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I haven't had that happen on the 4 systems I have running Windows 7, though all are Intel based.

By the way, is that really correct?

No idea, but you don't have a desktop or another computer at home without your work laptop? :erm:

The Dell cards with the "NV" option still use a Lithium-ion battery. They use the battery to provide power while the contents of the cache is written to the flash. The M5016 uses an actual supercapacitor made by Tecate, not a Lithium-ion battery, to provide power while the contents of the...

Well, the supercapacitor the M5016 uses some appeal over the Li-Ion battery as it shouldn't really need replacing / wear like a battery. The IBM version also supports more HDDs ( 128 ), though I don't think the 32 disk limit of the Dell version is likely to be an actual limit to me. Based on...

Not exactly... If you want want to mount a disc and have menus on the PC you're pretty much out of luck outside of the commercial software which of course have their own issues. VLC is working on getting menus working via their project libbluray. I'm not entirely sure how well it's working...

The whole Pono thing is a scam, but running them in balanced mode might have some benefit on its own.

My previous dynamic range calculation was slightly incorrect. Like most lossy formats the floating point math can clip. After running it though AACgain and reducing the playback volume slightly to eliminate the clipping and re-running... foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date...

They are not ripped to my "NAS". First, I don't have the space for that and beyond that... Without going into a long-winded rant, the "short" version is that there's no suitable 3D playback solution for the PC. FFMPEG/Libav doesn't support MVC decoding and all the hardware decoders in the...

So, I swear I have my 3D Blu-ray buying under control. :rotfl: Everyone makes a custom Blu-ray "case" of out a cardboard box from Amazon with a boxcutter, packing tape, and a little wood glue right?

Hmmm... Thanks for the info. Maybe it was just that it's not controllable from the BIOS on the Dell cards.

It looks like the IBM ServeRAID M5016 might be a better LSI 2208 based HW RAID card to use than the Dell H710p. It supports staggered spin-up and uses a supercap power module instead of a battery. Unfortunately, they seem harder to come by. Right now I only see the 1gB card available from a...

Hmm... it seems the Dell PERC cards don't support staggered spin-up. I'm not sure the system will ever end up with 24 drives in it though I'm building for that capability. Still, I guess bumping the power supply up a bit won't hurt. I also had no idea that staggered spin-up added minutes to...

No, they've only shown up in the last few weeks at most.

Apparently not. foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2015-12-30 00:16:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics for: Oblivion 2013 Full Original Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition) Number of samples: 295457792 Duration: 1:51:40...

Yeah, that's certainly not true. YouTube 1080p is like 5Mbps H.264. My local cable provide delivers much higher bitrate MPEG-2. Despite that neither it nor YouTube 1080p look particularly good.

I already mentioned this one in post #67, but since we're talking about dynamic range and it's just so good. foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2015-12-29 15:42:33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Anthony Gonzalez...

Per the latest reports I've seen in reviews they only have one Molex connector per backplane now. That's what the pictures at Newegg show too. FWIW, ones in the Newegg picture are green and say 12Gb V2.0. The ones in the picture at Norco's site are green with two Molex connectors. There must...

How are you supposed to make sure you get the newer backplanes? The reviews on Amazon and Newegg are all over the place. People are talking about getting the 120mm fan divider and the SSD tray with more recent purchases. However, there is a report on Amazon from a few days ago of someone...

The system will use it at as cache. Does it need 32GB? Probably not. Will it hurt? No. I've got 16GB in my current server / NAS.

That doesn't really make a lot of sense. The overall cable length and wire gauge is all that should matter. What power supply has 12 Molex outputs? I'd be tempted to buy some splitters and cut them up to make custom cables. Yes, I saw that and was thinking about it. Why's that? The drives...

And then they wonder why their new formats fail. They foster confusion like it's going out of style...

I guess this should have it's own thread instead of sidetracking the other one... Here's what I'm thinking for a new controlled cost server / NAS box. CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 Motherboard: ASRock Rack E3C224 RAM: 2x Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin ECC Unbuffered DDR3-1600L Case: NORCO RPC-4224...

68" curved TV? Did you mean 65"? What movie was it and how did they play it? It wouldn't surprise me if most people don't understand what is actually required to watch something in UHD. Further, the TVs are only really UHD if the image static. The TVs don't have sufficient motion resolution...

