Recent content by Poop

The Mylex are awesome, affordable cards. I have one myself. You made a good choice there.. If you're still unsure about a few things with SCSI.. Technically you can have a UW and U2W device on the same chain, but you won't be getting the best performance. Having both of those interfaces...

I'm about to take my Linksys WAP11 out to the street. It has been a consistent frustration with configuring it as an "access point client", and I've just read many others have had the same problem. Works great as an access point, but all other configurations (bridge, ap client, etc) REQUIRE it...

Those drives don't have a 1,000,000+ hour MTBF rating for nothing...

That 64-bit slot will be helpful...would give you decent bandwidth for the card/drives, better than a 32-bit slot would. And in addition to what Mr. E said, check out the LSI Logic LP cards. Not only are they great, but they are a much better bargain than an Adaptec card.

It's purdy. I always wondered why they sell their networking hardware for a good price, and now I know. Still, it's a hell of a deal though.

I've tried all the googling. As a matter of fact, I checked that first source you listed earlier, but I never scrolled down to see all the replies. Anyhoot, I've the ods/ods as the login/pass to no avail. I wish I hadn't already stuck this thing in my rack; probably need to take a look...

I just purchased an ODS (Optical Data Systems, Inc.) 1106-22BT-2FL hub today. It's a very interesting piece of hardware; about 2U in size, 2 10Base Fiber Ports, 22 10Base Ethernet. I know it's a piece of crap with today's standards, but it was $5 so I said what the hell. The main reason I...

I never exactly had a good experience with wireless headphones, but the fact that they ARE Sennheisers could make a difference. They sound damn good that's for sure. I'm happy with my HD570's :-)

SuperMicro all the way. If you're building a dually system/server, no other way to go IMO.

Just be sure the motherboard doesn't use the HighPoint controller. Based on my experience with the Adaptec 1200A, which utilizes the HighPoint, you can't rebuild arrays which caused me to lose all of my data. I believe the Promise controllers can, and some others. Just look into it. To...

Maxtor 6Y160M0 :D Har har.

I haven't seen anything yet. It'd be difficult since ATA signal can only run so far. It's easily done with SCSI and FC-AL (copper) because the signals can travel a further distance.

All SATA seems to be is fast. Yay. I like the fact that I could have three SCSI hard drives, two optical drives, and an external enclosure running off of the same card. Point being, SATA has nil for flexibility; one drive per channel, and only hard drives are supported. :rolleyes...

SCA-3? I know SCA-2 is an upgrade to the connector with metal bar reinforcement, but what does SCA-3 entail? You can find adapters to go from the 80-pin interface, but adding that in will degrade performance slightly. If you're into gaming and stuff like that, I wouldn't necessarily...

It will work, no problems there, as long as the hardware is in good order.. It may be a better investment to go with an Ultra 160 HBA, but the PCI bus won't allow you to reach the maximum performance of the SCSI chain. Unless your board has 64-bit 66MHz slots, or PCI-X even. Are you sure...