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just adding my half cent battery purchase experience from amazon reseller... on 2 instances, the "new" battery bought at half off showed up as 95% for about 20 minutes, then abruptly died. No amount of charging or discharging caused that rating to change, so i kept them as 20 minute UPS. the...

drives go double letters... unknown what happens if u get to ZZ :-) who wants to spin up a VM and find out? 53 50MB drives? :-p

Anyone with the older 50user limit Gmail App know if you can transfer/replace that with a new domain? ie had www.coolwebsite.com on the older 50 user limit and wanna swap it to www.newcoolerwebsite.com ? Or would that require a new signup w/the 10 user limit?

i've used join.me and teamviewer

what type of videos did it not play? it's supposed to play all just like XBMC... i'd rather build a small mini-itx HTPC or pickup a barebones dual atom w/ION and run Boxee/XBMC on it... you can buy the remote separately...

You get 60 days to try all the features of ESXi... the free license removes all the paid features like vMotion... For local computer testing, I use Virtualbox but run a couple free ESXi servers for stuff... :-D

From your selection the popcorn hour is the more popular one cuz it plays everything.... havent heard of the vortexbox... ill have to look into that... For the record, Ive used the WD Live and the Brightview Cinematube. http://www.brite-view.com/cinematube.php The WD Live has a nice smooth...

The DEll H200 works with the latest firmware... so will the Dell External 6Gbps SAS controller... Im using it with an HP SAS expander and 10 x hitachi 5400 3TB drives... previous firmware only read 2.2TB. All of the LSI 2008SAS controllers will read the 3TB drives with the newer firmware...

heh, the wonder of SMB and CIFS... I had something similar, but only with Windows XP and only when copying from windows to linux via a mounted share on windows. when i mounted the windows shares in ubuntu, it was slower, but not that slow... I used the netgear GS108T Windows Vista was faster...

I like the Norco cases... but they're pretty cheap and available in the US... We use that HEC compucase at work... I hate it... it works, but the design and layout is so 90s and i dont like the hot powersupply blowing hot air out the front of the case while all my other new servers intake air...

that folder stores the comparability files needed for various programs and specifically the versions needed for those programs. supposedly, it's as big as it says it is since it keeps one version of the file and hard links various versions to it for stability purposes...

interesting... I have a couple Sil 3132 using ESATA on a linux box... It works, I can read all 5 drives in an enclosure using ubuntu... I did test it with windows 7 and it did read after I downloaded the drivers from Silicon image and updated the firmware from silicon image. I think it was a...

stick in a basic modchip, xenium or xecutor2/3... pick up a solderless adapter if you dont wanna solder. Once modded, you can load it up with emulators and play those old arcade/nes/n64/snes games. install XBOX Media Center and u can use it as a media box that does 480p and surround sound. Use a...

One thing I've learned from torrenting is that speeds are never constant and that you have to be lucky to get anything decent. Torrentspy may or not be the original tracker and you can easily get random torrents that use external trackers. Torrents have many variables and I've gotten various...

so much information.... brain overload... I've been looking at a new system for a while, but the timing doesn't seem right... I will have to take all this into consideration... Especially the SCSI stuff, since I was thinking of upgrading/expanding my TB video servers... So many toys... so...

I've used Get Data Back with much success on normal partitions and single hard drives. GDBNT worked great on dynamic drives as well as basic drives. Thankfully I haven't had to use it on raid partitions, but I do remember it being slow. It took a good 20+hours for a 400GB drive. I'll have to...

The average cable TV bill around here runs around 50$. Throw in whatever extra TV show or sports package and the cost shoots up even more. Throw in Cable Internet and it easily tops over $100. That is $50+ of your hard earned cash going into entertainment, which they give you in abundance. They...

I'm just a slightly above average college kid in a small apartment. The apartment complex has a contract with one company for cable TV, phone, and Internet service. They charge something decent and offer crappy service. The "high speed" ethernet will crawl to sub modem speeds at times before...

Odd... I picked up 2 Seagate 7200.8 400GB PATA drives from Compusa back in December and they've run pretty well for the most part. A couple of weeks ago, one of the 400s started getting random windows errors. A Seagate software scan showed it had errors and repeated attempts to fix it worked...

I have been searching for things like these for quite a while. I've seen the cooldrives one and the firewiredepot one, but the price has been a bit high for me; that and the reseller ratings haven't been great. I picked up my dual bay enclosure from compgeeks when they had a sale on them a bit...

awww, what? no links for the lazy :p the lian-li one could be useful in a number of ways... now i just got to find some more multi-drive cages like the supermicro... these things are so much more convenient than the old stuff. its great

you know, I had this same problem with my firewire drives in win 2K. I had two dual enclosures running 2 x WD 120s in them on the oxford chipset and they would give me the whole msft delayed write fail thing. I swapped ports and cables... with each.... and got them working when I needed to. It...

Hrm... Not bad... Now, what if you wanted say a TB of net space using RAID5? So you would need 5 x 250s or 5 x 300s or 4 x 400s.... I take it another 250GB drive and SATA controller for $135+$30 would work, and that would put the cost at just a bit over 1Grand... And I hadn't realized they had...

