Recent content by Polishwonder74

Here's what I've got for you, fellas: I started a thread in the general forum (http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=27&threadid=2324033), and got some very good suggestions. It's a quick read and has all of the backstory involved with my conundrum. The Cliff's Notes are: I work for a...

I've got another hardware-like question: So say you've got yourself a RAID array, you are protected from losing data due to a hard drive failure. If I do a 3-drive RAID 5 array, I should be ok unless I lose 2 drives at once. I actually had an Antec Smartpower 2.0 PSU (read: piece of...

Awesome suggestions, guys! It's really helping me get up to speed as far as current best practices for keeping data safe. Up until a couple years ago, we weren't generating much data, and weekly backups could be done on a couple of DVDs. I'd like to automate the process as much as possible...

Howdy, fellas! I was wondering if anyone has any advice for me. I am planning out a small storage/backup system for the small business that I work for, and thought the good people here at this forum may have been down this road before. My company designs small medical devices, and we do...

Dangman, did you get an advanced replacement, or did you have to wait forever for them to ship the replacement out to you?

Oh, that's a great idea! I'll try to RMA. That would really make my day, I was about to buy a bigger hard drive (maybe one o' them terabyte hard drives), and I was very bummed about having to spend an extra $70 to make sure my power supply doesn't fail and melt my motherboard. Plus, the snow...

Alrighty then, what do you guys think of this Power Supply? Antec Earthwatts EA650 650W ATX12V Ver.2.2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817371015 JonnyGuru's article makes it look like this power supply does well in high-temperature situations, which is nice. Can you guys...

AW, FUDGEPUMPS!! Dammit all, I got this power supply specifically so I could use it in my next build. I was running an Antec 350 watt, and thought I'd better upgrade, since I was running 3 hard drives (and still am). I figured that since Antec supplies have never let me down that a nice...

Has anyone seen anything like this before? I've got an Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W power supply, and anytime it is plugged in, it makes a really, really high frequency noise that seems to change pitch whenever load changes (hard drive read/write, new USB device plugged in, etc). The...

I'm in a hell of a pickle here. I have thoroughly trashed a Dell E510 with the premise that I'd be able to just wipe it clean and start over using Dell's really neat PC Restore feature. I mean, I really hammered on it good. I jammed it with software, and even cut 10GB out of the main...

Anyone? Anyone? I'mma have to call eMachines tech support. Bummer.

Yup, needed to be finalized. I couldn't figure out how to finalize it (and was scared I'd ruin it), so I opened the disc with UltraISO and used the "Extract" command. It was able to pull the files off without changing the disc (read: burning any bridges, lol).

I've been trying that, I guess this computer isn't set up for F11. Am I going to have to find a copy of PC Angel to install?

This is a cute problem: I burned a whole bunch of files onto a DVD to back them up. Now I pop that DVD into the drive, and windows identifies it as a blank disc. When I look at the disc in Nero, I see lots of files in there as a multi-session disc. Does anyone know what might have...