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Either of you in Canada? Has anybody in Canada received a tracking #?

When did you order, Vega? Dell Order Details page still says that mine will be delivered on Dec. 23rd (coming Monday). But I haven't received a shipping notification yet?!

I also ordered one (in Canada). Original ship date was 17th, now the 23rd.

+1 Old Hippie. SpinRite no good.

The SAS2008 controller does not seem to work with ZFSguru 0.1.7p3. I will test with 0.1.8. Just FYI. Possibly a conflict with my motherboard, IDK at this point...testing...

R-Studio. It is possible to recover the deleted partition table (i.e. reconstruct it) using Acronis Disk Director. BUT I would advise you to use R-Studio first. You should be in the clear if you have NOT written any data to the drive since "deleting" the partitions. If they are as valuable as...

Isilon, EMC, Netapp. Any of those >>> Thecus. Having paid support is a good idea.

Adding some fuel to the fire... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.xdsl/msg/9aeee32323c2978e?pli=1 Written by somebody who has worked in the hard drive industry (take it however you will). http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20070701183525/http://grcsucks.com/

I have found SpinRite to be totally useless and simply quackery. After dd I would recommend either R-Studio or GetDataBack. Acorns has a tool that can rebuild partition tables. Edit: misspelled Acronis.

But do you need your ZIL to be "that" fast? For a home server? I think the 320 40GB will be just fine. Edit: And add to that, the Intel 320 is based on the proven Intel X25-M controller. I think that is more reliable than an ACard.

The Intel 320 series SSDs have a bank of capacitors and a design with "enhanced power-loss protection". http://newsroom.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/38-4324/Intel_SSD_320_Series_Enhance_Power_Loss_Technology_Brief.pdf Edit: The Intel 320 SSDs have higher IOPS rating than the 510...

Do you have off-from-internet (i.e. offline) capability planned?

I would direct your question to the Arstechnica Civis Server Room forum. There are lots of professionals over there who have experience in storage sizing. http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewforum.php?f=21

Get the QNAP. It will very likely be a very easy setup. IMO, DIY is not the first choice when you are deploying to a production and business environment. Especially when funds permit you to buy a system that is supported. In the case of DIY, I would be wary of what software you use to run...

Anand at Anandtech is checking this out. So in a nutshell (I posted this elsewhere): How can a NAND chip be graded as full spec when it was initially discarded (by Micron)? An answer is that they were inadvertently discarded. Is this the case? If this is not the case, then they were purposely...