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SAS supports S-ATA and more. It will be superior to S-ATA, there is no doubt. As long as it is offered at a reasonable price i see it as being the preferred interface.

From what I understand you've got it pretty close. The only thing that I would add is that on a SCSI controller you can request data from a drive, disconnect from it and pull data off another drive, then reconnect to the 1st drive and grab the data once it's in the drive's cache. In ATA world...

i dont think I've been that good this year coug.

From the numbers I've seen a u320 channel isn't even 90% efficient with just 4 drives... with 8 I bet it'd be less efficient.

Only one drive can send data at a time... if you have 8 drives on a cable they are sharing the bandwidth of that channel. This is in contrast to S-ATA where each device has its own dedicated connection. This is very similar to the differences between a hubbed(shared) network and a switched...

8 drives times 60MB/sec per drive is 480MB/sec... don't forget that even on a SCSI channel only one device can transmit data at a time... I see this as something that people doing sequential transfers across large arrays should worry about. If I had 8 drives I would certainly want a dual...

are you forgetting that many SCSI controllers use a single or possible dual channels.. where as S-ATA has as many channels as drives. This would allow for a better maximum transfer rate on highly sequential accesses. (upto the maximum of the card and the PCI bus it's attached to).

i was testing and using ifconfig on my linux server was showing maybe 1 packet error for every 100MB passed to a client when serving up a ~900MB movie file over SMB. I find this completely fine for my uses, I dont think this would really effect the servers ability to provide reliable...

I'm really impressed with Fedora. I just wish it came with Apt-get :D

i wonder if pkzip ran recursively would work...

7/10

like this? C:\ + dir1 | | | + Zip1 | + dir2 | | | + dirA | | | | | + ZipA | | | + dirB | | | + ZipB | |+ dir3 | + Zip3

I tend to agree with what you said merc. I do have a question, I though DVD's were in the range of ~6Mbit/sec with peaks upto maybe twice that... If we got 6MB/sec out of the server shouldnt that measn that we could get 2 steams 100% of the time.. and probably more since it's not very likely...

maybe I missed it, but what was his S-ATA gripe? the only gripes I saw were completely unrelated to interface,

please use the "code" tag to get the formatting correct. here's the command I use: C:>netperf-a4 -H 192.168.0.xxx -l 60 that is a lowercase "L", i find that a test length of 60 seconds gives me better accuracy and more closely approximates large file transfers.

hmm.. for some reason the stats page shows me as only having 1 active CPU.. when I have 2 folding full time... i checked my config and everything should be correct... bah!

If they are in jpg format nero can do it for you.. simply create a S-VCD or maybe even a DVD and drag your pics over to be burned. You can adjust the pause so that pics stay on the screen for a certain amount of time(or can be paused with the remote) or you can make that time infinite so you...

I dont believe what he said was true, he generalized it so much like it was a flaw in the S-ATA interface that some controllers don't support both write-through and write-back caching. He also makes it seem like S-ATA is the problem when using a host based RAID controller... the truth is that...

gige doesn't use crossover :D did you ever run the netperf benchmarking program? i know I got a really awesome 98MBit/sec over my 100baseT connection, however most SAMBA transfers only go about 6 MB/sec... more random data slows this down to between 2 and 4MB/sec... I have, however, seen the...

i would try plugging a mouse into the dock and seeing if it boots. I know some KVMs draw power from the mouse/keyboard ports, dont know if that is the case for this KVM or how the power draw would affect a dock... I assume you're sure you're using the mouse port on both the KVM and the dock?

