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I have his address but no idea how to check the status of his area.

A Generac 14KW system runs about $3,500. Install would be about $1,000 on the high side (local contractor) if you want the system that automatically switches over to the generator when your power goes out. It's not rocket science to install one of these but I would probably have a Pro do it. For...

Natural Gas whole house generator. I would like to get one someday. They aren't that expensive. Wife's uncle has one, it kicks on before you know the power is out and life goes on without a blip.

I just picked up my copy of the Win8 Pro Upgrade for $41 out the door at Microcenter. Not sure when I will ever use it but seemed like a good price.

I kinda thought the same thing. But to someone who has not considered this kind of stuff before I could see how it would be a good read...

No. 'Ladies' only naked roller derby. And you're the referee.

Yes..that's why I was recommending the 5400RPM Samsung. My point in mentioning the WD drive was only because that's the only 5400 drive I did a comparison to, although I think one or two of my Sammy's in my WHS are 5400. But that's just my opinion, of course. Nothing really to back it up...

No Showtime, only HBO. Then again I guess there are always torrents.

I replaced my 7200 Samsungs with a 5400 RPM WD EARS and I can't feel the difference. On a file server I am betting the difference would be less noticeable. Maybe check the transfer rate specs on the drives and see if it comes through in the numbers...

This is the adapter I ordered. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040705&p_id=6266&seq=1&format=2 FreeNAS would just be something new/cool to try. Also, all my HDD space would be then dedicated to storage with the OS being on the CF card. That's cool...

Newegg has 2TB Samsungs. The choices aren't great nowadays and I can't claim to be up on the news but I hear the least bashing of Samsung, anyway.

I will have to give that a try after your review! :-) I must say I am amazed at this old WHS v1 installation now that I'm using it more. I downloaded a 2GB torrent (MKV file) of the first episode of Walking Dead and dumped it on my WHS. Added the Serviio DLNA server running as a service and...

My WHS is really performing nicely...I have the 4x 1TB Samsungs in there now. Will FreeNas have this speed with only 4GB for large files like this?

On July 27th at 10:14AM my parents and I watched my brother take his last breath @ the age of 46 years. He was essentially brain dead except for the most primitive functions that kept his heart beating, until we had to put an end to it. It's a process I'll never forget. He went out in a way...

The zombies can get a little old but I need something to watch until Game of Thrones comes back.

Not a movie per se but I watched The Walking Dead on AMC for the first time last night. Now downloading seasons 1 & 2 ;) .

INDEED. :)

I think RAID 1-0 would do the trick for me. Easy enough to setup in FreeNas?

Correction, my boot drive is a 64GB SSD. The 2TB WD would be a data drive. Been so long that I mess with this stuff that I forget what I have lol.

Hmmm. Actually I could use the 2TB WD as a boot drive in my main machine and have 4x 1TB Samsungs in my FreeNas. What kind of good RAID mojo could I achieve with that? BTW: THE WD Drive is a WD20EARS NOT EADS. Is compatibility any better with that one?

I'm doing software RAID-1 in my Win7 Desktop (Dynamic Disk Mirror) so I actually do have an extra Samsung 1TB drive. I will have to think about that. Thanks.

Thanks. No worries then. Given the 2x 1TB Samsung & 1x 2TB WD20EADS drive I have, do you guys recommend some type of RAID configuration with ZFS? Note the O/S will be running of a CF card.

I'm studying building a FreeNas with my old WHS hardware. Intel E3300 64-bit dual core CPU. I will have 4GB RAM (most the M/B supports). I have two 1TB HDDs and one 2TB (advanced format WD EADS) hard drive in the machine. Plan on installing FreeNas to an 8GB CF card attached to an SATA...

Fit the bill perfectly! PM me with a price and your Paypal info. or other payment preference. Thanks sir!

Surely you guys have some RAM I can buy for my FreeNAS project?

I'm also using CrashPlan on my Win7 machine. No problems here and very seamless. As Doug mentioned, you don't even know it's running aside from the email status updates I get from time to time. I have about 500MB backed up there. I particularly like the Android app that allows me to access...

