This external model is the only reliable way to get the 1TB platter version of this drive right now. I know a few people that are buying them and taking out the drives for their home storage servers. For people that love the hitachi drives, this is a great purchase. 1TB platters and 5900 rpm =...
The processor in the N40L is actually pretty decent. Running OpenMediaVault (Debian based NAS) with 4 2TB drives in Raid 5, I have no problem saturating a gigabit connection.
The four that I ordered arrived as promised. I'm using one as a system disk for OpenMediaVault (a distro based on Debian Squeeze) in a HP N40L microserver. After a week or so of testing, I couldn't be happier with it.
And I just bought four. If anyone was waiting to buy one of these, I think that there is only one left. I emailed the seller about a deal for buying 4 at once and he said that he sold over 200 in the last couple of days.
I switched from using torrents to astraweb about 6 months ago and I will never go back. Their service is fantastic. I max out my 40 Mbps fios connection on every download. $8 a month is the same as a Netflix subscription and astraweb is better.
If you are tired of dealing with torrents, this is...
You just have to keep an eye on ebay. I picked one up for $25+shipping a few months ago. That was a particularly good deal, but I often see them in the $40-50 range.
ebay link
Prices for folders. Non-folders send a PM if you are interested in something.
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If you want to try out ZFS and you are comfortable diving into OpenSolaris, you should take a look at Gea's post over at servethehome.com:
http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?17-How-to-build-a-OpenSolaris-derived-ZFS-Storage-Server
ZFSguru is another good option...
Crashplan is great for offsite storage. In addition to the methods I described earlier, I have CrashPlan backups with two friends that live in another state. It is secure and free. If I ever have a catastrophe, I can ask one of them to mail me the drive for the restoration process instead of...
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The number of Newegg reviews generally need to reach around 100 before you can look for real trends. Even then, they are notoriously bad. A hard drive review shouldn't depend on how many sheets of bubble wrap Newegg put in the box.
I mirror everything to a backup server. I know that sounds terribly expensive, but there's a way to do it that makes it a little easier. Every other time I buy a hard drive for one of my computers, I buy another higher capacity drive for my backup server. With 2TB drives going for $60-70, it...
I'm currently using both with Task Scheduler for my nightly backups on different machines and neither one requires confirmation before syncing. Did you try them with the scheduler?
Now I learned something new. I thought the legacy adapter was mainly used for non-Windows VMs. I'm going to try this out tonight to see if it improves performance.
Also, most people will tell you that it isn't a good idea to use your onboard ICH10R for Raid 5. Raid 0 and 1 are fine, but anything else will be more trouble than it is worth.
This.
Leave your hard drive alone and buy some more RAM. 2GB is way too low for running WoW + IE w/ multiple tabs + Win 7 + whatever else you are running. As a result, your system is running out of memory and transferring the contents of RAM back and forth to your hard drive. This causes the...
Reposting from router recommendation thread due to lack of responses.
I just bought a WNDR3700 to upgrade my wireless network. I have two primary goals:
1. Get my one HTPC that is connected via wireless bridge (due to its location) out of the 2.4GHz band because of microwave interference...
I just bought a WNDR3700 to upgrade my wireless network. I have two primary goals:
1. Get my one HTPC that is connected via wireless bridge (due to its location) out of the 2.4GHz band because of microwave interference; and
2. Move to 802.11n to increase bandwidth to handle additional...
Cold.
Office Depot had a 1500VA/865Watt APC unit for $99 over Black Friday. That's gone, but there are still plenty of better deals out there. Buy.com often has good prices and free shipping deals on UPSs.
Here are a couple that I found in 2 minutes of searching:
CyberPower...
I've had this CPU for only a few months and it has performed flawlessly for me in that time. The only reason I am selling it now is because I reconfigured my systems and no longer need it. I've had the mobo for a little longer, but it is still like new.
CPU is $120 shipped for folders, $130...
I have to change my assessment. I run a gpu client on my bigadv machines when i get non-bigadv WUs. Once I realized this was a new bigadv, I set oneunit on the gpu and now that it has finished, these new WUs are definitely in the 2692 range on my i7-920 @ 3800.