Recent content by Balforth

Nobody should be complaining about this anyway. Those USB connectors were born that way. It's not like it's a conscious decision.

Well, this doesn't seem very exciting... is this all you wanted to see? pool: Volume1 state: ONLINE...

Just an update... I have my FreeNAS system up and running, and I don't think there's anything I can do to cause the buffering on XBMC I was seeing before. I initially restored my TV shows to my media share (1.6TB). When that was finished, I started on my movies (1TB). While the movies were...

Your limitation will be your case. I went with a larger case and was able to build a completely silent gaming HTPC. The build is a couple years old, but at the time it was pretty kick-ass. The link in my sig details every step of my build, including all of my fan choices and cable placement...

everybody keeps talking about black friday.... but nobody mentions cyber monday

My wife and daughter have MacBook Pros and have constant lock up issues, weird trackpad issues where you lose the ability to scroll or the pointer starts jumping all over the screen. But I think the biggest thing that turned me off to macs was when she first bought a 17" MacBook and the...

Well, the motherboard actually as a type-a connector on it, so I can attach directly to the motherboard internally without an adapter. And I would if I had a traditional giant bulky USB stick, but those SanDisk Cruzers are so tiny, I can just leave it on the front USB port just in the off...

I just built this: ram Ddr3-1333 4Gb/512Mx72 Ecc Cl9 Server Memory ram Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) ECC System Specific Memory Model KTH-PL313E/4G $85 mobo SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL-F-O LGA 1155 Intel C202 Micro ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server Motherboard $152.99 cpu Intel...

Do you run DSM? I've heard so much hype about FreeNAS that I didn't look too much into other OSs and just came across DSM last night. Now I'm confused as to which route to take. I also stumbled across this guy's page where he compares his home NAS build using several different OSs and RAID...

Thanks to all for the advice. Please don't be mad at me :) but given the sweet deal on 16gb of ECC RAM from Gillbot, I decided to go the ECC route. I ended up building it for the exact same price the non-ecc build would have cost with 16gb of new RAM. Here's the final product list: ram -...

I'm literally laughing out loud.... so is that one more vote for not needing ECC in my NAS? I'm not set on anything right now, just have people very adamant on two separate sides of this argument and I'm trying to weight it out!!! :)

LOL I really do believe you! It's just funny with the guys on that board so adamant about their stance and people here saying don't buy into it! They seem to preach that non-ecc RAM can completely trash your entire array. Either way, I'm not going to be purchasing any new drives at the...

Well, one of the mods over on the freenas forum didn't like my build at all. I think he is a big ECC RAM advocate. I put together another build using ECC memory... ram - Kingston Technology ValueRAM 8 GB 1333MHz DDR3 PC3-10666 ECC CL9 DIMM Hynix M Server Memory (KVR13E9/8HM) 112.99 mobo -...

I switched up the memory based on the memory compatibility list for that motherboard. That team vulcan ram doesn't seem to be on the list. I've been looking at the DDR3 1600 4gb choices listed here, but they all seem to be a bit more pricey. This is about the cheapest I can find on the list...

Great advice... here's iteration 3: case - DIYPC Skyline-A Black Steel USB 3.0 ATX and Micro-ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with 1x 80mm Fan - 18.99 cpu - Intel Pentium G3220 Haswell 3.0GHz LGA 1150 54W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646G3220 - 69.99 mobo - ASRock H87M LGA 1150...