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Anyone have a favorite cheap fanless GPU at the moment?

I've noticed that the guys at The Tech Report seem to really ding the current AMD chips for relatively high power consumption. Can somebody explain to me what the big deal is if your CPU (APU) is a 100W part versus 77W part?

Hey Gang, I'm thinking about building a Linux machine, and I'd like to be able to hook it up to two monitors. I won't do any gaming on it, and would prefer low power/heat/noise. From what I can tell, Sandy/Ivy Bridge can do multiple monitor outputs, not sure about the AMD A-series chips. Has...

My router is a DIR-655, and only has 4 (gigabit) ports. I'm contemplating a fifth computer in the house that would need a wired connection. What's the easiest way of going to >4 gigabit PCs? Getting a dedicated (non-wifi) gigabit router and putting some of the PCs on that? Connect on of my...

I'm a fan of Mint with XFCE.

My family runs a HTPC upstairs, Windows 7 pro. We use it to watch Netflix. Yesterday it said we weren't authorized and showed us the logon page. It wouldn't let us log on. Wife called Netflix, who said that they don't support WMC (Windows 7). I know people have had all sorts of issues with WMC 7...

Why not just wait until the transformer dies then pull the drive? Do they kill the drive too?

Placed an order on my account, one on my wife's, same credit card, different name, well see if it ships.

Amazon, Seagate Barracuda 3 TB drives, $99.99 with free (slow) shipping, limit one.

Anyone have experience with the 1TB platter Toshiba drives? IIRC, there was some deal with one of the mergers where some parts and/or technology was transfer ed to Toshiba to allow them to produce larger drives.

Any objections to using Hitachi 7K2000's in ZFS?

I'm continuing to struggle to figure out how to store my music and home video collections on my main, Windows 7 machine. Up until now, I've sufficed with 2 TB drives, but over the next year, my video collection will likely go >2TB. I like storing it locally (I actually do go back to the old...

At least the hips didn't shock people: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm103022.htm

Using Crashplan too, similar amount of storage to what Handy is using. I like that I can tell it to restore a particular file from a particular date. I'm debating how many local backups I need if I also have Crashplan. Not sure I want to download >1 TB of data.

Just run your computer outside, side panels off, no fan on the heat sink, on January day in Minnesota.

In the end, not sure I'll set the drives up in RAID-anything. Maybe I'll just use Window's RAID. We'll see how it goes.

Figured it would be cheaper and maybe easier to get a SATA card and extra SATA hot swap backplane. http://www.cmstore-usa.com/haf-x-sata-back-plane-oem-package/ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115072

Right now I just need 4 TB, but I'd like the option to scale higher, hence the desire for a 4 drive unit. I have two 2 TB Hitachi 7k2000's and some WD Caviar Green drives. Was thinking of using the Hitachi drives.

Do you guys have experience with any decent external RAID enclosures? I'm looking for a 4+ drive enclosure that will let me access 4+ TB of data. eSATA is fine, but it would be nice if it included USB3/2 to facilitate easier recovery in case of failure. The cheapo $<200 units at Newegg...

Droplet? I thought those were tears.

Still looking for a decent 4+ port PCIe (1x or 4x) SATA III card. Not particularly concerned with RAID. And I still want to be able to store >2 TB locally (preferably 6 TB), plus I like having two hot swap bays to rotate backup drives through. Anybody know if the Marvell 9120 controller supports...

Anybody using these? Large capacity, acceptable 3 year warranty, performance is as expected, prices seem reasonable. Anything not to like for use in a file server or for mass backups?

Am I understanding PCIe correctly, that x4 implies that it can transfer up to 2 GB/s versus an x1 that would be stuck at 500 MB/s max? Another 4 port PCIe x4 device: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115078

Because I like hard drives :) I shoot digital video and anticipate needing to expand my storage in the next year. I also like to keep a number of virtual machines around to play with. And I keep multiple backups. I've considered setting up a dedicated file server, and I now have some extra...

