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    U2410 replacement: your recommendation?

    I bought a Dell Ultrasharp U2410 12 years ago from eBay and it has served me well all this time. Even now, it has ports for everything from VGA to DVI-D to component to HDMI to DP, plus a USB hub and a card reader for some reason. But most importantly, it has excellent colour (I use the Adobe...
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    Recommend PCIe SATA card for Windows 7

    Thanks Snowknight, that's very helpful. Clearly I can just use the regular firmware, although I don't really understand why so many people are buying a RAID controller and disabling its RAID functionality, unless software RAID is all the rage now.
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    Recommend PCIe SATA card for Windows 7

    Do you still need to do that "IT mode" flash if you're using Windows or is that only a Unix thing? I don't really understand the purported benefits.
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    Recommend PCIe SATA card for Windows 7

    Is LSI really a good card for Windows or is it just hype if you happen to be using Linux?
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    Are you out of luck now if you need drivers or firmware for older LSI cards?

    Sorry but what does any of that even mean? What steps can one follow to repeat the process to find drivers for any legacy card?
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    Recommend PCIe SATA card for Windows 7

    I just bought two 6TB SATA drives but they're not recognized by my motherboard so I've decided to invest in an "HBA", or PCIe SATA controller card. There seems to be a lot of hype about LSI but they don't seem widely available outside the US and their website (www.broadcom.com) doesn't seem to...
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    3TB drives and intel ICH10R compatibility

    I want to necro this because I still have this problem today. ICH10R on Asus P6T x58 chipset from Intel does not see a 6TB drive; it sees a 1.5TB drive. Consequently it is impossible to create a RAID 1 array out of the two 6TB drives. Even though Windows and the latest RST driver can see the...
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    Recommend new motherboard for 6TB RAID 1

    I very much appreciate you trying that out. Of course, it doesn't mean the reverse isn't true (i.e. moving LSI -> Intel), but I very much doubt there are any vendors implementing support for each others RAID controllers at this time. There is even a question mark over whether RAID migration can...
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    Recommend new motherboard for 6TB RAID 1

    I don't believe that's true. I think RAID controllers write a header to the drive so they can identify which drives are part of which array and what role they play in that array. Furthermore, I believe that header is non-standard and vendor-dependent so they would not work cross-vendor unless...
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    Recommend new motherboard for 6TB RAID 1

    Not the card; the drives. Can they be moved from an "LSI" RAID chip to an Intel RAID chip successfully?
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    Recommend new motherboard for 6TB RAID 1

    That sounds interesting and much cheaper than a whole new system. However, are third-party RAID arrays compatible with the Intel RAID chips? I mean, if I later buy a new mobo with an Intel chipset RAID controller, will I be able to just transfer it over without any compatibility issues?
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    Recommend new motherboard for 6TB RAID 1

    I don't want to use it as a boot drive but I fail to see how a software fix would help, unless you mean BIOS "software". The Intel RAID BIOS simply doesn't recognize the drive's real capacity at all, so it's impossible to configure the RAID at full capacity. Even modern motherboards claim the...
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    Recommend new motherboard for 6TB RAID 1

    Hello Hardmannens, I just bought a pair of Seagate IronWolf Pro 6TB drives hoping to run them in a RAID 1 mirror on my 9-year-old ASUS P6T (x58) board. I didn't realise the Intel RAID BIOS only supports drives up to 2TB! Now it seems I must purchase a new board. What board should I buy to...
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    Streaming video and audio without wires

    Hitherto I'd never heard of Roku, Plex, Emby or Chromecast. I don't understand what it is that these pieces of hardware do that my PC cannot. Why do I need these in order to send data to my TV? Why isn't a wireless networking card sufficient?
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    Streaming video and audio without wires

    I am playing x264 videos in MKV containers stored on my PC's hard disk in Zoom Player from Inmatrix over HDMI cable via my graphics card output. The TV is another screen attached directly to my PC. I don't know any other way to get pictures from my PC into my TV.
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