Posted by Stealth on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 04:52am
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So sp0rk.. I got my first shipment in of new drives. 4 1.5tb drives with 5 more to be ordered soon. I'm going to try the software raid method of setting up and expanding the drives. The last time I tried it on the RAID controller, I lost the controller (FAIL) and linux went and got hung. Sucked. Luckily I was able to recover the data using a different controller.

So, time to test out the MDRAID crap and see how well that works.

There will be a planned outage some time in the future with a notification before downtime, once I get all the drives in and I'm ready to do the upgrade.

7.5TB on the way.. w0000t

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 06:48am
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7.5TB on the way.. w0000t

That's sick dude!

I'm STILL waiting for WD to RMA my drives!!!!!! It's been almost a month since I put the order in. Ugh!

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 01:13pm
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7.5TB on the way.. w0000t

That's sick dude!

I'm STILL waiting for WD to RMA my drives!!!!!! It's been almost a month since I put the order in. Ugh!

Yeah. I'm thinking I won't have to change up for a while., at least another 2 or 3 years. Maybe by then they will have a better home NAS solution.. or I could at least start deleting things.

Posted by Caliber on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 07:57am
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7.5TB on the way.. w0000t

That's sick dude!

I'm STILL waiting for WD to RMA my drives!!!!!! It's been almost a month since I put the order in. Ugh!

They must know that you are one of the 4 fags that hate Robocop

Posted by MadArab on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 05:51am
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I'm STILL waiting for WD to RMA my drives!!!!!! It's been almost a month since I put the order in. Ugh!

They must know that you are one of the 4 fags that hate Robocop

The HD died when I accidentally put a copy of Robocop on it.

Posted by voltaic on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 07:05am
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The HD died when I accidentally put a copy of Robocop on it.

"Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"

Posted by unicron on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 07:59am
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"Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"

"Bitches, leave."

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 01:11pm
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7.5TB on the way.. w0000t

That's sick dude!

I'm STILL waiting for WD to RMA my drives!!!!!! It's been almost a month since I put the order in. Ugh!

They must know that you are one of the 4 fags that hate Robocop

DAMN!

Posted by chief on Monday September 25, 2006 @ 07:35pm
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Yay, it worked. OK, well i have been using the new monitor fir about a week now and damn..... Its like a piece of hot blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream on top >D Anyways, i thought i would take some comparison shots, just to show you guys wtf i have been dealing with. *shrug* My laptop sucks.

#1

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You have to click on the picture for full view.

Posted by MadArab on Wednesday October 4, 2006 @ 07:05pm
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Is this the monitor you got?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

Anyone have any input? Looking to get a 19" LCD... lots of choices with response, contrast ratio, brightness, etc etc.

Posted by chief on Thursday October 5, 2006 @ 05:24pm
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

Anyone have any input? Looking to get a 19" LCD... lots of choices with response, contrast ratio, brightness, etc etc.

Me sorry... yeah, same one. I have done some minor photo editing, but i cant really do anything yet. My laptop has a hard enough time just tryin to draw to the high resolution [yeah i know, but yes, my laptop is *that* old!] so i cannot really tryout any real photo stuff on it. And i am comparing it to a really old and obviously crappy laptop, so maybe its just OK.... I can tell you, that i have had none of the problems, and i see none of the weird ghosting effects that i kept hearing about for the longest time. The 2ms rating really shows. I have been able to game on it quite a bit and i have seen none of these "ghosting effects", or whatever. And i play Natural Selection, so i go from a dark ass area, to gun barrel flash and back to the dark again, which is from what i read and have heard when i asked, what causes the ghosting "most". So yeah, no problems with color, noghosting... Oh yeah, and i have also heard that when you use LCD monitors outside of their native resolution, they do weird things. But at least with my monitor, i have not had these problems. I also keep it in a somewhat cool area [since i am scared shitless of heat around my electronics] and have gamed at 800X600 and 1024X768 almost daily since i got it, and have had 0 problems. Didnt notice anything once so far *shrug* Im glad i made the purchase! hope this helps BTW....


The other 2 things i also heard about... with vignetting at the edges, dont notice that with my photo stuff so... *shrug* And i also do not notice any of the angle problems people are having. I guess its just because i dont try to look at it, at like a 45 degree angle... [idiots...] I guess if i had friends watching me play, they might notice but um.... yeah, dont care. I move left and right when running in HalfLife DM and NS online and notice nothing. In fact i have not even thought about it until now, so if you are looking for a gaming monitor [19inch LCD], id say its probably the best choice. But i have read that other slower monitors provide better color contrast for photo editing, but then you might as well get an Apple display right-

Posted by MadArab on Thursday October 5, 2006 @ 10:25pm
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I went ahead and got it tonight. I paid $50 extra and got it at Frys. I figured this way if I had a dead pixel or two, I could just take it back and get another, if I didn't and it's perfect, then I'll suck up the loss. Fuckit, I just worked 43 1/2 hours overtime last payperiod, and today was payday, I'm not going to quibble over $50 for the comfort of returning it easily.

So far I'm loving it. Although I'm probably going to have to get rid of my docking station. I've had my 17" LCD sitting on top of the docking station, and it was ok. But this monitor sits higher, and of course bigger... I need to bring it down a little. heh

It's friggin sharp, bright and beautiful. Loving it.

Posted by Stealth on Friday October 6, 2006 @ 09:12am
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great option.. i would be locally if I could. In fact, I might be picking up some things when I'm up in Seattle next week. Ship them over.

Posted by MadArab on Friday October 6, 2006 @ 01:26pm
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great option.. i would be locally if I could. In fact, I might be picking up some things when I'm up in Seattle next week. Ship them over.

After running these tests, I think I have 2 dead or light or something Pixels... one to the top left, and one kinda on the far right, almost at the edge.

http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixels.html

Posted by Stealth on Thursday October 5, 2006 @ 10:24am
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Is this the monitor you got?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

Anyone have any input? Looking to get a 19" LCD... lots of choices with response, contrast ratio, brightness, etc etc.

I've got a VZA912b.. i like it a lot. It's got DVI and svga. quick screen response, no ghosting, sharp colors. I'd say go with a viewsonic. but then again.. my game monitor is a Dell 20" LCD, the model before this new one. It's VERY nice. very pretty, very quick.

Posted by chief on Thursday October 5, 2006 @ 05:29pm
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Nice... everyone i asked in forums and whatnot also said if i didnt get the Viewsonic for gaming to get a dell. I almost went for it, but Viewsonic had a deal through Cyberpowerpc, so i went ahead and got this one. Im happy with it-

Posted by Stealth on Friday October 6, 2006 @ 09:10am
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Nice... everyone i asked in forums and whatnot also said if i didnt get the Viewsonic for gaming to get a dell. I almost went for it, but Viewsonic had a deal through Cyberpowerpc, so i went ahead and got this one. Im happy with it-

well I already had the dell, so I got the viewsonic for my HDTV and movie watching.. heheh

I hope your machine has no problems and you get in ok.

Posted by MadArab on Thursday October 5, 2006 @ 10:44am
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Is this the monitor you got?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

Anyone have any input? Looking to get a 19" LCD... lots of choices with response, contrast ratio, brightness, etc etc.

I've got a VZA912b.. i like it a lot. It's got DVI and svga. quick screen response, no ghosting, sharp colors. I'd say go with a viewsonic. but then again.. my game monitor is a Dell 20" LCD, the model before this new one. It's VERY nice. very pretty, very quick.

I saw on ViewSonics site, they have another 19" on sale... not sure if it's better than the one I posted or not.
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx924/

this is the one I posted from Newegg:
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx922/

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @ 01:49pm
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You have to click on the picture for full view.

