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Take them off the controller, just use the onboard softRAID.

The fiber line I installed for them did more than backup. They shared the internet connection, and a file server, and use it for LAN games. I think they even got a slingbox and are splitting a cable subscription. My fiber is in a pressurized armored sleeve in a hardened conduit buried 4 feet...

I got a rough measurement and had one made to length. The whole deal was about $700, but that was many years ago.

The only product code I have memorized is an Office 2003....of course it's legal. ;)

If you own a 1080P display and a BluRay drive, you must watch the BBC "Planet Earth" series. It is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on screen.

Nothing was installed, and the wire never crossed public property. By the time the natural disaster happens, I would hope you already have your information at your backup site. Recovery is as easy as walking over with a USB drive.

Routers (and therefore internet connections) are slow. Instead of sending data to your friend via the internet, run a point-to-point fiber-optic cable to their house and use that for data transfer. I helped a couple friends do this. They lived on the same block but about 6 houses away. I just...

That would require single-mode fiber. Does your friend own a trencher? ;)

Forget routers, I've run fiber along the back fence from one house to another on the same block. Here I have gigabit fiber buried for a mile to my backup location

I'd believe it. They are chips soldered to a board, mounted in a metal chassis. The only vulnerable part is the SATA/power connectors.

...and the Egg doesn't have the best prices. Hell must have already frozen over.

Yep, that was it. Reminded me of a 5.25" floppy.

That looks very awesome. I'll need to try that out later today.

Looks neat, though it would be a nightmare at the airport security line. I wonder if you could just throw the whole thing in a bin and call it good.

I share Howell's concern on restore. I'd make sure that they can send you a DVD/HDD with all your data for a fee.

Just the other day someone wanted me to retrieve data from a super old memory card. It looked like an SD card, but twice as wide/long and half as thick. I think it was 32MB. None of my card readers even have a slot the right size.

I'm back on Team Fortress 2, but Desktop Tower Defense Pro multiplayer is eating all my time.

Wow Merc, I had no idea who you were at SR. It's been so long, I haven't thought of you as anything but Mercutio. Am I the only one that keeps their handle everywhere?

I don't have a pen or printer at home. I print stuff at work.

*runs to Google*

There seems to be confusion as to what they want. Either we can go back to how it was and let a few people die, or we can all fly naked, manacled to our seats, under guard.

Very neat. I'll get one of the 72" displays to replace a projector in one of the conference rooms as soon as it's out. Don't see an ETA?

Most of you are lucky enough to live near a US border. Drive/train across, and fly from there. Me? Any US land border is at least 10 hours away.

Seconded

Of course, because if you disagree about something being racist, you are automatically racist. Further, once you get labeled as such, everything else you say has a racist overtone ;)

You must be running some awesome SSDs if you can manage 60GB/sec. ;)

Checks? I haven't written one of those in years. Even bought the car with a bank transfer initiated online.

Vista and 7 have a bunch of RAID card drivers already integrated. Can't speak to that exact one, but many work without disks. Even if they aren't supported automatically, you now have the option of putting the drivers on a USB thumbdrive or CD. Floppy not required.

Does that laptop have an SSD in it? If not, don't worry about the 100Mbps. That won't be the bottleneck, and is still MUCH faster than wireless.

That will absolutely work, but is more complex than connecting both to the router.

Other users will be fine. The break is at the computers, not the router.

Google has computers that read my e-mail and would be giving me targeted ads....if I weren't blocking them. That bothers me not at all.

The problem is that the computers don't know which way to send information. My proposed solution would be to connect both machines to the router via cables when you want to transfer files. It should be nearly as fast, without the downsides.

The advantage of having your mail hosted with Google is that you don't need to worry about spam. That address is all over the place, and I see perhaps one SPAM a month.

Just to make sure I understand what is going on. 1. You have two computers (A and B). 2. You have one internet connection, and it goes through a router (C). 3. Computer A connects to Router C via wireless. 4. Computer B connects to Router C via network wire. 5. When you also connect a network...

Nothing new, but my biggest complaint about each new version of windows is that they break out the control panels more and more. This is a quick way to make a bunch of changes.

I have a pen, but it is only for writing POs, and only until I get that system paperless.

Just did it. Neat.

Even two is past the point of realistic performance improvements. Three just insures that something else is the bottleneck.

You are probably right. I have climate controlled boxes going in next week, and on-line UPS systems on the way. I'll swap out the linksys with another and see what happens. I might even crack the case and look into active cooling.

This has been working almost flawlessly for a couple months. Unfortunately, that "almost" involves having to reboot the hardware on the remote end every week or so. At 5:15AM. 50 miles away. If I were looking to throw some money at this problem and look for a more stable solution, where would...

Looks to be the same as what I have but double capacity and hampered by SATA, for twice as much. No thanks.

Price is really good. I don't see them coming down much more. Larger sizes will approach that price, but a bit more than $100 is low enough to clear most peoples restrictions. I have a stack of those on my desk right now, and have used a dozen in the last week. A pair in RAID-0 (60GB) should do...

no problem. it will work fine.

My parents had one of those, in the 80s I think. Most of the names/addresses were crossed out, as they were no longer accurate. There might have been 5 pages of legit data in a 30 page book, but I couldn't read the handwriting anyway. Not a chance I'll be bothered to carry something else around...

SATA is the past. Just to to PCIe ;)

Depends on a lot of stuff. The typical is that it is copied from the disk to memory, then messed with, then it overwrites the one that was sitting there. Of course, all kinds of things can affect this.

Not doubting you, just that I haven't seen it.

That's what I'm doing, but it will take all night. What I attempted to do was physically move the drives containing the VMs to the new server, adding them to inventory, and starting them. That would have taken about 10 minutes.

Somehow upgrading the version of ESXi gives me an error any time I try to start a VM. It basically says that this ESXi server doesn't support features that the old one did. It won't tell me which features, or offer to disable them. Just refuses to start. Crap. Now in the process of converting...