PCIe is no problem, I believe I have two unused PCIe 2.0 slots. Any problem using something like this HighPoint controller? I seem to recall HighPoint having a horrible reputation a few years back. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115072

My motherboard (Asus P8P67 Pro) has run out of SATA slots. I'm wondering if anybody has have recommendations for a cheap but solid PCIe SATA controller. Few questions: 1. Any reason to use PCIe over PCI? I believe I've got both PCI and PCIe slots available (I only have a graphics card and a...

Anyone using this sort of thing for long-term storage? http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/company-creates-dvd-format-made-to-last-1000-years/

Anyone think OOo and LO will merge back together?

Quick.

No drops since formatting the drives as basic drives. Wonder why.

Formatted both drives as basic disks. We'll see if the drive remains flaky.

Thanks all for your input. The drive problems happen with the same HD in both of my two hot swap bays. The other drive, same model, has no issues. Makes me think cabling is not the issue. Both go to a different SATA port, both on the Marvel controller. Same PS cable going to the hot swap...

In my PC I've got two WD Caviar Green 20EARX drives in a hot swap bay plugged into the Marvel SATA III slots on my Asus P8P67 Pro (rev 3). One of the two drives keeps dropping. Same drive every time. The drive is a dynamic disk with a single partition. I'm running Win7 64 bit. Every hour or so...

Why do you need to benchmark all of these drives? And why do you need to bench multiple ones concurrently?

NPR and the USPS, two things I think are very unsexy but are really bargains.

I want to purchase one of the James Brown collections, either the 40th or 50th anniversary album. I thought that purchasing it online would be quicker and easier then just downloading a pirated version. After looking around a little, I'm not sure. I want to listen to it on my desktop computer...

Outlook search seems horrible without Windows Search.

Microsoft ergonomic 4000. Best split keyboard I know of. Would love to find a back-light split keyboard.

She's still working on backing everything up and figuring out what programs she wants installed on the new SSD. I was hoping to do the install this week but it probably won't happen for another week.

Wonder if the concern is an excessive number of writes as it updates the index?

Hey Gang, I recently installed a Samsung 830, along with Office 2010 which I use extensively for work. Per the Samsung utility, I disabled Windows Search, which seems to have disabled search in Outlook as well. While I was expecting searching in Outlook to be slower, I wasn't expecting it to be...

I've been camping and slept outside when it's been -26F (-32C) without windchill. My group was most definitely prepared, but it still sucked when our quinzee mostly collapsed.

IIRC, Chrome manged to push a huge chunk of their userbase from v14 to 15 within 24 hours or something crazy, actually surpassing IE v(whatever).

Microsofts' SynToy? I've used it with good success. Nice and simple. The downside is that you need to manually run it. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155

Yay! Now Seagate is doing even more cutting! Effective December 31, 2011, Seagate will be changing its warranty policy from a 5 year to a 3 year warranty period for Nearline drives, 5 years to 1 year for certain Desktop and Notebook Bare Drives, 5 years to 3 years on Barracuda XT and Momentus...

Never had the coconut cake, but the Honker is respectable. With my location described as it is, it's really easy to figure out where I work and for what organization. Googling works as well, and points to this forum.

The Intel/Acrosis software won't let me clone my Intel SSD onto a mechanical HD (which would be nice just as a lifeboat) but it will let me clone my wife's current OS drive onto the Intel SSD (which I'll do as a last step).

The move from 5 year to 3 year warranties didn't piss me off that much; rarely have I used hard drives for >3 years anyway. But I fear with a short warranty period, there will be little incentive to build reliable drives.

I really like the bit about how there will be a time with product out out there with 2- and 3-year warranties mixed together. Great for the consumer. This duopoly business is great. I only wish they could take it two steps further to first give us Westerngate and then Microwesterngate. Would...

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