Wow man.. big difference. I'm glad you got something that helps you out.

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @ 07:25am
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Nice... that makes me want to run out and replace my Dell LCD right now!

Posted by Krux on Monday September 25, 2006 @ 09:01pm
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I still need to take a picture of my setup... of course I need to clean my damn desk first.. but just picture two Viewsonic VP201s monitors side by side, a combined 3200x1200 of desktop space, with a whole lot of mail, tools, CDs, wires, books, and other bits of scrap paper in front of them.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 02:16pm
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interesting problem.. during the copy of the data from one to the other one of the drives went off-line.. I hit the power button on the drive chassis, waited about 30 seconds and turned it back on.. all good. Humm.. Could be because I have been running the drives non-stop for the past 20+ hours copying the data from one to the other. I'm seeing about 80 Mbits across the connection. I kind of expected better.. but eh.. it's ok. I might get off the nFroce4 chip Gig NIC and and put in a 3Com Gig card and give that a go. Other then that.. user accounts have been copied over and they work good.. Cacti is up and running and I've just got to tweak the syslog and folder settings.

Posted by MadArab on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 02:51pm
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interesting problem.. during the copy of the data from one to the other one of the drives went off-line.. I hit the power button on the drive chassis, waited about 30 seconds and turned it back on.. all good. Humm.. Could be because I have been running the drives non-stop for the past 20+ hours copying the data from one to the other. I'm seeing about 80 Mbits across the connection. I kind of expected better.. but eh.. it's ok. I might get off the nFroce4 chip Gig NIC and and put in a 3Com Gig card and give that a go. Other then that.. user accounts have been copied over and they work good.. Cacti is up and running and I've just got to tweak the syslog and folder settings.

Interesting... not quite the same, but last night one of my large drives vanished while I was transferring a shitload of data last night. Rebooted, no errors, no nothing... drive was back a-ok.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 03:30pm
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interesting problem.. during the copy of the data from one to the other one of the drives went off-line.. I hit the power button on the drive chassis, waited about 30 seconds and turned it back on.. all good. Humm.. Could be because I have been running the drives non-stop for the past 20+ hours copying the data from one to the other. I'm seeing about 80 Mbits across the connection. I kind of expected better.. but eh.. it's ok. I might get off the nFroce4 chip Gig NIC and and put in a 3Com Gig card and give that a go. Other then that.. user accounts have been copied over and they work good.. Cacti is up and running and I've just got to tweak the syslog and folder settings.

Interesting... not quite the same, but last night one of my large drives vanished while I was transferring a shitload of data last night. Rebooted, no errors, no nothing... drive was back a-ok.

I like the fact that the drive continued to copy and then when the drive came back.. it just starts rebuilding. The RAID card is great. Oh yeah.. and there is a web interface to turn off the alarm and check the stats so I don't even have to reboot to stop that crazy buzzing. I should see if there is some good command line tools.

Posted by MadArab on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 05:41pm
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Speaking of drives... in a RAID5 you're ok to mix and match drives so long as they're of the same size, right?

The reason I ask... *sigh* I ordered 2 400GB drives from Outpost while they were on sale, but before I was planning this whole system. Then I decided to build this thing, and bought 2 more seagate drives from Frys, also 400GB SATAII 16MB buffer.

I've just realized that 2 are 7200.9 and 2 are 7200.10.

From what I've found and read so far, I think I'm ok... just wondering what you think.

Posted by Krux on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 06:41pm
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Speaking of drives... in a RAID5 you're ok to mix and match drives so long as they're of the same size, right?

The reason I ask... *sigh* I ordered 2 400GB drives from Outpost while they were on sale, but before I was planning this whole system. Then I decided to build this thing, and bought 2 more seagate drives from Frys, also 400GB SATAII 16MB buffer.

I've just realized that 2 are 7200.9 and 2 are 7200.10.

From what I've found and read so far, I think I'm ok... just wondering what you think.

It'll use the size of the smallest drive in the array.

Posted by MadArab on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 09:04pm
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I've just realized that 2 are 7200.9 and 2 are 7200.10.

From what I've found and read so far, I think I'm ok... just wondering what you think.

It'll use the size of the smallest drive in the array.

My only concern was that the 7200.10's utilize the newer Perpendicular recording, the 7200.9's do not... so I didn't know if this would be an issue.

Posted by Krux on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 09:12pm
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I've just realized that 2 are 7200.9 and 2 are 7200.10.

From what I've found and read so far, I think I'm ok... just wondering what you think.

It'll use the size of the smallest drive in the array.

My only concern was that the 7200.10's utilize the newer Perpendicular recording, the 7200.9's do not... so I didn't know if this would be an issue.

It'll work.. it just might not be the most optimum of setups. So the slower drives are going to affect the overall raid performance. But the controller itself shouldn't care.

Posted by Stealth on Friday September 8, 2006 @ 08:03am
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I've just realized that 2 are 7200.9 and 2 are 7200.10.

From what I've found and read so far, I think I'm ok... just wondering what you think.

It'll use the size of the smallest drive in the array.

My only concern was that the 7200.10's utilize the newer Perpendicular recording, the 7200.9's do not... so I didn't know if this would be an issue.

It'll work.. it just might not be the most optimum of setups. So the slower drives are going to affect the overall raid performance. But the controller itself shouldn't care.

I thought the Perpendicular recording was just for more density.. and a few other things. But like krux said.. the RAID controller should have no problems with the different drives.

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 8, 2006 @ 10:07am
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My only concern was that the 7200.10's utilize the newer Perpendicular recording, the 7200.9's do not... so I didn't know if this would be an issue.

It'll work.. it just might not be the most optimum of setups. So the slower drives are going to affect the overall raid performance. But the controller itself shouldn't care.

I thought the Perpendicular recording was just for more density.. and a few other things. But like krux said.. the RAID controller should have no problems with the different drives.

Ok cool... I thought so, but just wanted to make sure.

Thanks!

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 09:30am
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I thought the Perpendicular recording was just for more density.. and a few other things. But like krux said.. the RAID controller should have no problems with the different drives.

Ok cool... I thought so, but just wanted to make sure.

funny you bring this up. That failed array I had earlier.. it turns out it was because one of my drives had died, I couldn't bring it up on another machine or anything else. So.. I've just tossed in Maxtor while I get a replacement for the Seagate.. Rebuilt the array in 2 hours with no increased CPU load and the array is happy. Let's see how long NewEgg takes to get me a new drive.

Posted by MadArab on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 09:44am
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funny you bring this up. That failed array I had earlier.. it turns out it was because one of my drives had died, I couldn't bring it up on another machine or anything else. So.. I've just tossed in Maxtor while I get a replacement for the Seagate.. Rebuilt the array in 2 hours with no increased CPU load and the array is happy. Let's see how long NewEgg takes to get me a new drive.

They're usually pretty fast, although you being overseas I dunno. Would it be faster to just RMA with Seagate?

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 09:46am
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funny you bring this up. That failed array I had earlier.. it turns out it was because one of my drives had died, I couldn't bring it up on another machine or anything else. So.. I've just tossed in Maxtor while I get a replacement for the Seagate.. Rebuilt the array in 2 hours with no increased CPU load and the array is happy. Let's see how long NewEgg takes to get me a new drive.

They're usually pretty fast, although you being overseas I dunno. Would it be faster to just RMA with Seagate?

ehh.. either case it has to go to NY for an APO.. then over to me. It's probably the same time to either place.

Posted by MadArab on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 09:50am
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ehh.. either case it has to go to NY for an APO.. then over to me. It's probably the same time to either place.

well... hope the rest of the drives run solid. With that amount, I think you're almost expecting 1 out of the batch to be bad (although you shouldn't!!!). But now that Seagate is throwing the 5 year warranty out there, I'm a hard core convert. Especially with Maxtors no longer having 5 year warranties.

