Recent content by nerr

Yeah, I had seen that Corsair drive on Newegg as well. How long have you been running it, and did you make any special optimizations to run it? I managed to kill a cheap Kingston SSD after a few months so I'm a bit leery. I think it was probably journaling that did it in.

The modifications you've made seem great to me. One question though: is there a better option for the system drive? I use less than 10GB on my root partition for the operating system, and I want to keep it off of my data arrays. Should I look into a small hard drive instead, or perhaps a...

Yep, I can do that! EDIT: Also, did some research yesterday, and here's a preliminary build I came up with. The PSU is out of stock, but that's not an issue right now. http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=14657614

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Home server, needs a bit of crunching power for media transcoding and code compilation 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Maximum of $700, without hard drives, shipping included. 3) Which...

Yep! DBAN is the greatest. It's a very effective way to destroy any and all data on a drive.

I ordered one around Christmas time, and it has made my machine absolutely scream. Bought this laptop in 2009, with the following specs: Dell Studio XPS 13 Intel C2D P9600 @ 2.66 GHz 4GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333 MHz Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB HDD And after swapping the WD drive with a...

Hey everyone, I'm speaking with a friend right now who is starting a small game development business, and he is interested in a server for his small business. He intends to have it run Linux and host Subversion, Samba, and NFS for his business. He would also like to add 4 HDDs to the system to...

Please, I beg that you consider building a second, low-power disk storage system instead of putting everything inside your main box. As others have pointed out, the typical ways in which a desktop is used would be hell on that many hard drives at once. Your best option is to build an external...

I personally believe that you'd be far better off running Linux instead of Windows Server. Advantages include: - It's free - Less intensive on the machine so it can focus on performing its actual duties - Very well documented howtos to set up features - Features won't randomly stop...

But you see, not everybody needs incredibly advanced filesystems such as ZFS. Sure, it'd be interesting to play with, but completely necessary? In my case, absolutely not. I'm a college students with minimal cash, four computers to serve files to, and only need a single, universal box to take...

Here's a thread where those of us who run Linux-based systems can show off our setups and discuss how useful and versatile they can be! In a forum dominated by FreeBSD, FreeNAS, and Windows Home Server, I think it's about time for a thread dedicated to Linux-based systems. These other...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming would be the primary use for this machine, as well as other general day-to-day tasks such as web browsing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $800 at maximum, preferably after tax, but I...

Very interesting. I've compiled everything (with a few issues, due to everything being RHEL-specific), but I'm now missing a library called "libspl.so.0". Damn. Looks like I'll have to keep hunting.

Very cool! I look forward to seeing a release coming in the near future!

This is certainly a neat project sub.mesa! I look forward to a source code release, so I could perhaps re-tool some of it for use with my Linux server setup. (Leaving credit to you in-tact in the source code, of course) :)