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Is anyone keeping an eye on 2.5G and 5G ethernet switches? What's the latest if you are?

And Logan. Not in the same league as Land of Mine, but by far the best (or second best if you count Deadpool) X-Men movie. A whole lot more depth than any of the previous X-Men movies.

Land of Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kao3t0NBMU Absolute corker of a movie. 5 stars

Just an observation. I was using an Athlon X2 260 on an Asrock MATX 780 something board and this setup would lose a disk connected to a highpoint controller weekly. Occasional errors fixed by a resilver as well. I changed the board over to a P67 + i5 2400 and there has only been one dropout...

I ended up buying Easeus Data Recovery Wizard for AUS$130. The free version only allows 2GB to be recovered. I tried TestDisk, but it couldn't read the disk. I also tried a GParted plugin (I forgot the name) but whilst it could read the disk, it didn't find any files. So I ponied up.

Hi all, I'm trying to recover a Mac external drive HFS+ that was plugged into a Windows 7 computer, and now just shows up on a Mac as a New Volume. What tools should I look at that might be able to recover the data? Mac based, Linux based or Windows. Free is best, but paid if necessary? On a...

I was researching the idea of buying all the same drive recently (zfs) and the consensus was that this a bad idea as: * Recent failure analysis seems to point to localised failures in HDD - i.e. some drives in a particular batch may be more error prone that the failure rates in a drive family...

And now we are getting into the whole upgrade conundrum. My main rig is an i7 2600K with a mild (4.0 GHz) overclock. I have no reason to upgrade it. An 1150 pin system might use a little less power, but not a whole lot. And it won't be a whole lot faster. Getting on towards three years old.

Just dropped an FX-8320 into a system containing an Athlon X4 635 (150 GB Velociraptor as the boot drive, 8 GB DDR-3 1600 and Vista SP2). The FX-8320 was a noticeable improvement. Not like Whooh!, but noticeable. If you have an AM3+ motherboard then not a bad boost.

I've been playing with some old systems - Athlon X2 and X4's, Core 2 Duo's and Quads on XP, Vista SP2, 7 and 8/10 lately and my entirely subjective opinion is that the days of dual cores being adequate are approaching the end. I'd guess for the sheer number of processes being spawned in later...

Shouldn't a decent GPU even take that bottleneck away? In my HTPC I've got a Radeon 5670 and C2D e8400 and it rarely gets over 10% cpu. Mostly 720p though.

Apologies if this has been posted. I was wondering about the sense in putting an SSD in my sons Q9550/Asus P5Q Turbo - seeing as it's only SATA II equipped. It does make a noticeable improvement. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-upgrade-sata-3gbps,3469.html

Try clearing/deleting the icon cache

Thanks for the tips guys. I will have to see if they want to split the functions. It may be an option if the space matters. We have already had the "yes it can be done, but there are going to be different compromises" talk.

Does anyone have any recommendations for (preferably) a SFF A4/foolscap multifunction device (printer/scanner)? The people in question are ditching their desktop in place of a laptop as they've moved into an apartment.

Do you have to be bleeding edge or new? I took an image of an XP system running an Athlon X2 5000+ (2.6Ghz)/780G, SB700/3 GB DDR2 667 @ 4-4-4-12 timings/250 GB Samsung SP2504C/Radeon 6670. Had lots a Printer/Scaner/Web cam start up guff. The actual physical physical box booted reasonable...

if you want pretty graphs of the data: http://techreport.com/news/25940/hard-drive-reliability-study-names-names Merc's hatred of WD seems misplaced.... I knew the Seagate 1.5 TB was to be avoided, but it seems the 3 TB model is also. Even worse are the Seagate LP 2 TB and WD Green 3 TB; boy...

The Heat. Some seriously fcuked up humour in that movied :). Laughed more than I have in ages, and much, much funnier than Ted. Watched The Desolation of Smaug. A nearly three hour movie that didn't seem all that long. That's a really good sign. I thought it was much better than the first...

Startup or hibernate is one of the use cases I'm trying to speed up. The PC's in question have an abundance of printer/camera/OCR/image apps that are in the startup folder, which means reboots are a chore. I tend to create a D:\Users directory and do the same with an SSD+HDD combo, but looking...

Has anybody used, or any experience with SSHD? I need to update a couple of computers and moving to a SSD + hard drive might be a little bit of a chore. But I also need capacity, so a single hybrid drive might be easier. This will be paired with an update to Windows 8.1.

Was given a bottle of Dalwhinnie 15 y.o. for a gift and I like it a lot. Pity you can't use scotch in inkjet printers 'cause it'd be cheaper...

Updated, faster, bug fixes http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1149964-a-windows-8-like-task-manager-for-windows-7-work-in-progress/?view=findpost&p=596013057

J-Law. Saw this yesterday. Synchronicity and all that. http://www.gq.com.au/girls/gq+girls/galleries/jennifer+lawrence,15997

Want a Windows 8/8.1 style task manager in your old skool "pry XP out of my cold dead hands" OS? http://www.neowin.net/news/use-windows-7-but-want-the-windows-8-task-manager-here-is-your-download Scroll to the bottom. Looks pretty good so far.