Posted by voltaic on Thursday September 14, 2006 @ 03:44pm
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Seagate 300Gb SATA drives 16Mb cache
$80, no rebate needed, free shipping
from Outpost (Fry's online store)

http://www.slickdeals.net/#p8081

Posted by voltaic on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 11:31am
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But now that Seagate is throwing the 5 year warranty out there, I'm a hard core convert. Especially with Maxtors no longer having 5 year warranties.

QFT

Posted by Krux on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 01:31pm
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But now that Seagate is throwing the 5 year warranty out there, I'm a hard core convert. Especially with Maxtors no longer having 5 year warranties.

QFT

Queens Film Theatre?

Posted by MadArab on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 05:04pm
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QFT

Queens Film Theatre?

Yeah... that's it.

Posted by MadArab on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 12:24pm
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But now that Seagate is throwing the 5 year warranty out there, I'm a hard core convert. Especially with Maxtors no longer having 5 year warranties.

QFT

YEAH BOOOOYYYYYYY!!

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 9, 2006 @ 09:52am
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ehh.. either case it has to go to NY for an APO.. then over to me. It's probably the same time to either place.

well... hope the rest of the drives run solid. With that amount, I think you're almost expecting 1 out of the batch to be bad (although you shouldn't!!!). But now that Seagate is throwing the 5 year warranty out there, I'm a hard core convert. Especially with Maxtors no longer having 5 year warranties.

Yeah.. I was actually very happy none of them where DOA.. 8 drives.. I mean DAMN The fact that one died about 30 hours into the 48 hour copy isn't too bad.. and it's good that it was caught then and not later. And once that Seagate comes back I'll swab the Maxtor back out and put the Seagate back in.

Posted by voltaic on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 12:47pm
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

NO I CANNOT CHANGE MY BROWSER SETTINGS NOR CAN I USE A DIFFERENT ONE AT WORK.

Posted by Caliber on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 02:28am
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

NO I CANNOT CHANGE MY BROWSER SETTINGS NOR CAN I USE A DIFFERENT ONE AT WORK.

wah wah ;)

Posted by Krux on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 08:51pm
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

No sorry needed. The only reason why I didn't is it isn't in a thread that everyone can see.

NO I CANNOT CHANGE MY BROWSER SETTINGS NOR CAN I USE A DIFFERENT ONE AT WORK.

You should get a new job man. Stop being oppressed by THE MAN.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 01:52pm
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

No sorry needed. The only reason why I didn't is it isn't in a thread that everyone can see.

Really.. I thought the St00ph channel was open to all.. interesting

Posted by Krux on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 03:04pm
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

No sorry needed. The only reason why I didn't is it isn't in a thread that everyone can see.

Really.. I thought the St00ph channel was open to all.. interesting

Well, yea, everyone can see the stealth channel... I just assumed people ignored your posts.

Posted by Caliber on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 06:55pm
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

No sorry needed. The only reason why I didn't is it isn't in a thread that everyone can see.

Really.. I thought the St00ph channel was open to all.. interesting

Well, yea, everyone can see the stealth channel... I just assumed people ignored your posts.

who is Stealth again... does he ever post here?

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 03:15pm
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Sorry I had to edit the OP. I was tired of getting the "load insecure images on this https page?" fucking popup in IE. Besides, Krux's general policy is no images on the main page.

No sorry needed. The only reason why I didn't is it isn't in a thread that everyone can see.

Really.. I thought the St00ph channel was open to all.. interesting

Well, yea, everyone can see the stealth channel... I just assumed people ignored your posts.

well then things are all normal then.

Posted by voltaic on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:54am
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Since this is now the massive storage discussion thread ;)

All Western Digital drives up to 50% off this week in store at OfficeMax. Whatever they have in the store is supposedly included, even if not marked on the shelf. This was in a printed ad. http://slickdeals.net/#p8038

4x 320Gb drives plus a cheaper RAID5 card = 1Tb online for about $300. Noice!

Posted by MadArab on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 05:30am
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Since this is now the massive storage discussion thread ;)

All Western Digital drives up to 50% off this week in store at OfficeMax. Whatever they have in the store is supposedly included, even if not marked on the shelf. This was in a printed ad. http://slickdeals.net/#p8038

4x 320Gb drives plus a cheaper RAID5 card = 1Tb online for about $300. Noice!

I saw that... it's a great deal... although the WD hard drives are only packing a 1 year warranty I think. But nice non the less.

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 12:47am
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Since this is now the massive storage discussion thread ;)

All Western Digital drives up to 50% off this week in store at OfficeMax. Whatever they have in the store is supposedly included, even if not marked on the shelf. This was in a printed ad. http://slickdeals.net/#p8038

Wow. 50% makes there drives close to actual prices.. since they (Office Depot) normally charge an ass ton more for their hardware.

4x 320Gb drives plus a cheaper RAID5 card = 1Tb online for about $300. Noice!

Posted by MadArab on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 05:32am
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Wow. 50% makes there drives close to actual prices.. since they (Office Depot) normally charge an ass ton more for their hardware.

They don't mark up 50% over other places... not for drives. $60 for a 320 is a great deal.

Posted by Krux on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 08:56pm
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Wow. 50% makes there drives close to actual prices.. since they (Office Depot) normally charge an ass ton more for their hardware.

They don't mark up 50% over other places... not for drives. $60 for a 320 is a great deal.

I have to point out that they would have to mark up the prices 100 percent for a 50 percent discount to return the drives to normal price. If they marked up the prices 50% and then decreased them 50%, your end price would be 75% of the original price.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 01:54pm
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Wow. 50% makes there drives close to actual prices.. since they (Office Depot) normally charge an ass ton more for their hardware.

They don't mark up 50% over other places... not for drives. $60 for a 320 is a great deal.

I have to point out that they would have to mark up the prices 100 percent for a 50 percent discount to return the drives to normal price. If they marked up the prices 50% and then decreased them 50%, your end price would be 75% of the original price.

I was just saying that most of the time drive at Office Max or Office depot are more expensive, by a decent amount, then the prices at Best Buy or Fry's

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I was just saying that most of the time drive at Office Max or Office depot are more expensive, by a decent amount, then the prices at Best Buy or Fry's

Best Buy is just as bad. Frys is maybe $10-20 less (excluding sales, etc).

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 07:38am
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Who wants to see it blink.. you know you do.

Posted by Krux on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 08:20pm
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Who wants to see it blink.. you know you do.

Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it.

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 12:50am
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Who wants to see it blink.. you know you do.

Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it.

what would you like me to use? ANSI art. I went from the 15 meg from the camera, rotated, dropped the sound and got it down to 4 meg.. I'll look at something that will work in linux.

Posted by Krux on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:07pm
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Who wants to see it blink.. you know you do.

Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it.

what would you like me to use? ANSI art. I went from the 15 meg from the camera, rotated, dropped the sound and got it down to 4 meg.. I'll look at something that will work in linux.

I don't care how much you compressed it. The file could be a gig if you really wanted. It's size isn't the reason why I couldn't play it under Linux. The proprietary codec you used is the problem.

But as for Linux codecs.Any of these:

http://sol4.net/downloads/vid1.shtml

Youtube and google video also work well and are easy for people, since they don't have to download anything..

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 02:04pm
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I don't care how much you compressed it. The file could be a gig if you really wanted. It's size isn't the reason why I couldn't play it under Linux. The proprietary codec you used is the problem.

But as for Linux codecs.Any of these:

http://sol4.net/downloads/vid1.shtml

Youtube and google video also work well and are easy for people, since they don't have to download anything..

but I need an account to post don't I.. and I don't want to make accounts on goofy pages.Plus.. I don't want everyone to see it.. that's all.

