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    Three 1920x1200 displays or 2560x1440?

    Dell Outlet has a 30% off coupon through Friday. You can pickup 2713hm qhd's for $414 a piece. I already have one, refurb looks new and is flawless imho.
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    A small datacenter build and other projects

    You had any issues with those Tripplite stick PDUs? Used to use those and I'd say the failure rate was maybe 1 in 25. Switched to the APC units and haven't had a single one fail in the 3 years since I replaced them.
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    Windows 2003 Terminal Server slowdown issues.

    Are you running 32bit Enterprise Ed for >4GB memory support or 64bit OS? There are definitely quite a few known issues with TS/Citrix scaling running on a 32bit platform due to kernel memory starvation (among other things) that can result in Windows swapping constantly even when there is still...
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    I got a good deal on a Dell T605 which I'm assuming was being discontinued (about 4 months ago) as it was insanely cheap and I've never seen them on the Dell site again since then: Dell T605 Dual AMD Opteron 2376 Quad-Core 2.3Ghz 16GB of DDR2 ECC 2 x 250GB Hot swap WD SE's in a mirror for...
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    Scrapping and scaling help

    How many database connections are you running? SQL is licensed two other ways besides per socket and both would probably be cheaper depending on how many client connections you have.
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    Glut of bad drives at Newegg? post RMA 'bare' drives!

    Drives fail and I would bet that of people that have purchased a hard drive and visit these forums which is a specific subset of people probably 95% have ordered at least one drive from Newegg in the past 3 years. Its the law of averages guys, if you honestly think the drive failure rate from...
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    New Rig! HELP! File Server, Domain Controller, 40 Clients.

    I speced out a Dell T300 on dell.co.uk without any coupon codes (IE: Look around and save at least another couple hundred dollars). For 1,526 pounds with a 3yr next business day warranty: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3323, 2.5GHz, 2x3M Cache, 1333MHz FSB 12GB Memory, DDR2, 667MHz (6x2GB Dual Ranked...
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    New Rig! HELP! File Server, Domain Controller, 40 Clients.

    Might I throw out a suggestion that you consider virtualization as an option for both servers (or just spend the money on one better redundant server). ESXi is free, HyperV is the cost of a server 2008 license, Xenserver is free, of course if you want support on ESX or Xenserver you need to...
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    WHS raid5 or Solaris Raidz?!??

    WHS does not include iSCSI target capabilities built in, the only version of windows that comes with a software iSCSI target is Windows Storage Server. iSCSI is critical if you ever plan to expand and use your file server for something like back-end disk for Vmware ESX or Xenserver for instance...
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    WHS raid5 or Solaris Raidz?!??

    I run a Solaris file server with RAIDZ and have been very satisfied with the performance and ease of setup. The main advantages to Solaris vs WHS are speed, infinite snapshots, iSCSI (in addition to CIFs/Samba fileshares) and scalability. WHS is obviously going to be more user friendly but the...
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    Low end SAN for ESX and Hyper-V

    Ahh the old DSxxxx is better/faster/cheaper than everything else debate. But really there is fairly close to price parity between manufacturers and if there isn't if you go to the vendor you want with a quote for a competing product model they will almost always match it or beat it. Right now is...
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    HP ProLiant SmartArray P400 (SAS-RAID)

    Yes, you likely do need memory in the slot on the card for it to operate. There are two types of memory modules for those cards. One is a stick of memory with a battery attached to it and one without. The one without is what the basic models ship with and usually has either 256 or 512Mb of...
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    74GDC Raptors...Flashing, Please?

    No chance flashing the drive is going to fix that. My guess is either you have corrupt firmware (which on WDs is on the control board, think accidental static discharge), a bad SATA cable or connector, or the jumpers on the drive are set to one of the many non-standard modes that the raptor...
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    Replacing HDD motor

    On the motor replacement... don't waste your time. The motor on almost all drives is press fit into the bottom of the case from the inside. This means you'd have to remove the platters and the headstack, the chances of the drive working after having it torn down that much (unless you are a data...
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    How important is ECC ram for a home file server?

    +1 for ECC... why wouldn't you for the small price difference?
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