Recent content by Angry_Birds

Crucial M4, no question.

Can you name a 15" laptop with a resolution greater than 2880x1800? Even if you're not a fan of OS X, the new MBP is an absolutely incredible piece of hardware. The Mac Pro is dissapointing, though. The specs list for a computer that that runs for nearly 3 grand shouldn't read like it's from 2008.

an SSD is really the only thing that can saturate a SATAII link, so no, you will be fine.

This is what I tell everyone. We're an entirely Microsoft shop (all W7, Office 2010, Server 2008 R2 on Hyper-V, Exchange 2010, Lync 2010, Sharepoint 2010) and I think Microsoft makes an EXTREMELY good product with incredibly intuitive integration if you stay within their ecosystem. For home use...

Lync really blew me away. We are still only on Exchange 2003, but the integration it provides with Office, Outlook, Powerpoint, etc. are absolutely incredible. With the MS Partner program, it was practically free as well. I would highly recommend it.

When it gives you the error, are you using a web GUI or something else?

Umm the Crucial M4 and Samsung 830 are considered on par with Intel's best consumer offerings (i.e. a tier above everything else in the consumer sphere). I'm not sure why you'd think the Sandisk is better than the M4. OP, we are running RAID 10 with 4x 512GB M4's in a test DB server at work...

If you're into virtualization and have a second box to load it on, then definitely go with ESXi. The only time I'd consider going with Workstation is if I only had one machine. ESXi has made great strides in terms of hardware compatibility, I have built a handful of Sandy Bridge test machines...

You guys are overcomplicating this, just drag the contents of the C: drive onto the backup drive, put the backup drive in a drawer, and then whenever the primary drive fails just swap them out.

Ehh I don't know. Pretty much anybody who has the iPhone 4 or even just compares the iPad 2 and iPad 3 side by side in a store will notice the incredible difference in clarity.

It looks like SATA...Does anybody know how loud these are? I have a pretty well insulated closet in my bedroom that houses all my gear, but if I'm going to have to deal with a constant humming when I'm sleeping I'll probably look elsewhere.

That whole environment sounds like a headache. I'd do the following: -Remove local admin rights -Update Java and Flash religiously -Unless IE is mission-critical for web apps, try a GPO-administered install of Chrome and add Adblock Plus -Create and enforce an acceptable use policy. I can say...

These seem ridiculously cheap, and I am looking at picking up maybe 2-3 for an ESXi setup. I have a handful of 1TB SATA II drives sitting around, so the lack of included storage is not an issue...

Can anybody provide some insight into this? I have read in a few different places that running completely identical SATA controllers cards in the same machine will cause issues. I currently have a Vantec 4+1 (not exactly high-end), I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it.

I saw 91 views and 0 responses, so I will go ahead and give you something to work with: 1. VMWare Workstation runs on top of Windows. Create a VM for W7 and Ubuntu (fairly straightforward) and just run/interact with them in the console window or remotely. There will be some performance overhead...