Ok.. try this. It's DivX encoded.. it was on your list. :-)

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but I need an account to post don't I.. and I don't want to make accounts on goofy pages.Plus.. I don't want everyone to see it.. that's all.

Do we have to go through this again?? I created an account on YouTube for all to use.

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but I need an account to post don't I.. and I don't want to make accounts on goofy pages.Plus.. I don't want everyone to see it.. that's all.

Do we have to go through this again?? I created an account on YouTube for all to use.

Stealth has sand in his pussy.

Posted by voltaic on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 04:07pm
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Stealth has sand in his pussy.

Says the guy who wrote: "Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it."

Posted by Stealth on Friday September 8, 2006 @ 08:08am
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Stealth has sand in his pussy.

Says the guy who wrote: "Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it."

Nice.

Posted by Krux on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 06:44pm
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Stealth has sand in his pussy.

Says the guy who wrote: "Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it."

Both his fault. Besides, you couldn't view it either.

Posted by Caliber on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 06:58pm
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Stealth has sand in his pussy.

Says the guy who wrote: "Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it."

Both his fault. Besides, you couldn't view it either.

in your defense, you never did say that you, in fact, did not also have sand in your pussy...

Posted by Krux on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 07:02pm
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Stealth has sand in his pussy.

Says the guy who wrote: "Yea, how about you use a non-proprietary codec, so I have some hope of viewing it."

Both his fault. Besides, you couldn't view it either.

in your defense, you never did say that you, in fact, did not also have sand in your pussy...

I hear they make a cream for that.

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but I need an account to post don't I.. and I don't want to make accounts on goofy pages.Plus.. I don't want everyone to see it.. that's all.

Do we have to go through this again?? I created an account on YouTube for all to use.

Stealth has sand in his pussy.

yeah.. you know how I roll.

Posted by voltaic on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:07am
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Animated GIFs may work for him. I think they support those in Linux now.

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Animated GIFs may work for him. I think they support those in Linux now.

If he's just showing some blinking lights, probably would be all you would really need anyway. How about I just look at the jpeg and open and close my eyes.

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Animated GIFs may work for him. I think they support those in Linux now.

If he's just showing some blinking lights, probably would be all you would really need anyway. How about I just look at the jpeg and open and close my eyes.

but can you open and close them 30 times a second? i think not. tosser.

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Hahaha! Awesome.

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what would you like me to use? ANSI art. I went from the 15 meg from the camera, rotated, dropped the sound and got it down to 4 meg.. I'll look at something that will work in linux.

YouTube?

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File codec not supported by WMP v9.

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File codec not supported by WMP v9.

so odd. Humm..normal "Indeo® video 5.10 Decompression Filter". Try grabbing it via scp (when you leave work) and tell me if you still get the error. I suppose I could re-compress it with something else.

Also.. you might try this http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

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File codec not supported by WMP v9.

so odd. Humm..normal "Indeo® video 5.10 Decompression Filter". Try grabbing it via scp (when you leave work) and tell me if you still get the error. I suppose I could re-compress it with something else.

Also.. you might try this http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

Again... that's a windows only codec.

Posted by voltaic on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:08am
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Best tool for the job, unless it's Windows. Linux kicks ass. yawn

Posted by Krux on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:15pm
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Best tool for the job, unless it's Windows. Linux kicks ass. yawn

Hey, I'm not Doug... I have a windows machine.. but it's down stairs and I don't really run air conditioner down there, since I'm being cheap. The laptop is upstairs and running GenToo. Since all I do is web browsing with Firefox, and ssh into my server, that pretty much covers everything I ever do. I also run gaim, xmms, xine, pan and gimp to cover my IM, mp3, video, newsgroup, and image editing needs.

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Yeah I wasn't snarking at you, but at LUG people in general (none of whom will probably ever read this message, natch).

Posted by MadArab on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 10:17am
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Yeah I wasn't snarking at you, but at LUG people in general (none of whom will probably ever read this message, natch).

I read a few messages every month or so from the LUG... and roll my eyes and carry on with life.

Posted by Caliber on Thursday September 7, 2006 @ 12:21pm
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Yeah I wasn't snarking at you, but at LUG people in general (none of whom will probably ever read this message, natch).

I read a few messages every month or so from the LUG... and roll my eyes and carry on with life.

I roll my eyes at people who roll their eyes ;)

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I'm actually at home today, but still couldn't get it to work. I haven't installed any extra codecs since formatting so let me try again with that pack...

OK with the media pack and the included player (classic ed), it works. Thanks dude.

Also: cool blinky lights! That shit really looks like the Gibson. Heheh

Posted by MadArab on Monday September 4, 2006 @ 02:50pm
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So... I'm thinking of putting together a system. I'd really like a nice RAID controller, but it's just not in the budget. And my experience with my cheap $35 RAID card wasn't so hot in my Dell... so I'm looking at a "better" RAID card... although it's still not up to par with something like you have.

How's this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115027

I just gobbled up 4 - 400GB Seagate SATA II drives from Frys & Outpost. Caught them for $99/each.

Gonna get 1 of your BackPlane drive bays
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817119404

This is the case I'm looking at (but in black)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129154

No idea on power supply or mobo or anything. Although, I guess most motherboards have RAID built in too... so I'll use 2 of my 250GB drives for the OS and stuff, and have them mirrored.

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So... I'm thinking of putting together a system. I'd really like a nice RAID controller, but it's just not in the budget. And my experience with my cheap $35 RAID card wasn't so hot in my Dell... so I'm looking at a "better" RAID card... although it's still not up to par with something like you have.

How's this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115027

Yeah, so I'm having issues already. Finally got everything from Newegg and realized I'd picked up the wrong power supply. While I got the TruePower 2.0 550, it didn't have the 24pin connector AND the other 4 pin ATX12V connector. Man, every time I build a machine, there is all this new shit I have no idea about. So I took the power supply back to Frys and got an Antec NEO HE 500, which has all the right connectors, but doesn't stay turned on. If I only have the 24 pin in, all the fans stay on, but I get no post. If I add the 4 pin, the fans all spin up, but shut back down a few seconds later. So far, no display from any approach. Have to start searching the ASUS forums and see if I'm missing something.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 14, 2006 @ 10:32am
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So... I'm thinking of putting together a system. I'd really like a nice RAID controller, but it's just not in the budget. And my experience with my cheap $35 RAID card wasn't so hot in my Dell... so I'm looking at a "better" RAID card... although it's still not up to par with something like you have.

How's this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115027

Yeah, so I'm having issues already. Finally got everything from Newegg and realized I'd picked up the wrong power supply. While I got the TruePower 2.0 550, it didn't have the 24pin connector AND the other 4 pin ATX12V connector. Man, every time I build a machine, there is all this new shit I have no idea about. So I took the power supply back to Frys and got an Antec NEO HE 500, which has all the right connectors, but doesn't stay turned on. If I only have the 24 pin in, all the fans stay on, but I get no post. If I add the 4 pin, the fans all spin up, but shut back down a few seconds later. So far, no display from any approach. Have to start searching the ASUS forums and see if I'm missing something.

that truepwer two should have 24 pin plus the 4 pin.. check again.. I have two of those and they are fully stacked with no problems..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103931 that guy.. right?

If it's a new CPU.. do use all 24 pins plus the 4 extra connector.. and some MB's also have an ADDITIONAL molex connector on the MB for extra juice.. see if yuo need that too. My DFI lanboy plays so much better with the extra plug in.

Posted by MadArab on Thursday September 14, 2006 @ 10:57am
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that truepwer two should have 24 pin plus the 4 pin.. check again.. I have two of those and they are fully stacked with no problems..

