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I just wanted to post this for any of you considering using something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817332017 I recently wanted to add more space to my home-server and was out of space in the case. So, I bought an external enclosure with a sata...

That's because most unix/linux FS, including ext3,ext4,reiser,xfs,zfs, handle initial allocations very differently. NTFS and Fat/Fat32 all try to put newer data toward the front of the disk. Linux FS's don't do that. They intentionally spread data out with large gaps in between files. When...

http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/ That is the cheapest setup for 1080p playback. I've got one, works like a charm.

There is a big difference between vendor provided software raid (3ware, intel, nvidia) and O/S software raid. Raid isn't risky if it's done right. That's sort of the point of having one, isn't it? The biggest thing is making sure that the raid implementation is portable. Either by using a HW...