Your rebuild speed will be limited the write speed of the added/replaced drive.
If you want to pursue copying data to disks as suggested, you can remove your SSD and boot from the new drive (just install ubuntu live cd on part of it) or a USB ubuntu cd.
He can boot from a USB stick to do it, or boot from the new drive. Can use a HDD dock for the new drives. Etc, etc... No point in trying to pick apart the suggestion until OP posts specs.
OP doesn't list his MB so it's hard to say but 6 is a common number of ports. Personally, it'd be worth it to buy a cheap PCI-E SATA card. Or, copy data over the network to his desktop which likely has more ports free.
I would never purposefully rebuild my array 5 times to expand it. Why not open your case and plug in two 4TB drives temporarily to copy the data off. Remove all the 2TB drives, plug in all the 4TB drives. Build your array with the remaining 4TB drives (3), copy data over, add the remaining 2...
the 2407 doesn't use the VESA mounting holes on the included stand.
There are reasonably priced single arm VESA mounts that will clamp onto your desk instead of requiring holes.
If you buy a modern Dell 32" screen there is a chance that it will have the same tabs as your 2407's stand in case...
I just got this the other day.. but it seem to give me some eye strain. I put the brightness down to ~40-50 and upped the refresh to 72Hz but it still seems to flicker for some reason. My previous monitors are Dell U2407 and U2408's which caused no strain. Any one have similar problems with...
Buy something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003P2UMQ2/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and then plug your pc into the master.
Ahh, just read that you watch TV on them too.. nevermind this won't help you.
Don't know about hardware either, but syncing is a bad way to back up. Real backup software will let you save versions and protect against accidental deletion. Most will let you backup to a NAS or an external drive, some for free. I use Crashplan (locally and online, different sets of data)...
Just like UPS and Fedex it really depends on the driver. The one downside is they have fewer distribution locations so the dispatcher will never have the driver return the same day as UPS or Fedex will do on a rare occasion. We had a terrible OnTrac driver (4-5 days for an overnight package)...
If there is a recovery partition, you can back up the disk with acronis or similar, then dban the whole thing, and restore only the partition table and the recovery partition and finally restore to factory settings from the recovery partition. (and if it doesn't work you still can restore...
I went ahead with the Zalman. about 6C warmer idle and 7C warmer load than the megahalem. Louder too even with pwm. not that loud, but not terribly quiet.
But, it fits in the PC-A04.
I just built a new SB setup with a 2600k/ASUS P8P67-M Pro in a Lian Li PC-A04. I had a spare Megahalem which does not fit (duh).
Trying to find coolers < ~154mm tall is turning out to be a little challenging. Looking for something a little quiet esp with pwm. Trying to decide between...
Have a spare Megahalem revb to use. Picked the ssd because it was faster and bigger than my 80gb. I guess I also just get the impression that the intel drives are more robust, but that might not be true.
If I am gaming 1920x1200/1920x1080 does the 6970 justify the extra cost? I am not really...
I only found a few changes between P67 and Z68:
OC onboard video
quickpath
SSD caching for mechanical hard drives
Are you waiting for one of those features or just waiting?
my Q6600 is now 3 years old, looking to upgrade.
Right now running: Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz, 8GB RAM, GTX 260, Intel 80GB SSD, Abit P35 on dual Dell 2408 (game on one, usually at 1650x1050 or whatever the nearest 16:10 res is)
Looking to go native or at least get rid of the stutter I am seeing in...
this is the closest thing I've seen: http://www.fudzilla.com/motherboard/item/21293-msis-p67-motherboard-supports-32gb-of-memory
I figured it used 4x8GB dimms but I guess it could use 4GB dimms somehow. with the move back away from triple channel makes high memory density harder! :(...
Has anyone run 32GB on Sandy Bridge? Running an overclocked i7 920 with 24GB ram @ 1600. Need at least that so 4GB DIMMS won't cut it--only gets me to 16GB.
Also, I've heard that "you don't need 1600" for SB but haven't seen any reason why. My application is RAM speed sensitive. Tested...