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What rez are you running at? If you are overdriving the monitors, increasing the refresh rate will prob make them look worse.

Added four P4 3.6GHz for the weekend at least :)

This is an argument I have with our Chief Engineer all the time. "But there's only one "i" in aluminum" he says. I will never accept it, says I.

Congratulations you dirty dog!

This is a file server for work, so unlikely to see any Quake 3 duties :) No offense Doug :bglaugh:

http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/rawconverters/rawconverters.htm Here it is. Seems like Bibble is the fastest.

CPU speeds really haven't advanced much past the 3.4 you are currently using. At work we use the 2MB L2 cache P4 3.6Ghz. We'll prob move to the 3.8GHz shortly. Going from a Xeon @ 2.8 to the 3.6 gave us about a 30% improvement in general image processing. There was a review on the Net where...

I believe AMD got a lab of fab help/know-how from IBM.

It's a miracle. The order slipped thru the beancounter cracks. Dual Opteron 250 (2.4GHz) Supermicro HD8something "OEM" board 2GB of RAM Areca 1230 12 port PCI-E controller 6* 500GB Hibachis (to start) Supermicro case with 15 hot swap SATA carriers on the front :) $50 dolla PCI-Express video card

Many of the people wouldn't have left even if transport was available. Hell, some of them won't leave even now when their house is friggin underwater and there are no jobs left.

Hmm, I notice that the newer 5-bay U320 Supermicro enclosure (the MS-35s) has only one 68 pin input. My older 4 drive version has an output as well for daisychaining. Question? Can I still daisy chain the new enclosures, just using one connector in a cable run for each enclosure? Thanks.

You are correct, the interleaved blue/white cable is the U160 one. That's one the best parts of the Tekram retail kit, don't have to bugger around looking for cables. GS: I don't think i is related to Gary?

"Cops kill 5 after workers take gunfire September 5, 2005 BY ROBERT TANNER NEW ORLEANS -- As authorities struggled to keep order, police killed at least five people after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said...

To add: It'll be one drive for OS and apps, one drive for data. I already had the controller card and SCA enclosure, so there was no setup cost for me. I have two 18GB Seagate 15K.2s, but they aren't really cutting edge anymore, plus 18GB is really quite limiting. Perhaps a RAID 0 for them for...

My self justification for buying them was to test out an application at work, to make sure it's not disk bound. I want to see the CEO's face when I show him more than 25% util on Gigabit Ethernet. Also I need to know how many network connections can read/write images to the drive before they see...

You may need to add them to a RAID array, just as single drives or something like that. Let me know how it goes, I'm considering the LSI 320-2E controller.

Is the grog chilled and the soup hot?

One 36GB Atlas 15KII on a Tekram U160 controller, sitting in a 32bit PCI slot (you can see where it's maxing out the PCI bus at the beginning). SCSI is good. Long live it.

No, whilst we are stuck with Dell's for external client machines, we can do home brew for internal work which we support ourselves. So I've specced a nice Supermicro dual AMD mobo, with an Opteron 2.something. That'll prob be turned into a Celeron 1.5GHz by the beancounters :evil:

Very nice.

One last question for the gurus of RAID. The Areca supports >2TB arrays, but mentions 64 bit addressing. Does that mean we can only realise that with a 64 bit OS?

I looked at that too quickly and saw "ECS does dual AMD". Then I passed out.

I see some Supermicro SAS enclosures but they all seem to be exclusively for 2.5" drives. I see they have the same controller with 8 internal connections (2*4).

That would be a ferret :) Ferrite is:

This doesn't use a single plug, but it's pretty easy to hook up via 5 SATA cables. http://supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm

From what I heard today, the money that was to be used to strengthen the leveee that breached in New Orleans was instead diverted to Iraq.

Ok, I've failed to take my SAS 101. Does that mean I'm limited to 4 drives internally and 4 drives externally? I'm assuming the cable (internal or external) is some kind of 1 to 4 connector? As a complete OT, got my Atlas IIs from zimzoomfly today. What a refreshing change from the shitehouse...

