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Sigh.. I won't know till I do a retry and read the logs, but this first fail may be as simple as me mistakening doing a move instead of a copy on the image file after I renamed it, and Acronis maybe had a hold on it which ran for a while.. Will know more in a while.

Hi guys, thanks for the answer. Here is where I am now. I finally contacted Acronis and got a little help. The first thing I learned was that the True Image Home 2014 version has no ability to add a driver from the Acronis Recovery boot disk. But with some tricks I was able to still get to my...

This is a first for me. I'm an IT Consultant for a living and consider myself pretty experienced in most things, especially the basics like proper backups and restores. So here's the story. (BTW, when referring to Acronis, I am using Acronis True Image Home 2014). I had 4 Samsung 250GB EVO...

I've loved running RAID 0 with my SSD's since my first Intel X-25 drives. At first Intel didn't support RAID but it wasn't long until they did. It blows my mind that Samsung, with either the top performing or close to top performing drives on the market don't support it. With desktop systems now...

Thanks for the info. Perhaps I was hallucinating. But I was sure I was reading about a company in Europe doing this. Combining several WAN connections to a box you buy from them, and they accept all the tunneled traffic hosting it as a virtual ISP / IP to you. I'm sure I'll find it a year from...

I'm basically talking about a bridge where the single IP, managed upstream. Websites or anything external wouldn't see the requests coming from different ISP's. Just bonding the 3 connections to a head end at a data center or major bandwidth hosting site. Once a stream starts on a socket, it...

I don't understand why you keep telling me that it will require work on the ISP's end. I stated this in my first post. A load balancing router in a data center, configured to match up with a load balancing router on my end. I completely understand this. Yes, I was quite sure I found a...

Hi guys. Yes I am aware that it needs to be on the ISP end. Well actually that isn't correct. There is a company out there that I'm kicking myself for losing the web site address, but yes - they basically dedicate an IP address, and via their interface your specify you 2,3,4+ broadband...

Good day everyone, I have setup a dual DSL line for my parents house to help service our massive bandwidth needs for a Dahua (also known as Q-See at Costco, but they sell the wimpiest low performance models using older slower ARM processors). I get my 32 channel NVR's from...

Hey Binister, thanks, that was a very useful reply. You too ModelWorks. I'm going to review the hardware you suggested and see if I can get something for under $200. Re AVI vs MPEG2: I was doing direct to AVI using pinnacle studio (which works, but is one bloated POS code wise) but I kept...

I have collected home movies tapes from family in an effort to digitize everything and secure it against the age issues of tape. I've been using composite to a ATI AIW x800 card to capture to lossless mpeg2, then using staxrip to convert the video to Mpeg4 H.264 AVC using x264.exe codec. My...

I've only now figured out how to deal with ISO imaged DVD media on media players. I'm thinking of getting a popcornhour.com or a tvix.com 6500 which both index and play iso media both locally and from a NAS. As for playing ISO's on a PC, the options are limited. I've been using virtual clone...

Thanks for the info Peter... Pre-Intel Quad-Core I'd totally done a Opteron system.. a 4x4 would be fun. But until they soup up their solutions, I probably have to go with Intel. Well, I'll assume there is no non-FBDIMM solution for a 2-4 processor quad-core for now. Nore does it seem there...

I'm curious, is there any solution for building a 2 processor quad-core system that doesn't require FB-DIMMs, or even ECC? I'm hoping for a solution with just everyday DDR2 800Mhz-1066Mhz chips. Anyone have an idea? P.S. I've also noticed that most 775 motherboards only accept 2GB dimms...

Well I just learned something. As far as I understood FB-DIMMs were to become the next big thing. Now it looks like Registered ECC DDR3is the hip thing all the kids at school are excited about. To address your note, I never knew I was having any issues with data corruption using standard...