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Windowz For Supercomputerz has been delayed until the first half of 2006. It was to have been released towards the end of 2005. One would have to suspect that M$ is running into trouble porting Outlook Express, Messenger, and to a 64-bit massively parallel computing environment. <chuckle>...

By the way, I zoomed in on the front panel of this server, and I can see that the mobo is mounted backwards in the chassis so that you can get the to ports and presumably the PCI Express card slots (remember, PCI Express devices are hot swappable) at the front side of the equipment rack. :o...

Skinny server... itty bitty drives... The OEM-only Super Barebone 614V-MF is a dual-processor based server that offers an exceptional price/performance value. Its special front-side I/O provides easy access to system ports. Support for 64-bit Xeon processors of up to 3.60 GHz at an 800 MHz...

There was a PCI version of the G450. Since then, there have been a few more PCI models. The *OLD* ATI Rage for PCI lives on for the bottom of the proverbial barrel. I suspect it must cost ATI about 79¢ each to make 'em, then they charge their volume server customers about US$4.99 each to...

Starch. Rice or potato starch. By the way, you would also very likely be munching down on a healthy culture of bacteria that would be munching down on the tasty starch. Some people claim that space is "curved." So, it's not really expanding into anything. Otherwise, I'm perfectly...

Since Seagate is the current areal storage density darling, it will probably be them, and I believe it's their turn to announce something new for the 2.5-inch arena since Hitachi did it last. Maxtor and Toshiba could be thought of as the dark horses in the 120 GB race to announce next.

A while back, we had Windows For Workgroups (a.k.a. -- Windows For Warehouses). By the end of 2005, we'll have "Windows For Supercomputers," as people like to call it -- which will actually be called Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition. Read all about it at...

The stuff is out there. Now, when the hell can we get some?????? LSI Logic will exhibit in the PCI Express Community, kiosk #909, with its state-of-the-art eight-port internal/external MegaRAID(r) SAS adapter featuring LSI Logic 8-port SAS controller ICs and SASx12 expander. Additional...

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Potential First Evidence Supporting String Theory I've taken what I long thought was String Theory and have made it String Fact: The more often you run, the more likely your shoe strings will become un-tied. I have proven this over and over again. I will present my findings on stage in...

I can't say I'm familiar with the DVD "bottom feeder" market. But, I can say for a fact that I like the Toshiba DVD players better than other brands, because they have a 10-bit DAC which results in a noticeably better looking video image with less artifacts. Just last night I was at a new...

In total there are 45 users online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 45 Guests [ Administrator ] [ Moderator ] Most users ever online was 57 on Fri Dec 24, 2004 5:40 am Registered Users: None I just noticed the above when I logged in. 45 guests??? Maybe there's a hack job / probe going on!?!

What Are Energy "Vampires?" Vampires are standby power devices that draw excessive energy even when not in use. Vampires typically consume anywhere from 4-7 watts per hour. Vampires can be found in almost every household appliance including televisions, telephones, fax machines...

It isn't THAT bad. After al, sustained transfer rates are up significantly. [list:b460f86065] Chew Posted: Nov 15 2004, 07:22 PM Posts: 1834 Member No.: 2550 Joined: 9-June 02 Having a SAS interface should have very little effect on performance. They could plug an ATA interface on the...

SEAGATE DELIVERS WORLD'S HIGHEST CAPACITY PC HARD DRIVE TO RETAIL STORES AND SYSTEM BUILDERS New 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 offers fast SATA NCQ performance and greater areal density than any other PC hard drive SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—16 November 2004—Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world's...

I know of LOTS of people who swear by Plextor CD-R/W hardware. As for my experience with Plextor CD-R/W hardware, it seems rather fragile, as the 7 or 8 Plextor CD-R/W drives that I've had experience with (at work) never lasted particularly long before some sort of failure. I this same...

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There are more than one vendor for SATA WD is probably using the cheapest soft plastic connectors they can find, now they are paying for it. It would behoof ye to tie up any loose SATA cables in a way to promote strain relief. Sooner or later the world needs to get away from the old method...

Hitachi had a 12kRPM hard drive about 6 or 7 years ago. The main reason hard drive rotation speeds are what they are is because of data density and the ability to read and write at a particular media rate. When the drive designers design a new drive, likely the first parameter they fix...

O'sammy weighs in...

On the rare occasion that I've converted vinyl audio into CD digital audio, I did it the same way the pros do it if they are doing vinyl transcription work. Starting off with a turntable and a phono preamp (moving magnet or moving coil + RIAA equalisation), the signal is patched into either a...

Well, I didn't have the time to do a decent job. I got tied up far too long tonight on something else. Anyway, without further ado... PS: That's one of Tannin's masterpieces in the background. Landscape Orientation Portrait Orientation This is a Vivitar Sports telephoto zoom...

Well, since you can ONLY have one CSA Ethernet port in this day and age of x86 iron, that means the other Ethernet port is a PCI-connected onboard chipset. Yes, that GREEN PCI expansion slot is on its own PCI-X channel. By the way, I've used 2 of these P4SCT+II mobos so far (3.0 GHz / 800...