I can also attest to the solidness and longevity of Lenovo laptops. My 14" R61 C2D T7250 lappy has be absolutely perfect for the past 5-6 years. It is low end compared to the T-series but has still been great. Reason I got it was I wanted the 'joy nipple' and the option to get it without...

Congrats. We are going on 14 years this September!

This is extreme, made me think of dd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eULFf6F5Ri8 C

Economics and politics

It's about 10 minutes long. Warning.. he tries to sell you something at the end.

Please watch..let's discuss this. http://www.crisis8.com/ C

All he wants to do is blow his cash on new hardware, whether he needs it or not. It's a repeated theme. So just answer his question and move on. :crucified:

I'm not powertrain expert but I'd say your premise is correct, overall. Of course, it's alot more complicated than that. I think you kind of get stuck in a somewhat circular mass loop though. Mass begets mass. Larger cylinders weigh more & have more inertia. More interia means they can't...

What's currently the best free program for imaging a system over from an old 160GB drive to a new 1TB drive that you guys would use? Coworker is going to be getting a new disk. He knows enough about computers to be able to boot to a CD/DVD if that's needed but it should otherwise be easy to...

Thanks for the book suggestions. They look like really good ones. As Brendan gets older it will be fun to get in to longer books like that. We have the original He-Man series as well as the updated (2008 maybe) He-Man series on DVD. Got it on eBay. Isaac might like that...lasers, swords, and...

Couple of my son's favorites that I'll be reading (he's 4): Gorganzola: A Very Stinky Saurus Mr. Tuggle's Troubles If it shoots, blows up, has swords, or has lasers, Brendan likes that too but that's not appropriate for the class room. :-)

I just spent about 90 minutes deciding on and then looking for the books I want to take to my son's classroom tomorrow. I'm the 'secret reader' that will show up by surprise tomorrow and read to the class. Funny how things change when you become a parent! :study:

Same boat. I would have to find a incredibly sweet deal to blow that kind of cash on that small amount of storage! At today's prices...no way. It's just not worth it unless you have a specific workload that would greatly benefit from the I/O capability.

Based on his feedback elsewhere, I guess he either likes to waste $ or just doesn't want the cabling associated with a separate drive. I would consider one just for the novelty of having something in one of the small PCI-e slots for a change as well as the reduced cable clutter.

I think the problem is that most people are not doing anything disk intensive enough to make the increase in speed from a single SSD to a RAID setup very noticeable. Santilli has reached the point of diminishing returns with his computer workload. It's hard to notice differences of a 1/10 of...

Just PM'ed ya. Let me know if you need anything faster than USPS standard first class delivery speed.

Gotta correct myself, here's what I got: Sapphire Radeon 9600 128MB AGP DVI + VGA FANLESS PNY Geforce 6600 256MB AGP DVI + VGA + FAN ATI 7000SDR 64MB AGP DVI + VGA FANLESS Also have 1.5GB (1GB Rosewill + 512MB Kingston) DDR333 you can have if you want. Welcome to the whole treasure...

I believe so. Whatever the last flavor of AGP was before it went the way of the Dodo. Here it is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102305R

Going in the garbage Thursday evening.

I know I have one if not two of subject cards. They're in perfect shape and passively cooled. I have no use for them. Any one here who wants them and will pay for shipping can have them! DVI and VGA out.

Just for reference for you guys, Vista Home Basic has a footprint that is not too bad for a 30GB SSD. Here's the result: After Vista Home Basic SP2 Install 15.8GB Free after all Windows Updates (14GB Install size) After Installing Excel, Powerpoint, and Word 2007 & FireFox 14.5GB Free...

Lucky for me I just remembered that even if I could find an SLIC BIOS to install, my SSD is too small for Win7 or Win Vista. I did find someone to sell me a Vista Home Basic key that has never been used. Since it's install requirements are less I might give it a whirl but I can always fall...

WELL. I found a useable WinXP Disk with Valid key. But now I will have so spend several hours decryping Coug's message & figuring out what to do. DAMN YOU COUGTEK!

Let me make sure I've turned every stone before you got through the effort of searching for me. I might have something in my box o junk.