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No worries, I couldn't recall if the board had it's own, but now remember that it did. I'll want to make sure it's seeing itself as operating properly, as I believe it also had it's own battery backup attached. I'm guessing it'd probably be good to power the machine up for a while to get that...

Ok, good to hear someone's 'real world' scenario. I seem to recall it booted from the array, but I could be mistake. But I'll definitely be visiting the motherboard BIOS first (no doubt the clock is wrong) so I'll check the whatever it thinks is the boot order. I'll do this BEFORE putting any...

I have a set of disks that used to be in an Areca RAID. They've been disconnected for quite a while (several years), and I don't know in what hardware order they were connected. Do I have to reconnect them in their original order, or will the controller be able to figure it out and reassemble...

Before you get too choosy, better check on availability. Phanteks were sold out when I was buying a month ago. Maybe that's changed, don't know. Sure, the omission of the USB cable is annoying but, in retrospect, I'm not sure how much I'd be using a top-mounted USB socket. Most stuff goes...

I've got a build going with this case. Overall I'm pleased with it. I don't have high demands planned for this. Mainly it'll be serving up a bunch of movies and run some minecraft servers for the kids. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wkearney99/builds/#view=sdMcCJ The glass panels are...

Correct, these two are just that, just two four port hubs, one slung off the other: Amazon.com: HDE 7-Port SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Hub with Individual On/Off Switches, 1.75ft USB Data Cable, and 5V 2A Power Adapter Included: Computers & Accessories http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VK9PRIU Are...

When the arm is extended it puts a lot of force against whatever is being used to mount it. A desk or other sort nightstand/table would have to be VERY heavy to offset the forces involved. I'm sure there's a formula somewhere for it (length of arm, weight of materials, etc). There are such...

The difficulty comes with mounting something like that. The stresses involved with extending an arm out that far are going to be pretty significant. Definitely something that'd likely require lag bolt mounting into at LEAST two wall studs. That and there's considerable risk of injury to...

That looks almost exactly like a QNAP NAS. I know, I have their TVS-671 unit. That looks a lot like their 8-bay unit, with the LCD of course. Given the overlap and outright piracy on the part of many Chinese vendors it could just as easily be a copy.

They're small units, the power strip sized kind, so they don't have a slot for a network module.

I'm entertaining the idea of using a wrt-based firmware on hardware and use just as a 4 port gigE switch and a monitor for a USB-connected UPS. I don't need wireless at these locations, just the ability to run the apcupsd daemon. I could, of course, just use a separate switch but it seems like...

You mention actiontec, is this a fios connection? If so, consider ditching their supplied router and use one of your own. It's possible, even if you have fios set top boxes (but it does take some router configuring). That and you can connect the actiontec (or any other router) to the fios...

Ok, I've ordered the M5M. I'll report back how it goes.

I've an Intel 80gb 310 (ssdmaemc080g2) mSATA drive in a T420 laptop. I'm running out of space on it. There's a 2nd 500gb regular drive for all the big storage, but the boot, OS and programs are creeping up a bit too close on the 80gb (less than 2gb remaining). I'm leaning toward either an...

I'm guessing there's "something else" necessary, port or protocol-wise. Because, as I posted, I'm getting a connection that the CLI can use, but the full UI doesn't succeed in logging in. I've tried connected through a different ISP and met with the same lack of success.

Were you on the same subnet or was it across the internet? I'm attempting the latter. I followed those steps, no luck. I've also tried reconfiguring the local ui.properties file with the remote machine's IP. Similarly, no luck.

Anyone out there successfully set up a remote machine running linux with crashplan, from a windows client? I've need to get it running on a remote Centos 6 box, from some win7 or 2008R2 windows machines. I'm having no luck, the client just hangs after the login. It is making a connection...

Yeah, warranty's an issue but if you keep a schedule of them you can manage them accordingly. I keep a google calendar of expiration dates just for drives. When something's close to it's end of warranty I take a little time to beat the hell out of it with some testing to be sure it's OK...

Yeah, you can't go wrong keeping a supply of them on-hand. At one point it was cheaper to get the kind without a nozzle on them and attach a reusable one. But lately I've seen more of the ready-to-use kind so I the handle hardly gets used anymore.

