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... which you can do with a fast single drive

If you're building RAID5s or JBODs of consumer 5k SATA drives, I/O performance probably isn't on the top of the list.

That does not surprise me even a tiny little bit, based on my experiences with Hitachi drives in RAID generally, and with recent Seagate 5k drives in various types of arrays. The Hitachi drives are also the cheapest 3TB drives available right now. So that's working for them, too.

And two or three years on SR for most of us before that.

Every Outlook user I still have to support would have strangled me for daring to have them look anyplace but Outlook for mail. The times I've done Gmail migrations, I came in and did the work on an 8PM to wee small hours of the morning schedule.

I should've gone for third base.

Maybe the requirements are different for Google Oceania? I know they gave me instructions for accessing the Google Apps stuff without making any changes to DNS. I swear. Honest. I just don't know why time didn't get that. It's worrisome that his process is different from the one I'm familiar with.

Yeah. That was the deal. SR came back up and basically Eugene said that he was going to shut it down. There was an article on Slashdot.org about its closure, even. There were some emails spread around among about a dozen people and then Handruin set up SF. We had ideas that we would take the...

I've used that tool and found it to not work particularly well. It is absolutely possible to start a Gmail transition prior to changing MX records. They give you URLs for accessing your Google Apps stuff through google.com/somelongrandomstring if you want or need to do it that way.

The proper headline: WD to endanger ever-larger amounts of data in a 2.5" form factor.

Didn't we talk about power over eSATA when they announced 6Gbps SATA? I thought we did.

It's all the way down to 90 here. At 10PM.

They say S*ny on them.

If you plant the good habits here, they will sprout and grow into more readable language habits with each and every paper you write.

You will be sorry.

Oh, Outlook Contacts: AFAIK, the only time that syncing them natively is an option is under paid Google Apps with the Gmail Sync tool installed on client machines. That essentially turns Gmail into an Exchange replacement and also allows for Calendar sharing and some other stuff. There are some...

I use Gmail contacts with Thunderbird as well. If you're dealing with Outlook, you may very well have issues with huge .pst migrations. I found the migration tools that were available to do an extremely poor job transferring data from desktop machines to Gmail. Moving folders via Outlook is...

I find that there's a lot of variability even between drives that are theoretically the same model from the same manufacturer. I bought a dozen 4GB PNY Attache drives that I use for OS installation media and I've observed that some of them consistently install Windows 7 more slowly than others...

The Gigabyte H61-USB3 is kind of a half-assed board. It performs well enough when paired with an i3, but I can tell that corners were cut to get to its price point. Even the packaging and manual are weak compared to the usual Gigabyte standards. And yes I stuck a PCI I/O card in it. It might...

Today's punctuation lesson: Comma usage courtesy of Purdue's Online Writing Lab. I will acknowledge that I'm occasionally guilty of this one myself but I'm not the person in this thread with a JD, either.

I think that's the best policy as well. There's very little online that is directly attributable to my actual self. I like it that way.

I have an Aquos and don't have any particular complaints about it. I've never had to deal with their service department. Personally, I'm not at all a fan of Plasma screens or all the power they use, and I'd rather have 1080p than 720p regardless. I'm not sure 120Hz display modes are worth the...

Coug, I live in the toxic waste capital of the United States. People who worry about inhaled particulates don't live here to begin with. I did buy a Gigabyte H61M board over the weekend, just to see how well it will work for my purposes. And mubs, Parallel to USB and Serial to USB adapters...

I'm a social networking conscientious objector. I am sort of interested in how well Spotify does or does not work. I suspect it's "not" in my case, but that's the curious part.

My G1 X25-M is definitely near the end of its life. I cloned it and pulled it On top of that, one of my customers, the same one who had his 160GB X25-M die before, had his drive die again. I don't know what he's doing that kills them but at this point I suspect it's his fault rather than...