Like I said, I returned it. Trust me, it didn't have the connector. What I didn't realize is there are 2 different TruePower 2.0 550's. Mine was the EPS version, or something. It didn't have the extra 4 pin.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103931 that guy.. right?

If it's a new CPU.. do use all 24 pins plus the 4 extra connector.. and some MB's also have an ADDITIONAL molex connector on the MB for extra juice.. see if yuo need that too. My DFI lanboy plays so much better with the extra plug in.

That's what I'm trying to do with the new power supply, but no dice. It won't post, beep or anything. I contacted ASUS support, but having read afterward about how "quickly" they respond, I decided to just RMA it with Newegg anyway.

Let me add that the Antec Neo HE power supply is pretty kick ass! You only plug in the cables you need directly into the PSU, and all of the power cables are sheathed, so it looks nice and tidy.

Posted by MadArab on Monday September 18, 2006 @ 09:54am
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That's what I'm trying to do with the new power supply, but no dice. It won't post, beep or anything. I contacted ASUS support, but having read afterward about how "quickly" they respond, I decided to just RMA it with Newegg anyway.

Cool... the RMA has been received, approved and all that jazz, should be getting my new mobo sent out shortly. Then we'll get to see if it was a bad board, or if I'm a complete incompetent ninny!

Posted by MadArab on Thursday September 21, 2006 @ 09:56am
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Cool... the RMA has been received, approved and all that jazz, should be getting my new mobo sent out shortly. Then we'll get to see if it was a bad board, or if I'm a complete incompetent ninny!

Got the mobo back... did the SAME DAMN THING! Baffled, I said fuckit, and went back to Fry's for a THIRD power supply. Since I was getting instore credit, and I'd just got paid, I coughed up a little extra for a Thermaltake 650W power supply. Didn't even bother installing the power supply in the case this time, just plugged everything in, and presto... it worked!

Fuck me!! 1 Wrong Power Supply, 1 Bad Power Supply, 1 RMA'd Mobo (for no reason it seems) and we're almost in biznass! Now to trudge my way through all the new BIOS settings and stuff.

Posted by voltaic on Thursday September 21, 2006 @ 08:29pm
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That's what happens when you don't take my advice. ;)

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 05:46am
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That's what happens when you don't take my advice. ;)

right... which advice was that? The part about why the fuck am I building a RAID array, or advice from a past thread saying fuck Fry's, or am I missing some advice about not buying Antec power supplies?

Posted by voltaic on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 08:39am
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It was a joke. You see that little winkie face on there?

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 08:55am
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It was a joke. You see that little winkie face on there?

Oooohhhhh... sorry, it didn't turn it into an image of a winkie face, so I was lost... you know.

As a side note... Krux, can you please move the "Mark All Messages Read" link somewhere other than right under "Update Read Messages". Maybe I'm the only one, but I keep clicking on the wrong one by mistake, and it's annoying as all hell.

Posted by Krux on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 09:33am
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It was a joke. You see that little winkie face on there?

Oooohhhhh... sorry, it didn't turn it into an image of a winkie face, so I was lost... you know.

As a side note... Krux, can you please move the "Mark All Messages Read" link somewhere other than right under "Update Read Messages". Maybe I'm the only one, but I keep clicking on the wrong one by mistake, and it's annoying as all hell.

Ok... I'll try to do that this weekend.

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 10:12am
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Ok... I'll try to do that this weekend.

Thanks man... you da bomb. Or maybe make it pop up and ask you if you're sure you want to mark all messages read... anything would be better than having to dig through peoples message history to find the last 10 messages posted.

Posted by Krux on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 10:30am
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Ok... I'll try to do that this weekend.

Thanks man... you da bomb. Or maybe make it pop up and ask you if you're sure you want to mark all messages read... anything would be better than having to dig through peoples message history to find the last 10 messages posted.

One of the changes I want to eventually make to the code is to be able to set an arbitrary lastread date. So say if you wanted to mark everything within the past week as new, you could.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 21, 2006 @ 11:29pm
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That's what happens when you don't take my advice. ;)

what was your advice again?

Posted by Krux on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 12:15am
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That's what happens when you don't take my advice. ;)

what was your advice again?

Something about where he should go fuck himself, and some rude comment about the queen. I'm not at all surprised he didn't listen to him.

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 05:47am
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Something about where he should go fuck himself, and some rude comment about the queen. I'm not at all surprised he didn't listen to him.

No, that one is usually around the Queens birthday, or other great British event.

Posted by Caliber on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 07:37am
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Something about where he should go fuck himself, and some rude comment about the queen. I'm not at all surprised he didn't listen to him.

No, that one is usually around the Queens birthday, or other great British event.

There are great British events...? who would have thought

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 07:59am
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

Posted by Stealth on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 03:46pm
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

I don't have a special holiday yet.. neither does THC.. so your slacking. get to work!

Posted by Caliber on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 03:02am
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

I don't have a special holiday yet.. neither does THC.. so your slacking. get to work!

you aren't an American anymore...

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 01:57pm
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

I don't have a special holiday yet.. neither does THC.. so your slacking. get to work!

you aren't an American anymore...

que?

Posted by Caliber on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 02:24pm
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

I don't have a special holiday yet.. neither does THC.. so your slacking. get to work!

you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 02:48pm
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

I don't have a special holiday yet.. neither does THC.. so your slacking. get to work!

you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Posted by Caliber on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 08:53pm
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

I don't have a special holiday yet.. neither does THC.. so your slacking. get to work!

you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

Posted by MadArab on Monday June 23, 2008 @ 12:29pm
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heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

HAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by voltaic on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 08:50am
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I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

East siiiide!

Posted by Stealth on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 12:19am
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que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

the part where the people don't try to cross the border all day long..

Posted by Caliber on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 10:14am
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que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

the part where the people don't try to cross the border all day long..

so they wait until nighttime?

Posted by Stealth on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 12:01pm
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que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

the part where the people don't try to cross the border all day long..

so they wait until nighttime?

naw man.. they just fly the fuck in.

Posted by Caliber on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 07:16pm
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que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Puerto Rico? What part of Mexico is that?

the part where the people don't try to cross the border all day long..

so they wait until nighttime?

naw man.. they just fly the fuck in.

Mexican birds!!!? holy shit

Posted by MadArab on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 08:30pm
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I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

Say what? PR?? No shit... this explains a lot!! :-p

Posted by Krux on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 04:07pm
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you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

God damned caco mountain monkey.

Posted by Stealth on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 12:20am
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you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

God damned caco mountain monkey.

that would be 'lowlandic caco mountain monkey'.. thank you.

Posted by Krux on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 12:32am
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you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

God damned caco mountain monkey.

that would be 'lowlandic caco mountain monkey'.. thank you.

So you deny being damned by god.

Posted by Stealth on Sunday September 24, 2006 @ 12:04pm
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you aren't an American anymore...

que?

I stand corrected, I didn't even know you were Hispanic

heheh honestly. part Puerto Rican, Part Norwegian.

God damned caco mountain monkey.

that would be 'lowlandic caco mountain monkey'.. thank you.

So you deny being damned by god.

I'm a genetically fat white boy. of course I'm damned by god.

Posted by unicron on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @ 11:08pm
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I'm a genetically fat white boy. of course I'm damned by god.

Damned? I prefer to think of you as horizontally blessed.

Posted by Caliber on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @ 09:11am
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I'm a genetically fat white boy. of course I'm damned by god.

Damned? I prefer to think of you as horizontally blessed.

I knew it, you are gay... Though I was always under the impression that you weird fuckers did everything on your knees... does that technically count as horizontal?

