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    Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 Mods? (Mobile PC / Desktop graphics perpheral hybrid)

    I'm looking at getting a mobile option for drawing, which has me looking at 2-in-1 Windows tablets with active digitisers, and I'm having trouble finding a decent screen and digitiser together in the one platform. Then I stumbled on Wacom's new Cintiq Companion 2, and when I add in the fact it...
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    Best place to buy Areca products online if you live OUTSIDE the US?

    That might have to be the fall back option, but there must be somewhere I can order it from directly. I know I can get it for just over US$1200 shipped, from eBay. Is there anywhere US residents can buy it noticably cheaper than that? And now that the other half of the world is up, where did...
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    Best place to buy Areca products online if you live OUTSIDE the US?

    I live in Australia, and the local Areca wholesaler doesn't bring in the 1880ix-24, meaning it's only available from overseas. The only place I can find selling it that will ship to me is a single listing on eBay, but seeing as this is the only price I can find I figure there are probably better...
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    Best current 24 port RAID card?

    I'm still a little confused on how the SAS expanders hook up to the host adapter. For example, if I build something like this, using an ordinary PC case with a lot of bays and ATX power supply, and mounting only the PCMIG backplane (plugged into the ATX connector) and a HP SAS expander (mounted...
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    Best current 24 port RAID card?

    Okay, Hitachi drives it it. :) Would I run into any issues using 3TB disks, or is it better to stick with 2TB? At least at the local suppliers, the 3TBs are only marginally more $/GB. I'm not familiar with the use of expanders. I assume when you say "free slot", you mean a PCI/e/x slot will be...
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    Best current 24 port RAID card?

    I haven't really been paying attention to the RAID scene for a couple years now, but my Adaptec 31605 is starting to act a bit flakey, and it's time to upgrade. I'd like to go 24 port this time. Could some people more familiar with the bigger cards please give me a little input as to what...
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    Hardware RAID card that supports Seagate 1.5TB disks? Please help!

    Yeah, I updated mine a bunch of times without issue, too. I always did it through ASM as I didn't have access to a non-USB FDD at the time. The time it failed, I flashed from a (known working) bootable USB key with a Win98 DOS image on it. I figured I must've screwed up and done an unsupported...
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    Hardware RAID card that supports Seagate 1.5TB disks? Please help!

    Can you show me some links to back that up? The Adaptec page claims the card supports array sizes up to 512TB, so I will be spitting blood if they've claimed elsewhere that there's a hardware limitation less than 20TB. :( As to the Areca suggestion, the Areca ARC-1280ML (IOP341) and the...
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    Hardware RAID card that supports Seagate 1.5TB disks? Please help!

    Well dammit, they seem to have a slightly different cluster count for some reason. No idea WTF is going on here. (Sorry about the white border, but no proper image editor on this PC yet and Paint only marks a selection white when you tell it to delete it) Maybe there's some way to set...
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    Hardware RAID card that supports Seagate 1.5TB disks? Please help!

    The card is firmware 15753, the newest and one step more recent than yours. The disks are CC1G firmware updated to CC1H (after checking serials with Seagate support to be sure it was needed) to avoid the timeout issue. I can create the array in the BIOS (I also used a 256K stripe) but can't...
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    Hardware RAID card that supports Seagate 1.5TB disks? Please help!

    I have an Adaptec 31605 which I've been using close to a year now. I just bought sixteen Seagate 1.5TB disks to upgrade my array, and the bloody card won't work with them. :( The card sees them fine, but if you try to create an array under Windows you get an error about the free space not...
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    External STA disk dock won't detect under Vista, but works in XP?

    Nope, mine's this one. The original BlacX is a rebadge of this OEM unit. It's working now with eSATA, but not hot-swappable. I have no idea what got it working in the end, there were like 10 reboots involved, and I think I had to sacrifice a goat at some point... :( USB2 still doesn't work...
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    External STA disk dock won't detect under Vista, but works in XP?

    I bought an external docking station for SATA disks that connects to the host PC by either USB2 or eSATA interfaces. It says on the box it supports both XP and Vista. It's some OEM Japanese brand, but it appears to be identical to the Thermaltake BlacX units. It works fine on my secondary box...
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    2TB Volume limit in Vista 32?

    I don't have physical room in the case to add any more disks, though, and ideally I'd really like to use all 12 I do have in a single array so I can break the 5TB mark. So, if I switch to x64 Vista I can boot an array larger than 2TB? What will it cost me in terms of features/useability to...
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    2TB Volume limit in Vista 32?

    I've just put together a new system running a dozen 500GB Seatgate 7200.10s in a single RAID 5 on an Adaptec 31605 controller, and I can't seem to format more than 2 terrabytes of the array. Ideally I'd like to present this single RAID 5 to the OS as a small boot partition, plus the rest of the...
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