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Sheesh, I shot coffee out of my nostrils reading that!

Coug, sure you're not a penguin? :)

Thanks; I was talking about -30C. The coldest I've been in is about -9.5C in Connecticut in Feb 2009. Spent barely a few mins outside, hotel room to car, car to office and back. Somebody else was driving (thankfully). Saw many cars kissing poles and trees. I can imagine how catastrophic it...

Yeah, but a Raid-5 rebuild will stop when an URE is encountered. In Raid-10, this may be a "silent error", but at least the rest of the data is recovered. Pick your problem.

What special precautions does one need to take in temperatures like that to keep the car and house going?

I found these enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Problems_with_RAID http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html. A whole movement against RAID (5, 6, Z and 51)! Art Kagel's articles (on the left side) are worth reading. I am beginning to think Raid-10 is the safest. The one big...

As drive capacities go up, UREs (Unrecoverable Errors) also are, spelling disaster during Raid recovery processes. The highest capacities I've stumbled on for Raid drives these days are 900 GB (this is for Dell NAS systems). Of course manufacturers (WD, Hitachi, Seagate) list drives up to 4 TB...

Can be used in another country with different carriers (if unlocked) ?

Oof! Glad you are ok. Cars can always be repaired.

No idea what you mean by 86° BC. I meant degrees F.

Consistent high of ~ 86 here :)

sdbardwick, that's awesome! I learned something very useful today, thank you very much!

IIRC such programs have always been commercial. But then, I'm pretty much out of touch with much that is happening out there.

Thanks Tannin.

This is unbelievable! Tell that to Obama!

I don't know about that. Surprise him by calling and let's get this over with. Then we can talk about Audis and porn, cats 'n stuff. BTW, a stray adopted us a month ago and littered this morning in a box we provided. Don't yet know how many little ones.

Weird. The forum is removing blank lines and concatenating text. I edited the above post three times, trying to get the last sentence in a new paragraph. What gives?

I guess that's true of Win 7 too. My XP system died, and I built a new one. Same HDDs. Boot, program opening time, all lightning fast compared to XP. True, the XP install was 6 years old, but that alone can't account for so much difference. The partitions were and are regularly defragged. Maybe...

Now where is Handy? I'm sure one of the mods know how to reach him.

Awesome, Merc, good for you!

That is smart!

Does indexing have anything to do with this? Is it turned by default in Win 8? (I don't know if it is in Win 7)

They claim they now ask for user input (especially from pro users) and incorporate the feedback into new releases. I guess there is a communication gap somewhere. Sigh.

How so?

2012 was hottest on record in the US, warm everywhere else Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide

I guess by "everybody" you mean me. Merc posts several times each day. Handruin is pretty regular too. Neither of them has posted in a while, and that's cause for concern unless there's a known reason for that. I would not be concerned if all they want is a breather.

I had Merc's email ID from a long time ago, and reached out to him. He's busy with his new GF! He's promised to be back soon. I don't have Handy's email ID :( Can someone please reach out to him? Hopefully he's just vacationing or something.

Sheesh, a minor argument like that is no reason to trash a decades long friendship! You know what they say - it's the minor squabbles that keep relationships strong. Let's forget the whole thing happened, and move on please?

He hasn't posted in a while, IIRC. Maybe the mods can look into when his last post was?

I wonder why this wasn't found before. Then this should also help that other memory hog - the internet browser. Firefox has stopped 64-bit development. For those who use the browsers heavily, this should help. Thanks for posting it here!

jtr, have you used the 4GB patch? Does it work?

I didn't actually try, Chewy. I read some news somewhere touting this as a freebie, and the top of the article had a correction stating what I posted earlier.

Right. You need to provide your current licence info before they'll let you download CS2.

Thanks DD. Will you be answering the other questions?

Gosh, you sure take chances, don't you? If the timing belt had gone bust after 60k miles, you would have kissed your engine goodbye. Why have you put it off for so long?

I'll google, but I was wondering if people had a favorite. Need something that'll do a byte for byte check, or an MD5 hash check, etc. Win 32 & 64 bit. Thanks.

HGST Deskstar 3.5-Inch 4TB 7200 RPM SATA III 6Gbps Internal Hard Drive Kit (0S03355) Amazon: $244 Newegg: $380 (55% more) I find it completely crazy that there is this kind of price variance.

DD, I am naive in many ways reg. these kinds of things :), so please nobody laugh (or do it quietly). Can you help me with these? Regarding your Synolgy box: a) What model is it? b) What Raid level are you running on it? c) Can a Windows 7 or Windows 8 Client access data on a Synology box...

After being sorely tempted, I think I'll stick with Win-7 for now. When Win 8.5 comes out, who knows.

Good suggestions; I'll check them out, thanks. I was thinking of the Synology DS1512+. 4TB x 5 = 20 TB max, but can add up to two extensions units that can each have 5 drives. This should more than cover his needs, since his present collection is 6TB, and Raid-6 with 4 drives will give him 8 TB...

Thanks guys. Chewy, Synology does not seem to support RaidZ2. I need to read up on Raid Z. For my friend, write speed is immaterial; he will be updating his collection from time to time, but the speed at which it is done is not material to the issue. Read speeds, of course, have to be enough to...

His reactions in the The ESD video looked staged to me.

I agree with DD. May be the result of being unused for a long period. I'd also suggest a power cycle and a re-look at the Smart data.

Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) Youtube video of a TED talk. Uses 3 synchronized IPODs to do his thing.

So guys, help me here with the front end. I know nothing about these. How about DD's suggestion? My earlier suggestion? Want to keep this simple. I don't foresee this guy using Blu-Ray at all.

+1 !

Thanks all for your suggestions. For the front end, wouldn't a simple XP or Win 7 machine suffice? The audio-out could be fed into his music system. The HDMI-out could be fed to his TV. Perhaps even a laptop? Am I taking gibberish? For the back end, he wants something unified. He currently has...

The friend, though he's in IT, is more of a sw guy, and hw is not his forte. He might be better off with a Synology, I'd guess. Of course, someone like Merc or Chewy can come along and suggest ZFS, of which I know zilch.

All right, SD, you know best.

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