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So tempting....

On the golf course all day yesterday working...low-50s with windchill.

Thank you for all the hard work Stereodude, and a very interesting conclusion! Those results are so non-intuitive, that I would have to wonder about their statistical significance. Any insight about the standard deviation of your numbers?

It turns out that none of my Samsung 1.5TB drives have failed; it was the backplane. I like them.

Ugh. Screw that. I'm fairly certain I'm getting better performance with local storage. It'll be a sure thing when I get the SSDs in there.

For the record, it looks like you can get VMWare's Platinum 24x7 tech support on the free ESXi platform. The only thing I miss from the free management agents is the ability to see multiple servers at the same time. I can do migrations with the VMWare converter or scripts, the free VMWare...

Well, as winter is coming in, I'll probably start folding with my two workstations. Both are roughly the one in my sig, one with a 5870 and one with a GTX295.

Thanks for the link. They make LED replacements to my landscaping bulbs....tempting.

Another good point in favor of a VMWare solution; compatibility across their product line. I have migrated VMs from VMWare workstation, onto VMWare Server (the one that runs on another OS), and then onto the ESXi machine. I've then pulled a misbehaving VM back onto my local machine running...

Doesn't look like it's there yet, I need to run ATI's latest beta drivers to get the card to work at all.

My maintenance/backup window is about 3 hours these days. The backup takes about 90 minutes. If I can get what I need done in the remaining time, I just shut it down. This is also my first tier of backups; the backup system has a complete "startable" copy of every production machine that is...

Car prices are crazy across the board. The 2005 Audi Allroads are actually selling for 10-20% more now then they were 6 months ago!

Just my 2 cents: I've only used it once, and the computer was pretty messed up, but the machine wouldn't boot at all afterward.

Both interesting facts. I have a pair here that haven't been allocated yet. I'll have to look into both of those. Thanks.

Hi, and welcome. I have virtualized all but two servers at our company (about fifteen VMs in all). The only things that didn't get the treatment were our smoothwall firewall and our fileserver. I'm using VMWare ESXi because it is: 1. Free 2. Easy to work with 3. Very fast compared to the...

Sounds good. That is what I went with and it is now at 2.8% finished initializing. I went with the maximum (128k) stripe size.

I've been recommending the MSI U123, but the U100 isn't bad either. Can't be gotten with the larger battery, and the screen is 0.2" smaller, but it is lighter, cheaper and the rest of the bits are the same. Still a pain to swap out the hard drive (120GB Vertex Turbo) and it will still only take...

Now setting up an 8-drive RAID6 with a hot-spare. Can someone here give guidance regarding the "Greater Two TB Volume Support" setting when creating the array? The options are "No", "64bit LBA", and "4K Block". I believe "64bit LBA" means support for GPT and is the one I want?

Didn't get an e-mail from them, but I got a new UPS tracking number from their address. That looks promising.

I have a Nextel/Blackberry 8830. The only "smart" phone with push-to-talk. I would love to ditch it. The MiFis are very cool, I have a stack of 25 on my desk right now.

Businesslights.com botched my order and shipped 830s instead, and they just arrived today. We'll see how well they can make it right.

Very cool.

Did the math, and an iPhone would cost me $160/month. I don't have a number to compare that to, as I'm currently part of a corp plan.

I've never had such a hard time finding the pricing and options for something I know the name of on Dell's site. Still looking...

One thing I've noticed is now that I have e-mail on my phone, my taking minutes have been cut by at least 75%. Getting clients to e-mail instead of phone has increased my productivity considerably as well (I don't need to stop what I'm doing or change projects immediately based on the...

I'm glad you had a pleasant time. April is pretty far out, though there isn't much good driving weather between then and now for that part of the country.

Another day and a half for that array rebuild :(

Possibly. I haven't looked at the manual yet, just using the "quick create" mode.

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Initialization time in RAID-6 looks to be a third of RAID-10...looks promising.

Not in my experience, but I have never tried to create a RAID-0 on an expensive controller, just the onboard stuff.

The fan noise is comparable. I'm only gaming on a 42" 1920x1080 Sharp AQUOS, but I like high framerates. Once I turned it above 4x AA, the framerate went to crap.

Thanks Stereodude. That is pretty lame. Perhaps I'll switch it over to RAID-6 and see what it's capable of.

Sorry, didn't see this before. No, you don't. It warns you that any data on the drives will be destroyed, and then the array is live. There is no redundancy, so there is nothing to verify.

Oh, and one of the 1.5TB Samsungs failed on its second power-up, so it switched over to the hot spare already :(

Yeah, there might be some settings I should change. I haven't done anything to it, really.

You are running some P2P software, the primary users of which are college students. Those are college students trying to get your files ;)

Which parts of this data should I be looking at for a comparison? http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tisPRbqRTASBNlnlZSvqg8g&output=html

Got it sorted, it was a specific issue related to smoothies not relaying ICMP redirects back onto eth0 by default. Thanks!

Sleep and caffeine good. Now I'm sick, but at least I can think. Thanks.

While I'm sure our most prolific poster is occupied, I just felt like posting something random. The HD5870 is faster in NFS:Shift than the GTX295. Anyone interested in a secondhand GTX295? It has about 4 months of un-overclocked gaming on it. I just noticed my machine keeps getting simpler...

I want the remote site to get it's internet through the primary site. The only way to the internet is through 192.168.0.1. Everything at 192.168.0.x can get on the internet. Everything at 192.168.0.x can (when the static route is added) get to machines on 192.168.2.x through 192.168.0.46 No...

I'm concerned about the added complexity of NATing, setting up port forwarding rules and the like would complicate things. Particularly as some of the machines in the 2.x network need to talk to machines in the 1.x network using different protocols.

I have everything setup and in production now, I just have one issue. The 192.168.2.x network connects over this VPN to the 192.168.0.x network. The DD-WRT device on the second network has IP address 192.168.0.46. Adding a static route to the necessary servers allows them to communicate well...

I think SD is right, though most of my arrays are AID0, so I don't have this issue. Edit: Thinking about it, most of my arrays are AD0, since they are SSDs ;)

That would be great. I had issues setting up IOMeter the last time I tried using it. When this array has finally finished initializing (2 more days?), I'll give it a shot.

Verifying a RAID10 array? Annoying....

Those are remarkably good write speeds considering it is RAID-6. I'm in the middle of creating a RAID-10 array with 6 of those drives on an Areca controller with 2GB cache. It will be interesting to compare the results.

Fushigi's suggestion is excellent. I might even suggest that you remove the circuit board and rinse it separately. There is a vent hole in the drive to allow the platters to breathe (or in this case, drown) so I wouldn't hold out too much hope.

The nervousness of dating is much like the thrill of skydiving. Sucks when you are there, but looking back it seems like such a good time you want to do it again. Just remember that she choose to make the trip based on what she knows about you. If you have represented yourself well to this...