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    OH NoES!!!!

    I think you may be able to restore it with Ghost exactly the way it was before, then use Partition Magic to merge the partitions into one.
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    Seagate / Maxtor drives fitted with speed-limiting jumper at the factory?!?!

    The impression I got was that it improved compatibility on a minority of systems. I'm not sure how much slower the drives are, but I'd have thought that purposely slowing the drives that way would court whining from bleeding-edge enthusiasts. The jumper was barely noticeable, and easily...
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    Seagate / Maxtor drives fitted with speed-limiting jumper at the factory?!?!

    Addendum, I meant to say: One of the drives is a Maxtor "DiamondMax 22" STM3500320AS, the Seagate is "Barracuda 7200.10" ST3500630AS. It's a timneout the latter that caused the SATA controller to reset itself.
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    Seagate / Maxtor drives fitted with speed-limiting jumper at the factory?!?!

    Hi there, I had a glitch yesterday with some drives connected to a 3ware 9500S SATA controller. I contacted 3ware support & they advised me that: So I went on the manufacturers' websites for all the drives in this system, found out how to do this for each drive, and then scrabbled around...
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    Is RAID5 really as useless as this article makes it out to be?

    Oh, don't take it so to heart when I say "I'm not really calling you a troll". I'm just saying think critically. The opinions of a bunch of random guys here are no more valid than a bunch of random internet links. The important thing is: whatever you read, consider whether it seems reasonable...
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    Routers with USB based storage options?

    Ah! That makes sense! I've setup wireless USB print servers for customers that work just the same as this. I think estrada42 has nothing to worry about if he's happy messing around with OpenWRT or another similar Linux router mini-distro. A router will work just as well as an NSLU2, just fine...
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    Is RAID5 really as useless as this article makes it out to be?

    The Wikipedia page is just a rehash of the same article, though. That section ("RAID 5 disk failure rate") has only three citations in discussing hard drives (more citations in the section which heralds SSDs as a "revolution") and TWO of those three citations refer to that same original piece...
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    Need to move on from WHS - What next?

    I've just looked up the Drobo units & they're much better value than I expected. I've got a system based in a TST ESR-316 case, and that bare case alone is only 20% cheaper than the Drobo. The TST case does include PSUs (redundant, in my case) but you still need a m/board, SATA controller - even...
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    Recomemdations for a Access Point

    My apologies. If I'm reading correctly, then, N uses multiple channels; when G devices are present one channel falls back to G speeds, the other is reserved for N at a higher speed (but not the full speed that would be attained if only N clients were present & able to use both channels). Is...
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    Post your monthly bandwidth usage

    What software are you using to show that output, please? I'm one of these weird characters who find it much more intuitive to use the command line than look at colourful graphs. Stroller.
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    Routers with USB based storage options?

    I'm pretty sure you can do what you want with OpenWRT - take a look at the site. There used to be a hugely long hardware compatibility list on their wiki, I'm sure there still is. The router should share the drive using Windows file sharing - any Linux-based distro (and Linux is used on at...
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    Recomemdations for a Access Point

    At this price bracket, I believe not. 5 or 6 years ago, when I started doing SOHO networking professionally, many G APs from major brands were still rubbish. They were a pain to setup, with obscure configuration options - they would work capriciously and were unreliable (e.g. just stopped...
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    Which used RAID card would YOU get?

    Running Linux on 3ware here. Have had some excellent customer service from 3ware, who replaced a secondhand card that was failed and out of warranty.
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    Unusual 3ware RAID question.

    Sorry for the poor subject line, I don't really know how to frame my question in just a few words, and Google searches are failing me for that reason. I have a system which boots from a RAID 1 array on a 3ware 9500S card. It is running Linux. Connected to the mainboard - not the 3ware card...
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    Need to move on from WHS - What next?

    Do you need Solaris / ZFS? I spent an hour or two trying to find hot-swap SATA hardware, and it seems only marginally possible to find hardware compatible with Solaris. With the take-over of Sun, I do not expect this to improve. I think that ZFS & the DroboPro share the ability to build...
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