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Ha, I did my whole correction without even reading the sentence, based only upon often misunderstood use of the word "data," and then wrote the sentence out myself myself. I should have noticed this. Good catch, you are correct :)

This is incorrect. (not "This are incorrect.") Data is the plural of datum. Use "is" with singular subjects, and "are" with plural ones. But things can be tricky; in the case of this very sentence, I use "is" with the subject "data," as I am referring to this word as a singular term (the one...

Even though the M1060 wasn't specifically listed in the excluded product list for BRIGTHEN20 originally, it was added and is now excluded.

Would be nice to finally replace stolen computers. =)

Incorrect statement at the second sentence. TLC NAND does not have "three charge states," rather, TLC stores 3 bits per cell, requiring 8 gate voltage states. Completely different.

He's also a narcissistic xenophobic twerp who gets way too much credit for his thrown achievements. I'm glad he's not been doing so well in SC2.

It's Jony Ive. He's a primary figure behind the non-discoverability and aesthetic ugliness found in today's UX designs. I'm sure he loves the comparison, and might even deserve it.

Alternative?

So some oversensationalized nonsense notion amplified to extremes some 15 years ago regarding one specific line of drives from a manufacturer will stop you from buying a brand, whereas the under-reported massive WD failures of the early 2000s did no such thing for you, the Seagate firmware...

Steve, you'd be hard pressed to post a more useless review as a front page post.

It has the colors. All of them. I lol'd. I guess the people who react positively to this ridiculous marketing are the same dimwits who still need to stare at a keyboard that's had a similar layout for over 2 decades now.

6950 has been going strong for some time, but more GPU compute power wouldn't be bad... Too bad I'm not lucky =)

Why would you have to discard it? You could get the ODA without the ODAC, and use the ODAC with the ODA when it comes out. Otherwise, based on what you said, you can get some other brand DAC and throw it out when you get the ODA... (ODAC+O2 user here, waiting for the ODA to tidy up cabling)

I have so many Antec 300's around the house...cheap little LAN party rigs. Still rocking my legit FBI-tagged P182 as well...long story. =)

Uh...how is sharing things "bad news?" How is reduction in people sharing things "good news?"

Sadly, editors don't understand facts. This is just one of many blatant inaccuracies in recent articles. Yay, southern ignorance! =)

Vsync limits the display to multiples of 60? I thought it was factors of the vertical refresh rate, meaning typically factors of 60... (11 pages later, nobody else thought this. Am I wrong? Do people even care about blatant inaccuracies?)

Honestly, they're right...spend $50 on craigslist for an abundant p4/2.4 and don't worry about the hardware RAID. The computer would be faster as a bonus. Hell, I have p4/2.4 and faster systems just given to me lately... I would give you one if you lived close to me.

Enough praise for Corsair in this thread? (there should be; they deserve it) Proud owner of multiple Corsair PSUs and memories for a reason =)

Finally... a fast card from the green camp to develop and test cross-platform GPU applications on. Maybe? Unlikely?

Why do I need an SSD in my rig? Well, have you seen the price of HDDs lately? ;( Really, though, my not-too-old-but-aging notebook could use SSD access speeds.. And Corsair, as a brand, has really stood out over the last few years...I dare say unmatched. All my machines have something Corsair...

My expander arrived with no cables. The only ones I have are 1M long so it has made cabling a bit of a troublesome task. My rig is an X8SI6-F using the on-board LSI2008 flashed to 9211-8i IT, dual linked to the SAS expander and using a Norco 4224... will be used for ZFS...question: Is the...

My HD103UIs have a very...unique spinup sound, kind of like a plastic squeak. When I first heard it I thought the drives were damaged, but it's normal. My HD204UIs didn't seem to have much for unique acoustics but I've only heard them in loud environments. I keep my spindles turning 24/7.

"Silent." Yeah. Maybe that's why. With current memory process, your error rates are off by at least an order of magnitude.

I have a couple of terabytes of photos, and the most recent year or so is stored on my main photography rig. All, including the most recent year, are stored on a 12TB ZFS RAIDZ2 volume on the fileserver. I back up the most important shoots in full on DVDs and store them at a friends house, and...

Your information isn't clear enough to say what the problem is. The only thing I could identify is likely a SMART error on startup but without very specific wording copied verbatim, this is only a guess. Is the "black and blue screen" a Windows bootup screen? Were you running XP? (edit...

I feel it is an issue. But you see, you've bought into the Intel hype. Many AMD desktop boards support ECC memory. Nearly all AMD CPUs support ECC memory. ECC memory doesn't command a large price premium, and the chance of double-bit errors is quite small compared to correctable single-bit...

Running all 3 of the same exact drives can have benefits and downfalls. Benefits are that drives perform similarly; latencies tend not to be as high and many RAID firmwares expect similar drives for performance and can't compensate well. This tends to only affect small, random reads and...

Keep in mind that using your existing E8500 system, your average additional consumption should be no more than $.20/day, closer to $.10...

My big server does. My small auxiliary fileserver does not. Most AMD desktop systems will work with unregistered ECC. Any new desktops I build will have ECC RAM. With the speeds and small process sizes we're hitting now, undetected corruption is becoming pervasive. I'm still baffled that...

Carlitos714, if your plan is to upgrade your HTPC and use the E8500 as your fileserver, that sounds like a decent use of existing resources without spending too much money. Downclocking and undervolting can save in power, and you don't need more than 2GHz for your application. I can't really...

Pentium D 945 is not low power, not by a long shot. Mati71, WHS may work for you, but if you have nothing Windows-specific that needs to run on a separate box and you want just a fileserver, look at the various fileserver-only distros out there. There are numerous advantages - such as most...

Answer to Question 3), invert to answer Question 4) -- Make sure that if you are putting all your media on one drive, that you have backups of this drive. And if you put this media on more than one drive, put it on yet one more. :)

Re: mainboard, I'd recommend an Atom, AMD Brazos or AMD Athlon system with DDR3 - all will be cheaper. Re: OS, that's your choice. I'm a Linux guy, in that I don't use Windows at all at home. I've started using the ZFS on Linux kernel module for ZFS support. If you don't need anything...

Re: response, I also received a quick response. I had to call a couple times to get contact with him on the phone but I was able to place an order and the expander shipped the same day.

I've got 5x HD204UI and 3x 5K3000 in a RAIDZ2 working flawlessly. It sucks that Samsung and Hitachi were bought out, as they were the last of the 3.5" manufacturers who actually built drives that work.

Your source is incorrect, and treadstone and aphasia are correct: you take the female plug and plug it into the male connector on the hard drive.

If you have a WODE, it can network load ISOs. Haven't tested it myself but intend to soon, now that I finally have a TV to play games on.

He means the firmware update will destroy data on the device. Regardless, even though you know that now, do you have an answer for this person?

I'd be pissed if I gave that guy any money... in that not only was it not used for what it was bragged to be used for, but that in the end, it was given to an unfair, questionable organization. (After all, unless it is something that brings them in the light for more donations, the EFF really...