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oh man, I forgot about that... this _is_ a very old thread!

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Bump -- added nanoHD, Archer A7, moto cable modem, RAM and PSU.

bump, hopefully rules haven't changed in a decade...

Hey, just wondering if you got my PM.

Yeah, I guess I just missed out on this. Would be a great replacement for the CF card I have running my router right now.

Antec EA650 on sale for $40 AR + Free Ship. Solid no frills budget supply that won't catch fire. No modular, no sleeved cables, but it'll get the job done.

So my venerable Icemat has begun to show its age, and looks like the SteelSeries SX is the new sexy beast on the block. Unfortunately, seems like no one carries it now except for a few weird retailers that show up on Google Shopping. Did this get replaced by something else?

Please PM me if you do decide to part out, I'm looking for a bigger (and still fast) games / apps drive for my box to replace my 6400AAKS.

It's neat to have a ES CPU, but outside from that, not really worth it, especially paying those prices. We have legit ones here since we're an ISV, but the novelty wore off for me after a few months; just another CPU that just doesn't happen to be available to everyone yet.

Fulcrum Microsystems totally sounds like a 80s-action movie evil company.

Going to give S11E a shot on SNB hardware this Friday/Saturday, will report back and see how that goes (expecting it to panic on boot, but could be a pleasant surprise I guess). Apparently the integrated NIC isn't supported which is unfortunate, but I've got PCIe NICs, so not a game-killer.

Still waiting for mine, Egg Saver is sloooooooooooow. (but hey it's free and I'm don't mind waiting for them)

There are a lot of minor issues that can crop up with expanders, moreso than if you just have the requisite number of controller cards. Lots of people have spent a lot of money on various cards in the forum and have found working expander configurations that you'll find here. Personally, I don't...

5 months and going strong with that option here. Totally network bandwidth limited, performance is great. 12 2TB Barrcuda LPs in 2 6-drive RAID-Z2s, with a 3rd one coming "soon", when funds are ready. (Either 6 more Barracudas or 6 5K3000s). The hardest thing to do is remembering to use zpool-12...

SASUC8I is a great card, I have 3 myself. They are SATAII, not SATAIII as you said, but consider the mechanical drives you're attaching to them; I use 5900rpm Barracuda LPs that won't saturate 3Gbps, not to mention 6Gbps. No point in getting 6Gbps if SSDs aren't involved, IMHO. Question about...

The CPU gets its final peak clock frequency from a BCLK (nominally 100MHz) times a multiplier. Unlocked CPUs let you set that multiplier arbitrarily. So for my i7-2600K, I can set it to 48 and enjoy a 4.8GHz CPU when it's at peak speed w/ Turbo Boost. (along with the appropriate settings to make...

As soon as sports embrace Internet streaming, cable companies are fucked when it comes to the younger generation. OTA I can get Monday night/Sunday football, plus my local team games...when I can get everything online (maybe with a nominal fee), don't need regular TV anymore.

Oops, sorry OldSchool, thought [H] linked to Engadget. They detail both services and their new caps. :)

No idea, especially with a cable modem, but just like our little SOHO routers, it could be trying to DHCP it's companions on the same loop. Like, did no one read the article? "AT&T DSL" gets 150GB/month, "AT&T U-Verse" gets 250GB/month. Every 50GB you go over gets a $10/overage. I can only...

Heh, I still have an old Rand McNally atlas + state maps from AAA in my car. :) I also have a habit of printing out GMaps directions and studying the map/area around my destination for a few minutes before leaving. Not all us young'uns are silly ;)

The United States is a much larger country landmass-wise with an aging and honestly shitty infrastructure. South Korea is much denser and enjoyed the advantage of building their infrastructure with modern technology in mind. This same argument applies to European countries where gigabit fiber...

