What, you have a problem with gluttony and precious snowflakes with parents that can't say no?

I think you could add on whatever storage you wanted via USB, couldn't you?

That'd eliminate the need for SD slots.

Highlights:

Five Watts
Gigabit Ethernet
1.200 GHz CPU, Kirkwood Series SoC
512 MB Flash Storage
512 MB DRAM
USB 2.0
SRP: $49, Developer Kit: $99

Looks like it would make a decent lightweight server.

http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp

They did explain their rating system in the header above the main bar chart- I don't think anyone on the web seems to have ever heard of Edward Tufte . While I appreciate their efforts, a scatter chart with some standard deviation bars would have been nice. That said, their results pretty much mirro...

I assume you're going to be running a Hackintosh using the EFI partition scheme. If that's not true, then ignore this. As a general rule, I'd stick with NVidia cards for the time being- the Nvidia Inject kernel extensions are more stable and up to date than the ATI equivalents. Also, you probably wa...

I suggest prayer.

Does your mobo have any beep diagnostics? Do you have any hardware diagnostic tools? I'd work through those first, otherwise you're going to have to do a brute force search. Disconnect all drives from power and data. Swap out the PSU if you have a spare. If not, yank every SDRAM module, and place on...

the Seasonic has a pertruding fan that interferes with the metal guide that sits between the power supply and the I/O panel. That made the decision to leave the power supply be an easy one. pertruding? That's a usefication of the language of the English that I'm familiar with not. Perhaps protrudin...

WHS uses RAID in the managed pool, without your intervention, every time you add a drive beyond the first to the pool.

I was assuming the OP was taking advantage of that feature- good to point that out, thanks for correcting me.

Either allocate $300 for a decent card or get a motherboard with more ports. That RAID controller won't do much for performance aside from adding ports. If you do go that route, I would suggest an Intel G33 or P45 chipset motherboard, with an E1200 CPU. If you insist on using a deadweight controller...

To answer your question directly: At that speed, RAM coolers wouldn't help much. The density of the chips isn't as much of a problem as the voltage associated with out of spec frequencies. If you don't change your setup, your fans are fine. --- To not answer your question: Ugh, I wouldn't touch non-...

I tried that ... at least until all the plastic parts on the P180 started disintegrating What are you talking about? Do you have some kind of acid sweat that melts plastic when you touch it? Even the most frightening lewis acids I can think of wouldn't do much, the problem is oxygen and cross-linke...

Short answer: I wouldn't use any of those in that case. They're only good where you have decent convective airflow to begin with, and that's the last thing the '05 case provides. Use a single, high pressure fan on the black and block off unwanted exits. After much fiddling, I settled on this configu...

The unit is an ideal fit for the Antec cases where it sits in the bottom chamber with a *very* low rpm 120mm fan in front of it. I tried that with my P180 and 500W Phantom. While clearance in that compartment was a nightmare, it worked fairly well- at least until all the plastic parts on the P180 s...

I do quite a bit with Virtualization at home and for work- in your case, I'd suggest something like VMWare Workstation (not server), since it has recently added tolerable support for USB, Audio, and Direct X 9.0. Xen and other Linux hypervisors are quite good, but they're aimed more at servers and p...

Instead of fixing the problems I've noticed in a year's worth of using the NSK2400, it just looks like they decided to go with making everything bigger, including the price: 1) The partition between the motherboard and front drives still obstructs connectors on the rear of the motherboard. 2) The po...

Yes. As long as there is room above the bolts for you to screw them in. The Scythe Ninja 2 for example has no place for you to insert a screw driver. I got around that by turning the bolts by hand while pressing down on the bolt with a screwdriver with the other hand. It takes some patience, but it...

This continues to make the case that they designed the chip with datacenters and blade computing in mind This is not a DataCenter chip- i7 doesn't compare favorably to the T2 or Power6 for data center applications. Several Intel speakers said as much at the last IDF sessions aimed at scientific com...

Neither of these is actually new, but they're new to me at least. In the last couple of days, I've stumbled on: 1) Ubuntu's Intrepid Ibex distribution release has a new utility/daemon called fancontrol- it works a lot like speedfan, but only works with PWM devices. It's in the package 'lm-sensors' a...

You might be better served by buying an OpenWRT based router and flashing it with something like DD-WRT. With a DD-WRT based system, you get a full blown version of Linux (BusyBox) capable of almost any network function you'll ever need- BGP, OSPF, DHCP, DNS, RTP, SSH, Telnet, Virtual Hosts, VLAN, S...

I think this may be as big a failure as the Pentium 4. I don't see any reason to want one of these at all, especially a 965- not for HPC, not for home computing, and definitely not for business use. With the G7's economies going the direction they are as of late, I don't even see where this will se...

Yep, that's right. I just wanted your attention.

If this had been a TV program, typical narcissistic weblog, or radio show, you would have generated advertising revenue.

Thank you for your time, and remember to keep on keepin on, man.

Just out of curiosity... how would ZFS be better than setting up RAID10? I'm not too familiar with how it's setup, but would the end result be the more or less the same (only you're limited to using that filesystem)? In one case, the rebuild is taken care of by the controller - the other, it's take...

Here's some better illustrations of the points I was trying to relay, along with performance numbers: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/raid5-vs-raid-10-safety-performance.html Also, the "3-7" days point I was trying to make... I mangled an edit. That was meant in the context of using Intel's soft drive...

The big win here would involve using a ZFS pool of drives, but since I suspect you're not using FreeBSD or Sun or Apple hardware for home use, try RAID 1 + 0: Build a set of mirrored drives and stripe those sets of mirrors. I would definitely avoid parity based (e.g. RAID 5 and 6) RAID solutions for...

I'm using a heavily modded Lian-Li PCA05 as a 6-Drive RAID Box, but if I was going to start from scratch, I'd go with the Antec 300 or the NZXT Tempest.

There's no way you're going to get a quiet solution of out having that many drives, but at least you have the option of using lots of quiet fans.

I think sensorsd might be what you're looking for.

While the side bolt/grommet system does make it easy to mount drives, it doesn't do much for noise. My home server is built with a heavily modified A05/EX-23, and my home office PC is built into a A16- I compensated for the noise shortcomings by using quiet drives, lots of foam to kill resonance, an...

I was just looking at one of his spawn.

Thanks for the reality check, out of the cart it goes.

I 2nd the suggestion for Matrox- but I'd look at the PCIe 1x G550 based card instead of the previously mentioned P690 board, based on price and driver support.