Recent content by QChronoD

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    Massive media server - JBOD or RAID?

    Yeah, just as separate drives. That's what I always thought JBOD meant, and that spanning was concatenation. RAID0 I know means striping, and RAID1 is mirroring. 1) new SATA card <$50, 6x 1.5TB drives for backup ~$400 2) 12+ RAID card ~$600-$800, 2x 1.5TB drives for RAID6 ~$150 3) 2x 4-drive...
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    Massive media server - JBOD or RAID?

    Thanks for your replies. I already have 4 - 1.5TB drives that are almost full, and ordering two more. I don't really need the speed, I was looking at RAID more for redundancy so that I wouldn't have to either re-do an entire drive worth of stuff (esp anime/music/etc that was all downloaded a...
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    Massive media server - JBOD or RAID?

    I've been ripping all my movies onto my computer over the last while and its pretty much full right now. I already have drive attached to all the on board SATA ports, so I'll need to buy a new controller card and some drives soon. I see three options: 1) Cheap 2/4 port SATA cards, and just run...
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    Looking for a good notebook for travel

    Not really settled on a buget yet, trying to find whats out there then see how much I want to spend.
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    Looking for a good notebook for travel

    I'm looking to get a new laptop for when I travel. I used to have an old 14" machine but it was too hard to use on the plane when the person in front would lean back. I'm not to concerned about gaming (maybe some starcraft or whatnot if there's a 3hr delay). I'm leaning towards a 12"...
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    Looking for HTPC case to fit w/ A/V Reciever

    I'm looking to get a new HTPC case to replace my Ahanix D5 since it won't fit in my new tv stand. I've done some looking around and found a few cases that I like, but my biggest problem is with limited depth. The opening that it's going to fit into is 18" wide 18" deep and about 15" high. I...
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    Looking for mobo suggestions

    I'm looking to build a new media-server system and was hoping i could get a few suggestions for what to buy/avoid for my mobo. It needs to be a s939 (poss s940) since I was looking at getting an A64 x2 3800 4 DIMM would be nice for future mem upgrade PCIe for graphics obvisouly, but i need...