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    SATA drive failing?

    3rd-ed. I just had a similar issue with a Hitachi 2TB drive. It was third-tier storage so no RAID (JBOD) but it would keep dropping out of Windows Explorer and subsequently Disk Management. Replaced it the next day (Amazon Prime to the rescue) and haven't had an issue since. Don't risk it...
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    DRAC5 card has chip that is really hot - problem? how to fix?

    A couple things: 1) No idea why it would be getting hot when it's plugged in, but not powered up. We might need an EE with server experience to answer than question. While there should be some power to components and they might get a tad warm, I would be concerned if they were really hot. 2)...
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    Microsoft Retail Stores to Host Midnight Surface 2 Launch Events

    Fake News: Microsoft will give out a free copy of Microsoft Office to the first 10 people in line for the new Surface tablet. Next Day: Last night, 7 lucky people at Surface Launch Event walked away with a new Surface tablet and a free copy of Microsoft Office.
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    Apple Applies For Image-Based Authentication Patent

    Might as well throw everything you can at the patent office and see what sticks. As far as Apple and patent approval goes, nothing surprises me anymore.
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    SSD in a server?

    Personally, for business I would not rely on consumer level SSDs. I would have no issue doing that on a home server because it's not critical and downtime does cost me anything. Is this just a file server or are you doing digital x-rays? For just serving small to medium files, I don't really...
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    Looking for a good remote maintenance program or two

    bloody beat me to it. you can also look at GoToMyPC. Obviously for business usage you will need to pay for them. Some like Teamviewer are one-time purchases, where others like GoToMyPC are usually setup for monthly/yearly payments. EDIT: You would purchase it. They don't have to pay anything.
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    pfSense DHCP: Auto-Assign Hostnames to Cluster Nodes

    Maybe I'm not understanding the whole 'obviously' part. Why not just assign statics to the servers and name the servers manually in your '192_168_1_100.somedomain.com' naming scheme?
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    WTB: (2) 1x4GB DDR2 SODIMMs

    Looking to max out the memory of my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop. It takes a max of 8GB through the use of two 4GB sticks of DDR2 (SODIMM obviously). Anyone have some of those laying around?
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    What antivirus software should I buy?

    Microsoft Security Essentials. That is all you need if you're running Windows. It's free and unless you click on every flashing banner that reads "you have just won an iPad" it's all you will need. I find most of the paid products cause more issues than they prevent and eat up system resources.
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    Some RAID concerns with PERC6/i and 5/i

    1) It completely depends on how important your data is to you. The biggest benefit is that it gives you (hopefully) more time to fix the issue as with RAID6 another drive can die in the interim without data loss. The main issue I see is that while your RAID6 array is degraded you'll have to...
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    How many HDDs can be powered by one molex?

    I assume you are not talking about molex splitters and actually adding more SATA molex connectors inline like what is being done here at 8:22. Inline connectors in about the only way you can do this. What model/rating of power supply are you running? Your drive limit might come from your...
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    WTB: 4GB DDR3 SODIMM

    I think the best deal you're going to find on a 4GB DDR3 1333 SODIMM would be this stick from Newegg with free shipping. I think you would be hard pressed to find a better price. If someone responds on the forum it will probably be for a used stick and unless they are giving it away...
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    Drawing the Line - Network Consulting vs. Employee Training

    I have been in this situation before and I am actually in one of those situations right now - amazingly enough at the same location. I won't give all the details, but after working on a jumble of a network, we setup a domain with actually security, setup and Exchange server, GPO's, formal...
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    Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire Tablet Unveiled

    There is no reason for either Amazon or Apple to put an SD slot on their hardware. You think they actually want you sideloading anything of your own on the tablet? The entire point of this hardware is to be a platform to expand the Amazon media ecosystem. They want their content, that you...
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    Perc 6/E problem

    Start with the basics. If you connect the drives directly to the PERC6 with a SFF-8484 (that's what it looks like at least) to SATA cable, do you see the drives and can you create a simple RAID1 array or even see it as JBOD? Not sure if the HP SAS Expander would work at all with the PERC6...
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