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Depending on the area, I'd be worried about getting a stabbing :D

Over ethernet would be your best option. Use gigE cards and a gigE switch and you're good to go.

If you're buying it off CL, I'd be more concerned with him showing up and taking your money for the Drobo, and leaving you with nothing. Be sure to do this in a public area, and maybe take a laptop or do it at a library, and run diags on the device to make sure it is 100% working. (All the...

Just the data redundcy. Im a busy grad student so I dont have time to learn *nix or bsd. I like GUIs. I'd settle on just Win 2008 server RC2 though.

As far as file storage goes, is it better to install Windows Storage Server, then WHS, or just leave it as win2k+8 RC2 , and maybe virtualize the WHS?

Excellent job as always, Danny. I was wondering if you could pick me out a mobo and proc. I prefer Intel, and any mobo with Gbe is fine by me. I was going to go with 4 gigs of G. Skill mem, and if you could recommend PSU for 12 drives, I would be stoked.

I haven't bricked mine yet, but I absolutely love it, almost all games at max settings, :D

Budget for just the case/mobo and some non-RAID controllers. I intend to use WHS or Win2k8 RC2, not sure yet. I have about 8 drives, and would like capability to expand. I was looking at something along the lines of 4 gigs ram, and preferably NOT a rackmount, I've priced around and those...

Can someone recommend me a case (room for 15+ 3.5 inch hds), proc, ram, and a PSU? Im interested in setting either WHS or Win2008 RC2 as a fileserver. Don't need a true RAID card, just going to use the OS's pooling. Forgot to add a budget of around 500-600 USD. Looking to add about 8 hds...

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11003.m43.l1123/7?euid=71be81f5b1054671bbc6407985afc0f0&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D130577101141%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AB%3AEOIBSA%3AUS%3A1123 I was wondering what you all were thinking about this Fileserver. I Intend to...

I picked up and HP touchpad for 99 bucks. It was definitely worth it. If I had the money, I'd get an Asus transformer.

It looks nice, but Im looking for something closer to the 120-130 USD range.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Cyclone: let me know if you have any updates on your printer, that is the one I think i will get (though, might be hard to find, especially if you found it at a thrift store). There is no newer model of the HP LaserJet4m? or what would be the upgraded/newest...

Just a black/white. Hows that HP working for you? Clear text (going to be printing lots of that) and is it fast? Ahhh, I just looked at it, its a multifunction, which I like, but its takes cartridges like an ink jet. I would like the multi/function but not an ink jet. Those cartridges are...

No one? Bump please? Anxious college student with bday money soon

I was familiar with the HP laserjet 4m, and was wondering if there is now a better model to buy. I have a fairly in flexible (+/-10 bux) 125 USD for a laserjet printer. What would be a great option for a college student, who can do a lot printing.

SDHC, the fastest class is definitely faster than usb3.0, not sure the popularity / price point of usb3.0 drives makes it worth it.

Wan't doing much else (CPU-wise) wasn't an array build, just shuttling over some files. Have existing harddrives (mis-matched) and was looking into ZFS, as I hear it can take harddrives of all sizes.

Fellow [H]ardOcp'rs I am looking into establishing a sortve RAID5/zfs box. I have approx 1k USD, closer to 750 would be nicer, broke ass college student. My laptop lacks usb3, fw, and a pci/pcmcia slot. I have currently 2x1.5tb, 4x400 tb. I was only looking for some sort of enclosure/case with...

Budgets, usage (and frequency), capacity for backup or redundancy, and users will greatly help your fellow [H]ers

Gentlemen (and women), I have a Fujitsu N3530 Lifebook (sig) and its been having overheating issues lately. I used to be able to play FarCry all night long to my heart's content, and now, 45 minutes of heavy gaming will cause the laptop to shut off. After some analysis, its overheating. I...

Yes. I love the program, its a fantastic replacement for Windows' cut / copy / paste. You can resume transfers, change cache size, and better CRC checking. Its a must have for file transfers over a network. And its freeware! :D

Dunno about PCI-E but they have a sweet PCI-X one that runs just fine in a standard PCI slot (albeit at the reduced speeds). The SAT2-MV8 SATA. I thought they were slated to do a PCI-E revision of it, but not sure.

Have no experience with doing it myself, but all in all it depends on how valuable the data on that drive is. You could probably find the same hard drive for under 40 bux on ebay or craigslist, but the firmware revisions, and PCB revisions, would be difficult to ascertain, especially from a...

Also, try the freeware lightweight copying / moving program known as teracopy. http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php It lets you tweak some cache settings to enhance copying, and is VASTLY superior to the built-in copying / pasting methodology. Its a lot faster, and is resumable in case of...

Yup, 3DMark will do.

Should be -- as long as its not a word or a simple variation of a word. Its very difficult to crack open an encrypted archive, and the one's I've seen are simple brute force / dictionary crackers.

You're going to lose the data on the RAID0 stripe in reconfiguring that. Best way would be to back up the data to your JBOD area, and with another drive, RAID1 two matching drives, and restore over your data.

Yes. CS:S will run quite well on that Sempron rig, after the GPU upgrade.

Sounds like since its in your autoexec.bat, you will need to boot from a floppy or bootable cd, and either REM out that line, or simply remove it from your autoexec.bat. Hope you have access to another computer to make the floppy/cd-rom.

yup.

:p:D

If you can't slave it (run it as a non boot drive) in your system, as in it gives you massive BIOS errors, RMA the drive, its fried. If you can boot, hotswap and drop in the drive, does it show under device manager at all?

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/ResChange.shtml

Should be able to, SATA specs indicate hotswap capability, but check your controller's ability for it. To fix your laptop, see if you can get the laptop to boot from the OS's CD/DVD (with the harddrive in there) , and load the repair console, after booting from the disc.

I'm so confused about the RAM, its gotta have only a single slot, and i'm not aware anyone makes a 2 1/2 gig RAM module. edit: crap, double post, my bad.

http://eeepc.net/eee-pc-1002h-shows-up-at-the-asus-site/ D'oh. New EEE model, 1002H. Seems identical to the 1000HE, a slight bit slimmer, a bit lighter, but its a smaller battery than the 1000HE. Asus is rocking the # skus / month battle, just wish there was more of a difference between...

As far as the connector goes, I would salvage the failed one, and splice the leads from the new fan onto that. Not sure about sizing issues, though your best bet would be to simply measure the failed one, or stuff in one that isnt the right size, but fits anyways. Get a delta fan, it...

damn, i was about to get my sweet lady H on. Wrong sort've needles.

Just guessing here, but I think that even though its a good deal (especially with the upgraded RAM, NIC, and HSF). 400 for a used netbook is a bit high. :shrugs: i'll trade you my new 1000HE for it, I upgraded the RAM to 2 gigs.