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The rackmount enclosures I've seen at NewEgg (the SuperMicro one's) cost 220$-250$. For a 1500$ system, or even a 2000$ one, it is dangerously expensive. So despite the PCI bottleneck for the Escalade, an i-875P-based motherboard with gagabit ethernet seems the way to go for a budget server...

Dates are important, but so are details about the graphic cards, which the above chart doesn't have. No performance indicator either.

Saw this one at OSNews. It describes fairly well my frustrations most of the time I play on Linux and especially with beta versions : Although I haven't had major problems so far with my installation of Fedora Core 1, similar stories happened when I was testing earlier release candidates. I...

I couldn't care less for the Scion xB, but the Scion xA is supposedly a fine car. Think of it as an Echo with a sporty road handling. Motor Trend (yeah, I know...Motor Trend) tested it back in their July 2003 issue and according to their measurements, it beated both the Miata and the Jaguar...

To avoid cable clutter and reduced air flow. 4x or 6x PATA cables (to have one drive per channel) is going to create quite a mess inside a normal enclosure. Regarding the chassis, would this do?

Thanks, I didn't notice them earlier. They've been installed and my computer didn't explode, so I assume they worked.

The main problem I see for a cheap storage server is the lack of faster PCI slots in budget motherboards. It doesn't take a lot of modern hard drives working simultaneously to reach the bandwidth cap of the old 32bit PCI bus. So a 3Ware Escalade into such a slot is partially wasted...

Thanks. I will go to the Montréal auto show in January to look and sit in it. Right now, my budget prefers the Corolla (it doesn't consume much more fuel). My car seems to work ok for the moment, so I might not change this year, even if I'm tempted. Next time it breaks though, bye bye for...

With the above I disagree. There's no need for rackmount for a budget system, even a server app. Rackmounts are needed when there are space constraints, which shouldn't be the case here. Not that I approve the use of a modified case either... In their defense, I want to point out that at...

An idea to simplify our task would be to contact via e-mail each company (still in business) and tell them we are doing an article on the history of graphic cards and chipset and that, since we feel that given company brought some important contributions to the evolution of computer graphics, we...

I misread the overall cost at first : I thought it was 3410$, but in fact it was 3140$. So don't bother telling me that I made a mistake in the original post.

I saw this article at Firingsquad. Haven't read it thoroughly, but since it's "storage" related, good or bad, it should be linked here. Overall, their proposed system cost more than 3400$ and IMO looks more like an enthusiast box than a dedicated server (Logitech MX700???). It would work...

Just the card I remember off the top of my head : Voodoo 1 4MB PCI Voodoo Rush Voodoo 2 8MB, still PCI Voodoo Banshee Voodoo 3, 16MB IIRC - also PCI Voodoo 4/5 (several models, up to Voodoo 5 5500) S3 Virge (first graphic decelerator) S3 Savage (forgot details, but around the same period as the...

Oh come on Will! Now you stole the punch of the article so no one will enjoy reading it anymore. It's almost as cheap as saying that Neo dies at the end of Matrix Revolutions... ...oups.

BTW, three bathrooms, great. So no matter how much life will piss you off, you'll never be far from relief.

Put everything in the garage. From the plan you linked, it's obviously the roomiest room and the logical choice for your Home theater. No more place for your car? Sell it. It will please JTR.

Seattle's area. Well, probably within an hour at least. Not far from Mt. Rainier too. SF administrator Grotlz lives there. As for the pronounciation, well...I could show you how I would say it in French.

Anand has a review of the new Dell display.

Having Tea in freedom is quite disturbing. Here's one of her relative's notion of Born To Be Wild : Story Let's just hope she won't feel too lonely so she doen't turn wacko like that A-yung

Maybe he ventured too far in the swamps and has been eaten by one of those nasty salt water croc.

Finally! I've been chasing the Cocker for more than a year now...and I finally managed to overtake him. I feel like I won a long and hard fight. Adrian! Adrian! Adrian! Huh? Mark isn't Adrian...why is he the one who's coming closer and closer? Hey you! Back off my fifth place!

Yes, it is. The AIC-7850 is the chip used for both of these cards according to my short research on Adaptec's site.

But how's that possible Greg? SCSI's so superior to IDE, everything should be a breeze to setup and always work flawlessly, no? Try this printed document file, page 8. Your motherboard only has IDE channels tru the Promise controller? Doubtful. If I check the manual for the Asus A7M266...

Not on Win2K and that's why it's the last version of Windows (well, that and a few other issues like the product activation) I plan to use. Hence my annoyingly frequent questions about Linux. I suppose Mark also uses Win2K and not WinXP.

