Recent content by investinwaffles

Yeah, I think you guys are right considering the price of 3TB WD Red's vs 2TB Reds. Maybe I need to do some more research. My budget is pretty low so maybe ZFS is a better option for me instead of hardware raid. Put more money into actual drives instead of more hardware (and I actually would...

Thanks for the responses guys!! I dont really plan on upgrading to larger than 2tb drives. As long as the 2tb Red drives will work with the Perc 6i, I think it should be just fine. I will be getting a brand new battery for whatever controller I end up with anyways. I really dont need high...

TTT? Any advice would be much appreciated :)

Hi Guys, I have a quick question for those that know alot more than I... I have always wanted to migrate to a raid 5 or raid 6 setup for my home server. I really just want something stable that will do Raid 5 with 6x2TB HDDs (Or 4 depending on my budget). Anyways, I favor reliability over...

I'm in the same boat. I am going to wait for the 860m to release, and if the power consumption is lower than the 765m I am giong to get either the MSI GS60, or the Clevo W230SS. But if there is not much of a performance increase, I am going to try and get a used W230ST with the 765m for a...

Hi guys, I am trying to find info on which mSata drives are the best for raid applications. I am getting a laptop with 2x mSATA slots + a standard 2.5 HDD bay and I want to take full advantage. I have been looking at the Plextor M5M and Mushkin Atlas Deluxe 120/128gb models, but was...

Guys, I need some help with a good audio setup for my mom. She lives in India so I kind of need to be able to fit this stuff in a suitcase to avoid import taxes :D No home theater duty -- She only needs to be able to play music from an Iphone/laptop so I was really thinking about buying some...

We're looking to move physical machines into a different cluster, basically "collapsing" or merging 3 clusters into a single cluster. The virtual machines will stay on the same server / storage. The kicker is I dont currently have access to he Vsphere console but I need to figure out the...

It depends on what you do really. My preferred setup after lots of testing is independent mid-sized drives (vs raid 0 or one large drive). I can use it as a scratch drive for my VM's so my main programs and OS dont take a hit on performance/usability. If you are just running games off it, I...

I love my Enermax twister-bearing fans. Quiet, not too expensive, and they have lasted a loooong time (at least 3 years at this point). By comparison my Yate Loons lasted about a year before the bearings started to go (one by one), Lian Li case fans are just terrible, Scythe regular sleeve...

Its called Classic Shell. You can pretty much disable any of the metro BS if you really dont like it, I have been running 8 on my desktops for quite some time now and It is basically like windows 7 but feels alot snappier (but less sparkle because there isnt any areo).

I really ONLY want a ripping Bluray drive so this is perfect for me! Thanks OP!

Will try that tomorrow (its for a work computer), thank you very much. Describes the problem exactly as I am having - forgot to mention that I googled the shit out of the problem for an hour before posting.

I am having a similar issue. Brand new build, Asus P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT, i7 3770K, 32gb Gskil Ares 1866 32 GB kit, XFX 7770 Ghz Ed, Seasonic X750 F3-1866C10Q-32GAB is the exact model # of the ram kit I bought (32gb matched kit) I double checked the CPU pins and I dont see anything that...

Also, buy an Intel NIC instead of that trendnet, Flawless and really well built.