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That thing is a little bit better than twice as fast as the 128GB Patriot thumb drive I have here for both reads and writes. Definitely nothing to complain about.

I'm not particularly interested in California either. The Pacific Northwest, maybe. But not California.

Having redundancy is important. Having a specific RAID level is decidedly less so. Parity calculations will kill your IO performance.

No one is answering that because there is no hard answer. The answer will most definitely be lower for disks in RAID5 or 6 than 10, though.

It took approximately the same amount of time to decrapify the machine as it would have to reinstall.

Synology doesn't have any special magic to make its bits go faster than Gigabit Ethernet line speed. If you're going to be hosting multiple VMs over one, you'll really need to pay attention to the underlying disk configuration. You'll need to look at a RAID1 or RAID10 setup to have any kind of...

The argument for the Probook is that they're cheap compared to other business-class notebooks. I love Thinkpads but Lenovo doesn't offer anything as cheap as a $390 Probook (though this one was not THAT cheap). That, and the most common low-cost Thinkpad, the Edge, is really more of a glorified...

And the big winner for thing that was fucking up start times? HP Protection Suite, which appears to be some crap that was licensed from our good friends at McAffee. As if I needed more evidence that nothing from McAffee should ever be tolerated on a computer.

Synology gives you a whole bunch of neat addons and toys but the little four and six drive ones I've set up don't really scream "expansion" to me. I've fed ESXi with a FreeNAS and found the performance kind of weak over just plain Gbe, but there are better folks here for talking about that...

So I'm sitting here right now with an HP Probook 4430s. It's an i5 with 8GB RAM... and it takes a little over three minutes to get to a desktop and probably another three after that before the hourglass goes away. Needless to say this requires some investigation. Anyone else see a problem with...

Oz is the land of 70mph wildfires, rampaging koalas, baby-eating dingos, nature-show eating jellyfish, testicle-eating footballers and a wide variety of other poisonous fauna.

Please stop doing that. It shows an intense disrespect for your audience and makes some of us question other facets of your intellect.

Businesses with less than 10 employees have a lot more leeway about certain things though in general I agree completely. My office is entirely Catholic except for me. One of my coworkers in particular absolutely can't make the distinction between religious and secular activities. She finally...

Domain Controller is unquestionably what kills it. No DC starts up quickly ever.

I charge when my battery gets down to around 25%. How long that takes depends on usage. Usually Thursday night and either Saturday or Sunday night depending on how much I've been reading.

I believe that's correct.

Boot time on Server 2008 is awesome if you aren't running many services. My game machine (with a 250GB Vertex3) starts in ~14 seconds.

I actually find money pretty regularly on the route that I normally walk. I found $20s three different times last year. Another time I found a wad of $17 (a five and a bunch of ones), and I bet I find $1 bills at least once a week. It's probably a combination of being fairly observant and...

3.5" hard disks were universally more reliable than any 5.25" disks that were ever made. It's been my experience that 2.5" disks are more reliable than 3.5" models, even when they're normally used in portable applications. I wonder what impact the smaller components has on reliability over and...

When Apple doesn't coordinate well with carriers, the carriers clearly need to be more like Apple! :rotfl:

If he actually does it all his support questions are on you, Handy.

In cases where I suspect an oddball episode sequence, I usually look at the episode run times on IMDB or something to match things up. Even for a disc with a lot of episodes, that only takes a minute or two. 90% of the time or better, the title sequence is also the episode sequence and there's...

In cases where I suspect an oddball episode sequence, I usually look at the episode run times on IMDB or something to match things up. Even for a disc with a lot of episodes, that only takes a minute or two. 90% of the time or better, the title sequence is also the episode sequence and there's...

Bozo, that Zotac system uses a Via CPU. Granted that they do have some kind of hardware assist that's supposed to make them acceptable for HD video decoding, but I think I'd keep looking for something a little higher on the CPU food chain. This guy might be a decent choice. I'm bothered by how...

