Recent content by midnkight

To steal another person's quote.

I have roughly 70TB of Raw Storage, But I am moving from 2TB to 4TB HDD. I am truly only at 32TB of Storage I am actually using. As for what i use it for, HD movies can eat up 30GB a movie. But as Blue Fox Mention, you will find a reason to use it. I will say double your estimate and build to...

This program works with my LSI 9211-8I. I receive temp and SMART data on Windows 7.

I went with monoprice and they are awesome. Unless you need different length, i find the price to be barely that much more expensive, and shipping is pretty quick. Reverse Breakout, is for a sata host card to a 8087 connect like using a sata host card in a Norco 4224 so you can use it's...

I own the Chenbro SAS Expander. :) it only has the PCI-E slot just so it is stable in the case. It uses the Molex connector for power.

nice. i would be in if it was a 2gb model, then i would crossfire mine. -_-

since you have an asus, it is likely runng at 16x 1x 1x for the other ports. I know my asus board run that as default for all my x16 pci slots. I had to go into the bios to switch it out so that my more of a 8x 4x 4x setup on board.

It depends on the motherboard. my ASUS can't flash my 9211, so i have an old ECS motherboard that I keep around to flash and updated it. so it Hit or miss, if you have a friend with a different manufacturer tries there .

ebay has 2 for sale for around < $100 if you dont mind used.

Most built in ESata will not do PM. so you might truely SOL. If you have that PM Device, You could check into this item that convert PM ESATA into a usb 3.0, http://www.addonics.com/products/adu3esam.php

my Hitachi runs slightly hotter then my seagates, they are all 4TB 7200 also. I am waiting on Toshiba but all these external drives make me want to jump on them bad.:(

i believe that is a Summera computer holder.

what the hell, i will use it as an external while i wait on the new 4tb toshiba,

I am the same. Also the idea about having two drives fail, if your running a 2 drive array vs 1 single drive. If that single drive fail, so your still ass out, how is it different with two?:confused:

dang it. :( i was sleeping on it too.