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    XFX Warranty Surprise :(

    Well if anyone wants two out of warranty (But still working fine) 9800 GX2's the ebay auctions start tonight. I know I should have done more research. I read the reviews of the XFX 9800 GX2, and it said it had a five year warranty. The cards have been 100% reliable, so I've never had any...
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    XFX Warranty Surprise :(

    Hi All I feel I need to have a rant. I've just upgraded my two XFX 9800GX2's with two XFX 5870's. The plan was to ebay the two 9800's. I was under the impression that XFX's warranties were always miles better than anyone elses. I chose my 9800's from them because at the time the reviews...
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    As long as it's x8 it should work fine. Just passed a year's uptime on the two controllers running the 4GB Kingston modules :)
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    Your HD tune scores

    Webserver got a new IP yesterday - might take another day for it to propegate everywhere.
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    Your HD tune scores

    How did you break the 600MB limit on the Areca?
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    Your HD tune scores

    4x WD 300GB Velociraptors in RAID0 running on my Areca 1680-IX-8; 4x OCZ 64GB Vertex SSD in RAID0 running on my Areca 1680-IX-8; I'm using the Raptors for OS and the Vertex's for Games - I do seem to be getting into game servers quite a bit quicker than before.........
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    Keep 300GB Velociraptor or buy SSD

    Have both - reliability and speed :)
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    New Server

    Nah - Server spins down all the drives when not in use - which is at least 90% of the time - plus it's a low power Xeon, so idles quite nicely. My workstation however......... Lets just say the wife has noticed the extra power usage and isn't too thrilled..........
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    New Server

    What can i say - I have a server to fill and a rather large DVD collection :)
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    New Server

    Here's the server sat in my loft - You can just see the Edge 10 sitting on an UPS behind it; Here's my pitiful comms cab - The old Dell is my IPCop - You can never have too many firewalls, and I like to run a content filter to keep out the nasties; And although this is unrelated, I...
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    New Server

    I just got one of the SuperMicro M35T caddies for my workstation - Really nice!
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    Help - ARC-1680-IX-8 + M28E1 + WD3000GLFS = Nothing!

    Four HLFS drives installed and working fine - Guess my Dad will be getting another upgrade..........
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    Help - ARC-1680-IX-8 + M28E1 + WD3000GLFS = Nothing!

    Balls!
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    New Server

    Ran out of space so got one of these and 8 more 1TB drives; It's called an Edge10 DAS801T (Although I've seen it advertised under a few differnt names) and somes with an ESATA card. Was fairly cheap ~ £230.
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    Help - ARC-1680-IX-8 + M28E1 + WD3000GLFS = Nothing!

    Hi all I'm trying to add some more storage to my workstation. I originally had 4 WD3000GLFS drives hooked up to an ARC-1222 controller. I've bought an ARC-1680-IX-8 controller, SuperMicro M28E1 Expander and four OCZ Vertex drives. My plan is to use the Vertex drives for gaming, and keep...
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    I got them for £250 each from Insight.com.
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    multiple hard drives -> one letter in Vista

    I don't know of anything that will let you add additional drives to a stripe/span. Rather than Stripe/Span, why not just mount the additional drives as folders within a drive - So create your main partition (d: for example) then rather than assigning drive letters to the other drives, mount...
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    It's a business file server, and I want the maximum performance.
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    A quick Google search shows the KVR667D2D8P5-4G at £250 - That's not too tragic.
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    Not sure where "E5" comes into the equation?
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    OK So KVR533D2D8R4K24G (which is 2 2GB ECC Modules) should work? What about KVR667D2Q8P5K28G ? (2 4GB ECC Modules) Does the "Q" mean it won't work, or does the "8" mean it will? There's also KVR800D2D8P6/4G, but that's £350 per stick, and has a higher latency.
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    Thanks very much - That's a great starting point.
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    I've just spoken to Crucial - I'm not alone in having no idea what "x8 or higher organisation" means.............
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    So areca can't say specifically what Memory will work - Just "x8 or higher organisation"...........
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    RAM Upgrade for Areca ARC-1680D-IX-16

    Hi I purchased a stick of Kingston KVR667D2D4P5/4G ECC RAM for each of my Areca 1680 cards, but when installed the system doesn't boot. I've tried both sticks of RAM in each of my 1680's, so doubt it's a faulty part. The Areca website states that the 1680 supports up to 4GB of ECC DDR2...
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    Will putting my harddrives in RAID affect overall desktop performance?