I think it's on the edge.. it just depends on your patience really. I would think if you just had 2 computers something like USB2 or firewire would be faster than 100Mbit and cheaper than gigabit at the same time. But no matter what, if I was installing wire I would use cat6 or better so that...

why do you ahve it running at user level? why not system level? that would be in the registry under hkey local machine...

http://www.wowway.com/~mckennma/after/new_outside.jpg this looks like a neat product that I've never seen for adding more disk mounts in a case.

i was thinking the same thing Merc, great for the occasional LAN party. But the problem is that the game server requirements can vary widely I was specing a server for my old CS clan and one of the things we wanted was to be able to add bf1942 in addition to the few HL servers... we couldnt do...

i just installed win2k SP4 .. on boot after a visit to black vipers page I was using 45MB of RAM with only task manager open... now after installing IE6 SP1 the machine uses 58MB of RAM on boot with only task manager open... this may not be much to you, but on an old laptop with 64MB of RAM it...

i just put a resistor on the 5v lead... fan is nearly inaudible now. runs cool to the touch too.

i just figured the more outgoing connections the better. you could also use 2 NICs without bonding by using different IP schemes. For example the server has 2 NICs NIC 1 IP: 192.196.0.x w/ mask of 255.255.255.0 NIC 2 IP: 192.168.1.x w/ mask of 255.255.255.0 Client 1 & 2 have IP's on the...

what about wireless? I guess Merc might have the most experience here, can it handle DVD quality video streams? multiple ones? Any interference problems next to all that AV equipment? Should wireless be a consideration of the server(ex: it has a wireless connection out directly to the clients)...

i've never seen a decent computer shop there, but I have only been to the capitol area and along Highway I-70.

i think the media storage server was a good idea.. I recently built one myself. print serving is also good, but pretty much requires either windows or a laser printer if you want to goto linux. Besides storage for movies, what about music or ISO images... backups....

They're back! from outter space!

coug, have you seen recent benchamrks of the 533/800MHz SiS chipsets? They're really very good... The SiS 655fx for example beating the 865PE chipset nearly hands down(very similar performance to the 875P). Similar results can be seen when comparing the SiS 651 vs intel 845PE chipset.

That's the same way a programmable IC works.. like a BIOS chip for example... and as you probably all know, they are the most static sensitive components in a PC... <be sure to ground yourself properly before handing your friend your memory-R>

and sounds like it's a lot easier to forget about and accidentally put it through the wash.

i dont think it matters, the server would have no problem fulfilling its role and could easily increase capacity at a later date btw, 512MB is on the high side for a file server... 256Mb would be fine if it meant we could save an acceptable amount of money. Also, a 1.6A p4 is just as likely...

that's a great timeline. You can really get a feal for the companies and their "paper" launches. You can see that matrox usually announces a product a few months prior to availability, but seems consistant. You can also tell that when Nvidia was behind and 3dfx was king that Nvidia was friendly...

you can always 1) fold the ribbon cables to reduce their obtrusiveness 2) use rounded cables instead 3) lay the cables flat against the side of the case and tape them in place. regarding the Dell, I dont think it would be bad to suggest using a Dell or other manuf. bare bones server as a...

no

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looks like it'd work.. but maybe not as much airflow over the disks w/ their sideways orientation... http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/11-186-009-03.JPG

1) That's not enough disks.. keep going to get to 1TB 2) why do you want S-ATA? I dont think using regular PCI is that much of an issue considering that gigabit ethernet over cat6 is probably going to top out at about 40MB/sec... dual 100baseT at ~18MB/sec.

That's what I was thinking.. sounds like the monitor is not being ID'd correctly and may be running at the wrong refresh rate.

does it read like a hulk comic?

if you're buying many drives (ie, not getting special on rebates) then yes, the Samsungs are good deals price/capacity wise. Personally, i would get a hardware card (you'll need the extra channels anyway) and either a linux or winNT based OS (depending on your particular knowledge). You'll...

I didn't beleive it until I looked it up.

i like dales steak marinade. That, a hot grill, and some salt is all you need for a nice med-rare steak.

looks like a good reader http://www.xpcgear.com/xpcgear7in1.html

check the cord at both the monitor and the vid card (even though you only disconencted at the card)... check cable route and make sure it is the same (or atleast doesnt run parallel to the power cables). Does it flicker at the BIOS/POST screens or just in windows? reseat the video card....

yeah, but Merc then the ultra low latency corsair XMS wouldnt fit in the budget.... neither would the overly powerful CPU.