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To be fair, it's $60 before MIR.

Has anyone run into interference problems with these? I currently use a 2.4 GHz wireless mouse (one of Logitech's mice, actually), and I have my WAP sit very close to my computer (usually on a shelf right next to it). I would love to buy these, and I really like the idea of wireless, but I'd...

Perhaps I'm too slow. I really can't decide between the T420 for $680 or the X120e for about $450. They both seem like great deals. I should probably get the T420 though - the larger screen and keyboard, and better processor, would be nice for programming. I guess it's also portable enough...

I think I'm going to go for the Thinkpad X120e. I've read some more reviews about it online and the reviewers seem to like it. Plus, it's incredibly affordable - only $450 for the base model (and I'll probably also buy some extra RAM, so about $475 total).

I *am* willing to drop most gaming. Whatever gaming I do will be simple puzzle games and old games from the 90s. Neither of the two require a dedicated graphics card. The things I want are a good keyboard, a long battery life, low weight, and low(ish) budget. Hell, I've even considered...

My current laptop is supposed to be a gaming laptop. It has a dedicated video card and decent screen, but it gets really hot, is really loud, and has no battery life. Also, the keyboard is pretty awkward. As I spend far more time programming than gaming, I'm looking for a laptop that's good...

Do you think the M4 is worth an extra $50 over the C300?

I'm waiting to see the price on it. If it's expensive, I think I'll just get the C300, since the 128gb version is on sale on Newegg for $200. If it's a comparable price to the C300, I'll jump for the new version. I've heard that the performance is only a marginal upgrade though.

I didn't see the 3TB drive, but was it 5400 rpm? If so, then this drive should run faster. Plus, the warranty is for five years, and the normal hard drive warranty length is three years.

What? After the graphical data is loaded into RAM, there should be no performance hit. Certainly not an FPS hit. I think the best you could expect is much faster load times.

Do you think it will drop down to $200 though? The retail price is currently $255 on Newegg and $245 on Amazon. I was also thinking about the next generation, but I've heard that the C400/M4/etc. is more of a side-grade than an upgrade. If it starts at $250, then I'm not sure if it's worth...

Link - I can't decide if I should go for this or wait for the next generation. I heard these are very good and the next generation is only a marginal upgrade.

I do it but I use FreeBSD, not Windows Server 2008. On my server, I use rsync to load the most recent copies of my files onto the server and then take a snapshot with ZFS, and then create a nice symbolic link to the snapshot folder (.zfs/snapshot/%snapshot_name%). This happens every day, so I...

And I thought this was a purely verbal thing. Try plugging it into a different port. If it works, then you have a bad port. Although it's IDE, and most modern motherboards only have one IDE port. Try using a different cable. Try plugging it into a different computer. Try plugging a...

Let me get this straight: instead of dropping files onto a DVD and keeping it on a shelf somewhere, you want to drop files onto a HDD and keep it on a shelf somewhere? I guess you get higher storage density...

I've bought hard drives from them as recently as two months ago, and it was just a bare drive in some peanuts. In their defense, the drive itself only took up about 5% of the volume of the box - the rest was peanuts. Perhaps not the most environmentally friendly packing method...

I use TeraCopy. I like it because it integrates into Windows, so whenever you just copy/paste, it uses TeraCopy instead of the standard Windows copy. It has some nice features, like copy waiting and multi-file read/writes.

I was under the impression that if he got a bit more RAM (perhaps 6 GB - 8 GB), ZFS would run just fine, assuming he didn't go off and throw all the disks into the same raidz vdev. The port multiplication seems to be the biggest performance issue. Either way, WHS would have the same...

The same way you'd use your FreeBSD box for any other server, really. I little bit of searching found this port which should do the trick: mediatomb. I don't use it, however, and I'd suggest that you read through the docs to make sure that it does what you want it to.

Have you tried booting into safe mode? Just spam the hell out of F8 when your computer starts booting, and select "Safe Mode". Theoretically, it should prevent whatever keeps locking your files from running. You may have tried it already, but it's a hell of a lot easier than anything else...

Oh, sorry. I have it set up so there's a share for each top-level folder. So you'd have a Backup drive, Media drive, and Personal drive, if you mapped them. I have it that way to enforce permissions easier, though (my fileserver is a bit more public, with about 5 named users and a couple...

Perhaps something similar to this would work: /bulk/Backups/%COMPUTER NAME% /bulk/Media/Applications/ /bulk/Media/Books/ /bulk/Media/Games/ /bulk/Media/Movies/ /bulk/Media/Music/ /bulk/Media/TV/ /bulk/Personal/ Basically, I would separate your media files (anything that's open...

