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Building a Windows 8 computer for client, wondering if it will play nice with SBS 2008... Anyone know?

Is this right? I bought 12 hard drives and all of them have the Intellipark feature disabled. Am I reading this right? Are they hiding the fact that it's on? Verbatum: Idle3 Timer is disabled. What's your guys' take on this?

So I took out my Sandy Bridge CPU from my main build, just so I can update the BIOS and run Ivy Bridge on this thing. It didn't post with Ivy Bridge, so I put in my Sandy Bridge and it still won't post; mind you, when I had Ivy Bridge in, the server would fluctuate between on and off (the...

In a raidz2 array and has had one pending sector since it has turned on... never increased that number and has never acted up at all. But lately I'm getting these errors in my log: And here is the SMART log: It's under warranty for another two years. The drive is a Samsung HD204UI...

Wondering what the general consensus here on WD's Intellipark feature is. A lot of people say disable it, some set it to 300 seconds.. What's the best practice for giving your drives the best chance at a long life? I'm putting a bunch of these in a ZFS build and I'd like some clarity on...

I'm about to buy the aforementioned board, this: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c202_c204/x9scl-f.cfm I'm wondering if it will work with the latest i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs... anyone here know or have experience? Really appreciate it.

Last time around, I posted my prospective build. It fell through because when I went to buy my hard drives (from Futureshop), Seagate just pulled all their Barracudas with 5 year warranties, and they swapped them for the 1-year warranty 'Cudas. I wasn't buying that. Since then, I've had some...

http://www./products/index.php?sku=60601 This one is discontinued... what's the comparable new version? Thanks for the help :)

About to build a relatively big ZFS NAS... wondering about these drives: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136926&Tpk=wd30eurs Any good? I don't want them compared to other drives, I just want to know if they'd be good in a FreeNAS build (ZFS(2))

I purchased two XFX 6870s a year ago. They ran OK. Crossfire was messy. Eventually, they both broke down. In fact, the first one broke about 3 months ago. I send in a ticket to XFX. Decent reply time, maybe 2 business days. They tell me to test my card and isolate it. I do, still having...

XFX accidentally sent me one of these, but they sent the wrong model. I'll send it to someone for $10 + shipping (I'm in Canada). Pictured below (the product I'm selling is the top one)

I've reformatted many times, this crash is a constant throughout all of the reformats. I cannot narrow it down. I've changed my hardware many times and the crash has persisted. Can anyone help me out here? Google searches haven't been able to help me out as of yet so I'm hoping someone...

Hey all, So I bought this mobo to replace my Gigabyte that didn't have crossfire capabilities. Thus far, I am regretting my decision (both to go with crossfire and with this board). I just want a modest overclock... I'm not looking to maximize this thing. Everything I seem to do seems to...

So I sent in my problematic 6870. Received a refurbished one today and the fan buzzes loudly. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or do I have to be an angry consumer and deal with XFX... again. They have a really slow RMA process...

I bought an M1015 a few months ago and have been waiting to put together my build, of course, right before I bite the bullet these new WD Reds come out. I'm wondering if there will be any compatibility issues running with the WD Reds (which are SATA 3) and my M1015 (in IT mode). Anyone...

Hi all, So I'm getting a 6870 back from RMA and I'm about to reformat my computer. I've reading about ideal methods of installing the drivers for crossfire: 1. Install GPU #1 2. Install drivers 3. Install GPU #2 Is this the best way to go? Thanks for all the help...

Hi all, About to buy this but I need to know if it supports 3TB hard drives. I checked the Supermicro website and it made no mention of the support so I'm wondering if anyone here with experience on the matter can help me out... This one: http://ncix.com/products/?sku=60601

Looks like the 5K3000 drives are no longer being stocked... so what is out there? Just the lame WD Greens & the Seagates? Any drives in the production line I can wait for? I don't need 7200rpm drives... I'm building a 12 disk ZFS(2) file system... Thanks for help here...

This is for streaming media throughout my network. Primarily 1080p movies, 720p television, and FLAC music. I am building this server with archiving in mind. I do not have a backup for this machine. It is too expensive and quite frankly, while 30TB of media seems like a lot, media is very...

Hi all, I am running with: W7+Ultimate Asus P8P67-Pro ATX 2x XFX 6870 (one reference version, one revised) Intel i5 OC'd to 4.2GHZ Eyefinity (3xU2311H) Prior to my crossfiring, I had a reference version 6870 that I OC'd (in the BIOS). Upon getting the new 6870, I reverted back to...

First things first. Looking for some hard drives. I think 3TB drives are the best for me. Suggestions? Seems like the Hitachi drives are becoming quite hard to find.... why is this?

I'm having some problems. I have the latest CCC as well as UltraMon. I have set up my preset in CCC when I have settled on a multi-monitor setup I like, and another setup for my Eyefinity gaming setup. I set up hot keys as well... the problem is that the hot keys, as well as clicking the...

$15 USD. OBO http://store.steampowered.com/app/44320 PM :)

I'm in Canada (Victoria), looking for a mobo with the aforementioned specs. Willing to pay up to $110 shipped. Hopefully still with warranty. Thanks ;) (can trade for my own Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3)

I recently discovered (AFTER buying another 6870) that my mobo doesn't support crossfire properly when all the PCI-E slots are populated, so I need something that will give me legit crossfire. Cheap as possible. ATX size. Any go to boards? Thanks :)

I'm wondering what the differences are between these two OSs. I recognize that OI has updated ZFS versions, but apart from this, what are the real differences between the two? I've been on FreeNAS for the past 2 years and I have had next to no problems at all; however, I noticed that OI is...

I don't really understand the differences between these two: http://ncix.com//products/index.php?sku=60107 or http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182251 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I see the physical differences (ie, 6 SATA 3...

So, I think we are at a very interesting crossroads, in regards to the valuation of hard drives. I know for a fact that the hard drive prices will fall... fast! and yet I am going to be purchasing some drives to fill up my server in the coming days. Ideally, I'd like to fill every port I...

I'm looking to build a napp it+OI file server and I was wondering how this motherboard would be for it? Solid build quality? Any other options out there you'd suggest? I was going to be plugging an i3 into this thing... should be good?

First, I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me out, Jim_G, _Gea, to name just a few. Great community you all have here! I know this is a long post, but I'm rather new to all this so I'll try to be thorough as I can for why I did what I did, maybe I'll help someone else out along the way...

Hi all, First post... bear with me, please! :) I built a FreeNAS file server last year, it has been great (after hundreds of hours of optimizing and troubleshooting), no issues at all (usable 16TB)... running it on my old gaming computer and the power usage is modest (150W on load). I...