The unit is not big enough for the space I have, but it's the standard unit for my apartment complex. I'm not allowed to change it. I just leave it off and put up with the heat. I'd still rather rent than own a home.

I still have a Catalyst 5005 sitting around, but that's probably not what you're talking about.

It's not like I know people who are still buying them. It's just that they've had them for 15 or 20 years and the damned things still work and cost (relatively speaking) nothing for consumables. I don't blame anyone for wanting to stuck with them. They're like the cockroaches of the printing...

The Parallel port is close to a deal breaker. I've been telling customers for years that the best personal printers ever made are Laserjet 3s and a lot of them still have those old printers. IDE is far, far less important, but there's a convenience factor there for dealing with old machines...

I read somewhere, a couple years ago, that Intel put some engineering talent into developing a low cost, self-contained water cooling setup that could be easily installed, and that the final product of that development was under $25 per unit. I want to know what happened to THAT.

Verifies seem to be really CPU intensive on TI2011 in a way I don't remember them being on TI2010.

My standard business system build for years and years has been an LGA775 G31 motherboard (preferably one with IDE and a parallel port) with a mid-range CPU and 2GB RAM in a decent case with a quality PSU. I usually target $350 - $400 or so for hardware on these boxes. There are so many...

TrueImage 2010 definitely works with AHCI. I suppose it might not work with a Z68 6Gbps controller since that's not part of the standard ICHwhatever deal but AFAIK it's still a supported product and there's probably an update that addresses that. TrueImage support is usually kind of worthless...

That's simple. Intel motherboards are NOT RETARDED.

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It was 93 degrees in my apartment last night at 11PM. With the computers turned off. All of them.

That's pretty normal for BIOS updates.

I hope you like MPEG2 video.

I've noticed an odd behavior from the G1 X25-M in my gaming desktop. I only have one game installed in the 80GB space, City of Heroes, but since I had time to play this weekend, I did. Unfortunately, what I actually spent most of the weekend doing was tracking down weird lag spikes in-game. My...

I've noticed an odd behavior from the G1 X25-M in my gaming desktop. I only have one game installed in the 80GB space, City of Heroes, but since I had time to play this weekend, I did. Unfortunately, what I actually spent most of the weekend doing was tracking down weird lag spikes in-game. My...

Over the weekend, I got an LG Smart TV Upgrader for $50. For that money it has some stupid apps (meh) and offers DLNA support for streaming video. I've since found the Seagate/WD streaming video doohickeys on Ebay for not much more than the LG, but it's another interesting option.

Not any more. These days I'm lucky if I can get three hours of work in on a Saturday. I can do a lot more remotely than I used to but other than basic monitoring I don't need to do much at this point.

I had horrible problems using 2TB Seagate green drives in Windows SoftRAIDs. I suspect there's something in the drive firmware that makes them a bad choice for RAID scenarios, like extra-long thermal calibrations or something.

Oh that is quite useful. When I looked before I could not find such an item. I need to get a couple of those. Thank you sir.

I'd kill to get a USB3 PCI card so that I could make it available on all the servers I manage, instead of just the few that happen to have PCIe instead of PCI or PCI-X. Much as I've been advocating for tape, a backup system built on several 1TB 2.5" USB drives that only need one plug would be a...

I have not yet had a bad tape. They're supposed to last years in use assuming a moderate rotation schedule and to be stable for long-term storage after that.

I got my library off Craigslist. Take a look at Provantage for the hardware. As I recall they were hundreds cheaper than some of the other usual suspects.

I've never bothered to turn on compression. It would be a waste of time. I have two backup jobs that are ~13TB and 8.5TB right now. I make a new full backup monthly and just do incremental backups on a weekly basis. It's not a huge deal. I was able to get my Tape Library from a shuttered...

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Your computer got a vacation, and now it has to go back to work. Sucky, sucky work that Adobe makes it do. More sucking than a republican in an airport bathroom. Have I said lately how much I hate flash? Because I hate flash.