Posted by unicron on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @ 11:42am
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I'm a genetically fat white boy. of course I'm damned by god.

Damned? I prefer to think of you as horizontally blessed.

I knew it, you are gay... Though I was always under the impression that you weird fuckers did everything on your knees... does that technically count as horizontal?

Man, I meant he was wide. If you can find a gay joke in everything then maybe YOU'RE the pole smoker.

In other news, thinking about the Mossberg 590 for our little trip.

Posted by Caliber on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @ 04:24pm
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I'm a genetically fat white boy. of course I'm damned by god.

Damned? I prefer to think of you as horizontally blessed.

I knew it, you are gay... Though I was always under the impression that you weird fuckers did everything on your knees... does that technically count as horizontal?

Man, I meant he was wide. If you can find a gay joke in everything then maybe YOU'RE the pole smoker.

Nice try, fag...

In other news, thinking about the Mossberg 590 for our little trip.

Make sure it can be plugged to 3 round capacity

Posted by unicron on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @ 06:56pm
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Nice try, fag...

Hey, I thought it was a great joke. Calling him blessed with his horizontally gifted status.

Make sure it can be plugged to 3 round capacity

Thy will be done.

Posted by Stealth on Thursday June 26, 2008 @ 12:37pm
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Nice try, fag...

Hey, I thought it was a great joke. Calling him blessed with his horizontally gifted status.

My wang is horizontally gifted (when it's in the mood)..

Make sure it can be plugged to 3 round capacity

Thy will be done.

Careful what you volunteer for.

Posted by Caliber on Friday June 27, 2008 @ 12:09am
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My wang is horizontally gifted (when it's in the mood)..

So you have a problem getting it vertical then... I hear Viagra has just the cure for that dysfunction

Posted by Stealth on Monday June 30, 2008 @ 03:17am
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My wang is horizontally gifted (when it's in the mood)..

So you have a problem getting it vertical then... I hear Viagra has just the cure for that dysfunction

vertical and horizontal really depend on the position of your back doesn't it..

Posted by Caliber on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 08:18am
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There are great British events...? who would have thought

Please... all someone in America has to do is sneeze to make a special event out of it. There's a holiday, special day, special month, or something for just about everything in this country.

Probably because we have so many brits running around ;)

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 08:53am
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Probably because we have so many brits running around ;)

We're recolonizing... but shhhhh... don't tell anyone the redcoats are coming.

Posted by Caliber on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 01:45pm
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Probably because we have so many brits running around ;)

We're recolonizing... but shhhhh... don't tell anyone the redcoats are coming.

You guys better get hot, the Mexicans are kicking your ass

Posted by Stealth on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 03:46pm
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Probably because we have so many brits running around ;)

We're recolonizing... but shhhhh... don't tell anyone the redcoats are coming.

You guys better get hot, the Mexicans are kicking your ass

and the Asians.. buying us out of land and home.

Posted by voltaic on Friday September 22, 2006 @ 06:48pm
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Not since the 80s dude. Japs learned their lesson in the real estate bust. Hehe.

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 23, 2006 @ 01:59pm
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Not since the 80s dude. Japs learned their lesson in the real estate bust. Hehe.

Ok.. it's not only Asians..

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/15047345.htm

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2006/05/usa-for-sale.html

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2006_07_19_globaleconomicanalysis_archive.html

Posted by Stealth on Thursday September 21, 2006 @ 11:02am
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Cool... the RMA has been received, approved and all that jazz, should be getting my new mobo sent out shortly. Then we'll get to see if it was a bad board, or if I'm a complete incompetent ninny!

Got the mobo back... did the SAME DAMN THING! Baffled, I said fuckit, and went back to Fry's for a THIRD power supply. Since I was getting instore credit, and I'd just got paid, I coughed up a little extra for a Thermaltake 650W power supply. Didn't even bother installing the power supply in the case this time, just plugged everything in, and presto... it worked!

Fuck me!! 1 Wrong Power Supply, 1 Bad Power Supply, 1 RMA'd Mobo (for no reason it seems) and we're almost in biznass! Now to trudge my way through all the new BIOS settings and stuff.

stick with mostly default settings first time round.. do an install.. check stability, and then maybe tweak the memory if you see fit, otherwise.. most MB's are pretty good at getting it pretty close to right on out of the box.

Posted by Krux on Monday September 18, 2006 @ 12:34pm
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That's what I'm trying to do with the new power supply, but no dice. It won't post, beep or anything. I contacted ASUS support, but having read afterward about how "quickly" they respond, I decided to just RMA it with Newegg anyway.

Cool... the RMA has been received, approved and all that jazz, should be getting my new mobo sent out shortly. Then we'll get to see if it was a bad board, or if I'm a complete incompetent ninny!

Computers are hard.

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Computers are hard.

The hardest part is keeping up with all the changes.

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Computers are hard.

The hardest part is keeping up with all the changes.

I always thought the hardest part was all that metal and glass... the plastic isn't too bad though

I hear some use diamonds and shit... now that's hard ;)

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that truepwer two should have 24 pin plus the 4 pin.. check again.. I have two of those and they are fully stacked with no problems..

Like I said, I returned it. Trust me, it didn't have the connector. What I didn't realize is there are 2 different TruePower 2.0 550's. Mine was the EPS version, or something. It didn't have the extra 4 pin.

You can get a 20 to 24 pin adapter you know.

Posted by Stealth on Sunday September 17, 2006 @ 02:21pm
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that truepwer two should have 24 pin plus the 4 pin.. check again.. I have two of those and they are fully stacked with no problems..

Like I said, I returned it. Trust me, it didn't have the connector. What I didn't realize is there are 2 different TruePower 2.0 550's. Mine was the EPS version, or something. It didn't have the extra 4 pin.

You can get a 20 to 24 pin adapter you know.

what was that about sheep? This was last week and the info is at the top of the post.. not 6 years ago.

Posted by MadArab on Friday September 15, 2006 @ 07:06am
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You can get a 20 to 24 pin adapter you know.

What? Are you fucking with me? I already had a 24 pin adapter on the power supply (I'm sure I said that???)... it was the extra 4 pin adapter I needed.

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So... I'm thinking of putting together a system. I'd really like a nice RAID controller, but it's just not in the budget. And my experience with my cheap $35 RAID card wasn't so hot in my Dell... so I'm looking at a "better" RAID card... although it's still not up to par with something like you have.

Why get RAID at all?

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So... I'm thinking of putting together a system. I'd really like a nice RAID controller, but it's just not in the budget. And my experience with my cheap $35 RAID card wasn't so hot in my Dell... so I'm looking at a "better" RAID card... although it's still not up to par with something like you have.

Why get RAID at all?

well, for the OS and programs a RAID-0 is wicked fast.. no doubt. And for the data, RAID-5 gives you availability, though not protection. If his wife deletes his p0rn collection.. there is no getting that back (easily) where as backing up to a USB drive gives you that protection. I use RAID-0 at home for speed and RAID-5 on the new servers to prevent a single drive failure.. and still provide a large single storage area.

RAID-o is free and has no overhead.. why not?

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RAID-o is free and has no overhead.. why not?

I know what RAID is and does. I just don't get why people still think they need it on their PCs. As for "free and no overhead": buying extra hard drives.

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RAID-o is free and has no overhead.. why not?

I know what RAID is and does. I just don't get why people still think they need it on their PCs. As for "free and no overhead": buying extra hard drives.

speed man.. more drives doesn't make it faster, nor does it make it simpler.. one fast volume for games and data.. better question.. why not? If it doesn't cost you something and it makes it better and you gain something by it, why not do it?

