I guess i'll do a follow-up since this thread got revived somehow. The drive continued to exhibit similar problems shortly after a fresh re-image. Did a RMA and the new drive was just fine.
It's a couple years old. Not sure on charging cycles, but I was still getting a few hours on a charge (this thing usually sits on the coffee table in my living room, and is used casually here and there; only plugged in every week or so when it gets low)
Took my laptop (HP probook 6550b) to the airport - few minutes before it went through the security scanner/xray it was working fine, almost fully charged. Few minutes after? Won't turn on without the AC adapter plugged in, battery will not charge. Was not dropped and no one physically touched it...
It will not work. OEM copies of windows 7 work on the SLIC+certificate+key method for offline automatic activation. A combination of three items is needed to activate:
1. An OEM key
2. A SLIC "code" in the BIOS of the motherboard itself
3. A matching certificate file (pre-installed when...
Did a bunch of measuring, and went with the Cooler Master Hyper TX3. While it wasn't my first choice, it should fit (just barely) and meets the front to back airflow criteria of a rackmount case (well, it will run left to right, but it's still in line with my airflow in this case; front left to...
Looking for heatsinks suggestions for the following setup:
Norco RPC-450B 4U case
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T 95W processor
I have the stock heatsink and fan, but I'd like something a little more effective and quiet. My usual go-to solution is a 212/212+...
You won't need a monitor with any OS, as long as you have a monitor you can use long enough for the initial install. With a windows based OS you will just use remote destkop or a web interface. With FreeBSD/*NIX you're going to use ssh/telnet and a web interface.
I've tried unRAID before, but...
Edit: lemme take this long post and shorten it waaaaaay down.
I think you should build with powerful enough hardware to switch to a windows based OS if you aren't happy with FreeNAS. The components listed above are great, though you'll need a 160gb+ OS drive if you want the option to make the...
Atoms are.... "barely breathing" for a lack of better term. Streaming is rough at best, and transcoding is effectively impossible. ZFS with more than two drives will suffer badly.
I would recommend starting by figuring out your software approach, and then working out your hardware requirements...
As someone who is in the middle of transitioning away from an atom based setup, I high recommend you don't go that route if you plan on doing any streaming. I used an Atom based mini-ITX board for FreeNAS w/ZFS and two drives and it worked great, but steaming was just out of the question.
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