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    Recommend Online Backup Service?

    I'd very much recommend a combination of Crashplan + local backup. They seem to have their stuff in order (they're up and running fine with only minor complaints for a couple of years now, something that cannot be said of many other cloud backup services) and they have very competitive pricing...
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    I made a core i5-3750K powered computer use just 5.9W (idle), whaddayathink?

    It doesn't seem like the board particularly minds lower input voltages. I haven't experimented much with it, but while running it's perfectly fine down to 14.4V. Still have to experiment further with that, though.
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    I made a core i5-3750K powered computer use just 5.9W (idle), whaddayathink?

    Highest I can get it is with 1080p youtube videos, then it varies between 16.5ish and 20ish watts, mostly in the lower regions. Hardware decoding (FFDshow) locally stored stuff is a bit lower, around 12W. Keep in mind that those numbers are including a wireless link pumping quite a bit of...
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    Avoiding SSD data corruption with backup battery

    I took the prototype/test hardware in production, expect to start testing around the end of september.
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    I made a core i5-3750K powered computer use just 5.9W (idle), whaddayathink?

    Of course, but the reason I removed them is to allow physical access to the components next to them. This board is pretty packed, and especially the PCIe and SATA ports were royally in the way of me soldering near them because they are so tall.
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    I made a core i5-3750K powered computer use just 5.9W (idle), whaddayathink?

    Well, this is how my motherboard's power circuitry runs: and this is what it is now: That's the easiest way to say it without spending an hour typing everything up :D
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    I made a core i5-3750K powered computer use just 5.9W (idle), whaddayathink?

    So... well, the title kind of says it all. I'm mostly active on Dutch forums but I'm very excited about my last PC build so I thought I'd post it here as well. I almost exclusively build very power efficient computers and for the last couple of months I've been working on a computer with: -...
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    Avoiding SSD data corruption with backup battery

    Well, unfortunately I cannot guarantee compatability with any SSD using just capacitors or ultracapacitors. I solved this by using a small sealed lithium ion cell. Interestingly, in the end I didn't even have to relax my temperature/endurance ratings for the battery: as it turns out...
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    Avoiding SSD data corruption with backup battery

    Thank you very much for that link, that is very valuable. It seems like especially for journaling file systems and ZFS, which are the filesystems I am targeting this device at, my idea may very well work. Most of the OS-related problems in the xtremesystems-link are not really relevant to SSD...
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    Avoiding SSD data corruption with backup battery

    I've got a pretty technical question, I hope somebody can give me more insight into this. A couple of days ago somebody on another forum asked me if I could design a backup battery for SSDs. When SSDs with a write cache are suddenly powered down, there is a pretty high probability that either...
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    Xeon + consumer chipset = ECC support?

    That's an excellent find. Maybe they can get me a sample board or something, who knows.
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    Xeon + consumer chipset = ECC support?

    What I was trying to say with the soldering iron and all, is that I am actually at a level where I can do such a thing. I'm willing to go the extra mile to do something 'new' that might be worth it, or even just for kicks. If I sounded that way, which I might have in retrospect, that was...
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    Xeon + consumer chipset = ECC support?

    @Dan_D: I didn't want to imply anywhere that I'm an expert. As you said, the only evidence I have is a few white papers. I also said earlier that I would be just as happy if somebody falsified my claims. You are just as anecdotal in your arguments as basically everybody I spoke to on the...
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    Xeon + consumer chipset = ECC support?

    I want all my future systems to have ECC support if I can do anything about it. Correctable memory glitches are a major if not the main hardware cause of system and application crashes. As per this white paper, high-utilization DRAM has in the order of thousands or tens of thousands of...
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    Xeon + consumer chipset = ECC support?

    This is - pardon me - stating the obvious. Of course 'in some nebulous way' it enables ECC. I want to know that nebulous way! Does it do this with a simple hardware switch, does it require commands to be sent to the CPU, if so, what commands and via what communication channel? In other words...
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