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Posts tagged SCSI

So is my graphics card knackered?

think it probably is but just to confirm..
when I try and load a video my screen goes blank on/off and the CPU hits 100% usage. If I leave the video running the blank screens become more occurent until the PC hangs/reboots.
pretty similar to this guy really
but my PC doesn’t need a better PSU [...]

SSD’s use more power?

So, according to Tom’s Hardware, SSD drives actually use more battery power than regular drives.Dude, that suck. Considering that I get like 2 hours tops on my fucking piece of shit MBP battery right now when wifi is on.

I can pull 3h+ still with my MB with my battery at 74% life.

i NEED a raid card

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

UNIX people… question about block sizes

We use Veritas volumes for our raw devices for Sybase. The DBA just requested that we make our block size match theirs which is 8k. As far as I remember, you only set the block size when creating filesystems. There is no concept of block sizing at the volume level, correct?We use [...]

I have a Sun Colabt Qube 3 just sitting here, kickin’ it.

I don’t have much use for it. How useful/useless is this thing?makes a good server but harddrives are a PITA to replace so dont rely on itI think we still have ours from when we had an internal mail server at work… I guess Comcast didn’t want it back… It’s been almost 6 years.That [...]