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The big hurdle with DIY is this: should the device need maintaining if/when I'm gone, someone else here needs to be able to fix it. Realistically, "fix" in this scenario means calling the hardware vendor. I completed the CCNA curriculum years ago (never took the cert exams - employer sent me...

All - thanks for the replies. I'm investigating the Meraki now... Re: Sophos ... I used to subscribe to the TWiT "Security Now!" podcast with Steve Gibson. Back around 2008-9, maybe. One of their long-term sponsors was Astaro. Naturally, that was the first NGFW/UTM vendor I looked for...

I work for a tiny company. My main role is NOT network or IT-related, but I've been tasked with this project. We've used inexpensive consumer routers for NAT and simple firewalling. We do not have any internet-facing applications, no VOIP, no VPN, and I am not overly concerned about...

From the CSM: Langner's blog goes into great detail - more technical than I am familiar with: http://www.langner.com/en/blog/

Intel's US plants are commendable and to be encouraged for sure, but they are now also manufacturing in China. http://www.intel.com/intel/location/china.htm With fabrication in Dalian. Intel's Fab 68 opened last month...

Here's a screen grab: This comes after starting RMA process for a single drive. The multiple drive form doesn't ask for the Seatools test code.

Apparently I misunderstood Seagate's replacement drive warranty policy. I though you just got 90 days. Period. So I'd be forfeiting the balance of my 3-year factory warranty. After re-reading, I see that this is not the case...

(Posted over at SPCR as well. But I'm thinking [H] members may have more experience / insight on this issue.) I bought a single-platter 500GB seagate 7200.12 about a year ago. It's been OK until about 2 months ago - I noticed it making some rather loud clicking noises. But they would come...

I'd like to see this as well, with separate screenshots of each successive run.

When my wife and I were TV shopping, we quickly realized that the cheapest way to go big was front projection. Especially with 1080p DLP projectors starting at $1k. If you have good light control and don't mind DIY-ing a screen, there's nothing like 100+ inches of screen for immersion.

You definitely want PCIe if possible. While PCI is theoretically fast enough, in reality it's not.

Count me in. Thanks.

If you have the tools/skills to fabricate panels, why not just fab the whole cabinet? You can buy rack rail for cheap. I had some 11U rails and built a small cabinet around them for my basement. It's just plywood, casters, glue/screws and paint. I had all the material from other projects...

Similar to the WDTV Live, I purchased an Asus O!Play HDP-R1 network media streamer a few months ago. Asus product page. I bought it about 2 weeks before the WDTV Live was released. At the time, Newegg had it on sale for around $90 with a free HDMI cable. It's pretty nice. What I like: No...

He can continue to use the pc's volume control, but instead of using the 80-100% range, he should just use the 50-75% range (or whatever).

Unless the old sound card is somehow acoustically superior to the new one (??)... I wouldn't downgrade hardware just for the ability to max the PC's volume control in windows. I'm skeptical that any analog circuit operating at 100% is operating accurately - most gain stages (amps, preamps...

Hmm, not sure on the preamp noise - that shouldn't be discernable if the speaker's volume is low. Sounds more like his sound card is overloading the speaker's preamp. The solution is to do exactly what he did - turn down the PC's volume, and turn up the speaker's volume until you reach a happy...

Nice - let us know how they sound. I don't mean to demean the chemically sensitive, but this is the strangest / funniest / scariest review on Amazon: So, let us know how they smell too. :)

As soon as either chief value or Amazon has them back in stock I'm buying a set for my shop. The sub's LCD will be IMMEDIATELY covered with duct/gaffer tape. Flashing lights, ugh. Re: sound quality, read some of the customer and hardware-site reviews - many comment on the sub. In short, it's...

You might check out the Eagle Tech ET-AR504LR-BK 2.1 sat/sub system. There's a ton of favorable reviews at various hardware sites. Good pictures at overclockersonline. At that price point ($50) I don't see how it can be beat. Trouble is finding it in stock. Newegg has it, but shipping isn't...

Thanks hijacker. There are too damn many versions of this thing. Yours is similar to the current version in that all 4 drives are bolted to the internal cage, which is then suspended from the outer brackets with silicone grommets. I'm looking for the version(s) that have 4 silicone grommets...