It's pretty typical for me to have several hundred dollars in $20s on me. When the stack gets too big I deposit them at an ATM. $50s and $100s are a curse since most of the businesses I frequent won't take them.

It doesn't come up very often but I've seen the code on other sites. Thanks!

I floccinaucinihilipilificate that.

I found a $50 bill today while I was out for a walk. Who the hell drops a $50? Who even CARRIES $50s when they can help it? The key to having a massive store of video content is organization. Handbrake allows a pretty straightforward workflow for converting a disc made up of multiple episodes...

That is what I would do, yes. I don't care about menus ever. They're just a pain in the ass. If I care enough about a movie to want the extras, I'll buy it and keep the disc, but in general I don't give enough of a crap about anything other than commentary tracks to bother. Reencoding...

HD Demostration footage of a drone helicopter camera bot. With Ninjas. God I love Vimeo.

Once I get my HP SAS extender I think I am going to be done worrying about SATA ports for the rest of my systems.

Shouldn't strikethrough text?

Look at this as yet another attempt by your continent to prove that it isn't actually fit for human habitation, time. :)

That certainly would improve my Bluray-stealing throughput.

We're just going to have to face the fact that modern drives are going to be shit. The only real good news is that they're generally so cheap (or will be again some day) that we can afford to buy more of them and still have incredibly dense storage systems. For what it's worth, I've had very...

Anybody want to put money on how much of that retraction is coming from the kinds of pressure a totalitarian government that places no particular value on human life might put on executives at a manufacturing concern, a bunch of factory workers and a translator?

My first "never again" with WD was 1995. Eventually, after people talked them up on SR, I started buying them again in 2000 or so. By 2003, they were back in "never again" territory. I don't care if they ever improve their drives. The company has used up all the chances it will ever get from me...

Acronis TrueImage is my go-to software for that. Clonezilla is a freebie. Stereodude had a long thread describing his personal experiences trying to clone drives to maintain partition boundaries with SSDs that might be interesting if it's a concern you have (which it probably isn't, since your...

Point of order: My gaming/main video encoding machine has 4GB RAM. Most of the time I'm only using about 2GB. I have twelve 4GB DDR3 DIMMs within arm's reach of this computer and I can't even be bothered to put them in. RAM only matters when you need more of it and anything more is just...

That's pretty cool, really. If I had to guess I'd say most of the places that have a significant enough installed base of similar machines to use system images probably already have something in-house that can run Windows Deployment Services or Remote Install Services, but "most" isn't the same...

It is honestly my hope that Samsung's engineering makes its way into next generation Seagate drives. Western Digital is beyond unforgivable and the sooner the rest of humanity understands that the better off we'll be as a species.

I've probably updated Firefox to version 11 on twenty or thirty machines without seeing it cause an OS restart. I have no idea what 1password is but I use upwards of 20 addons on some of my personal systems.

You realize that this is like asking which testicle you'd prefer to have a slow yet tragic encounter with a garlic press, right? But... Samsung for as long as you can get 'em.

I can't say much about the projectors in your price range but the inexpensive ($1000ish) Viewsonic and Optoma 1080p projectors I've worked with most recently have been spectacularly lame even by the diminished standards of their respective price tags.

I don't think ladies like it when you call it that, Greg. ;)

I just ordered a new Technet sub. I bought it from Amazon just so I can see how the retail experience differs from dealing directly with Microsoft.

At this point the single thing that makes my SSD and i7 equipped everyday machines choke and die is still fucking Flash. I can run Handbrake encodes for days and leave City of Heroes open the whole time but if I leave a browser (any browser, mind you; I don't think browsers are the problem) open...

I'm about 99% certain that any modern OS should support SMP with its default kernel. Go back and look at your kernel messages (dmesg) to check and make sure. Worst case you'll have to recompile the kernel (there are step by step instructions out there) or reinstall.

Awesome double post. Go me!

One of the reasons I appreciated my time on TotalFark is that it's a wider community made of up of people coming from different backgrounds with varied interests. It's really the only place I've spent communicating with non-nerds and/or women who aren't queer. The community is such that there's...