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I just picked up 5 2TB WD green drives to replace 4 750GB Seagates in my server. Can someone with experience removing drives in WHS give me a ballpark on how long it takes to remove a 750GB drive from the storage pool? I don't bother with storage balancing, so all four of the drives are...

CM Stacker 810 w/3 4-in-3 drive modules GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-UD4H AMD 5050e w/Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 4GB G-Skill RAM Antec EarthWatts 650 WD Caviar Black 1TB (system drive) Seagate 7200.10 750GBx4 Seagate 7200.11 1.5TBx4 WD Caviar Green 2TB APC 1500VA UPS Planning on upgrading the PSU and...

I felt a brief period of buyer's remorse after buying my PX2611w, which mainly occurred between clicking "submit" on Amazon and the following day when it arrived. That all went away when I started using it. Love this monitor - it was well worth the cost IMO.

Is there any benefit to using the TLER utility when the drive is in a JBOD storage pool such as WHS?

Does anyone know if there are any issues restoring the storage pool during a reinstall, if the motherboard/CPU is upgraded in the process? About half of my drives are using onboard SATA at the moment, and about half are using a Supermicro 8-port card. I'm planning on setting up the WHS trial...

If you can't find a replacement fan that's compatible with the installed heatsink, you could always consider something like the Zalman FB-123, although it's not so much a replacement as an alternative.

Right now I just have shared folders mounted as network drives on my PCs, and mounted as SMB volumes in XBMC on my HTPC. I have streamed video to the PS3 with Vista Ultimate, but I expect I would need a 3rd party program under Server 2008. I had originally hoped to use my PS3 as a HTPC...

I most likely will go with a 4050e or 5050e build in the future, but I'm leaning toward holding off for the time being to reduce costs. Performance-wise, with hardware RAID it doesn't seem like the slightly faster/newer platform will significantly increase performance, so my only real issue is...

I've been planning on rebuilding my media server for a while now. Right now I've got around 6TBs of space (2x1.5TB, 4x750GB, 1x400GB for the O/S), running on an old socket 939 DFI LanParty Ultra-D with an Opteron 146 (running at 2.5GHz), 2GBs of RAM and an Antec EarthWatts 650 PSU. I found an...

I went ahead and picked this up since it showed up in stock on Amazon Wednesday morning. (Prime trial with $4 overnight shipping is pretty nice on something this big). It arrived yesterday and I've been putting it through its paces since then. Overall I am happy with it - there are no dead...

Is there any noticeable difference with regard to text quality on the PX2611W vs the NEC 2690? I've narrowed down my choices to these two monitors, and it seems like the Planar would be a better choice (although it seems to be out of stock everywhere at the moment) since it's less expensive and...

I've played with the settings quite a bit trying to get it to the point where it doesn't give me headaches and bother my eyes, and it has helped somewhat, but not nearly enough. It basically seems like the eyestrain I experience is significantly worse with the Soyo compared to either the 19"...

What's the general consensus on text reading on an IPS panel compared to *VA or TN? Right now I'm using a P-MVA 24" Soyo, which I "upgraded" to from a Mitsubishi 2070 CRT. I hate the Soyo, I don't know if it's the panel type or the brightness, but I have terrible eyestrain with this monitor...

Is there confirmation on this? I would consider picking one up if they were $70-$80, since I have an older (8/06) 360 that would benefit from the added cooling, but if this thing winds up being $125+... there's no way in Hell I would pay that for a 360 case. The Arcade is being reduced to $199...

The rebate is through Myrebates411. I've submitted 3 rebates through them so far over the past few years, two for Sapphire video cards, and one for a Foxconn socket 939 board. The first one I had to resubmit, the second I had to resubmit, contact them several times, and then finally contact...

I would just buy a system now rather than waiting. The Penryn chips will definitely be priced decently above wholesale for a while after release, and I really don't think you're going to see a big performance increase over the Q6600 - especially in games where you'd be GPU limited. I'd also go...

True, it's not hot in the traditional sense, but I look at this thread and others like them in the same way I look at all the Wii availability threads over the past year. Demand is high enough that people worry about just finding the item, rather than looking for coupons, rebates and sales.

Grabbed one before they went out of stock, along with everything I need for a new system build (other than the CPU, which I ordered at ClubIT to guarantee a G0 stepping). I have an 8800GT on backorder at Frys, but I wanted to have this together before Thanksgiving and they had no idea when it...

I checked again this morning and they have no idea when they're getting more in. Then I checked my cc's online statement and the $239 charge for the card has posted to my account, even though they haven't shipped it, don't have it, and don't know when they're getting it. Very aggravating.

I picked one of these up back in September for around $290 shipped after tax and coupon, and I couldn't be happier with it. The picture quality is excellent, good viewing angles, and absolutely no ghosting. It's been running pretty much 24/7 for the past three months with no issues at all. I...

Is anyone still waiting on theirs to ship? I ordered late on the night of the 29th, and it's still showing backordered. The rep. was utterly clueless when I called and had to ask me for the order number three times before she could even find it in the system, and couldn't give me an ETA at all.