Holy crap - dropped to page TEN in 15 hours! Bump!

I want to buy 2 of the Cooler Master 4-in-3 HDD sub-chassis (image of Google-cached CM store page) that comes stock with the Centurion 590. I don't want the new one with the 4 large rubber grommets. I want the old one with small rubber grommets for each individual drive. These were...

(hope this doesn't sound too prickish) I've been out of the audio rec world for some time, but the last daw I built was rack mounted and definitely not silent. Not that it mattered, since I never tracked or mixed a band with the daw in the same room. You shouldn't either. Put your PC(s) in...

Thanks all. After talking with my boss, we're going to go with the Dell drives for reduced hassle. We've settled on this config: Dell T310 tower (link). Intel Xeon X3430, 2.4 GHz, 8M Cache. This is the new "Lynnfield" Xeon. It should be faster than the entry-level X5500 Xeons due to the...

Anyone know who the OEM is for Dell's current 15k RPM 3.5" SAS drives? We've settled on a 4-disk Raid 10, in a Dell T310 (Lynnfield Xeon!). Dell's HDD prices are crazy high. The 146GB 15k is $340 each from Dell. Provantage has 146GB Seagate 15k.6 for $193. 5-year warranty on the...

Thanks for the reply AcidBurn- But why raid 5 for the database? What does raid level have to do with db corruption? Raid 5 means I need a new, expensive controller. Plus, I don't want Raid 5 unless there's compelling evidence that it'll SMOKE a mirrored pair of 15k RPM SAS drives. I've...

Another question is this: Will two 15k RPM drives in RAID1 equal the performance of three 10k RPM drives in RAID5? I'd think they would, give higher areal density and faster rotational speeds.

Thanks for the reply. Everything will EASILY fit on a single mirror. The smallest 15k SAS drive available through HP is 150GB, and our server currently uses only about half of its available 73GB. I though about the OS mirror. I'm chatting right now with HP about this. Turns out that...

Folks, Need storage advice for my company's server. I'm looking at this HP ML150. Newegg has it for $799, which seems like an awesome price. We're upgrading from a ML330 G3 single 2.8GHz Xeon 3GB RAM HP SmartArray 641 w/32MB cache three 36.4GB 10k RPM U320SCSI drives, RAID5...

Jesus man. It's like your personal project to "draw conclusions" about this motherboard's ECC function. You forget that Biostar's own manual shows the ECC functions. (In case Biostar pulls the manual, I can forward you one - you want A76GA-M2S_090115_B.zip.) The tech support person/people I...

Oh, and MWave has the Norco SS-500 for much less than Newegg.

In the newegg reviews for the Supermicro CSE-M35T-1, there's a few people reporting that this backplane does a form of staggered spin-up on its own, regardless of the controller. But only if the drive supports it on sata power pin# 11. I don't fully understand how this works. Short of buying...

With 7 rooms, I'd do 3-4 runs to each room. You really only get 1 shot at this, 24-port patch panels are cheap, and you have to buy 1000 feet of cable anyway. Another reason: you can use a pair for HDMI over cat5e/6.

That sucks - it was there yesterday. Search for Coolermaster P/N: 621012590-GP Google's cache still shows the page for reference:

Why RAID 6? How big is your backup job? 10 MB? Or 10 Mb? IMO "cheap" contradicts "redundant power supplies", "at least 12 bays", and "a decent raid controller". Twelve 1.5TB drives? Again - how large is your backup? If you're really on a 10Mb connection (and not 10 mega BYTES), that =...

Every integer can be obtained by squaring. It's just that some, like your example "24", have irrational roots. The sq root of 24 is an irrational number. But squaring that irrational number always = 24. You can test this using calc.exe. Raise 24 to the power of 0.5. Then square it. You're...

For those who don't get the reference, Hans Reiser killed his wife. He must have played too many video games.

You can get the CM 4-in-3 without the black front panel for $10 directly from CM's store. The 5-in-3 adapters are $30 from ServerCase.com.

For your OS, have you considered unraid? I'm using it for a few reasons. 1) it's a "protected" JBOD. 1 parity disk = n-1 capacity. 2) each disk is its own, standalone reiserFS file system, meaning that you can mount them in any other system for data recovery using any recent linux distro...