Ordered around midnight on Wednesday morning and the machine was on my doorstep on Friday at noon.
Great system for the price. Not what everyone is looking for, but solid all-around machine.
I went ahead and ordered the mini-tower last night.
I upgraded to the 20" monitor and E6550 for a total of $140 more so my final price is $560 including shipping and tax.
I'll take it. Add a mid-level video card and you've got a pretty decent box for less than $700.
This is a solid system for the price.
$419 for a C2D, with 1GB of Ram...add another GB of RAM and a decent video card, and you've got a pretty nice gaming system (especially if you upgrade the processor sometime in the near future)
actually, you're both right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
and the reason you'd want to RAID 5 these devices is for fault tolerance and not reliability.
Yes, they're spec-ed to go to 140 years @ 50gb per day, but is that a single 50gb file or 50gb worth of small sql writes...because...
Use old hardware.
I had a Gateway 6400 server that I bought through a deal here many moons ago that I just finished installing WHS on.
It's a P3 with 512MB ram and 3 750GB PATA drives in it. It more than does the job.
If you do choose to purchase new hardware, go cheap. Get a cheap...
3ware and adaptec are GREAT brands of controllers.
I have a 4 port PATA 3ware controller that only cost me a shade over $120 that's been running a RAID 5 array 24x7 for the past 16 months.
Depending on how often you're going to be on the server, you might even want to consider a RAID 6...
Don't mess with his computer (and if you are, don't post on a public forum before doing it)
Log every attack and your time spent fixing it. Log his IP and report it to his ISP as well as his local police department.
Then sue him for damages to recover lost time, lost site growth (and...
Most residential housing recieves power in three phases that are coordinated to give the effect of continuous power.
The effect your having is likely due to one of the phases either blacking out or browning out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power
I've been told that...
maybe somthing like this:
http://www.cooldrives.com/quad...ternal-sata-case1.html
it'll take 4 SATA drives and connect to your server with esata so you'll get full speed.
I have an older Gateway Server that I'm going to be using to build a Windows Home Server machine and am concerned that the power supply will not be sufficient.
It's an Asus board, with dual PIII 1GHz chips and 512MB ram....
I will have an optical drive in it, but it will mostly be unused...
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