Contacts API allows adding shared contacts that are outside your domain (by default only contacts within your domain are shared when you enable contact sharing). Google has supplied an open source Python...

While that is the model number according to Hitachi's website, I never see that number on web ordering pages. All I ever see is the other number I listed above, if anything. I don't know why this is, but it's why I was so confused at first.

No, I was talking about the 1TB 7K1000.B too. In Canada the model number is 0A38016.

Thanks guys. I'll try safe mode. Sticking the disk in another computer is a big PITA. The laptop is a 2730P, which is a thin & light (not fun to work with) and the disk is a 1.8" which will probably have some wierd connector on it...

Thanks sdbardwick, that does make sense. From the review I linked too, it seems to function very well. I'd like to see a more detailed look from someone like Anandtech or Techreport though. It certainly makes the Vertex more attractive. Of course the Intel drives are the same price now...

Tell me about it. I just picked up 4 at a local Ottawa store for CAN$80 each!

Okay, I got it figured out. 0A35155 = older version, not really available any more 0A38016 = 7K1000.B current version And there's a 7K1000.C coming, but it was only just announced and isn't available anywhere yet.

Indilinx and OCZ's garbage collection firmware seems superficially effective. The big problem for me, is that I can't conceive of how it works. A drive doesn't know anything about the data written to it, and it certainly can't know whether data previously written has been subsequently...

So apparently there's a 7K1000.C? Didn't know about that. 32MB buffer's versions are available. Maybe this is our 0A35155. All the model numbers listed on the data sheet have no relation to what online stores list. Classic... P.S. Sorry for this running train of thought. Hopefully...

What I have determined so far is that the 0A35155 model seems to have 32MB cache. I'm not sure if that makes it newer or older though. Also when I Google for 0A38016 I get quite a few advertised 7K1000.B's, but when I Google 0A35155, I get very few. The 7K1000.B's, when I can find a model...