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    Enterprise Grade Storage Recommendations

    Another vote for Tintri. We're running multiple Tintri appliances of various generations (T540's, T650's, T880's, and a couple of T5080 AFA's). Super easy to setup and administer, excellent support. Great integration w/ VMware. The thing to keep in mind is that these are meant for virtualized...
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    New m.2 Samsung 950 for boot or game drive?

    Necessary? No. Honestly you probably won't notice a difference in day to day performance. Is there a particular reason you are looking at m.2? FYI, I'm using a Samsung SM951 512GB m.2 NVMe for Boot and some games (the ones I play most frequently), but I also have a 1tb 840 evo, which I'm...
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    Skylake/Z170 finally available

    BestBuy.com also has some full desktops w/ skylake cpu's listed.
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    Skylake/Z170 finally available

    And the released date shown on those combos is 8/14.
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    The Official R9 270x, 280x and 290x Buyers Club Thread

    Of course Asus has to name the card so we can't find it w/ a simple search.. Nice catch!
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    Poor performance with 2x Vertex 3 stripped on RocketRAID 2720SGL

    I think your reply was to OP, where as shilohj is a different person with a different setup. I started to reply yesterday, but when I realized it was 2 separate people, I ended up not.
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    12 new consumer drives from Toshiba

    Does anyone know the MSRP's?
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    12 new consumer drives from Toshiba

    These are the equivalent models to the 5k3000 Hitachi's. DT01ABA300 - 3TB DT01ABA200 - 2TB DT01ABA150 - 1.5TB
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    12 new consumer drives from Toshiba

    Interesting that they state this: But, they don't actually have any new 5700/5940 rpm drives listed in the press release. *Edit* Actually they do, I just missed it below the 7200's. DT01ABA300 - 3TB 5940 RPM w/ 32MB cache DT01ABA200 - 2TB 5700 RPM w/ 32MB cache DT01ABA150 - 1.5TB 5700 RPM...
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    Really good RMA experience with OCZ.

    I said the same thing about my 120GB Vertex 2 (bought in June 2010) just before it died in February. Don't jinx yourself!
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    Really good RMA experience with OCZ.

    And who in there right mind would buy them now!
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    Really good RMA experience with OCZ.

    My experience is the exact opposite.. Not only did it take a few weeks to get a replacement (I didn't bother with an advance replacement, as I had a spare), they sent me a 25nm drive to replace my 34nm drive. On top of that, it's one with the 64Gbit modules, so it's ~4GB smaller than my original...
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    Supermicro X9SCL+-F

    I just purchased this board as an open box from Newegg. It already had the v2 BIOS flashed (IvyBridge). Also worth noting is that it was a complete retail kit (SATA cables, unused IO Shield, manual, cd). I suspect the recent open Supermicro open boxes are from Supermicro (I also have an X8SIA-F...
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    Just preorder Corsair Force GS 480GB for cheap

    I did see that, I just doubt that they pick items based on the item description.
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    Just preorder Corsair Force GS 480GB for cheap

    I doubt it'll happen.. Amazon's product details for 180GB version, incorrect titled as 480GB: Size: 180 GB ASIN: B008FYEVU8 Item model number: CSSD-F180GBGS-BK Amazon's product details for 480GB version: Size: 480 GB ASIN: B008FYEVO4 Item model number: CSSD-F480GBGS-BK
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    WD Red drives?

    I would agree. I don't see any reason these wouldn't work just fine for that purpose. I'll certainly be considering these when I need to expand my storage array.
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    WD Red drives?

    Come on, who needs warranties. Seagate makes top notch drives. Never a failure, ever!
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    WD Red drives?

    Hah! List price for 3 TB Nearline SAS drives are closer to $400. I don't think you'll see a $200 NL-SAS drive any time soon.
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    WD Red drives?

    Well, that's not too out there. Perhaps we could see them going in the $150-$160 range @ newegg/amazon (though probably not). *edit* Looks like newegg has them in stock: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236344&Tpk=22-236 I didn't see them elsewhere. If anyone finds a...
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    *Official* Norco data storage products thread

    Pretty sure you are right. The video is from last year.. *edit* Oh, sorry, the page wasn't loading for me at first, and I found an old xCase youtube video from last year. The "mini review" is from a couple of weeks ago. It does look a little different. Looks like it has the 3x 120mm by...
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    SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD6950 Video Card Review @ [H]

    I have not tried opening a ticket, yet. Care to share if/when they send it? :)
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    A Way to Measure Micro-Stutter (?)

    very interesting article! Thanks for sharing.
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    SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD6950 Video Card Review @ [H]

    Nice, was waiting for this to come back in stock. Just ordered one. Now to wait for another rebate offer to appear for it so I can order another for crossfire :)
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    need help with a low-cost virtualized server setup

    We recently installed 2 ESXi 4.1 standalone servers. We decided rather than looking at SAN/NAS and vSphere licensing, that we would look to other technologies to provide the redundancy we were looking for. If you start thinking about redundancy then you soon realize you would need a redundant...
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    Raid 5 failure while adding a new disk

    You should be fine. It's possible that some data might have been corrupted while it was being written, but overall, fairly unlikely. It sounds like it picked back up where it left off, as well, which is a good sign. I'm not too familiar w/ the RocketRaid functionality, but in most cases you...
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    Hitachi Deskstar 3TB 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM?

    According to Hitachi's documentation they are 5700 RPM, as well. I'm not sure why they are advertised as 5400 RPM everywhere. Link
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    Best heatsink for i7 950

    I'm loving the Prolimatech Megahalems I just got for my i7-860. Idle temps are around 24-25c. Temps under load are around 48-50c (1 fan in a push config).
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    These 1GB video cards have a bit of a catch22

    I think you're confusing a couple of things here. It doesn't matter how much memory your video card has, you still have the same amount of addressable system memory (as a previous poster pointed out). The article you posted mentioned a problem with the size of maps for a particular game...
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    FS: 2x 120GB Hitatchi SATA, 4x 250GB Seagate SATA, 3Ware 9550sx-12MI

    I have a bunch of SATA data cables. I can probably include one with each drive (I'll have to verify how many I actually have laying around, but I'm pretty sure I have 6) if anyone needs them. I don't have any molex -> sata power adapters, though.
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    FS: 2x 120GB Hitatchi SATA, 4x 250GB Seagate SATA, 3Ware 9550sx-12MI

    Here's my Heat. 1x 3Ware 9550sx-12MI PCI-X (or PCI) SATA II RAID Controller /w 256MB Cache. Includes all 3 breakout cables (Multilane to SATA). $330 Shipped. Speeds upto 800MB/sec RAID5 Read and 380MB/sec Write. As I always say, feel free to make offers!
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    FS: 3Ware 9500S-12MI PCI-X RAID Controller w/ 128MB Cache

    I've recently upgraded to a new 3ware RAID controller and so I have a left over card now. 3ware 9500S Series This card will also work in PCI slots. This does not include any multilane cables (or multilane to SATA cables) or the battery backup unit. If you want a cheaper alternative to the...
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    Can I bring this hard drive back to "functional"?

    This is due to a bios limitation on the older computer you're using.
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    Newegg Deals 11/21

    It's suppose to work in existing am2 mobo's, but you'll probably need a bios update.
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    FS: 3 500GB Seagate SATA Drives

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