Posted by voltaic on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:09am
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speed man.. more drives doesn't make it faster, nor does it make it simpler.. one fast volume for games and data.. better question.. why not? If it doesn't cost you something and it makes it better and you gain something by it, why not do it?

It does cost you something: you have to buy more drives than you would, plus usually a RAID card. With modern PCs, it won't add even one frame per second in any game, video playback, or anything else in terms of speed as long as you have 1Gb or more of RAM (which everyone who does images and gaming should). The only place in which performance is an issue is when you are doing massive file transfers or large file loads/saves. Except for raw image manipulation or one time file copies between large archives, that never comes up. If he really wants a backup solution, I recommend a DVD burner. It will run $50 plus about $0.25 per 4Gb DVD. That's $100 to burn 800Gb in a permanent, non-volatile, can't-be-accidently-deleted format. Better yet, borrow a burner from a friend as a one-time massive archive project and cut the price down to $50 for the media.

I just now archived my entire photo collection including both the raw pics, multiple backups I had on both drives (because of that issue with one of them flaking hehehe), and a complete backup of my website gallery. It used about half a DVD. Savage probably has higher-res images and has shot more, so let's say it would take 20x as much space. That's a whopping 10 DVDs ($3 in media).

So in my experience, I don't agree that it is worth spending the money on a RAID setup for a desktop PC. For a file server like yours or Krux's, sure. But not for a desktop. Hell, maybe that (separate server) a better idea for Savage too, if he really needs all that data available live instead of archive.

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 12:57am
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speed man.. more drives doesn't make it faster, nor does it make it simpler.. one fast volume for games and data.. better question.. why not? If it doesn't cost you something and it makes it better and you gain something by it, why not do it?

It does cost you something: you have to buy more drives than you would, plus usually a RAID card. With modern PCs, it won't add even one frame per second in any game, video playback, or anything else in terms of speed as long as you have 1Gb or more of RAM (which everyone who does images and gaming should). The only place in which performance is an issue is when you are doing massive file transfers or large file loads/saves. Except for raw image manipulation or one time file copies between large archives, that never comes up. If he really wants a backup solution, I recommend a DVD burner. It will run $50 plus about $0.25 per 4Gb DVD. That's $100 to burn 800Gb in a permanent, non-volatile, can't-be-accidently-deleted format. Better yet, borrow a burner from a friend as a one-time massive archive project and cut the price down to $50 for the media.

what's cheaper.. a 250 internal or a 250 external? with RAID -1 (mirror) you can backup your stuff without even thinking about it.. for cheaper then the cost of an addition external drive.

For load times, file start-up, OS start-up.. a raid-o (stripe) is much faster.. so you can buy two 156's (<60 a piece) or 1x320 (about 100).. and the two 150's are faster. noticeably so..

I just now archived my entire photo collection including both the raw pics, multiple backups I had on both drives (because of that issue with one of them flaking hehehe), and a complete backup of my website gallery. It used about half a DVD. Savage probably has higher-res images and has shot more, so let's say it would take 20x as much space. That's a whopping 10 DVDs ($3 in media).

So in my experience, I don't agree that it is worth spending the money on a RAID setup for a desktop PC. For a file server like yours or Krux's, sure. But not for a desktop. Hell, maybe that (separate server) a better idea for Savage too, if he really needs all that data available live instead of archive.

For me it's lazyness.. I don't want to search through a bunch of cd's and dvd's looking for something. Drives are cheap.

Posted by voltaic on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:25am
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what's cheaper.. a 250 internal or a 250 external? with RAID -1 (mirror) you can backup your stuff without even thinking about it.. for cheaper then the cost of an addition external drive.

True, but that's not really a backup. That's like a high-availability solution more than a backup. If you want to go by cheapness, $25 for a spindle of DVDs (400Gb) beats all. <shrug>

For load times, file start-up, OS start-up.. a raid-o (stripe) is much faster.. so you can buy two 156's (<60 a piece) or 1x320 (about 100).. and the two 150's are faster. noticeably so..

I need to see benchmarks showing me that it is noticably faster, except on very large files as I pointed out earlier.

For me it's lazyness.. I don't want to search through a bunch of cd's and dvd's looking for something. Drives are cheap.

Fair enough. I want to know that even if my shit gets hit by lightning and catches on fire, all my important shit is, in a manner of speaking, off site. And it's alot cheaper.

Posted by MadArab on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 05:51am
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For me it's lazyness.. I don't want to search through a bunch of cd's and dvd's looking for something. Drives are cheap.

Yeah, that says a lot for me too... heheh

Posted by MadArab on Monday September 4, 2006 @ 10:24pm
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Why get RAID at all?

Because it's cheaper than a tape drive to backup 100's of gigs of MP3's, RAW, Edits & Resized Photos, Games, Videos, porn and such.

Right now, just my photos are sitting on 3 different drives in 2 computers and a USB enclosure. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that stuff on a decent RAID5 setup, and burn archives (of at least my photos) to DL DVD's every 6 months or so.

Posted by voltaic on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:17am
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Because it's cheaper than a tape drive to backup 100's of gigs of MP3's, RAW, Edits & Resized Photos, Games, Videos, porn and such.

Right now, just my photos are sitting on 3 different drives in 2 computers and a USB enclosure. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that stuff on a decent RAID5 setup, and burn archives (of at least my photos) to DL DVD's every 6 months or so.

Well having them on a RAID5 is definitely better than sitting without any backups at all. I manually RAID0 my shit by periodically copying my "live" pictures and music folders from my large fast C drive to my smaller, slower D drive just in case. I'm also all for unifying the platform so instead of having all these external things and different sizes and whatnot, clean it up. I guess I'm just overly cost-per-value conscious in terms of: once you get the big backup done and move most of your shit onto DVD and kind of stop and take a breath, will you still need all the extra you bought?

Also as a genuine question out of curiousity, how much shit do you have? Heheh.

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 01:08am
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I manually RAID0 my shit by periodically copying my "live" pictures and music folders from my large fast C drive to my smaller, slower D drive just in case.

You mean RAID-1.. not 0

Posted by Krux on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:20pm
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I manually RAID0 my shit by periodically copying my "live" pictures and music folders from my large fast C drive to my smaller, slower D drive just in case.

You mean RAID-1.. not 0

No, he just has mad skills and can keep up with raid 0 striping by hand.

Posted by voltaic on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 09:22am
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Yes I do, sorry about the brainfart. The last few days have been very long, with little sleep and 1800 miles travelled.

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:37am
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Well having them on a RAID5 is definitely better than sitting without any backups at all. I manually RAID0 my shit by periodically copying my "live" pictures and music folders from my large fast C drive to my smaller, slower D drive just in case. I'm also all for unifying the platform so instead of having all these external things and different sizes and whatnot, clean it up. I guess I'm just overly cost-per-value conscious in terms of: once you get the big backup done and move most of your shit onto DVD and kind of stop and take a breath, will you still need all the extra you bought?

Also as a genuine question out of curiousity, how much shit do you have? Heheh.

Everything? To be honest, I couldn't tell you because of how much shit I have on so many different drives.

I'll hazard a guess right now to be about 60-70GB of photos, 200GB of raw video from DV Camcorder, about 200GB of MP3's right now (been ripping collections from people at work, mine finally, shawnas, and downloading from Steeth & Krux). That doesn't take into account my other "archives", videos, movies, TV shows, Mail backups and other shit.

I went on a cleaning spree a while back and deleted... seriously... a couple 100 gigs of crap I'd downloaded, and it's still left me with a ton o' stuff. Even funnier, I've redownloaded stuff I deleted because I'd end up needing/wanting it a few months down the road.

I am a packrat...

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:42am
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Oh yeah, and this will allow me to free up a PC for Jeremiah to use, and allow me to retire another PC. There is a multipurpose here, I just keep forgetting it... you know, it's all about me.