I wouldn't. The air blown from the shop vac is likely to build up static, especially during drier winter times.

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Ah, yes, hot spares are very handy. You just have to make sure your setup is properly configured to use them AND that it DOES use them when needed. I've had my share of cases where a spare wasn't automagically rotated into use when one of the live array members died. So if you set them up go...

They do periodically have specials on their subscriptions. I just picked up the family unlimited for $50/year. My time is WELL worth that, or even the full retail. Yeah, it's not "as cheap" as doing something on-site (or not at all) but it really is a bargain for the peace of mind. A fire at...

At home with no backup is a bad plan. Crashplan (among others) have means for you to encrypt your data before it's sent over. If "the government" wants to know something about you, not having offsite backups isn't going to be much of impediment to them. There are far more ways for your...

No hardware card is ever going to be a viable replacement for backup. You're making a huge mistake not to have a backup plan. Services like crashplan are a helluva lot cheaper than the time it'd take to reload everything from source media (presuming you have it). Nor do hardware cards have...

SID vs SSID, but that's just a nitpick. But it's not like the machine SID being duplicated is really all that big a deal anyway. http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx Now, how the SID comes into play with domains gets a little more complicated, but again...

Just curious, why is this a 'no-no'?

I'm leaning toward there being corruption of the software the WHS VM is running. Can you step back to a previous snapshot or reload from backup? That'd at least confirm that "the same" software is or isn't causing a BSOD. As to how the software might have gotten corrupted, that's anyone's...

Or set up an NFS share on a windows or linux server and mount that in ESXi. Put the .vib in there and install it from there. Then you'll have access to the volumes on the areca card. Create a VMFS datastore on one of those volumes. I've got a 1210 setup with a mirror this way. ESXi boots...

Hey, how does one get the status of a RAID1 mirror on a 1210 card from within an ESXi server setup? I'm using a 1210 with a mirror for VM storage. I'd like to be able to keep tabs on the status of the drives on that card. But their health values don't appear to show up inside the vSphere...

I'd love to find those side rack ears with the buttons and USB sockets. I've got a few machines where it would be very convenient to add the USB sockets there.

NTFS privs are really a lot more complex than most people think, and often more than people really need. The UI in winPro hides QUITE a lot of the dirty work going on.

That's the challenge, either it's fake RAID (which this particular motherboard already has via an Intel chipset) or it's overkill. There doesn't seem to be an in-between.

I've got an atom-based board used for a mail server and I'd like to find the lowest power consumption hardware RAID card for it. Just two drives is all that's needed. No, the motherboard Intel fake raid is not a solution for this particular situation. It's difficult to run down which...

There's a fine line here. Don't just jump on the guy, because what he's asking isn't an unreasonable set of features to want. Being able to have the server configured with more security is certainly desirable. From an admin's point of view it can be a daunting process trying to determine...

I had a OCZ 1000W supply that could not reliably power my 24-bay chassis when using more than two modular molex connectors from it. Sure, the supply had enough wattage, just not enough across all it's drive connections. Just one or two could power all 24 drives with no problem, but as soon as...

You could use a SAS controller, some support making external connections. You'd use one connection out of the card into an external chassis with multiple drives. Some SAS controllers support using expanders to cascase multiple drives. So just one or two cables can be expanded to dozens of...

I've got an older Supermicro X7DWE board (dual Xeons) and I'm wondering about what memory modules would be compatible with it. Specifically I'm wondering if the FBDIMMs for some HP and Compaq setups would work (DL360 being one). I realize there's a set of what the factory recommends vs what...

What about going straight from the motherboard into one of the problematic backplane connections? Might it be that the backplane is OK but just doesn't want to play nice with the cards (as configured)? I'm guessing you'd have to pick up a reverse SAS-SATA breakout cable for the purpose. I'm...

Windows going downhill isn't the biggest risk to your data. You'd still be able to get to it even if you had operating system configuration screwups. You'd just be doing a re-install that didn't overwrite, or you'd access the drive from another OS (either booted from CD or pulling the drive...