Yeah, the half height version we have (from Certance) is actually slower in thruput compared to a full bore LTO2 drive. But at around $2000 for an external drive, it was sufficient for our needs. The full speed drives are around $3500. We don't use compression (all JPEGs and TIFFs).

Which LSI card do you have? I would swap out that POS Adaptec immediately. The benchmarks don't lie in this case, the card is shite and should be ebayed immediately. Yesterday we hooked up an LTO-2 half-height drive, and tried doing a daily backup on some of those shite RAID 5 arrays. Windows...

So after a knock down drag it out fight with the IT Manager, we are going to try an Areca 1230 (12 ports) PCI-Express controller, with six 400GB drives. The doubt in his mind? That the POS Promiseless SX6000s that we currently use in RAID 5 is not in fact the bottleneck, it's our Gigabit...

Looks like there is a $50 dollar price premium on Atlas II 15K drives, moving from U320 to SAS. I went with a couple of the U320s. Plus non-availability of any kind of decent range of SAS controllers also played a part.

Price of natural gas going up makes for a bitch of a winter heating bill. As for people driving Hummers, I don't think they really care too much about the cost of gas. Or if they do, they are still aflluent enough to afford it.

How about burying a cable?

Sounds like a good deal. I take it you aren't prone to seeng rainbows?

DVI with HDCP (which has been around for a few years now) has the same protections as HDMI. Nothing new there. Smaller connector, longer cable runs, higher bandwidth, I see HDMI as only a positive upgrade from DVI-HDCP (aka DVI-HDTV). Also some people use HDMI between say DVD player and...

1. JPEGs are around 7-10MB each. 2. http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/19 Looking at the numbers I'm thinking RAID 5 will be the way to go. They appear to have fixed the Areca's poor random I/O via a firmware upgrade. Also I hesitate to purchase a product without SATA2 support. Does 3ware have...

Do you have an Areca controller?

So I'm looking for a new jumbo fileserver for work. Possible workload: Three workstations, each pumping out about 10MB/sec of JPEGs (only writes to fileserver, no reads). On the read side, there will be three or more workstations accessing the JPEGs, doing image processing work on them, and...

The cars/trucks are selling well. They have had the biggest months ever I believe. Problem is that they aren't making much profit on them. And it kills the resale values.

24-105mm F4 lens looks interesting.

2 days downtime for "business-class" is completely unacceptable. I would be demanding credit for the downtime. With our T1 it gets escalated after 4 hours. Not that it has been down yet.

22-35% tax doesn't sound so bad when Medicare in the US is only for the basically homeless or aged, and healthy adults have to pay close to US$1000+ per month for decent health insurance for a family of four (tho fortunately many employers cover some of this cost). AUS and US petrol prices...

Send it to them as CSV. Or Word 2003-XML.

I think there is a difference between whipping it out at Disneyland and peeing on a wall, and peeing your pants. One is obscene, the second is disturbing but not as serious as the former. Of course a 4 year old Mac wouldn't cause me to wet myself, I might vomit at the lack of performance tho :)

Personally I'd like to see HP defined as how much power gets sent to the driving wheels. Then we can see how much the slushbox and other running gear has robbed us :) 6 HP in the Elantra doesn't worry me, I notice that the SULEV version has a few less horspeower than the ULEV. Plus I have free...

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. "This is total...

Dell had two 500GB Hitachi drives for around $580 a few weeks back.

Something like the Nikon D70 or Canon RebelXT would suit the bill. Basically instant-on, and shutter lag time is comparable to a film SLR. Bigger question is what kind of lenses you want/need. Looks like that Olympus only has digital zoom, so the kit lens that comes with either camera whould be...

Aded a dual core P4 3.0GHz (Two instances).

Best place for gun lovers would have to be Vermont, no permit required, to carry either concealed or open. (Tho open can cause some consternation in public).