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What's the application? Are you booting off the SAN? iSCSI or FC? Do you have an existing FC infrastructure? Looking for dumb storage or do you need snapshot, replication, etc...?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Electronic+Gadgets-_-P3+International-_-82715001 This will tell you exactly what your power draw is. These are actually kinda handy. You'd be amazed at the amount of juice a lot of your...

Infiniband is not a storage interface, it's more ideal for clustering servers together. iSCSI is the way the market is going and this was true before 10Gb started shipping.

Nothing in the CD drives, although I am running Daemon Tools, although nothing is typically mounted. Other than that, not showing any mapped network drives or card readers in "My Computer".

When attempting to save a document or browse to open a file from within an ap, the dialogue box freezes for 10 secs or so when trying to browse to preferred save location. The ap shows as not responding. I don't have any mapped network drives and can't seem to find any other solution. This...

Seagate Updates Warranty Terms Effective January 3, 2009, Seagate will be making some important changes to its limited warranty terms for selected bare drive products. The warranty period for consumer electronics, notebook and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized...

Some of the new Samsung Blu players can stream Netflic content. If that is priority 1 it may not be a bad option for you.

Get something with Voltage Regulation and it should solve the issues you're seeing. TrippLite actually has has a live of Home Theater battery backups that do voltage regulation and power conditioning.

depends. Do you just want HD video or need something that will decode the advanced audio codecs? DTS-MA is pretty sweet if you have the ability to play it.

Are there any cards other than the 4850 and 4870 that will output 8 channel uncompressed audio over HDMI? Looking for something low power if possible. No gaming, just movies, so audio capabilities are more important than video (as long as it will do 1080).

http://xbmc.org/download/ They have versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even instructions to use w/ Apple TV. You may want to try using the Live CD before you install. It's still in Alpha stage and as of a month or so ago when I played around with it, it's still a bit buggy. **Edit**...

HAHAHA. I have a similarly priced system and until recently bought into the spendy cables as well (Kimber, AudioQuest, Monster). They really make no difference as long as the cable is well constructed. There is a difference between cheap and inexpensive, but you are foolish for spending as...

Just keep in mind what a refurb drive is. They don't "refurb" the drive, they just rewrite the servo data to the disk and slap a green label on it. Seagate claims that 95% of the RMAs they get back are no problem found.

I completely agree. There are many solutions out there (Infortrend, Promise) that offer rack mountable, RAID systems w/ hotswapable redundant components that are hardly a thrown togather system. Just because it doesn't say EMC or HDS on the front doesn't mean it's not more than adequate for an...

What about iSCSI? An iSCSI SAN will provide most of the benefits of FC without the expensive infrastructure. Also, are you using SAS or SATA drives? You should be able to get into a dual controller iSCSI system w/ 16 1TB SAS drives for about 1/3 of that pricepoint.