So, what the hell does that get me, 1266/10 kicks in the backside? :wink:

Well, I didn't want to burden anyone with details, but, here is itemised pricing: "Walmart" ECS A535 Notebook,which includes CD/DVD-ROM, power supply / charger, battery, WinXP Home US$655.83 ($598.00 + $7.00 S/H + $50.83 tax) High capacity 3600 mAH lithium ion battery (otherwise, unit comes...

Got a file server running Win2K Server or Win2K3 Server running a nicely expandable RAID? Got a small-time switched Ethernet LAN (preferably 1 GbE)? If so, then you're well past half way to being able to read and write block data. All you need then is iSCSI Target software running on your...

Then, I guess you're too small for Ingram Micro. Otherwise, how about a trucksworth?

Sounds like you've unwittingly worked yourself into a data storage management disaster. You need to build an IP SAN or similar storage strategy that has both online and near-line capability.

Get ready to exhale -- in a couple of months. Seagate's 7200.8 SATA and PATA drives are coming, with capacities up to 400 GB using only 3 platters instead of the 5 platters that the Hitachi 400 GB unit has. A 3-platter drive should cost less.

The one that's on the hard drive.

Supermicro P4SCT+II 1. Intel® Pentium® 4 Support up to 3.4 GHz, Celeron® up to 2.8 GHz 2. Intel® 875P Chipset 3. Up to 4GB DDR 400/333/266 SDRAM 4. 1 x Intel® 82547GI CSA, 1 x Intel® 82541 Gigabit Ethernet Controller 5. Intel® 6300ESB Serial ATA Controller 6. Marvell® Serial ATA...

Yes, I recall having that one as well back in the late '70s. I bought it on the cheap, something like $4.99, new, on Virgin Records (UK), or their budget Caroline label. It seemed like it had a gaudy orange jacket with white artwork -- orchestral charts, maybe. I half way kinda liked that...

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As long as we're talking SCSI, yes, ICP Vortex is nice, but LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI takes a backseat to nobody in the performance department -- including ICP Vortex. I don't know how the two's ATA and SATA offerings match up. ICP Vortex is about the only true competitor to MegaRAID's...

My take on throwing out copper wire for fibre -- with the newfangled serialised ATA channel -- was as much about the little guy (i.e. -- the consumer) as it was The Enterprise. 10 or 12 years from now we could have a mother&@^#%$ of a "solid state" mass storage device that could be blindingly...

With the exception of the quasi-ugly optical cable (your pick: orange or grey), it wouldn't look any different than what you have now.

Well, that was years later for me ("Head On" ...er, actually "Automatic" was the name of the LP). My first exposure to J&MC was their excessively feedback-driven first album called "Psychocandy" on local radio. I didn't really care for it much, but I eventually came around at some point --...

The 639 year long concert is still proceeding... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm Fortunately, I saw John Cage when he was still alive in 1991 or so here at Rice University.

Well, I've lived in both places, and in fact I just got back from Austin yesterday afternoon (Austin is generally a 2.5 hour drive). When I lived there, a while back, I used to often meet up with people that I knew in Houston. Weather is similar, except it's usually hotter in the summer and...

For my next cooling project, I want to use a squirrel cage fan -- POWERED BY A REAL SQUIRREL ! :o

UW SCSI is 40 MB/s SE. Yes, you can run any SE and LVD device on either cable type cable and it will work, but the bus will always run at the lowest common denominator when you attach a legacy SCSI device (i.e. -- SE speeds). LVD cannot use a SE cable to achieve LVD speeds (80, 160, 320...

One can write a crappy program, or one can write a decent or good or phenomenal program. If you write a very simple scanning program (a TWAIN applet or possibly a Photoshop plug-in applet) that essentially "works" -- and that's about it -- it's because they likely wrote an applet with barebones...

It's the only way to get a mobo with an "advanced" expansion bus (i.e. -- PCI-X). Also, remember that the better of these sophisticated mobos with dual Ultra-320 SCSI channels, like the Supermicro X5DA8 mentioned earlier, has the SCSI channels talking to PCI-X/133, not the 64-bit - 33MHz/66MHz...

1.) Take old failed/unwanted and nowadays cheaper-than-bricks 5.25-inch full-height hard drives and use them as bricks for building walls. I wonder what a wall comprised of these large hard drives and ordinary bricking mortar would look like? 2.) Western Digi would be a good candidate...

Troubleshooting fundamentals: Lowest Common Denominator (LCD), meaning 1 drive, 1 simple cable, 1 basic SCSI host adaptor, and preferably an external terminator. The few "Auto-Spin" (a.k.a. -- "Auto-Start") jumper problems I've encountered in the past were all where the drive would NOT spin...

Earlier, I think I was trying to say: I know someone from Manhattan Beach. They eventually got tired of listening to LAX jet noise and moved. Wouldn't most people get killed trying to deal with a 25-footer? The problem with a lot of Hawaii is that there's solid coral on the bottom -- not...

There is around a $20 premium partially because the SATA drive has an 8 MB cache versus 2 MB for the PATA version. WD has similar upcharges between its 2 MB and 8 MB PATA drives. Once the factories ramp up SATA drive production, the price of the SATA drive interface will be the same or...

Tagged Command Queuing has been available on all Seagate SATA drives since day one (that would be 2002). Seagate SATA drives also have a totally native SATA drive interface, meaning they aren't using a performance-robbing serial-to-parallel bridge circuit on an "old" parallel drive interface...