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Its back up, they have about another 100 available. It will run out again when it hits 750 (500 yesterday and another 250 were authorized today at noon)

Actually flash drives are known to get slow when they start to get full. The Vertex LE is only 100gb because it keeps 20% of the space is reserve to keep performance up as the drive ages and as it gets full

I will not buy one till the firmware issues are fixed many people have bricked them and crucial knows they have an issue

if you look at the tigerdirect ad at the top of the bing search you will see clicking thru the ad will net you the 12.3%

MM went ahead and shipped me out the extra screws. I still went ahead and ordered over $20 in screws on my own so that I could replace all the silver screws with black ones. I painted the silver tapered screws face with gloss black paint so that it matched the rest of the case. I still...

You can mount them and way you like. I received my MM case yesterday and after starting to set it up I noticed a couple of minor issues. After emailing them about the issues the response I received has led me to never do any business with them again. And I wanted to get the extended...

Raid 6 only costs you one third of you storage space. where as a raid 10 setup costs you 50%. All my large storage arrays have been raid 5 or 6. When I do an array with 8 or 12 HD's its rather costly to run a raid 10 array

Well it supports raid 6 so get at least 4 HD's and run raid 6. this way should a drive drop out you can still drop 1 more before you have a data loss issue

Ah, I remember STEP ThermoDynamics very well. You probably could not cool a NB/SB with one of the cooler on those chips. I do miss my Dual Celly setups. I set one up as a workstation computer in the onair booth at the radio station I was the chief engineer for. Just when MP3 were starting...

Currently an i7 950 underwater, and the new rig under construction will be an i7 980x. have a couple of core 2 duo's and some dual quad xeons running around as well

It really depends on what level raid and what raid card you are going to use. Many high end cards have a list of fully supported drives. The high end cards can be a PIA when using a non approved drive. Most onboard RAID is much less of a problem when picking drives

If you are running your ram at stock voltages then there really is no need. If you were doing some crazy OC's and really pushing the limits on the memory then you might actually need them and even then with some air flowing over them you probably could get away with out them. They are 99&#37...

I would go with the intel.

Yes the SF controller keeps like 20% of the space in reserve to keep the drive optimal. These were designed as enterprise drives.

It was very tempting at $279. I have abot 5 or 6 Failed Raptors. The old 74Gb 3.5" units that are under warranty till like 2012 so I am waiting to see if they add them to the step up site so I can just trade the warranty on my 74GB drive for a new 600gb with a discount. If I can snag a couple...