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We can talk about how robust to make the system and how secure you want your data forever. Considering the primary storage location for your data is on your computer and this is only in case the first fails, crazy redundancy is just that. I don't think you need RAID at all, your redundancy is in...

If you are OK with the power consumption of your existing PC, that would obviously be the easiest solution. Considering that it will be in another room, noise and space aren't really issues. I'd just throw a hard drive in there and use the Microsoft SyncToy to send things over, it works really well.

As soon as you disable the NIC, it will dissappear from the taskbar.

Vista is compatible with XP, but XP is not entirely compatible with Vista. I'd assume this is all one could ask for, considering Vista didn't exist when XP was written.

Mine takes on the order of 10 minutes to start, due mainly to the 2 different RAID controllers I have initializing. Do what I do, leave it on ;)

For the record, this is the .bat file I'm feeding to smartmontools to get the info I need. @echo off echo smartctl 3Ware Port 0 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p0 pause echo smartctl 3Ware Port 1 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p1 pause echo smartctl 3Ware Port 2 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p2 pause echo...

Thanks Mark. That is the one that 3Ware pointed me to, but it seemed intimidating (command line stuff that's oddly documented) so I was hoping for a GUI'd tool. After your suggestion, I've revisited it and after some fiddling gotten some stuff to function.

Reminds me of the demonstration march all the illegal immigrants put on in LA a month or so ago. My first thought was "How convenient that they gathered themselves all in one place." I'm sure this will be another wasted opportunity.

Writes on RAID-5 depend on quite a lot. Because of the checksum calculation, you will never get write speeds that are faster than one drive; and if the processor on your RAID card isn't fast enough, it may be much slower than that. My Bufallo Terastation is CPU limited to 6.5MB/sec for writes...

Bozo, Are you saying that those programs can read the SMART info for the drives behind my 3Ware RAID controller? Or that I can copy/paste the raw data into them somewhere? Because I can't see any information either way about either program...

PCP&C have always had a reputation as very reliable and loud power supplies. I think they have lost more than they've gained in terms of reputation with this deal.

So let me get this straight...he is saying that men are watching porn and therefore becoming uninterested in their spouse? So is the opposite of this that women use sex toys and are uninterested in their spouse? My first response would be that it's liberating people who are in unhappy...

RAID-5 arrays have many problems; slow write speed, difficulty of data recovery if more than one drive fails, slow rebuilds/verifys. These are only "worth it" IMO if you can get some form of redundancy with very little drive overhead. For my array, only 17% of my drive capacity is taken up with...

Jewess is passable, I actually had a lesbian friend who referred to herself as the sexy jewess (you've got to own it ;)). But saying "you are going to hell unless I get a refund" is truly hilarious.

dunno. I know my GPT partitions are not compatible...

Also, doing RAID-5 arrays of 3 drives is simply not efficient. Use larger numbers of drives or RAID-10.

Does your computer really take that long to power up? I think your two options are the BIOS "Wake on time" setting, or setting the BIOS "power restore" mode to "always on"/"full on" and getting a separate timer.

Well, I have 6 Seagate 7200.10 750GB SATA drives connected to my 3Ware RAID controller. By connecting to the web interface of the RAID controller, I can get the SMART data in the format shown above. Really all I want is the temperature, but I'm not sure where exactly to look. I don't know of any...

I've built a bunch of systems with that board; including my own when it was S939. It's still the board I would recommend for S939.

Provided your RAID card supports "On-line RAID-5 expansion" or something similar, it should be fine. I'm in the middle of doing the same (going from 5 to 6 drives). It will have to rebuild the entire array, mine has taken 4 days so far (out of an estimated 6).

Porn. He's gaining on you ;)

Does anyone know of a program that can take raw SMART data like this: 0A 00 01 0F 00 77 5C 68 62 06 0C 00 00 00 03 03 00 60 5E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 64 64 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 33 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 0F 00 48 3C 44 34 F5 00 00 00 00 09 32 00 64 64 9C 00 00 00 00 00...

Yay. I'm able to copy from the RAID-5 to the RAID-0 at over 100MB/s sustained. That makes me happy.

I have 1 desktop/server and 2 laptops (one for me, one for the GF). I'm trying to talk the GF into letting me mount an LCD near the bed and mirroring my main display, but she saw that I had done the same in my last GF's house, and doesn't like the parallels. The main system has 2 keyboards/mice...

