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HMMM. It is SUCH a pain to pull the drive out of the caddie, and plug it into another machine. I guess the Athlon 3000 would have an ide port on the motherboard... For that matter, I think the server does as well...

Mines half that, or less. Runs about 30 MB/sec on both ATTO, and Hard Tach.

It is and it isn't. I'm not jazzed about the false speed statements, and kind of feel like they shipped me an inferior product. A real surprise after their SATA version being exactly the speed they claim. G

8 came with my Plextor drive, but, it was the standard version, and, would not play half the BR's on my server with 2003. Ordered 9 Ultra, and, The Beast, and both work perfectly. Haven't tried 8 on it. No reason to, other then for testing, and, I really don't want to drive to Salinas if some...

Got the KingSpec SSD Professional, PATA, thanks to Stinker's suggestion. Installed XP, on Panasonic CF-51 no problems. ATTO scores are really low, around 31 mb/sec, vs. 45 seconds for the 7200 rpm seagate it replaced. Boots to login in 21 seconds, vs about 35 seconds for clean install on 7200...

Must be the new math. 1299-400=999????

Thanks, but I'm kind of done with adding drives to the server, and, don't have room or need really in The Beast. I think you are right that the Supermicro enclosure is best used for drives in a machine on a pretty much constant basis, and, I don't really need that. I can use the two existing...

I went for it anyway. Turned out to be a bit more expensive then the add, when you throw in the CD etc. Anyway, they moved one easy to use control to I don't know where. Used to be able to click and pick which drive you wanted to read off. Now it auto finds the image you have loaded. Guess I...

I'm just running out of ports. I have a rather expensive motherboard, and, it has one set of ports that are faster then the other. They are pretty much all full, at this point. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/14406-gigabyte-ga-ex58-ud5-x58-motherboard-review-2.html...

My point is that when you try and do enterprise stuff with SATA, it's just as hard, or worse then SCSI. The 5 drive SCSI box came with an excellent, working backplane for 100 bucks. The SATA doesn't even really have a working backplane, or it would have 1 SATA out for the 5 drives, yet it still...

My problem with this has been that the Supermicro SATA internal box requires 5 separate cables to five SATA ports. Frankly, I'm getting a bit sick of SATA. Seems that some drives work with some enclosures, and some boxes work with certain drives, and not with certain raid cards. In short, the...

I just returned one as well. I have two raid cards, and one PCIX slot. 7 doesn't seem to much like either card. One's an 8 port 9000 series, the other 4 port. With the current 9550 running the Raid 0 SSD's, the other port doesn't seem to like removeable drives, and, neither card seems able to...

Hi Seems Cyberlink is trying to sell PowerDVD 10. Mainly with the 3D stuff. Since a couple other threads indicate prolonged exposure might diminish your brains ability to determine depth perception, I'm not really jumping on that part of the sales pitch. Anyone looked at it, or used it...

Thanks. No real rush, provided the SSD gets here soon....

The Costco warranty and setup on that is about two years. I'm just playing with the idea of a new one at this point. I'm really waiting for the SSD for my Panasonic to see if that brings it into the 21st century like it did my server. It's taking a LONG time, coming from china... I'm REALLY...

If you read through, they have actually updated their results. Takes awhile to find that part... GS

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11534224&whse=BC&Ne=5000136%204000000&eCat=BC|84|56670&N=4017745%204294899772&Mo=10&pos=1&No=0&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ns=P_Price|0||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&ec=BC-EC5-Cat84&topnav= ??????? I'd like a i7 laptop....

Hi I'm wondering what folks are using for silent fans? I've been using Vantec Stealths, but, some are wearing out, after all, it's only been 11 years.... Scythes any good? comments? After reading about the Silenx, please consider proven longevity in your comments...

My pleasure. http://www.stonefly.com/resources/videos.asp The above link has the prior webinars, with sound, and works. May not be great for you, however. Which program did you use, or should I use, if I'm going to setup space on my server as a target for Iscsi? Probably use the server as...

Took me awhile to find that link. The Webinar went over downloading iscsi, setting it up, step by step in 2003, and was generally good stuff, but, apparently the sound isn't working, at least for me.

http://www.stonefly.com/webinar/

Hi I can't get sound right now that is correct, but there is a webinar on this very subject going on today, right now: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/en_US/island/webinar/registration.tmpl?Action=rgoto&_sf=1

Nothing logical about it. More hardwired, thanks probably to my mother and upbringing. My mother looked a LOT like Sofia Loren. She had her breasts reduced when she got older to 38DD. Oedipus Rex is probably laughing right now, but, certain characteristics effect me, and, have nothing to do...

ROFL!! Never thought of that angle, joke wise;-) A closer inspection might have revealed fakes, but, I don't think so. Still, she was NOT hiding them. Red, low cut top, blonde hair, very pretty face, and in shape.

I mean like 44 FF, by the way. One in 5-10 million...

