2008/12/4-10 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52163 Activity:nil | 12/4 A question to you old crufy alumni: So lately we've suggested
VMs, and been asked why it's necessary. We've suggested top-of-the-line
hardware and been told we don't need that much power. So I'd like to
ask -- what exactly do you think the CSUA is supposed to _be_?
\_ Noone said VMs weren't needed. They suggested you use the
\_ No one said VMs weren't needed. They suggested you use the
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2008/11/11-26 [Computer/Domains, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:51909 Activity:nil | 11/11 I want a home nas so my laptops aren't always running out of space,
what's a good buy?
\_ I did a bunch of research and ended up with Dlink DNS-321. It
is newer than DNS-323 with less problems. It doesn't have as
much buffer as DNS-323, but if you're transfer files bigger
than 32 megs, the sustained rate for both are equivalent. I
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2008/8/4-10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:50776 Activity:nil | 8/4 I went to Fry's for the first time in ages and was surprised to
see a 1T Seagate HD on sale. I'm still using my 250G and it's
only 60% full. What the heck do people put on their HD these
days, porn? I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy a
1T drive for personal use.
\_ HDTV.
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2007/11/15-17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:48642 Activity:high | 11/15 So if I have a process running in Linux and kill -9 isn't
killing it, and killing its parent process didn't kill it,
and now it's reading as though its parent process is 1,
is there any way to kill it short of rebooting the machine?
\_ Sure, but you dont want to be mucking around in kernel data
strucures. Most practical way is to reboot the machine.
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2007/6/3-6 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:46844 Activity:moderate | 6/3 I find myself having to reinstall WinXP sp2 every 1 to 1.5 year
due to sluggishness and problems (yes I've tried every single
trick that you can Google for). I'm at a point where I think I
should just install a fresh image and save the image so that I
can just restore it. What's a good FREE *Windows* based software
that can save and restore an entire disk image? Thanks.
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2007/5/27-30 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:46768 Activity:low | 5/27 I just spend a few hours on a silly BIOS problem and I'm posting it
here so that you guys wouldn't have to go through this again. My
MB is Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro and the latest BIOS update is version
F17, which is in 2004. It comes with the MB Sil (Silicon Image)
3112A SATA controller, which unfortunately, is outdated from 2002
and does not recognize my Seagate 750G drive-- the boot loader
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2007/5/17-19 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:46676 Activity:nil | 5/17 My new 750G Seagate HD shows only 698G available. WHAT THE FUCK??
\_ 750G = 750*10^9 bytes. Your OS is probably measuring in 2^30 bytes.
See GiB vs GB
\_ Also, disk drive manufacturers advertise "raw" storage, while
your O/S measures usable storage. You lose quite a bit to
disk label information, metadata and other various things.
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2007/1/7-16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:45525 Activity:nil | 1/7 Looking to get an external HD for my mom (not yermom). Fry's has an
ACOMDATA 250GB USB 2.0 for $70 after rebate, but I see only review on
teh Intarweb (and it's suspiciously glowing). Any of you fine sodans
have experience with this product or its ilk? TIA. --erikred
\_ Seagate has 5 year warranty, I think. However their reliability
has gone down the drain in the past few years. I have a WD250
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2006/4/20-11/12 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:42787 Activity:nil | 4/20 Soda now has a spiffy new kernel that, besides now having the SATA
RAID and SCSI disk drivers built in, also, theoretically, doesn't
have the lockd problem that has been causing so much trouble. It has
currently been up without a hitch for most of the night, and I hereby
pronounce it more "stable." (Waits for the expected crash.) In any
case, thanks to marked and rfm for helping out with building it, and
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2006/9/10-12 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:44341 Activity:nil | 9/11 For those who run his/her own server. Has any of you tried to run a
fanless system that uses AMD Operon or Pentium M that is clocked more
than 1GHz? where to get chassis like these? can't find it at Fry's.
\_ No, but I have a fanless 800 MHz Via C3, with a big Zalman heatsink.
Got the CPU on ebay for about $50 and got the heatsink (CNPS-6000AlCu
Flower Cooler) from http://endpcnoise.com for about $40.. Runs great.
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2006/8/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43951 Activity:nil | 8/8 I want to replace the 30GB HD in a 1Ghz iBook. Will any notebook HD
do? Any recommendations? Price/Reliability more important than perf.
I'm looking at a Hitachi Travelstar or Seagate Momentus from newegg.
\_ I've used Travelstar's before in a PB, they are fine.
\_ I went through 2 Travelstars before installing a Seagate.
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2006/7/17-19 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43698 Activity:nil | 7/17 My western digital WD800UE 80gb 5400 RPM laptop HD sometimes
gives off a few "clicking" noise. Although this has been going
on for a while and I haven't run into any problems. Is this
the click of death? Should I be concerned? I am using it in an
external enclosure and had it shortly after I got it. (it
started to make that noise when I was trying to "disconnect
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