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    [H]ard Box Entry Thread

    Haven't participated since genome@home; yeah, that long. Trying to scrape together some boxes to participate, got a few just started crunching. Hope I get the badge right... edit: I doubt I will get my ppd up to qualify; used to be you could get somewhat respectable output from a small number...
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    OSX transfer from Tiger to Snow Leopard

    And, unlike a lot of Windows migration utilities, it actually works pretty well, at least in my experience.
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    Building a laptop?

    Yeah, you can get some barebones models, and add CPU, RAM, HDD< optical, etc, but I really fails to see the worth in it. It's not as though you can, say, choose video cards, or anything along those lines. And most big brands give you a fair number of config options on notebooks these days (for...
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    HP DV6000 freezes or doesnt start up or shuts down

    RMA it. And see: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us
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    transferring a raid1 array to another board

    Assuming you have a RAID1 mirror, your data will be fine (I say that because sometimes people confuse RAID0 and RAID1 mirror/stripe). If the array is your boot dirve, don't expect it to just boot up, but if it's adata drive you'll be able to access the data. Note that it will no longer show...
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    kinduva dumb question i think... 'combining' drives...?

    Well there you go. Could have done with less attitude, but he's right - third one down supports IDE drives in JBOD. Can't vouch for performance/quality. Good to know.. learn something new each day.
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    kinduva dumb question i think... 'combining' drives...?

    Yeah, the IDE RAID card is a PCI IDE controller card that supports setting up RAID arrays. The hard drives will connect directly to this controller card. Just FYI, this is not always the case. Some motherboard support zero channel RAID with optional add in cards; but we're talking...
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    Homebuilt NAS - Software solutions?

    Yes, it will suffice for that. It will do SMB (windows file sharing) NFS (primarily used for UNIX variants) and FTP. So if you're running Linux, BSD, windows, or MacOSX, you should be golden! Just don't try it with any exotic hardware :) (I was testing on a dual Xeon with an Adaptec 8-port...
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    kinduva dumb question i think... 'combining' drives...?

    Yes, dynamic disks should work. It didn't cross my mind since we were talking about external drives, but there shouldn't be any reason this wouldn't work. Alternatively you could mount the drives as folders if formatted NTFS.
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    Raptor RMA

    Typically, they send back recertified drives. I cannot recall having problems with the recertified drives they've sent back to me; it doesn't seem like a higher percentage of the recertified drives fail compared to their new drives. Chances of getting a new drive; well you might, but don't...
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    kinduva dumb question i think... 'combining' drives...?

    Technically a device like this must exist, because it's what companies like Lacie do with there Terrabyte+ external hard drives. I've not seen one on the market for consumers, however. If they were SATA you might find a SATA RAID controller with external connectors, but they're IDE, so I...
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    Homebuilt NAS - Software solutions?

    I tried to install FreeNAS once. I failed. Maybe it was a bad burn, maybe it was a compatibility problem with the hardware I was loading it on, but I didn't dig into it that much, honestly. Easier to just load ubuntu and get SAMBA up and running. It lacks good user authentication and...
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    Homebuilt NAS - Software solutions?

    Yeah server edition is for setting up streamlined, no-nonsense, no frills, and most importantly, secure, servers. thus, no gui install (well, not really anyway) Starting out, use the regular desktop ISO. You can still run the server software, there's no connection restrictions or anything like...
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    Network Backup solution needed

    I've been playing around with this: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm It will create an image, like ghost, of the entire drive, while Windows is running. It has a GUI and command line, seems easy enough to deploy, isn't too bad in price, and oh yeah, will do incremental and...
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    Homebuilt NAS - Software solutions?

    Second ubunutu. I mean, any distro (except the specialized ones for specific purposes) will do the job for you, but ubuntu is a pretty easy install, has some built in GUI tools for SAMBA on the default install, is pretty easy to get support for, etc.
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