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You've got all of the equipment connected. Play with the settings until it sounds best to you.

RAID 1 is not a backup. Create a proper backup solution instead.

I'm about to build a new work computer, and vertex3 seems like the clear choice for a max speed 240GB drive. Any reason to get an m4 instead? Used to be some stability issues with vertex, is that still the case?

Flow control is off (I'd already read your post). CPUs are mentioned in the initial post, a Q6600 and a phenom x2 3.2ghz

If you have an environment where you can easily tell the difference between the 2, then recreate that environment, play both types, decide which you like the sound of better, and use that.

So, I'm trying to increase my NFS read performance, as I feel I should be able to consistently get into the 90s or 100s: First 1976844+0 records in 1976843+0 records out 1012143616 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 14.3723 s, 70.4 MB/s That's my current speed reading some random file (not...

Why not IEMs? etymotics and ultimate ears both provide really good isolation.

yes it's intentional, him and I joke about it all of the time.

No, I'm talking about the equivalent of raid50. Stripe raid5s together, not raid1s. I have not had a chance to do performance testing, as I'm still on my first 5 drives (running out of space though, I'll be buying more soon). I can't imagine performance is going to be that bad, and surely...

Correct, that's my mistake (and more than a minor nit, people reading this could easily get confused). Thanks for the catch! Again, I'd like to repeat that my way may or may not be the best way, but I think it's worth consideration, especially for home environments where "lots of storage with...

Instead of running raidz2 or raidz3 with lots of disks, consider running several raidz1s striped together. This gives you the flexibility to grow over time, and the flexibility to upgrade over time without having to overhaul the entire set of disks. I've chosen to go with 5-disk raidz1s...

There are 1000 watts in a kilowatt. Your meter is reading watts, not kilowatts. Your cost is based on kilowatts. Divide by 1000

I PMed him > 1 week ago with no response. Any other sources?

Where can I find a reasonable $$ (<$250) SAS Expander that has the most recent firmware? I don't want to get stuck having to find some HP machine sitting around so that I can update it.

I don't want to mess with 4k sectors on ZFS. Even though it might actually sorta work, I'm in a unique situation in that if I were to buy 4k sector drives, I'd then have 2 vdevs in my pool, a raidz of 512byte drives, and a raidz of 4k drives. Given the complications of just getting 4k...

Can I realign my existing array? Or do I need to: - Buy my 5 new drives - Create a new pool, 4k aligned - copy data from old pool to new pool - destroy old pool, freeing up the 5 old drives - add the 5 old drives to the new pool

I can only specify the sector size for a pool? can I specify it for just a vdev? My zpool is going to be a stripe of 2 vdevs - 1 5-disk raidz of 512byte disks - 1 5-disk raidz of 4k disks Is this doable? If I upgrade the 5-disks in the 512byte array 6 months from now to 4k disks, can...

Does ZFS work correctly (alignment) with Samsung Spinpoint F4 drives? I know there are a lot of problems with alignment and speed on Western Digital 4k drives. I"m under the impression that is because while it's 4k, it's reporting as 512byte. Do spinpoints report as 4k or as 512byte? I...

Yes at idle. I had kind of noticed the same thing about the quad i5s and missing server support. Did the research and found the C32 proc/board already. Have been leaning supermicro for the board all along. Power supply is currently an old Fortron 550w which I'd like to continue using...

So, my current server hardware is getting a little bit old, especially now that I've migrated to ZFS. I currently have: Athlon 3800+ s939 dualcore 1GB DDR1 (this works AWESOME with zfs [/sarcasm] Random asus motherboard (a8n-sli deluxe I think). Given the load, I'm actually not...

So, I'm experimenting with a server virtualization. I'm currently using FreeBSD w/ jails, but want to change. I'm looking to use either ESXi or KVM. With a single large (> 2TB) raid array on an Areca 1220. A one-box whitebox solution (no separate SAN or anything for the storage...

FreeBSD is great if it meets your needs. Debian is my second choice for a server. I'm biased towards debian based systems, because it's what I learned on. If for whatever reason I need/want linux instead of BSD, Debian is the choice. Third choice is Centos. There's a large amount of...

So, I'm in a situation where I might need to buy another switch. My current baseline for switches is Netgear Prosafe; I've had good luck with them, they support jumbo frames, etc. For a home environment, is there any reason to consider getting anything else other than a prosafe (or something...

just run the actiontec as a passive bridge. Best of both worlds, no specialized hardware necessary, no calls to FIOS necessary. No hassle necessary. No performance loss (all of the downsides of the actiontec are nullified when using it as a passive bridge)

given any thought to building a dedicated machine and using ZFS, either via solaris or via freebsd? Then SMB and/or NFS or iSCSI?

http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Take-Classic-Pack-Theater/dp/B0021L9BME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1252204596&sr=8-1 pick a receiver (denon, onkyo, pioneer are good) Add sub later.

Easiest way to position sub: Step 1. Put sub at seating position Step 2. Play content Step 3. Crawl around room and find the spot where the bass sounds good Step 4. Put the sub there

So, I'm probably going to be switching from my Areca 1220 to a ZFS solution with my next purchase of hard drives. UFS support for >2TB isn't spectacular. My Areca has connections for fail leds, and while I guess I could continue to use the Areca in passthrough mode, I'd ideally like to sell...

Hard drives are really cheap, so might as well just encode lossless. If you need a lossy version for a player that only plays X format, just make a transcode on the fly. Doing an album from flac->mp3 takes <1 minute on anything resembling modern cpu hardware. Even if it is only for peace of...

So I just got my new center channel, and, despite thinking otherwise, it's too big to sit on mounts on top of my TV. So now I'm looking for a TV stand that has a shelf that will support it. The TV is a 61" dlp, and the center channel is 26" wide, 12.5" tall, and 16" deep. It weighs about 60...

just get a mixer.

If you want to learn linux, run linux from scratch and compile your entire system by hand. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ If you want to use/learn linux, then pick fedora/centos/debian/ubuntu/archlinux/gentoo as you see fit. If you aren't sure what you want, then pick one and use it for a...

Most people screw up the placement of 5.1 speakers. In 7.1 this effect is amplified. 7.1 speakers are even harder to place, and require a much larger room. You get no benefit from the extra 2 speakers if they are misplaced, and it will actually be a detriment. Also, consider the fact...

Kritter, I'm more curious about some of the SLI stuff where if you plug 2 cards in one of the slots becomes x1 sometimes. I'm wondering if that might be the case here if I use a non-video card in the x16 slot and still use onboard video.

Will the x16 slot actually run at x16 (or at least x4) when I plug a non-video device into it and still use onboard video? Specifically, can I plug an Areca 1220 or the supermicro 8-port into this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121355 And have it run full speed?

Neither of those have 3 external 5.25" bays. As to the previous poster, I'm looking for a case, not a NAS. I thought I'd made myself pretty clear as to what I wanted. Apparently not. -Mini-ITX or MicroATX -3 or more external 5.25" bays. -As small and quiet as possible.

Would prefer something smaller than that, especially in the depth department.

So I've been running a Stacker with 2 supermicro 5-in-3s for a while now, and I'm downsizing because I realize that I only need one of them. I'm also buying some new hardware (switching to ZFS so I want a machine that let's me have 4gb of ram). What are some good small, quiet cases that have...

Since FreeBSD 7-STABLE has pretty good zfs support at this point, I'm probably going to migrate to it and dump my areca. I need sata ports though. I thought supermicro had some pci-e sata cards, but I remember hearing lots of random problems with some of them. Which one is good?