Hmmm. Girl with giant tits in Costco tonight thought the same, but, since I'm SOOO out of practice, I failed to take the looks to advantage;-( dating sucks.... For perspective, I asked Diane Hsu to marry me. She said no, but, not before she was the best, ever.... Try Playboy bunny, March 88 if...

iIt's better then having it sit around and do nothing...

Since my uncle lost one leg, then was told he would loose the other, due to disease, and, having been a pro bike rider, decided he would rather remove his head with a shotgun, please excuse me if I don't find that remark very funny.

Thanks, but, I don't have a shotgun. 375 H&H perhaps, but no shotgun.;-) That said, Sam's in a bad spot, and I understand what that's like... How about giving the users this link: http://www.tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx and having them do the work??

OK: Using HD Tach these are the relevant facts: 2 X-25M 2's, in raid 0 435 MB/sec burst 280 AVG MB/sec reads Access time is 0.1 MS Compare with 3 Vertex Turbos: 131 MB/sec read avg 224 MB/sec burst 0.2 ms access time (100% slower;-0) and the Kingspec: 157 Mb/sec AVG 0.2 ms access time...

It's an SSD. With that kind of transfer rate, what do you think the access time is going to be? .o1???? What I should really do is create a Ramdisk, and put the pagefile on that, but, IIRC, the Ramdisk is created after the system is booted, and, therefore the OS uses an existing source, prior...

Have the users clean and wipe their hard drives, with you as phone support. Then have them reinstall everything. That way he pays them, and, you answer a few phone calls. Sounds like with a 10 minute startup, they really need to be clean installed, and, then loaded with minimum software. 100...

Kingspec got here. Ordered SATA by accident. Not bad for 100 bucks, with shipping. Looks like I have a new scratch/pagefile disk...

Sam: You never really said what OS you are talking about: "My least-favorite customer just hired two people and wanted me to put two 2GHz P4s back into service for them. This is actually what sparked this topic for me. These machines are RAMBUS, have 256MB RAM in them that there's no way I'm...

IE 5 runs around 110 MB of ram, but, won't properly render a number of sites I'm using for testing.

Been screwing around with Opera 10.5, latest version. On 2000 SP4, it goes right to the limit, or over, of 256 MB of ram. Firefox runs around 170 MB of ram.

Also, exactly how slow are these boxes? I just reduced the VM Ware setting to 256 MB of ram. It seems a bit slower, using Firefox 3.63, but not horrible.

Can you clean, reformat, and reinstall? Go through and Nlite em. I'm not real convinced 2000 can't run on 256 mb of ram, with a decent hard drive.

You should be able to scrounge around and find some used ram on ebay for not too much money. What about a hard drive upgrade? Seems to me if you don't have enough ram, it's going to be hitting the hard drive constantly in VM. If so, I suspect one could easily double or triple both access time...

Install 2000, install VMware Player, Install 2000 again? Download Service Pack 4, install..??? Wonder which would suck more cpu cycles, VMware Player on old hardware, or, anti-virus software????

"I do wonder if you might run VMware Player on these machines, and use the OS in VM? Then you wouldn't have to worry about spyware. I'm using less then 2% of the beast using it right now" I wonder about how vulnerable you are running in VMWARE????? Besides, Windows update doesn't seem to work...

Is there anyway to pull the ram out of one, and put it in the other, for a total of 512 MB? That would give you one useable machine, and the guy would have to come up with something else for the other. Explain RAM is no longer avaliable, or too expensive.? As for the browsers: why not just go...

I really wonder if we actually need anti-virus software, at least in it's current status, for most people? I remember one kid at school managing to totally screw up his machine, and, mine by going to music sites and downloading all kinds of spyware. If' I'd cranked up the security settings to...

Well, I've got 4 boxes in this house sort of fit in that category. I try and find a deal on Vertex Turbos, and put a 32 gig in each one I care about. If it's IDE, I ordered, but haven't got, one of those SSD's Stinker suggested. I then use the old drive as a D drive, and data backup. On the...

David: Is there room on the Gigabyte motherboard you are using for two of those cards? Or, are they talking about the Crossfire stuff being on the one, dual cpu card?

Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI RAID Ultra160 SCSI RAID i.e. 2100S, 2110S, 3200S, 3210S, 3400S, 3410S, 2000S, 2005S, 2010S, 2015S (EOL) No No -- Looks like no planned support for either 7 or 2008 Server.

http://www.howtodrivers.com/model38087.html ??? http://ask.adaptec.com/scripts/adaptec_tic.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=15256&p_created=1199921508&p_topview=1 What products have Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 drivers/software available and if there are no drivers/software available...

Might be an easy fit in a case designed for the extended ATX, or server class motherboards???

I'm using the Granite Digital Hotswap for drives. The caddies are pretty good heat sinks, and have little fans that help. However, I have a bunch of drives that are end of life, and, need to come out of the caddies, due to being good backups, but full, and or too small for much work. The toaster...

I copied this address into the window, \\192.168.1.110\\Downloads along with the suggested regedit progam list,... Enabling that feature, low risk, did not require a restart, either. Just double checked, no warning...and, the window opened much faster...