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Agree on APC battery issue, have had issues with rackmount as well as standalone, in both cases batteries seldom last more than a couple of years.

If that is the case, I wonder how hot that thing is ;) (and i am not talking about when the thing is running)

That is a hell of a lot of heat being generated with no where to go - or have you knocked a hole through the wall???

So essentially a 1:100 contention ratio on a 10MB connection??? - I hope that it is a completely symmetrical backhaul connection, else you're customers will be down to a much less than a 100K (even worse a 10K uplink it you only have a 1MB back connection) uplink equivalent at busy times (and...

Clever, yes, interesting, yes, needed, ??? Why go for that approach rather than just a VM on a USB dongle for the AP - (much better antenna placement posibilties), especially if you are going to put it on a molex (since this would require the machine to be on anyway)?

Not sure what size HDD you are lookig to house - but if 2.5" then these by IcyBox are ideal - no need to have seperate housing on the go just eSATA: nb I know this is in Czech but I am sure the product is available in your location: http://www.alza.cz/externi-box-icybox-ib-266stusd-b-d72345.htm

@ Dieta, Nice little setup, although I would consider physical location next time - i am not sure I would want to stick my setup that close to pipe work joints, or what looks to be some kind of pressure tank!

@Moose - erm why did you put the cable path in front of the 1U server? surely leaving the gap above it would have been a lot more sense? - also what Syslog analyzer are you using?

(@ houkouonchi) Are you UK based? if so your 13Amp comment makes sense, most other countries do not use a ring arrangement like the UK, and use radial for sockets which are normally rated to 16Amp.

Does your NAS support iSCSI? if not the overhead of CIFS if it is a simple mapped drive may kill it performance wise.

Erm..... Once you have left those tools to pick up a nice residual magnetisation are you really going to use them inside those PCs????

Interesting project - my main question is backup? If you are using this to house witness testaments surely those are critical items - you backing up to offsite storage - or just keeping the tape originals offsite?

Depends on your needs - if you need traffic shaping, caching, VPN (above 1 user), inspection, etc etc then no, if all you are wanting is a good basic router capable of DHCP and some low throughput (10MB to WAN) with basic QOS then yes :)

Agreed - Handbrake will saturate all 8 threads of a I7-920, so looks to scale well.

Depends if you need to transcode as well, if not then windows media services (included with windows server) will act as a distribution node for re-streaming (assuming you are using Windows Media Format)

Erm more to the question is what are you using these servers for - specifically load wise since with virtualisation that will determine your capacity. Also why 2 boxes? other than physical redundancy why can you not consoliate onto a single box? especially considering that the T610 is a dual...

I was not argueing that point - and yes those registered correctly do not need it as I originally stated should be the case. I was making the distinction between a human readable address instead of a an IP address and a protocol.

No No No No No. if and address was http://ftp.example.com - it would still go to the webserver since that is the PROTOCOL it is requesting - the name has nothing to do with it - it is just a textual monikor for an IP address (unless of course they have changed there ftp server to listen on...

; Rubbish. the http:// signifies a protocol - specifically the http protocol and hence important . the www is just a part of the textually address and hs no bearing on protocol. In fact I think that addding the www was the worst thing that was ever done for the web - there is absolutely...

hmm you either did not read my caveat or the original article, things like photoshop history states are large sequential writes, hdd beat the G2 by a large factor - and believe me when editing 16Bit large raw raw files you feel it. completely agree though that for most uses this is not the norm

True with a pinch of salt. Again if you use a program that caches a lot of states or temporary image files then the sequential MB/s is important - in 95% of cases this is not the case and hence the SSD are far superior (or you just add a seperate scratch disk for those large seqeuntials ;) )

Hmm be a little careful - in general agreed for most uses the random has more influence - not though if you are photoshop or lightroom user and have your scratch dives set up on the SSD - then the large sequential writes come into play and that G2 will hurt you (hence why I have my scratch disks...

Is this a test/dev/learn setup or some form of production? - main reason for asking is that the apps you have mentioned are essentially DB intensive and hence IO - you may want to look for a chip that supports both VT-x and VT-d if you are going to run anything production wise on them (even with...

Check your power supply specs - I had this issue with a simple RAID 1 setup - kept on getting a dropped drive but when checking on another box no errors. Eventually swapped out the PS for a beefier one (same supposed power but a much better quality) and it solved all the issues.

Judging by the images it comes with PCIe card which has 2 compatible eSATA ports on it

Can you ping your endpoint?

Just checking you do have the power connector for it? - A friend had one of these but did not order the stupidly cheap cable that fits on what looks like a jumper prongs and hence it never seemed to work!

In an answer YES This is the main reason I did not purchase an iPOD touch and went for a sony instead. I had a shuffle - hated, hated hated that piece of resource hungry worthless rubbush iTunes Now just plug-in copy the files I want and all works fine - no stupid synching software...

Why did you put in next your house and the windows - in a couple of years when the fans are not so quiet it is going to ruin that sound system of yours ;)

LOL no - for work - you do not want to see the HVAC cost on that! (although I use axis cameras at home)

If you really want to set this up, go for wireless cameras with motion detection and triggering. I would suggest the axis range, more expensive, but are by far the best. They have things like pre-trigger buffers etc and depending on model this can be for motion detection or external sensor...

Will not count - only applicable if the 10TB+ is in a single housing/unit/case

Every time I see a Norco case i get pissed off, why the hell is there no European supplier for them? from what I gather the damn things are cheaper than what I have to pay for 2x 5in3 bays!

Whilst really from a jealous perspective but how will the sound bounce work in your setup with that asymmetric ceiling slant? Surely the one speaker will reflect down off the ceiling quicker than the other? Or have you one of those fancy amps that tests and balances all the speaker settings...

That is a hell of a lot of dust over that kit!

If memory serves me correct the standard desktop has a option module for the expansion slots which allows either half height vertical or full height horizontal depending on which version you ordered.

Hmm, but your energy supplier must be in love with you for it though! Surely with that much kit re-assigning to a decent beefy VM server you would see a return under the year?

Look at your process list and identify which process is running high. NB was your virus checker reactionary (i.e. you believe you were already infected and hence installed it) or preventionary? if the former then you may already have a virus. Is the CS4 legit? (of course you are not going to...

First of al read all 31 pages of this article, by far to date the most in-depth http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531 to give you an understanding of the issue. Now extrapolate that to an OS, where the install base will be close to the size of the average SSD , and factor in the...

Thanks for all the info - I am in Europe so not so cheap as those at NewEgg - but still the same I think I will go for a 260 or 275 from what I have read. nothing terminal I hope!!