I brought a laptop and a desktop up to college but I only really use the laptop so the desktop is up for sale. For right now, everything is ONLY available for LOCAL PICK-UP at Tufts University about 20 minutes outside of Boston. The original boxes and stock heatsinks for everything are back at...
Well PCI-E x16 has a max theoretical throughput of 64Gb/s so you would have to have a PCI-E x16 NIC that could somehow handle 40Gb/s along with a PCI-E x16 hard drive controller with at least 20x 15K SAS drives to even come close to maxxing out that connection.
Thanks for the advice, I think this is what I'm going to do. I'm planning on installing Gentoo and I'm bumping the memory up to 4x1GB PC3200 so I can use it as an on-campus game server / file server.
Thanks for the tip, I'm checking out ClarkConnect and it does seem to do everything that I was looking for and it even has multiprocessor support which is excellent. Unfortunately it appears that nothing can touch NASLite when it comes to raw file server throughput :(
I'm going to be building a system to be used as a file server and router, but I'm not sure exactly how to make it do both :confused: I know I could use SmoothWall to make a firewall/router, and I also know I could use NASLite-2 to make a file server, but I haven't found anything that can do...
Buy.com has the BenQ FP202W V3 20" 5ms 1680x1050 LCD for $170 with free shipping.
You can find the monitor here:
http://www.buy.com/prod/benq-fp202w-v3-20-widescreen-lcd-monitor-1000-1-5ms-1680-x-1050-dvi/q/loc/101/204531475.html
and the $10 coupon can be redeemed here...
Now don't do anything you're going to regret later, we're gonna get through this man. Just remember that worst-case-scenario is that you have to dip into the the bag of Jew gold you have hidden for just these kinds of situations. (Please watch the relevant episode of South Park before calling me...
802.11n is your friend ;)
EDIT: On second thought I'll be a little less coy.
Router: DIR-655 $125
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=252677
Wireless Adapter: DWA-556 $110 (Assuming they have a desktop)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127218...
Yup, I bet he's building up our trust by selling 8800GTX's and 22" LCD's for cheap and just when we think he can be trusted he goes ahead and scams us on the $10 copies of Splinter Cell :mad:
Forget about computers, if I could go back a year in time the stock market is where it's at :D Bring today's edition of the Times with me and come back in time a billionaire
Let's look at the headline:
"Head of Microsoft's Japan Subsidiary Says Company Has No Plans to Lower Price of Xbox 360"
That's kind of funny, reminds me of this article, which was published 2 days before the PlayStation 3 price drop :rolleyes:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32787/98/...
Here you go, $7 more expensive but has faster burn speeds on both DVD's and CD's and supports LightScribe:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106073
ZOMG!!1! I'm in for 5