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RedMonastery (Scarlet wouldn't fit.) Whatever the hell you like, dude. Anything at all.

Anyone got any rough figures on how much faster World of Warcraft loads? I'm thinking of both the load screen, and also ingame waiting for textures to hurry up and load in places like prime-time Dalaran.

Mine idles at about 75W or so, with the absolute cheapest CPU money could buy, and the cheapest motherboard money could buy that still had the features I wanted. Integrated graphics, again.

I tried to take some photo's of the stereo and speakers sitting straight on the left (the tigers are sitting on top), but the batteries in the camera died. Which explains why the flash didn't go off like it should've. Image quality isn't what it should be either. I didn't tidy up, no point in...

Plus that generic setup uses lots of port multipliers, doesn't it? And that kills the throughput. From memory, that Backblaze outfit compounded the problem by running the bulk of their drives through the PCI bus.

To avoid VESA flashbacks. (I think my 486 had one of those.)

More than a decade ago I got to have a play of Doom1 and Magic Carpet on a proper virtual reality helmet. Even with Doom 1 resolution, it was absolutely mindblowing, like going from a slow Ford Escort to a Lamborghini. But it cost something like $2,000 NZD to buy one. I've been re-reading Tad...

Boot -- 150W Idle -- 75W 3TB over 3x 1TB Samsungs

Anyone planning on compiling this and making a graph of it or something?

To be fair, if it's a server, it isn't as if you need to keep it in your bedroom or lounge. It can be stashed somewhere where no one will care how loud it is, as long as you've got a network cable that reaches and a power socket.

If and only if the prices come down. For the amount of storage they have for the price, SSD are enthusiast and company only.

Those things that clamp down a big heatsink to the drive with the force of a thousand hammers are probably a bad idea, too. I bought one and the drive I forced it on died within a day.

SMLib or ScarletLibrary sucked, so I decided on ScarletMonastery. That didn't fit, so it's now Redmonastery. Couldn't think offhand of any other libraries. Yes, I do remember NOW about the Discs of Norgannon, Dalaran etc.

So either with or without that prop, the card itself is screwed? :D

This is the raw image that my cheap, crappy camera takes. It cost me $30 NZD. I probably shouldn't post an updated picture taken with my sister's camera (she bought a good one for more money), since the dust doesn't show with my camera.

Linux can only see 520MB at once. It used to be 40MB, so don't complain. Nah, just screwing with you. Linux should be able to see 3TB no probs. As for the HW raid card -- with the drives set up in the card's bios correctly, the arrays will appear to the OS to just be great big hard drives, if...

Call me lazy, but I'd call it diminishing returns and go for whatever's easiest. Trying to go for "The BEST!" will make you broke and unhappy. Well, that, plus balancing up-front payment versus slow payment (via powerbill) later. Edit: and rebates are NOT discounts, and thus should not factor...

Anyone else tried this card in WHS and had these issues?

AMD A64 LE-1600 (2.2GHz) processor (doesn't need anything better) GA-MA78G-DS3H mobo, 2 PCIE 16x slots for moar hdd cards (has onboard video) 1GB ram (it was cheap) Silverstone ST56F 560W PSU Supermicro drive cage (special order part in NZ) All clad in a old-style Stacker case (not the...

I tried disabling delayed writes to see if that'd do anything (I know, WHS says not to fiddle with it...) all that did was slow the drives down so much, I'd've sworn the damn thing was in PIO mode. Delayed writes it is. Keeping an eye on it, it seems to prefer accessing the system drive for...

Plus there is the fact that less units get sold than of the latest, cheapest, crappiest processor, and thus cost per unit goes up. Economies of scale.

Bit of an update. WHS does not take kindly to being only turned on when you want to use it. Well, manually turned on, anyway. And when it errors, the dialog boxes come up on the machine itself, and you have to hookup a monitor to get the damn things to go away. The backup system has gone...

Personally it's dusty AND messy. Always been tempted to post my workstation, but then I'd have to tidy up. And dust. And it'd just get dusty and messy again.

Finally built (the start of) the fileserver I've wanted for oh so long. I haven't posted it in the sticky gallery because it doesn't (yet) meet the requirements -- only 2 drives. When it does, I will. AMD Athlon64 LE-1600 for a processor -- the energy efficient model. Gigabyte...

With all these issues, I'm changing brands. I've stopped buying Seagates, and am switching to Samsungs. The price difference is meaningless (if ten bucks breaks your life, you shouldn't be into this many drives to begin with), and playing roulette with my data doesn't sit well.

No reason to have a discrete graphics card in there at all, unless you fancy having a few bouts of Crysis on there or something. This is one of the few situations where onboard GFX are okay. And yes, Linux raid will do what you want, most likely. It'll take more setting up (and more swearing...

Damn, does that look slick. Normally I hate obvious branding on cases (like some of Thermaltake's Civic Type R attempts). But... Damn does that look slick. Best looking grills, ever, too (I doubt much air would get through, but it would be very leet air for having gone through such a...

To make things a little more blatant... Think of the reset button as yanking the IEC cable from the back, waiting a sec or two, then putting it back in and starting up again. (With a few electrical buffers so Bad Things don't happen.) From the point of view of the software, that's probably...

Firstly, breathe. Full stops and paragraphs, not to mention a proper subject line that says what the thread topic is. "Reputable external HD brands?", perhaps. Secondly, the Seagate external HD's are quite good, I've found. Nice and fast, fairly reliable, they seem solidly built.

It's going to cost them dearly, though. People remember stuff like this. Deskstar Deathstar, anyone?

Looks like it's going to be ES.2 drives or go home if you want Seagates, then. I'm still iffy about trusting the other brands, especially Western Digital after the whole TLER thing. Pity. Finally about to start saving up for a fileserver, and had hoped to populate it with Seagate AS drives...

I haven't seen this URE statistic before -- when did the manufacturers stop using Mean Time Between Failures figures? I always thought it was a simple case of "look for the biggest MTBF number" when after (more) reliable drives.

I see there is also a fairly decent video card as well... given that, and the fact that the CPU is overclocked, is this your gaming machine? Or do you use the extra OC'ed clocks to render video?

Me too. Painted standard-gamer cases. Very tough paint, according to their site, but paint. Can anyone pick up from that website whether the company has legal rights to the C64 logo and name?

Return on investment. Seagate probably don't think that they'll make much of a profit, if any, given the relatively small market and also the fact that Western Digital have such a strong presence with the Raptor series.

Satellite signal can come directly into the computer from the dish -- I've got three cards hooked up to a dish at the moment, recording merrily away, with only a all-ports-power-pass splitter in the signal chain. Whether you, too, can do this depends on whether the bird your dish is pointed...

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=361372 Funny, you can over here.

Call me crazy, but for some reason I suspect that that hot piece of silicon burning out the pixels also puts out more heat than any of the "older AMD chips" (assuming stock speeds -- this IS a server, after all, the talking point here is the amount of drives, not how fast it can do SuperPi...

The dust might, as well as people who think they are more deserving of fileservers than you are, if those windows don't have some kind of chain on them.

The masking tape is used to protect 'good' surfaces during the work.It helps cut back on damage. It's a pretty common practice.