Recent content by Yeorwned

Biggest cost savings is actually going to be in your power and cooling department. A high efficency power supply and a low consumption processor make the biggest difference. Modern video cards are power trolls and should be avoided if looking for cost savings. I actually overclock my processors...

Almost all commercial RAID controllers support these features. Also, I do not recommend anyone use a cheap $200 and under or onboard RAID controller for anything other than RAID 1 or RAID 0. The ability to rebuild and performance of RAID 5 and 6 makes it a waste of good hard drives.

wow I didn't expect a PM storm nor any activity on these. All four are gone now to a good home. :D

What's up with the insane spam? I wouldn't buy any of this now on the principal that I believe you are a chinese gold farmer. :D

I couldn't justify the price difference difference on a hot swap case vs fixed mount since, in all reality, I'll never be pulling the drives where I can't have a little downtime. Saved $300 on the case that I can use to buy another 4.5TB worth of storage :p

I bought two HD4850s a week before they released (scammed Best Buy into pulling them from the back) and got them dirt cheap (scammed Best Buy again because the ati cards were all 25% off inprep for the 4800 launch the next week) and loved them for the longest. However, driver problems plagued me...

I have four of the dual core 2.0ghz Allendale Celerons I don't know what to do with. Newegg was giving them away free with Acera RAID controllers for some reason...

I hope for you sake you never do either.

I don't forsee BD ever doing anything. It's a poor technology that was rushed to compete with Toshiba and do the whole war scene and now that there is no competition, Sony has made the classic case of putting it out of reach from their audience. USB based storage is becoming the norm for large...

I know AVG isn't any good but I've had extremely great results with Avast Professional edition. I get a hold of some very nasty content and it has held true perfectly. My only complaint for Avast is having marked some basic network tools as viruses, when they clearly are not at all harmful to...

I was referring to all of the legit options there are today where it is video on demand, not pirate on demand. Example services such as Hulu or Netflix which allow high quality streaming.

What's the nick name for the people who stream their movies, both HD and SD, off the Internet and don't pay a dime? I shall take that name.

Nothing like a group of people who try to talk a problem to death huh? We've had more than 125 enterprise Seagate drives recovered in a clean room with a success rate of more than 90% performed by Aero Data Recovery, success defined as all data recovered. All done without sitting in a room while...

I have had countless horribly packaged hard drive shipments from Newegg. My personal favorite is when they throw the hard drives in the bottom of a box with nothing but their antistatic bags and then fill the box full of peanuts. No bubble wrap. When you open the box, they've been slamming...

Drive for drive, spinning drives do fail more often due to long term vibration while SSD drives fail due to a hung deep error recovery attempt in my enterprise test lab. I don't recommend SSDs to anyone in a desktop but in the laptop world, they are quite the blessing for both performance...