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    Who's planning to buy Zen?

    Reading this ECC discussion, I can't help but think that every PC should use ECC RAM. If more people used it then the price would go down. ECC should be default. Leave the cheap stuff to the pre-built systems. (It's not very expensive and totally worth it.) Just look at the failure rates and...
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    Who's planning to buy Zen?

    I want a cheap tablet that uses a Zen APU. I'm looking for something dirt cheap, all solid state with acceptable performance. Let's face it: I don't need super high power in my mobile. I'm hoping for some good "just enough" chips to come out of this.
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    are you going to abandon intel for ryzen?

    My CPU is feeling ancient and I am going to make a new build very soon. It's going to be the chip with the best price\performance in my budget. I'm waiting for Zen chips to drop before I make my choice. If nothing else, a price war works in my favor.
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    Your Body Is Not Ready For Virtual Reality

    My body is ready. It's my room that isn't. I need a bigger space.
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    FIXED I found it. The answer was RTFM but even after reading the description it takes some looking to find. Here is what the help says: "To locate this task in Storage Management: Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects. Select a controller object. Select the...
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    At any rate I am still having a problem and it must be an easy fix. In the DELL server management the drive is showing up as "Foreign" and I need to get it added to the array. How do I tell the controller to prepare it as a hot spare? In other RAID software I just hit "Clear" and "Add" but this...
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    That is interesting that you mention that mwroobel. I did call DELL and they did say that it was outside of the DELL 3yr warranty I had. When I contacted Seagate they told me that the drive will be in warranty until 2012 (Another two years from this posting) Lesson here is: don't listen to...
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    Help Data Lost with Raid 5 rebuild

    Actually, all windows operating systems need a swap file. Even if you had 16GB of memory, it wouldn't matter. Many programs are hard coded to use the system pagefile, all M$ programs for example. If you had an abnormal shutdown I can see how many programs would lose data because they were...
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    New WD1001FALS is slow

    109MB/s is not bad, I think the max was 120MB/s on the 640GB. I imagine the TB drive would be a little slower. Do a HDTune and post screenshot. Compare with this thread: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1284410&highlight=Caviar+Black+drive
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    Help Data Lost with Raid 5 rebuild

    yeah, a page file is a type of swap file. Anything that gets taken out of memory and temporarily held on the Hard Drive.
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    Help Data Lost with Raid 5 rebuild

    That is kinda disturbing. Did you have a swap file or any other temporary files on that volume? Also, you should avoid writing to the volume until you attempt to run data recovery like an undelete program. These types of programs can recover not only deleted files but orphaned files too. If you...
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    Ok, so I put the drive back in the fileserver. Now it is showing that the disk status is "foreign" meaning the drive contains data not relevant to this array. (Might be a pant load of BS) Question is: How do I clear it and/or add it back to the array; as a hot spare for example. The...
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    Thank you all very much this is interesting. The HD tune error scan passed, all green. The health screen is meaningless to me, some numbers are above the threshold and two lines are highlighted yellow: Reallocated sector count and Spin Retry count What does the yellow indicate? It also says...
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    Perhaps... Does that data get cleared when you unplug the drive? It passes SMART checks now in my desktop.
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    RAID 5: HDD FAIL

    I have a DELL 2900 win2k3 fileserver. Yesterday I noticed that one of the drive caddies was lit up yellow and the LCD on the front said "HDD FAIL". So, naturally, I panicked. I ripped it out and replaced it. After installing the new drive I was able to relax a bit and take a look at the...
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