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Around 5 years ago I migrated WHSv1 to WHS2011 and Drivebender within a Norco 4020 case with a single SM AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card with reverse (or is it forward?) breakout cable. I was running a mix of 1 and 2TB drives mostly, and a 640gb OS drive. I eventually got a 3TB drive and tried it on the...

I've got a house sitter coming in a few hours and I'd like to give them some access to my HTPC (I've limited access to a few things) on my WHS2011 setup. I want to change the password for user 'HTPC' to something temporary for them. I've been going into the Dashboard via RDP on another PC...

I'm currently upgrading my WHS v1 to 2011, using Drivebender. I wanted larger than 2tb drive support, and I just got the motherboard in as an RMA. In my previous setup I had a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card, a Highpoint PCI card, and motherboard ports to connect drives to. With my new...

Looks like the Vertex 4 offers Sandforce some competition. And since this is OCZ there's some room for improvement in future firmware updates too! Anandtech Tech Report Storage Review

RAID 0 is less important than the drive architecture. http://techreport.com/articles.x/22358

Tested: Corsair Force GT Kingston Hyper X MemoRight FTM Plus OCZ Agility 3 OCZ Vertex 3 OWC ME Pro 6G Patriot Pyro Patriot Wildfire and an Intel 510 for comparison http://www.anandtech.com/show/4604/the-sandforce-roundup-corsair-patriot-ocz-owc-memoright-ssds-compared

I built 2 identical systems as workstations last October: Crucial 64gb C300, SATA 3gb/s (best the mobo has), AHCI, aligned, on Intel H55 ports, write caching enabled i7-870 4gb RAM Gigabyte H55M-USB3, F10 BIOS SATA DVD 8800GT in one system and Radeon 5750 in other WinXP Pro 32-bit It scored...

TheEngineerGuy explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiejNAUwcQ8

Anyone doing this? Is it any more responsive? Via RDP? Via WHS console? What drive are you using? WHS v1 or Vail? I'm considering this if there is a noticeable bump in performance, though I wonder if the DE architecture negates any real advantage. And I'm also just taking a look at the...

Available here: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm

We have another thread on HD Tune benchmarks, but I realized we don't have a SSD specific thread. Please post only your SSD scores as an image (use Alt+Print Screen, paste into Paint) along with system specs, RAID configuration (if any), OS, etc. AS SSD Crystal Disk Mark Here are a jumble of...

intel DP55SB i7-870 2x2gb Patriot 'Sector 5' PC3-10666 RAM 7900GS Corsair Fatality 550w psu C300 64gb SSD MSI SATA DVD Windows XP Pro I've just set this pc up and it sounds like I have a 74gb Raptor defragging. It is silent at boot until about 2 seconds into the Windows load progress...

I need to get two motherboards to replace crappy Biostar TH55B HD's that I ordered through Newegg, couldn't get them stable either under IDE or AHCI. I don't want to or have time for another fiasco motherboard so I'm hoping for suggestions. Here's the hardware I've got: 2x i7-870 2x 64gb...

I'm rebuilding 2 workstations here at work that originally had conventional hard drives. My IT budget has been in the crapper this last year, and I can't interrupt any production time. I got two of the Dane Electric 80gb X25-M G1 drives several months back and just cloned them with Acronis to...

Just noticed they are throwing in a nice psu that normally runs $180. NORCO RPC-4220 4U Rackmount Server Chassis w/ 20 Hot-Swappable SATA/SAS Drive Bays - OEM Free 650W power supply w/ purchase, ends 7/30

http://www.fallout-on-line.com/ http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64400

Requires Long LBA, UEFI, and 64 bit OS! http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/17/exclusive-seagate-confirms-3tb-drive/

We get the weekly "my hard drive died" posts here and I saw a resource that I hadn't heard of before last week: http://myharddrivedied.com/presentations/ (EDIT: relinked to the 'Presentations & Information' page which has the free info.) Here's a video excerpt of the guy who runs the site on...

What is everyone using these days? I have a client with some crappy old backup software that came with an external drive that won't run on his new Win7 box. I found this article from 2006 and it seems that SyncBack is now just has 30-day trial/buy versions...