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Well shit that's not bad at all. I thought it was maybe over a Tb. As far as just the raw space, 500Gb is like a single hard drive. You could get two 400Gbs as your D: (for data) drive and have them on a RAID0 with the motherboard's on-board shiznit. That's 400Gb live with a fail-safe, besides what you've burned as archival (raw photos you are done using, archived videocam footage, etc). <shrug>

I am also a pack rat and I have archives going back to Caesars (e-mail, early websites, that MP3 collection I'm slowly upping to st00ph, etc). I guess my approach is burn it to DVD, sharpie it with date and description, and delete it from the drive, unless I need it live. I can easily pull it from my decently-large CD/DVD storage case.

Anyway, you definitely are choosing some bad-ass gear, don't get me wrong. I'm just a value investor kind of guy I guess. Heheh.

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 07:39am
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Right now, just my photos are sitting on 3 different drives in 2 computers and a USB enclosure. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that stuff on a decent RAID5 setup, and burn archives (of at least my photos) to DL DVD's every 6 months or so.

remember.. those aren't backups.. if you get stupid and delete those folders, they are still gone.

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:27am
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Right now, just my photos are sitting on 3 different drives in 2 computers and a USB enclosure. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that stuff on a decent RAID5 setup, and burn archives (of at least my photos) to DL DVD's every 6 months or so.

remember.. those aren't backups.. if you get stupid and delete those folders, they are still gone.

I am aware of that... but thank you for thinking I'm stupid.

I'm not looking at it as a oh shit I deleted it, but as a oh shit my drive died, and that software won't recover shit from this dead drive.

If I delete it, then I'm dumb and should do without it.

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 01:13am
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Right now, just my photos are sitting on 3 different drives in 2 computers and a USB enclosure. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that stuff on a decent RAID5 setup, and burn archives (of at least my photos) to DL DVD's every 6 months or so.

remember.. those aren't backups.. if you get stupid and delete those folders, they are still gone.

I am aware of that... but thank you for thinking I'm stupid.

I don't think you're stupid. You would be surprised how many people think that because they have raid 5 they thing they are fine for life.. they forget the human factor.. i was just tossing out a reminder. Never assume anything.

I'm not looking at it as a oh shit I deleted it, but as a oh shit my drive died, and that software won't recover shit from this dead drive.

If I delete it, then I'm dumb and should do without it.

Hey.. I'm right in the same boat. I'll still be copying off my home drives and myrips to another drive.. just in case.

Posted by Stealth on Monday September 4, 2006 @ 03:02pm
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So... I'm thinking of putting together a system. I'd really like a nice RAID controller, but it's just not in the budget. And my experience with my cheap $35 RAID card wasn't so hot in my Dell... so I'm looking at a "better" RAID card... although it's still not up to par with something like you have.

How's this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115027

Ok, well the 2300 is PCI-E x1, the 2310 is PCI-E x4.. and there's no price difference. Using PCI-E greater then x1 means that you need a SLI capable Workstation MB or a server board with x8 slots.

I just gobbled up 4 - 400GB Seagate SATA II drives from Frys & Outpost. Caught them for $99/each.

Nice deal.. So you're going to mirror two drives for OS and stripe two drives for data? I would probably reverse that.. put the OS, games and apps on a speedy stripe and keep the data on the mirror..

Gonna get 1 of your BackPlane drive bays
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817119404
Yeah.. I like them.. the locking knobs are a bit small, but then again you don't have to play with them very much. I do like the fact that they have activity lights.. thats damn nice. I might like to upgrade the 80cm fans to 120's (via some adapters) but they really aren't that loud now.. so it's not to bad.

This is the case I'm looking at (but in black)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129154

Nice case.. Note that it only has 4 external slots.. so you'll only be able to put one chassis and 1 optical drive. That is a really nice case though.. slick. No doubt.

No idea on power supply or mobo or anything. Although, I guess most motherboards have RAID built in too... so I'll use 2 of my 250GB drives for the OS and stuff, and have them mirrored.

Use the add-on card.. it will make your life better. And as for the MB.. just remember that you need to look at the boardsa carefully. PS.. I've got a 485 right now.. I had orderd a 550 but that had issues. I would make sure you've got a least a GOOD 450.. name brand.

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Ok, well the 2300 is PCI-E x1, the 2310 is PCI-E x4.. and there's no price difference. Using PCI-E greater then x1 means that you need a SLI capable Workstation MB or a server board with x8 slots.

Ahh... right... don't want your problems eh?


Nice deal.. So you're going to mirror two drives for OS and stripe two drives for data? I would probably reverse that.. put the OS, games and apps on a speedy stripe and keep the data on the mirror..

Well, since the RAID card I'm looking at supports only 4 drives, I was going to do 4 400's for data in a RAID 5, and 2 250's for OS & other from the onboard controller.

Use the add-on card.. it will make your life better. And as for the MB.. just remember that you need to look at the boardsa carefully. PS.. I've got a 485 right now.. I had orderd a 550 but that had issues. I would make sure you've got a least a GOOD 450.. name brand.

So many power supplies to choose from. Just want a quiet one with plenty of juice.

Posted by Stealth on Monday September 4, 2006 @ 04:32pm
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Ok, well the 2300 is PCI-E x1, the 2310 is PCI-E x4.. and there's no price difference. Using PCI-E greater then x1 means that you need a SLI capable Workstation MB or a server board with x8 slots.

Ahh... right... don't want your problems eh?

well,. you shouldn't have that problem anymore.. unless you ignore everything I say.. hehe

Nice deal.. So you're going to mirror two drives for OS and stripe two drives for data? I would probably reverse that.. put the OS, games and apps on a speedy stripe and keep the data on the mirror..

Well, since the RAID card I'm looking at supports only 4 drives, I was going to do 4 400's for data in a RAID 5, and 2 250's for OS & other from the onboard controller.

Right.. the onboard controller.. Use that for the stripe. good deal. Sounds like a good plan man.

Use the add-on card.. it will make your life better. And as for the MB.. just remember that you need to look at the boardsa carefully. PS.. I've got a 485 right now.. I had orderd a 550 but that had issues. I would make sure you've got a least a GOOD 450.. name brand.

So many power supplies to choose from. Just want a quiet one with plenty of juice.

I like the Antec TruePower.. and this new Enermax. I try to still with supplies with 1 120cm fan.. and at least 450W..

Posted by MadArab on Monday September 4, 2006 @ 04:37pm
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So many power supplies to choose from. Just want a quiet one with plenty of juice.

I like the Antec TruePower.. and this new Enermax. I try to still with supplies with 1 120cm fan.. and at least 450W..

This one is a good price, good rating... Thermaltake 550
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153029

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This one is a good price, good rating... Thermaltake 550
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153029

exactly.. get up on it.

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @ 11:45am
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I ended up getting an Antec Truepower 2.0 550W... or something like that.

Picked up the Case, PSU, Drive bay and drives from Frys as they were either cheaper or the same price as Newegg. The case was only $99... very nice and sturdy.

Now to look into mobos and CPU's.

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @ 01:21am
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I ended up getting an Antec Truepower 2.0 550W... or something like that.

that's what I have.. I likes it a lot.

Picked up the Case, PSU, Drive bay and drives from Frys as they were either cheaper or the same price as Newegg. The case was only $99... very nice and sturdy.

I miss Fry's.. <sigh>

Now to look into mobos and CPU's.

Well.. is this gaming AND server or just server? How much do you want to pay. I have a friend looking at the new Core Duo Extremes.. $1K a chip.

You can get a decent AMD X2 4000 for about 200 and a board for another 125 or so and be straight!