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    Just "found" why my SSD was missing 28GB

    Efficiency, basically. Your page file is used for data which was in memory which has been updated and is not needed in memory any more. It is the operating system's decision as to what is 'needed' and what is not. If you don't have a page file, (or swap space, on unix systems) you limit the...
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    SSD life vs file size

    I wouldn't like to comment categorically on whether it will deteriorate faster, because that will depend on the specifics of the device, filesystem usage and caching used by your system. But I'd say that the number of blocks written will be higher for a million 1K files compared to 1000 1MB...
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    Reliable controller for 8 SATA ports?

    (sorry for the long delay; I immediately forgot about this post and didn't come back - until it came up in a search when I was looking for something else) My example of the transfer rate might not have been explained very well. Essentially what I was saying was that if you are copying data from...
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    Reliable controller for 8 SATA ports?

    chkdsk is a filesystem check. Not a disk check (although it can perform a surface scan, you're better leaving such things to the drive to do; yeah, I know what the name is... it's just not particularly appropriate In My Opinion). Use a tool for reading the SMART statistics and check whether...
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    Highpoint Admin Software

    I don't know the answer directly myself - I use both the web interface and the command line interface, and am now tinkering with directly creating the array by calling the driver myself - but the HighPoint support people have been very helpful for me over the last few weeks. Their issues...
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    e-sata and multiple multi-drive enclosures

    Hiya, I've used 3 cards that support port multiplier, each of which has been pretty good for me. The JMB363 based card are port-multiplier capable, but the one I had is only a single eSATA port - still pretty capable and lasted me a couple of years (before I needed more ports - it was...
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    Building an eSATA DAS

    I'm almost certain this is wrong. I'm pretty sure that port multiplier is part of the eSATA standard, but just not one that is required and so is not supported by every host. I've certainly got a bunch of devices connected to eSATA with port multiplier and haven't worried about chipset...
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