You gotta be kidding me. Bush is the puppet of oil companies. The ex-CEO of Enron wrote your current environmental policy. Cheney bought oil from Irak in the nineties (yes, during the embargo) and Rumsfeld is another former president or director of the oil business. Just like many many other...

It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's Supermark flying thru the sky of StorageForum team... ...and about to steal me my so-hardly-earned fifth overall position.

Renamed Arthritic Jones, perhaps? Will replace his whip with pepper spray. Regarding the last Matrix movie, well, go watch it on tuesday or wednesday nights when it cost less.

Looking evil is a good thing. What do you have against that?

It hasn't dragged down ours.

I have an installation CD for the Sapphire 9500 non-Pro. Are you interested? I made an ISO of it using Nero. 520MB overall.

Overall, I would say that it depends on the Pentium 4 revision you have. Sure, some application always run faster on P4 and others on Athlon due to software optimisation (or lack of). But the general trend is that Barton CPU are faster than Pentium 4 with a 400MHz FSB, a tad faster but almost...

MTBF only 30000POH :tdown: Must not be built very strong. Compare this with the 70000 hours rated for the similar Lite-On 8X DVD writer. I don't think the Lite-On should be that much more expensive.

Oh great, just when I sold my AMD stocks. The only way AMD can succeed to compete with Intel is to increase its manufacturing capacity by a few orders of magnitude and with all the new fabs they have or that they plan to build in patnership with other companies, they might reach their goal...

I would suggest you to re-write this post in a new thread at SR. Since both SR and Hypermicro have a strong relationship, it might have more impact there. IMO, they should have offered you a rebate on a higher-capacity drive with the connector you want, be it only for the delay they caused by...

I wouldn't try to install WinXP on a box with a scant 64MB of RAM. 128MB would be the bottom-of-the-pit amount IMO. I think I've seen two computers a few months ago with WinXP installed on Celeron 433MHz/64MB or 96MB RAM systems, but it was so slow that they would qualify for "unusable" status.

IMO, the 7N400 Pro (not 2) would be a better deal if it cost 34$ less than the Pro 2. I've rarely seen home user in need of Gigabit ethernet. That's the motherboard I have in two of my most recent systems and I'm not disapointed. I can't believe how cheap it is in the States. Here the 7N400L...

Stupid quetion #1 : did you peeled the thin plastic sheet off the base of the heatsink before installing it? Not that I think you would that lunatic... :roll:

Anyone who has tried overclocking knows those symptoms quite well : overheating CPU. I don't see anything else that might cause this. PSU and memory problems would be different, at least they were when I experienced them. Are you sure the FSB/CPU frequency ratio is set correctly in the BIOS?

:rofl: Guess Adcadet doesn't trust Mark too much for enclosures.

I just want to tell to Mark not to worry if nobody comments his post in this thread. It won't be because no one cares about your participation, it will be because no one will argue it's a good value. Just making sure our veteran don't fall into depression due to lack of reply...

I avoid MSI since the reliability problems they had with their KT133A-based motherboards. They might be ok now, but I'm still sceptical.

Any evoluated nation should offer free health care (EFFICIENT health care, ours' free but down right slow). While it's true many, if not most people have life styles that are irresponsible and therefore should contribute to the health services more than others, everyone can suffered from a...

I guess no one has a clue about it. I never figured out how to use Samba myself (actually, I never really tried either, although I should now that Samba 3 seems to kick the ass of everything from Microsoft). You are sole. In related news, Red Hat will stop to support Red Hat 7.3 and 8 in...

Thanks Doug. Quite surprising that they release version 3.9 so soon after the release of the 3.8. The previous version must have been too buggus with several games. I read the release notes, but the issues showed there didn't seen so dramatic. Anyway, I'll install the update soon.

Several reasons : Colors turn to red when you view the screen from a certain angle. Viewing angles, while being supposed to be wider with this technology, are often poorer than traditional panels. Ditto with contrast. All the MVA-based LCD I've seen couldn't maintain darker tones dark when...

I just want to state my strong reserves against anything from Optorite. Adding to my poor experience with one of their burners (a 32X model), recent reviews (of their CD-RW burners, not seen anything about their DVD burners) show that their media compatibility and writing quality (C1 errors...

Mercutio submitted the following text for the same news, but I've been sleeping for a good part of the day (I'm sick), so I didn't see his news until a few minutes ago. release notes I want to add that I've been visiting regularly their web site since Monday, except for today, hoping to be the...

Ah, ok.

So I figure it is grammatically incorect? What should I say/wrote instead? - The confused alien

Yeah, and it was half-a-century ago too...