built many data centers in my past with SUN, HP, IBM, and other vendors. I have been lured by the prospect of using SATA II drives in RAID 5 at an affordable price with software level RAID. I embarked on designing and building a system as a Media and FileServer...

imb 60gxp raid array with a nice raid card. Get the new abit kt266a mobo(it will be out in a little bit) if you want to buy RIGHT NOW, get the abit kg7 raid, get a 1.4ghz tbird, or a 1.6ghz palimino(if you wait for the kt266a mobo) gf3 or radeon 2, wait for...

Sli DDR3 - Crossfire DRR3 (Single PCI Express 2.0 x16 - DDR2 or DDR3) Hard Drives (raid 0) * or if you willing to shell out (raid 0) Heatsink Total cost Mobo $134.99 GPU $149.99 (10 MIR) Memory $59.99 PSU $79.99...

mobo, video card, case, cooling stuff, and hard drives. I've never bought any of these before and i want to make sure i get good parts that will work together. I've done some research for the mobo, and the Asus P6t and p6t deluxe v2 look good. I'm not really...

case and it is only $120-30. And the possible CUDA support in future Adobe releases is 99.9% guaranteed because CS4 already supports it but only with Nvidia's $1500 CX Quadro video card. Back to hard drives: you do not need or want Raid 0 for video storage....

for purchase so I could connect the matching drive in RAID zero. The hard drive is only a year old, which brings me to another issue; what if you configure a RAID 0+1 or 5 system and one hard drive dies and you can no longer purchase a matching dirve? Is you...

have an enterprise edition of their 1TB hard drive, but is the price differential worth it? Also, I am planning on having a RAID 5 array with 3 TB hard drives. But I also want a seperate system drive. Should I go with another RAID 5 drive, or what about SSDs?...

BSD like FreeNAS which can use any SATA ports and bundle the drives into a RAID 5 array (or RAID-Z if using ZFS from FreeNAS). For 5-6 drives (8 drives solution needed for more than 10TB and is where a hardware RAID controller is more suitable. A detailed...

Retail Combo Discount: -$10.00 Combo Price: $129.98 Free Shipping* SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Retail Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders w/ Tech Guarantee - OEM...

by all means go for it. I sincerely hope you don't have to RMA the system in a few months and be without it for weeks. I deal with people every day who have found out the hard way that Dell/HP/Gateway support is a joke. As I said, god bless 'em. :-) I...