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If warranty isn't a big concern, then there's zero reason to favor an internal drive over an external when considering consumer-level drives. they're all the same thing. The Hitachi's I have even show up with a warranty on the Hitachi site when I plug in the serial number pasted on the drive...

Yep. I got lucky before BF and snagged 4x Hitachi 3TB's (USB 2.0 enclosure) for $95 each (office max, in store...). You better believe I tested the hell outta those puppies for a week then ripped em apart. EDIT: Ran this guy for a week straight on all 4 drives at the same time...

PM sent... Suppose I should qualify this that I'm not wanting to spend $50+ on a drive. Looking for something cheap that's not much use to someone else.

Looking for a cheap hard drive with a reasonable amount of storage to repair my aging Inspiron 9300. Would really like to find something 100GB or bigger but willing to settle for 40-60GB if that's what's on offer. Needs to be reasonably fast (i.e. 7200RPM+) Will consider pricing according to...

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Just because you probably haven't seen it, being that you've trusted so much of you and your friends hard earned money to these power supplies: Getting the BEST BUY on a Power Supply: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2008/05/13/getting_best_buy_on_power_supply/ 'nuff said. :D

I am building a machine for a co-worker of mine and am convinced that the SSD market has matured enough and the real-world benefits are convincing enough to have him spend the money for an SSD. I do notice there seems to be a lot of competition in this space though and want to make a good...

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This is a great video but there are a lot of things that are not explained. I think the readers of [H] Would love to see some more bullet points on preciecly how this was setup and why this is a fair comparison. Also, they don't do much to justify the cost of 1x $200+ SSD instead of 2x$50...

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I purchased one of these http://cgi.ebay.com/ABIT-SLI-Switch-Card-Fatal1ty-AN8-SLI-/150377156155?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item23032d4e3b#ht_2327wt_1137 hoping it would work for my NI8. It didn't. (SLI Mode LED is always lit when card in use) Need an SLI MODE CARD, SLI...

this looks like some interesting software. Maybe cumbersome for entire filesystems with many files changing, but possibly something to integrate into a workflow for data verification? http://corz.org/windows/software/checksum/#section-Download

In my understanding of "Silent" data corruption the only real way to fight it is with monitoring and backups. The reason ZFS can combat it at a filesystem level is because of the redundancy that it builds into certain configurations like a RAID-Z etc. There are probably some software products...

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Thanks for the great input, this is the kind of information I was looking for! Seems that you've got your ear to the ground a bit better than i've been able to. If you had to guess on a timeline for that v24 of ZFS and the 2010 stable OSOL build (Are they coming at the same time??) could...

The way I see it is that ZFS is one of several amazing options. ZFS is kind of at the tip of the blade when it comes to filesystem tech but there are a ton of really sweet choices out there right now. If you're doing this for home use, pick what works best for you. I'm going with a ZFS Server...

You think its worth the extra 25 bones or so for the card? Seemed kind of silly up front to spend 25 extra bucks only to have its bracket not fit right.. I suppose there are other advantages though, like the addtl bandwidth supposedly? Guess If I spend the extra few bucks I'll be able to make...

*Okay, the title is a bit grandstanding, but its coming down to a hardware choice for me so I want some help weighing the pros and cons. Here's the skinny: I'm very nearly ready to jump onto the ZFS bandwagon. More recently, i've seen sub.mesa touting freeBSD as their solution of choice for...

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HTPC needs 4GB ram? You must be using this for more than just video playback. If you want to host a RAID in it too, let me know if you are interested in my Highpoint Rocketraid 2300. Native 4 ports and expandable up to 20 drives.

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Wanted: Supermicro SASLP-MV8 Will pay: $80 no cables or $90 with cables. Need proper cabling for up to 8 SATA drives. Up in offer for trade if interested QTY 1 Highpoint Rocketraid 2300 This little beastie is a PCI-Express 1x card that can handle up to TWENTY drives. (yes, that's 20...

Spinrite would be my recommendation for error checking. It's no free, and its a boot disk. Don't know of anything that is as through as that tool. Great for recovery too.

Woot! That is totally what I wanted to do only so much less work and with so many more features! <goes and donates to subsonic> Thanks! <this was OT now that it no longer requries a rooted device, but stinking amazing nonetheless

This is not an app. As far as I know its not even a proven concept but when I get the time I want to see if I can get it to work. My idea is to use the console to initiate a tunnel to my home network running OpenVPN. With this connection established I would mount my music directory as a...

Looks like WD forgot about the I in RAID Thanks OP for putting this together. Once I can get into some OS that's not 64Bit I will try this utility on my 2 WD 1TB Green Drives sitting along side some seagates and hatachi's in a RAID 5. Already had a hair-raising experience with them once when...

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Looking for one of these "ABIT SLI Switch Card" looks like this: I don't know what happened to the one that was in this board, but I don't have one. Thanks. (I have an ABIT NI8 SLI Board) Any information on where I could find one would be appreciated as well.

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I actually bought a refurb system (heck of a deal, all in all) there just yesterday so yeah, that's where this is coming from. I was thinking 2 standard vertical ones would be fine but I'm not certain there is room for them there. (see photo, there is a standard SATA port at the extreme bottom...

It just isn't there. This is an OEM version of the RAMPAGE GENE board available at Newegg and it appears in order to not compete with themselves too much, or mostly because people who buy boxed computers never open them even once, they left a lot of the little 'extras' off. Since those 2 ports...

Could use some help locating a supplier who will sell a one-off of something that I can solder on to this board down in the lower right corner where it is silkscreened "SATA56" Looks like it has 16 pins with maybe a couple of screws for grounding? I'm hoping someone out there can point me in...

Certainly if PCI-Express is needed, this is where it's at. I was eyeing these guys http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124031&cm_re=syba_sata-_-16-124-031-_-Product but you need 2 PCI ports for the same number of drives and then you also are more limited on bandwidth...

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1033974681&postcount=3 What part of the country is this in? You sir have one fine listening environment. :D