It was Sid Meier's Railroads on a friends Amiga that hooked me on buying my first computer: AMD 386DX-40 2 MB 30 pin SIMMs 85 MB Maxtor HDD 512KB ISA video Sound Blaster Pro

Have watched Thor - what Merc said. My kids both said "I liked this one much better than the first". Oohh scary deja-cows or something. Catching Fire. More of the same as the first Hunger games. Gravity - too many plot holes for me to suspend belief. The plot point that George Clooney would...

I went through all of this when Windows 8 Consumer Preview (I think) came out-could have been the developer preview. You can actually get the Consumer Preview to run on a chip without NX bit support, but the .NET framework falls over, and you'd be surprised how much .NET code there is in a...

Indilinx. They bought the controller designer a year or two back

I got an email from Amazon saying the Asus Merc listed at the top was on sale...

If lasers still aren't any good for photo's, is there such a thing as a quality inkjet with cheap "ish" consummables? Or wouls I be better just going to the local OfficeWorks and printing photos there?

Anything happened in the last year in this space? I'm looking for a colour MFC for home use. Maybe 1 500 pages per year. The things that concern me most are consumable costs (laser) and graphics/picture quality. Budget AU$500 to $600. What I want are automatic duplex printing, and duplex...

I recently purchased a Philips 238C4QHSN, with specs that seem on par with the Asus, and I'm quite happy with it, But neither Amazon or the 'egg seem to stock them.

What do you do with them? :confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-ziTBAkbQ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/125377036/star-trek-continues-webseries

Well if you have a nuclear attack submarine, then of course the NSA will want to know about it.

Hah. We had a change of govt. Instead of Fibre to the Home, it's now to the Node. Speed has gone (way) down. Prices will go (way) up. Our glorious PM cannot see a reason for people to have that sort of connectivity. Actually the cynic in me says that a lot of telco businesses who are paid...

My reading says that the RoT is 1GB RAM per 1TB of storage for a moderately used pool. If there are few users, then you can get by with half the RoT RAM. If it's a write heavy environment with lots of users, you will need more RAM per TB of storage.

Thanks Coug. Handy, I didn't mean to disparage your post. The fault would be mine for not making myself clear. And just a thought, would zfs be an alternative to RAID? Especially if I'm only going to create some pools on a FreeNAS box and serve them up to a couple of VM's?

They'd be nice, but new, they are $450 ~ $500 in Aus.

Thank you Sir!

Not so fast... :) Can anyone recommend a 4 or 8 port (it seems there is not much difference in price) SATA or SAS card that can do hardware RAID 10 (not soft RAID or Hardware assisted)? PCI-e x1 or x4 preferred, but will settle for x8. Compatible with ESXi 5/5.1 as well.

Removed one of the PCI-e NICs, and the machine boots fine with an old promise IDE card. Only two NICs, but I can live with that. Thanks Chewie for the refresher that enabled this to be tracked down. The only bad thing is, now I don't have an excuse to buy more hardware...

I second what Merc said Chewy. It might be the two extra NICs, plus the addon IDE card in the machine that's causing me the grief. I'll play around a little more.

Further research leads me to believe that: Software RAID (as on most motherboards) is done in a device driver loaded immediately post boot. Almost by definition, in the PC world, that would have to be in the first 640K of memory. The same goes for bootable add-in cards that load their own...

I need RAID 10. Whether the add-in card needs to support it or not I'm not too sure. The issue with using the the current IDE and SATA card is that when the on-board RAID is used, XP complains about not enough memory, or just stays at a black screen with blinking cursor. As soon as you remove...

Thread necro. Zombie? I'm in a similar situation to Adcadet. I've got a board (Asrock 970 Pro3) with 6 fully populated sata ports, and need a couple of others. This box boots a Linux image, Windows XP and ESXi, depending on what I want to play with. The issue is that whenever I plug a...

Caught Oblivion on DVD. Much better that I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting much. I also have seen part of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It piqued my interest enough to want to see it in full. In the same vein, Argo was better than I expected. Didn't get Ted at all. Watched about...

Rebuilt the system, and disabled Defender. Installed Avast. The system is more responsive whilst ATi drivers/.NET framework was installing. The Avast service was active whilst unpacking/installing. My thoughts are that Avast is much easier on system resources than Defender/MSE. Other...

Undoubtedly. But it is one of the things that slows the entire system down. I will try to replicate the unpack/install routine with Avast!

I installed the 32-bit Windows 8.1 release candidate on an Athlon 64 3400+ (754) with 2GB of RAM. Abit KV8-MAx 3 for those interested. MSE, now labelled Windows Defender, was an absolute hog. Installing the .NET 3.5/3.0/2.0 Framework saw the Antimalware Service (Defender) use between 60% and...