Hmm... I'm not sure that would help me much if I go with a HW RAID card. Am I overlooking some scenario where I'd want so many SATA drives bypassing the HW RAID card? The limited PCIe slots is likely to be less convenient. If I'm using a HP SAS expander + HW RAID card the HP needs a 4x slot...

I'm considering a setup that uses ECC memory. Using a motherboard like this: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C224 AFAIK, I can use a consumer CPU and get ECC functionality as long as the particular CPU supports ECC. Even the lowly $43 Celeron G1820 supports ECC...

Sorry, but I'm going to discount what your "HP heavy-weight" said. Especially in the case of the same enterprise drive being sold with multiple interface choices. First of all, lets get out of the way that there's nothing inherent about the SATA interface that prevents good IO performance in...

Required to make it functional. You don't have to buy it from them. You can buy 6 fans yourself for half the price from another retailer, or use a different drive controller.

Are you buying or making a substantial donation?

Interesting... I wasn't aware of this ~$65 HP SAS expander option. Why would you be limited to 20 drives? It had 8 ports per the Intel literature. 2 for connecting to the SAS controller and 6 for connecting to up to 24 drives. However, from the pictures I see online it only has 6...

Needs more fans. That looks undercooled.

Yikes, that Supermicro case isn't cheap. The 4U Norco + SAS expander + power supply (not dual redundant mind you) is still far short of $1400. Exactly how much better is that case? Unless you're really pushing the IOs, what would be the advantage of using multiple cards instead of an...

So how are you guys running gobs of drives? An 8 drive SAS/SATA controller in pass through mode connected to a 24 drive SAS expander with each SAS port from the expander connected to something like the 4 drive backplanes in a Norco RPC-4224?

The lanyard is is a bit beefier than the typical lanyard that comes with a light. It doesn't have a nylon attachment loop. It has a tiny nickel sized carabiner on the end to attach it to the light. This of course will scratch up the light. The holster is basically rigid. The light only goes...

I think so, but at $120 most people probably wouldn't agree. I wasn't helped by the fact that no US dealers sell the neutral white version. I bought it from a Canadian dealer since that seemed to be my best option.

Well, it puts out light and doesn't have the typical sickly blueish tint. The diffuser mode makes a decent lantern. The main beam has a pretty tight spot and throws pretty well outside. It would make a very solid camping light with its dual personality. What else do you want to know?

I received an EagleTac GX30A3D (neutral white). :tgif:

I must be the odd one. I still want HW RAID. Probably because the "server" would still run Windows.

Indiana does DST now. Has for almost a decade. On topic, Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone bought themselves something really nice for Christmas.

So they're not HW RAID cards. You're really just using them as pass through drive controllers?

Well, references to Rec. 2020 when talking about UHD displays are always with regards to the color space, because it's the part of the spec that's inflexible.

The LPCM stream is only 2.0 right? That's what the technical information for the disc says at blu-ray.com I figured you wanted 5.1 audio. The Roku 3 doesn't support Dolby True-HD bitstreaming output. Presumably you have your Roku 3 connected to your receiver via HDMI. If your Roku 3...

I've read the spec. As I said it is a color space definition. Nothing in there beside the color space definition is unique or new to it. The color space is not optional. The rest of the stuff you mentioned is optional / not mandatory / one choice that's available, aside from the progressive...

:scratch: Rec.2020 is a color space and has nothing to do with resolution, frame rate or bit depth.

It all depends what you want to play it back on. The listing or the disc at Blu-ray.com says it has Dolby True-HD 5.1 24/96. If your receiver supports Dolby True-HD, I'd demux the video and audio track with eac3to and stick them in a .mkv with mkvtoolnix. Handbrake isn't the tool I'd be using...

Which controllers are you using? I noticed the Dell PERC H700 card has effectively no enthusiast usage whereas the 5i and 6i had a huge number of people using them in consumer grade motherboards with standard consumer SATA drives. Of course the 5i and 6i max out at 2TB per drive so they're...

You can get PMR drives up to 8TB from HGST. WD has them up to 6GB in their Red Pro line (probably in other lines too). Not as cheap per GB as the Archive line from Seagate, but they're also enterprise grade drives with a better UBE spec too.

Well, you've convinced me not to buy SMR drives for a RAID array.

That's because a large part of the whole "green" energy thing is a quasi scam setup to fleece the well off who want to show off to everyone else that they're being "green".

I think the free version of HD tune only tests to 2TB.