How would you implement this database? mysql/php? another vote for linux then... and you would want the dynamic/changeable raid5 card so u can increase volume w/o needing the same size hard drives. So in the future, you could slowly increase your RAID5 volume drive by drive. Linux software...

bah... i don't have time for pr0n... my TBs are for music videos, TV shows, cartoons, anime and my Digital Sound Library aka Ogg/mp3s :mrgrn: CD ISOs and dvdrips are also online for quick access and no searching threw shelves of DVDs/CDs. And you can never have too much storage space...

hrm.. there was a recent blurb about this more fuel to the fire... http://theinquirer.net/?article=20154

If all you're teaching is cli, then probably teach the basics and most used commands. Possibly include something along the lines of installing in text mode, adding users & groups, permissions, configuration of everything, and installation and configuration of Xwindows and stuff if needed. A run...

hrm.. intereseting.. i thought the Compusa price woulda been higher.... newegg has the 400GB PATA for 350$ zipzoomfly has the 400GB SATA for 500$ http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101566 and the 300GB SATA for 400$...

and this morning the price is at 350$ :/ yes I saw that at CompUSSR. I thought about getting it. The price was good even without the the rebate cuz I don't do rebates. Unfortunately some football games distracted me and they were closed by the time I realised it was Saturday..... :D Now I gotto...

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-068&depa=1 sorry, link fixed

Newegg has the 400GB Seagate IDE in stock!!!! for only $300 USD!!! 300$ for 400GB?! http://www.newegg.com/app/View ProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-068&depa=1 now I'm just waiting for the SATA to come out at the same price :D and for some nice SATA 8 port controller to go on sale

Real? how did this talk of who had the bigger drives turn into whats real and whos not? I'm real but the only proof of my existence that I have is the TB server humming at me and my linux box beeping at me to replace the fan. And I watch Family Guy and Futurama all the time with my imaginary...

Hrm... I need a Sam's club around here.... 250GB for 100$? Price match to balance out tax and I could havea a TB raw storage for 400$ Until Samsung steps up to compete, that is a very tempting offer....

heh, I was just scroling down, and realised it wasn't november, and the year was 2004, not 2003.... Am I the only one who wrote 2003 on a recent assignment? My, my, how time flies. Soon, I will be populating my storage server with 500GB drives and not be limited to a 2TB logical partition.

Toms hardware has several charts and comparisons on vga GPUs. http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/index.html The last page has links to the first 3 charts. Anandtech also did a comparison of modern GPUs. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2195 Lots of useless er...

Heres to Reeves flying once more. *glass held high* wonder what smallville will do....

Scorpio drives.. no more click of death. its gonna be the sting of death. Death by touch? Death by sting? Death by poison?

woops... I clicked on the link to Maxtor and was thinking of the Maxtor three year. Sounds great, but it just says finalizing plans. So if I buy a Samsung drive now, after August 2004, it would fall under a 5 year warranty? So, we just need the bigger space... for nearline storage :D

... Also, the Stacker has become quite popular for case modders and gamers. All the bays for dvd drives and fanbuses are nice. They also offer a 4 to 3 bay hard drive bracket for < $30. IT's a nice case and reminds of my Addtronics 7890 server tower.

Perfect... Samsung drives with 3 year warranties.... lets see them step up to 5 years or something... Now all I want are bigger drives... sooner rather than later... 200+ for 110$ would be nice. and for the winning lottery ticket to fall into my pocket... :mrgrn:

Keyword being affordable. For the moderate media user backing up 1+TB to DVDs isn't an easy thing to do and finding tape backups >100GB is pricey. We should make a thread on back up strategies. Like modulized data, case scenarios and the like. How to backup music, video, data that gets updated...

Any guesses as to the effect on cost a 400GB+ Samsung would do? 500$? for a 400GB? 250$? for a 300GB? 200$? for a 250GB? a 500GB drive... imageine 8 x 500GB RAID5... my only complaint with such big drives.. is the lack of comparable affordable back up media. Even 200GB Tape back ups would be...

Heh, I'm not waiting for bigger hard drives... I'm waiting for cheaper bigger hard drives... :mrgrn: I have a workaround by having more computers with more drives... and just firewire can take 30some odd devices... doesn't mean you should... One video server... one music server... one image...

36-48 hour day... work 36 hours, sleep 12? work 24, sleep 12? Centaurian time eh? Or just take half hour naps throughout the day, at the end of the week, sleep for 12 hours. then back to half hour naps....

The best ASUS board I've ever had is the CUSL2 P3 mobo based on the Intel 815 chipset. Aside from the 512MB limit, its been stable and flawless over the past few years and I know many people who still use it or have passed it off to their kid and upgraded. For the life of me, I can't think of a...

I ran into this problem with 2K when it first came out. What I ended up doing was installing to a temporary drive, download the drivers to the hard drive and install the controller. Than I used Norton Ghost to clone the hard drive to the new drive and at the same time make a backup, which I then...

There are more SATA Raid controllers on the market now. However, the $/GB for SATA is still more than IDE. The only real life reason for SATA would probably be for the longer, thinner cables. Highpoint makes an 8 port SATA RAID card for around 200$. LSI also has a 6 port for around 300$. If...

Came across this nifty worklog while googling terabyte server. http://www.finnie.org/terabyte/ It's semirecent and within good budget. I was just thinking about how else I could configure my 8 x 200GB into a TB w/o plopping down 400$ on a 3ware. I haven't seen any reviews of the Highpoint...

hrm... I forgot to mention, I'm testing out a domain for my MCSE cert... I suppose as long as Samba can pull the authentication information off an AD DC in a domain, then I would be fine. I'll have to search through the archives for stuff. It was a thread on building a storage server that lead...

built properly.... I would like to see an article expanding on this. Take a sub P3 system and configure it to run as a TB server on a budget. Something like a passive P2 450MHz with the cheapo 3ware 5800 running some version of *nix. A TB server using the least amount of power/heat/cost. Then a...