My question still stands though - will using an i3 with an encrypted ZFS drive likely cause a bottleneck in the CPU?

Yeah, sorry for getting slightly off-topic - I guess I should take up my FreeBSD/Networking questions on a FreeBSD forum. This might sound silly, but I never knew those existed. I think I'll get a different PSU then - the primary reason I picked the one that I did was because of it's number...

First off, thanks for your detailed response! Although I like the WebGUI in FreeNAS, I'm not likely to heavily rely on it. It has issues with ZFS. The biggest issue is that it won't let you add vdevs to an existing pool. I could, of course, be using it wrong, but the ZFS commands are...

I've been thinking about expanding my desktop's storage capacity with a hardware RAID card, but I've decided that I could accomplish the same thing (and much more) using a separate file server. I've been playing around with FreeNAS and ZFS on a virtual machine for a bit, and I'm pretty sure...

Will a PCIe x8 card (in this case, a RAID controller) work in a PCIe x16 slot that's running in PCIe x4? I ask because I'm looking to buy a RAID controller, but some of the higher end ones are PCIe x8 cards, and my motherboard (Gigabyte P55A UD3) only has a slot that's physically as big as a...

Compatible with RAID, with the specific RAID card, or with the SAS breakout? Right now I'm using these two of these drives on my ICH10R, and they seem to work fine. I was going to buy three more of the same model for compatibility sake, since I'm not sure if it's good to build a RAID array...

Not that I don't believe you, but why? And when you say "constant CPU usage", do you mean a low level of usage that jumps up during periods of drive activity and back down when you stop, or is it ubiquitous? I've been trying to figure out how much CPU it would use, and the best estimate I've...

Hmm. Maybe "all other" wasn't the right way to put it - the array will be inside my main desktop PC, so I'll be using it. What I meant was: I rarely perform big file operations on it, other than copying files to my laptop which has an HDMI output. Said operation would be through a crossover...

Compared to what, with a CPU-assisted card? The most usage the array will get is streaming 1080p video files. All other read/write activity will also have to go through Ethernet, and I'm not connected to a gigabit network anyways. If it's compared to 50 MB/s, then I can spend the extra...

Hey, I currently have a 2x1.5 TB RAID 0 array on my motherboard's ICH10R controller. I'm looking to expand my array and convert it to RAID 5, but I'd like to use a hardware card instead of my motherboard's ICH10R for expandability (I'd like to be able to expand my new array to 8 HDDs) and...

Just to double check: that's 15-50% load while writing, correct? So reading data wouldn't put so much strain on my CPU (i5 @ 3.4 GHz, under Windows 7 64-bit). If so, then that's certainly tolerable, considering most of my data manipulation is likely to be on the OS drive. If I'm migrating a...

Is the CPU usage significantly higher than with my RAID 1 arrays? Because it basically renders my computer unusable while they're verifying (after a power outage, for example) but other than that their effect is negligible. Also, why is it not recommended to keep my OS on my RAID array? I'm...

I currently have a P55 motherboard. It has 6 SATA II slots, raid compatible. Right now, the slots are being used as: Slot 0: CD/DVD drive Slot 1: 500 GB HDD (array 1) Slot 2: 500 GB HDD (array 1) Slot 3: 1.5 TB HDD (arrays 2,3) Slot 4: 1.5 TB HDD (arrays 2,3) Slot 5: Empty...

I can't seem to find what IO controller this motherboard ( http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3254 ) uses. It says the 6 3gb/s SATA ports are controlled by "chipset" and are capable of RAID, while it lists specific chips for the other IO ports (such as...

Yeah, most of the data I want to keep is on a RAID 0 array - separate from my OS/programs. This data includes, among other things, code for a website I was about to publish, which isn't backed up anywhere (sadface). The OS/programs were on a RAID 1 array (mirroring). Can I use one of those...

Hey, I've done a lot of research into trying to migrate RAID arrays from one motherboard to the next and most of them say "no", unless it's the same chipset. Well, I was wondering if upgrading from an abit IP35 Pro (broken) to a P55 board would allow me to keep my RAID arrays. Obviously, I'll...

Not entirely true. There are plenty of people who but already-made systems because they don't want to build them themselves. I seem to remember a whole forum here dedicated to that sort of thing...

I did update them all with no luck. It's not installed, I checked the system info. I guess I'll wait for the Windows Update to push it...