I've been having an issue for the last few days that I wonder if anyone else is having from multiple PC's running Win7 32-bit and 64-bit. Explorer will sometimes act normally, but usually I only get Favorites, Libraries, and Homegroup to show up. My Computer and WHS shares I've added to...

Here's a preview from Anand: http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3712

Need some help, I'm about at my wits end with PSU issues. I'm probably frustrated enough that my decision making might be clouded, I could use another opinion. I'll go in the sequence of events here, maybe it'll help with the overall issues. I'm an experienced builder and I usually just try...

I've successfully done a couple RTM installs so far from Technet of Win7 64 bit. Today I've finally gotten around to my PVR, it was running Vista Ultimate 32 bit just fine for over a year. Here's the specs: E6550 ECS G31T-M v1.0 (Win7 64-bit compatible according to MS) 2x2gb RAM Asus...

I'm running Vista 32-bit Ult on my HTPC now and am planning to upgrade to Win7 64-bit Ult (Technet) and am wondering if I'm going to have any issue with all my recorded shows via Media Center because of DRM. Will any Windows flavor play MC created DRM content? Do I have to upgrade instead...

I've piled up about a dozen CD-RW, CD/DVD, and DVD-RW drives in the past couple years. I'd like to test them and weed out the bricked ones. I'd rather not have to test each one with a CD and DVD and create a bunch of coasters if possible. Is there any testing software out there that is...

http://revision3.com/tekzilla/visback

I'm working on a system and having some issues with WD's Data Lifeguard software - the CD .iso file to check some WD5001AALS drives. I boot from it and get "Starting Caldera DR-DOS..." and the copyright info flashed on the screen then it goes blank. I've also been trying it in my own system...

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/17451

RamSan-6200 - $4.4 million. http://www.luxurylaunches.com/gadgets/ramsan6200_is_the_worlds_most_expensive_storage_costing_44_million.php

Some of you may have seen me post about drive wattages, here's a bunch of info that I've just been compiling. Since I was looking I figured I'd copy it and make it available for everyone as it wasn't always easy to find every bit of info. I've tried to list the series, speed, buffer, and...

I can't seem to find a discussion I saw here or elsewhere about whether this could be done. I currently have a 500gb Maxtor as my primary WHS OS drive that I'd like to replace with a larger and more efficient drive. (I'm building an in-law system soon and may use the Maxtor as a secondary...

It's Tom's fwiw: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/x25-e-ssd-performance,2365.html p.s. http://digg.com/hardware/Tom_s_16_Intel_X25_Es_do_2_2_GB_s

Saw this on Tekzilla today: http://usb.brando.com.hk/search.php?keyword=SATA+dock&Submit=Product+Search

I've seen a couple of questions lately that ask about adding drives and while these don't necessarily work for those people I found them interesting nonetheless. If you know of some other interesting solutions post them here with a link and/or image. 3.5" drive cageless in 5.25" bay...

Great little 1.25tb Windows Home Server box: $547.99 After $50 OFF (rebate is instant) HP EX485 750GB MediaSmart Windows Home Server Intel® Celeron™ 2.0 GHZ 64-bit Processor 2GB of DDR2 DRAM 1 SATA 7200 RPM Hard Drive (these have room for 4 total drives) ADDED VALUE: Western...

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/16840 Edit: another link: http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/2009/04/30/hands-on-hp-mediasmart-server-lx195-1/

My bosses Inspiron 6400 laptop charger wasn't working so I ordered a generic replacement based on the Dell model number. The original unit was 65w and the replacement sent is a 90w unit. Is this ok to use? I realized I don't know if this is max. rating the charger can do (like replacing a...

I build pc's for friends and coworkers and have had four systems in the last 1.5 weeks have major problems that have all been s939 nVidia 6150 chipset boards - 2 Asus, 1 DFI, and 1 MSI board. Two had RAID 1 arrays that corrupted (Asus and MSI). One had 2 USB ports completely die and the...

It's marketing hype, but cool none the less. http://i.gizmodo.com/5166798/24-solid-state-drives-open-all-of-microsoft-office-in-5-seconds

I loved Abit back in the P2-P4 era. My Fatal1ty F-I90HD was P.O.S. though. http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17471