I'm at around 1.1TB/month or so w/ 24Mbps U-Verse. Only options here are Comcast and U-Verse...probably going to drop to the 12Mbps tier come May, and use the $20/month savings to pay for overages, giving me 350GB/month at half the speed for the same price I pay now :( I live with three other...

Ah, scrub time says that because I had cleared CMOS, and noticed a week into machine uptime that I had forgotten to set time. Set up ntp to pull time, and updated system time whilst the scrub was running (there's a reason they tell you that services can break if you do such a huge jump in time...

I mean PCI Express controllers, x8 physical/electrical. Supermicro will often integrated one of the controllers onto their board as well (simply dropping the 1068 or 2008 BGA on the motherboard and hardwiring 8 PCIe lanes to it).

Just remember to watch out if it's the 25nm or 32nm variant!

I can comment on Solaris support: LSI is pretty solid. I have used a 1068E-based controller from almost every who makes one (Supermicro, LSI/Intel, etc), and they've been great (bar some minor SMART issues). The 2008-series adds 6Gbps support, in addition to being newer, but support is still...

I bought a 60G Vertex 2 for ZIL/L2ARC purposes in November, finally got around to setting it up (bought it far far too early). For my workload (and most home NASes, really), loss of the ZIL will generally be non-fatal. Pool versions before 19 (IIRC) are completely hosed with ZIL death, but newer...

The problem is that while we are smart enough to know of this and take precautions, the government and businesses you deal with that you fax things to, or where the employees need to scan/copy data with your personal information do not know of this. You can take care of your personal data as...

Hmm, I have a 120G Vertex 2 I bought at the beginning of November, 111GB NTFS-formatted capacity in Windows. Looks like I got shafted with new NAND? e: No, I guess not, the new drives appear to be around 107GB in Windows post-NTFS formatting. So guess I'm "lucky". Will definitely be picking up...

Pretty sure, it's a Corsair HX620 (quite good supply), and all other PCIe devices exhibited no problems (another L8i, and an Intel twin-port GigE NIC). PCIe slots are all good as well. The VRMs on the mobo should be solid, this particular board ran two 8800GTSes for a few years, so both PCIe...

Went to reboot my Solaris 11 box today after finishing copying data from old pool to new, everything is a-ok. Upon reboot, half my disks don't come back. Do some digging, find out one of my 1068Es (AOC-USAS-L8i) is not being detected by BIOS, at all. LEDs on it flicker nastily upon power-up...

Appreciate the offer, but after reading odditory's suggestion below, I may investigate new 80mms. Hm, yeah...I don't think these Yates are doing as well as they could be when it comes to static pressure. Then again, now I have all 5900rpm drives and my insane vdev <-> vdev copy is almost...

I don't like tossing working hardware, toss 'em in a anti-static bag and put 'em into storage. Never know when you need an IDE drive for some little project or something.

Hmm does that $20 coupon stack for 5 drives (so each is 80 a piece)? I suppose I could mix and match 'em in with my ST32000542ASs (I need 6 more for another vdev). These are 4K, yeah?

Separate post (separate question): I see Norco sells a metal 3x120mm bracket for the "new" RPC-4020. I definitely have the "old" one...would it still work (aka, anyone tried it?). I'm not averse to drilling a few holes if I have too. My room is awful toasty (even though it's plenty cold...

I can only remove the basic metal grating at the front of tray, which compromises the structural integrity of the plastic front (it kinda flops around). So yeah, don't think I have them ;) Would kill for perpendicular backplanes though, early adopting :(

I don't have any I'm pretty sure. Just the plastic latch, and then nothing (metal grate).

Anyone have more cooling tips for the very first generation 4020? (Perpendicular backplanes, lots of grades, 2008 vintage). I've already taped over all grates on the side and at bottom of fan panel to channel airflow (should I tape over the side grates near the front?) I think I need to get...

Fffffffffffffffff! I guess it's pointless to even wait for prices like that online, I need to have a buddy in Texas buy me 20 of them and ship them to me or something.