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JamieG wrote:A cost saving option could be a i3 530 + Gigabyte H55 mATX board. With the cost savings, you could fit a 60Gb SSD like the OCZ Vertex 2 ($155@PCCG) into your budget.

You could easily get a computer with a SSD for half your budget.

The only time I've had this issue was with the Seagate's ST31500341ASs which had all sorts of trouble, and with a WD20EARS which presented some 35 reallocated sectors and a couple of bad sectors (irrecoverable errors) in a few hours time (returned the next day for replacement) From the number of dr...

Asus has boards with functioning ECC (confirmed by testing). Whether the ones you want just take ECC DIMMs or actually allow you to make use of the ECC features is anyone's guess unless they've been tested but Asus has at least one board with a server chipset on the Intel side. It's not cheap but it...

What do you want to know about F3s? They're hard drives. The 5400 version has been reviewed on SPCR if memory serves. I've got 5400 and 7200 single-platter F3s but I haven't comparing them, using the in a demanding manner or anything like that. Surely you'll find a lot of reviews and reports about t...

Dear OP, Why not simply buy servers instead of NAS boxes or desktops? You want to use them as servers, right? You could buy used servers to save money but low-end servers similar to the build outlined in your first post are not that expensive compared to the cost of 16G of RAM (for example). If you ...

Unlimited doesn't exist. Check the price of online storage! I guess they're throttling if that's their public stance. Proceed at your own risk. You may be OK as long as you're one of the few people to trust their claims. Get enough people to trust them and they will take advantage of this offer, som...

Not that I disagree about your overall opinion of the troll's post but... Second, opinion is divided on whether the allies would have won the war without the US and there is no point arguing about potential outcomes. What is undeniable fact though, is that the Nazis never attempted to introduce Germ...

You want to store 4T on their servers for $5 a month? That'd be some hardcore leeching. Did you think about how much that would cost them? Maybe they can make it work if they have enough customers who pay $5 to upload 10G but you'd be operating on their sufferance. The day they decide they're losing...

A second server is somewhere between RAID and backups. That is, it doesn't replace backups. The idea was that you would periodically take drives out of the second server. This way you don't need racks and don't have to worry about hotplugging, breaking your mirrors and so on. Performance would not b...

I don't know exactly how these Crashplan and Wuala backups are supposed to work (it might be educational for your readers if nothing else to post links not to promotional material but to descriptions of how one can make them work with multiple teras which is not the typical use case) and I don't kno...

With a single sequential operation, yes. With multiple simultaneous requests and/or random access, a large cache could come in handy. But how often would that happen in practice?

I suppose the RAM was supposed to be a cache that would improve latency more than throughput (it might still help with throughput in some situations). But it would a humongous cache indeed. I don't know what kind of data/usage would benefit from that since we're talking about home storage.

The Touchbook II could be an interesting product if it ends up working well: Texas Instruments Cortex-A8 with a Numonyx 512MB (RAM) + 256MB (NAND) Memory Main storage: 8GB microSD card 1024x600 8.9" capacitive touchscreen Bluetooth wireless keyboard Wifi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth class 2.1, 7 USB 2.0 ...

I didn't mention the Alix boards and other Geode options because they're a good bit slower than your Atom. But an Atom might be overkill for your application. Google for the kind of speeds people are getting from Geodes. You can indeed share a USB drive with samba by mounting it to a shared director...

I yield to Mike when it comes to cases, fans and PSUs. And, at first glance, his drive advice makes sense too. It seems people have had trouble with the cheaper WD drives (or some of them anyway) but what about these new high-density Samsungs? They're going to draw less power than these Hitachis as ...

There are all kinds of nonsense dissing Atom out there. There are also true statements which don't apply to you. For instance many Atoms are not very efficient at crunching numbers where higher power consumption can be offset by better performance but are quite efficient at idling. Your Atom board i...

I'm surprised you're putting so much effort into these posts. As you noted, this exchange isn't effective as a dialog so I don't know what motivates you to continue along these lines. What you have to say about Greece in the seventies for example might be of interest to many people (if not on SPCR) ...

First of all, try not to be so selective about what you respond to... I'm going to be even more selective actually. I said I wasn't going "there" and I ain't. And I'm not going other places as well because this exchange is really getting out of hand and you're becoming more and more obtuse and poin...

Do you mean that you'd need non-ECC RAM to get to the BIOS only to change that setting before switching to ECC DIMMs? Really? We've seen stranger things of course but still...

Check if wake on LAN (or wake on anything really: mouse/keyboard, timer, whatever) is enabled. Disconnect USB devices or see if there's a BIOS option to cut USB power when the computer is off.

So there you have it, no matter what is claimed in the spec. sheet, DO NOT TRUST IT! I agree... but do not trust what vendors say when they deny supporting ECC either. You're being too trusting. Some claim to have verified ECC support on consumer boards such as Asus' A8N-SLI. Also, I would hope one...

Unless drives spin themselves down, my enclosure does spin them down automatically. But it idles for quite a while before doing so. Many others do the same I think... and there are probably still others who don't. It might also be possible to spin down drives manually through eSATA... depending on y...

Assuming your backup server supports wake on LAN, it simply can be woken up by the client's scheduler. Shutting it down afterwards could be less trivial depending on the software you're using.

Like I said, a proper backup is not hooked up to your system ready to be overwritten or fried at a moment's notice. I've got an enclosure that's not particularly good but let me look at it... the only distinguishing marking on it is "barvo-t". There are many of these cheap enclosures. Spinning down ...

Well, history shows this is not the case You're just being coy now. With your answer you also display one of such complexities in the process of class formation ... you say that common class interest is obvious for the members of a class, thereby adopting an "objective" approach to class definition...

What you want is not quite possible (that I know of). A true backup is not connected to the computer you're backing up. So your options are: -settle for something that's not a true backup: SPCR's storage reviews have tables with hard drive measurements, choose a low-power hard drive and a fanless en...

Interesting but note that this does not address the issue of corruption caused by memory issues, only corruption caused by disk issues. In order to adress both, keep hashes of your static data. Dynamic data is more difficult to manage securely. I'm surprised by jhhoffma's welcome explanation of what...

I don't draw lines nor do I belive that the is such a thing as a class interest that can not be understood by every member of the class in question. That's the stuff of dictatorship. What is or is not in the interest of an actual class is obvious enough. What is politically contentious is which clas...

Union bosses have been on TV many, many times. I liked how Blondel talked for instance... but so what? If he wanted to be elected, maybe it would do him good but that doesn't solve the organizational problem of the labor movement. And I don't care how well he talks: I wouldn't trust him or the likes...

Prices are cheaper for the Atom. At least the local prices are (I've seen some people quoting prices for more powerful gear which are not available here). Depending on what P4 we're talking about, the CPU could be an upgrade or a downgrade. The system as a whole is more likely to be an upgrade. The ...