Can someone provide a link to this miracle $30 case? I didn't even bother looking. I've only used Antec, Silverstone, and Lian-Li. Every time I see an actual "beige box", it just screams "cheap junk".

Considering I'm using one computer for everything (small apartment), I don't want my CPU busy doing RAID-math. I think the card I have is pretty good (see sig).

Isn't the Pentium D a P4? Hot? Slow (per clock)?

Worthwhile is a difficult thing to accomplish for $200. AMD Sempron 3000+ AM2 - $30 GIGABYTE GA-M61SME-S2 - $54 HITACHI Deskstar 80GB SATA - $40 CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB DDR2 667 - $30 LITE-ON 16X DVD±R DVD Burner - $28 Antec NSK 4400 w/380W - $80 $262 - not including tax or shipping, from...

1&2. Having the "Michelob and NASCAR set" realize anything does not compute.

Wedding on Saturday where I've been asked to perform. Sailing Sunday. Working Monday. 5+ disks with minimal performance requirements are the only reason to use RAID-5 IMHO. For 3-4 disks, the hassle isn't worth saving a couple drives (over RAID-10). But for my 6 drive array, it would take an...

It took 2 days to move the data off the hard drives (I had enough space elsewhere to hold all but ~700GB of it). Then I created a 5-drive RAID-5 array in a few minutes. Copying the 700GB back to the array @ ~55MB/sec (in Vista) took about 3.5 hours. Adding the now free drive to the array looks...

My machine was down while I was working on my new array, then I went rock climbing while it was rebuilding (just added the sixth drive to an existing RAID-5). I can hear the drives cranking away, but it's still at 0%. I suspect this will take a long time...

You pretty much have their purpose down. It's a hard surface that has a fan or two in it. IMHO, the fans are a gimmick that manages to drain your battery (they run off USB power). So tell her just to get a book or cookie sheet (what I use) and use it a buffer. Most importantly it will make sure...

I love living so close to Antec and 3Ware's offices; UPS ground = next day delivery. We even use the same UPS routing warehouse.

I just got an e-mail from Seagate bragging that the new 250GB 7200.10 is a single-platter design. Now that the higher density is in higher production, I hope it brings the prices down.

Not SFF. Desktop/HTPC? Yes, but much larger than a Shuttle and more expensive than the basic ones. It does look good though. I normally use Silverstone for my HTPCs, but Antec has a new one with a 7" touchscreen on the front that looks interesting. At first I thought you were talking about the...

The features that come to mind are Aero and Media Center; but those wouldn't be useful on a basic computer...

I have a bunch of them in the field, some with aftermarket firmware and the transmit power turned way up. I might remember having one die once, but I haven't seen an epidemic.

Sorry Merc, turns out the new owner of the game center threw out the box of adapters along with the box of IDE cables, USB headers, SATA driver disks, and other crap I was keeping squirreled away there.

If I were to build a system from scratch right now, it would certainly be a C2D-based one. I don't think it's really a question at the moment.

This new "mega tunic" thing which is supposed to be all in fashion right now is BS; it just makes everyone look pregnant.

Nope. $249. Screw 'em. I got a Logitech G15 instead :shrug:

They had the SATA version for sale @ $239 a few weeks ago, but they were completely sold out. I'm leaving for Frys right now (about 10 minutes away), and if they are that cheap I think I'll get a few more.

...currently managing 140% of currently shipping drives at room temperature. I think it's an improvement, but that they are still a long ways off. It will be interesting to see how long spinning platter hard drives can hold off solid state drives in the high capacity space...

I've done this a few times with a couple kids each. A client's kids at their home. The first time it was 12-year olds, the second time it was some girls before they went off to college. Dad wanted to buy them new computers, and I thought that if they built them themselves they would have less...

The thing that I tell people is that they NEED to print something about once a week. I tell them flat out that unless they print one full-color picture every week, it will break. I also tell them not to skimp on paper, and to have a dust cover. This doesn't stop the printer from breaking, but...

I might have 20 or so.

I threw out a box of them a month or so ago; I'll see if I have some more lying around. I assume you are looking for about 60 of them?

Those are really beautiful speakers.

Agreed. Unless you "need" Microsoft, Linux should be preferred. Unfortunately, most people I work with have at least one app where it won't work.