    Or if you want a really quick backup, try RSync - that just copies the parts of the files that have changed :) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69227&package_id=68081 You can use it for local or remote backups.
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    The Asus uses a 680i chipset - so no quad SLI :( I have been looking at the Skulltrail - But I'm reluctant to go for something that seems more of a technical exercise. ECC DDR2 would hurt performance, the chipset cooler is loud enough to wake the dead, and I've not seen a quad SLI setup...
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    I haven't tried the latest latest drivers - I went through about two months of "trying stuff" that people said was working for them, and finally gave up and went and played on my PS3. I've gotten to the age where I want to get home from work and not worry about whether my PC will boot or not...
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    I would if I had a spare PCI slot that wasn't under a big hefty graphics card :) Basically the 780i and 790i motherboards seem to have been designed and built by satan himself. There are so many random problems, that I've had 8 BIOS uptades in the past 9 months. The EVGA forums are swamped...
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    Areca experts wanted: worth it over an ICH9R for RAID0?

    I've currently got an ARC-1222 hooked up to my 4 VR's - Stupid quick compared to my onboard nVidia RAID. BIOS does take a while to kick in though. I've put an ARC-1260 in my server - The BIOS loads a LOT quicker, and you can upgrade the RAM - Costs quite a bit more though. For the amount...
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    I'm open to suggestions on how to do that - I need a motherboard that supports Quad SLI, DDR2 RAM, and doesn't use either the 780i or 790i chipset............ :confused:
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    Well so far no good....... The ARC-1222 did pick up my existing RAID5 array without problems, so I don't need to reinstall windows - But the DVD drives are not showing up. This could be a setting somewhere, it could be old firmware (unable to download latest firmware for some reason), or it...
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    I'm already using all four channels on my 1212. An ARC-1222 arrived this morning - I'll give it a go - If it works, I'll keep it, if not will try to send it back.
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    Anybody?
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    Arc-1222 CDROM?

    Hi all I installed an ARC-1212 RAID controller in my Main Gaming PC a few weeks back to try to avoid some major stbility issues I was having with my nVidia 780i motherboard. This worked for a while, but has still been causing issues with my SATA DVD drives. As a result, I've had to disable...
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    New Server

    Ya - Wasn't sure what to do with the leftover space on that volume - It seemed silly allocating it all when it wasn't needed.
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    Failed RAID5, Help!

    I seriously doubt a virus could kill an array. What exactly is the RAID BIOS telling you? Have the arrays failed because drives are missing, or do they simply need a rebuild? If there's no rebuild option, it might help to diagnose the problem if you could post more information about your...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - READ requirements in first post

    Ya :D
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - READ requirements in first post

    Unimatrix-0; Specs; 1x Areca ARC-1260 16 Port SATA2 PCI Express RAID Controller with 1GB Cache 1x Intel S5000VSASATAR Motherboard 1x Intel L5335 2Ghz Quad Core CPU 4x Crucial 4GB (2X2GB KIT) 667MHZ DDR2 240PIN 3x IcyBox Icy Dock SATA II 5 bays 1x Tagan 1300W BZ MODULAR...
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    New Server

    atbnet - For the moment, just TVersity and one VMWare virtual miachine. This server was all about future proofing - For this kind of investment, I need it to last me a very long time. So in the short term, it will be heavily under utilised. Ockie - We have a pretty limited choice of drive...
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