Recent content by wolfywolf

@Banko, seems like overkill for my situation. @Zangmonkey, no gaming. @Abit667, but the cards will not have separate 6-pin power sockets like the top end cards do. Even then, I think it will be fine. Going to order those cards in my last post tonight I think.

Okay, cheapest I can see is this at £32. Would I be okay running all three of these off the PCIe bus though? Edit: Think I have just answered my own question: Requirements Minimum of a 300 Watt power supply. (Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 16 Amps.) Total...

So I made a mistake. I bought 6 of these monitors without working out how I was going to drive them all. Requirements: Monitors are DVI/DSub input only Usage: 2D only (NO 3D/Gaming) Motherboard: Asus P9X79, so 2 PCIe16x and 1 PCIe8x Must enable me to have 6 discrete monitors I have...

Check sync completed, ran for a couple of days at around 150MB/s. Fsck also completed, 2.3% non contingent. Could not see any errors from the console, but should I be looking in some logs somewhere? Filesystem is ext3, and I have a whopping 2 ports on the motherboard. Power supply is 800W and...

parityboy, I like your name! * I may have a bad drive, not sure how to check... * I replaced all of the cables, so it cannot be that. * I do not know much about linux, I will read up on fsck * I did subscribe to the mdadm mailing list, and we never got to the bottom of the problem, I think we...

Thanks for the ideas guys, I was already looking at flexraid, but it only takes snapshots I understand? For amahi/ZFS I would not be able to use my windows 7 OS, but could I install either of them in a VM? Does anyone have any experience of them? Need to keep windows 7 as the base os as I use...

Hi, Google turfed up hard forum when I was googling for data storage information, hope you can help :) Looking for some advice, currently I run: * Coolermaster stacker case with 4x 4-in-3 * Ubuntu server with mdadm * Some crappy Sempron processor with 1GB RAM * 10x Samsung 1TB Hard...