Re: [H] New TV.
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Bobby Heid wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for all of their inputs. We have an older rear-projection 52 that I was wanting to replace. The wife was balking at the $1800-1900 prices I was wanting to get (the 52 Sony Bravia or 52 Samsung 650). She was pushing for a 46 model to save a few dollars. Anyway, I came across the SAMSUNG LN52A630 at Frys for $1500 + free shipping. It turns out the 630 has a more matte screen which will work out well with my window/TV placement. http://shop3.frys.com/product/5748772;jsessionid=tkXINGh1ff4LnXVt444JXQ**.no de3?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG Make sure when it is delivered that they have 2 people carrying it. Had a customer of ours accept a delivery of a PC we sold them for their meeting room (instead of a projector) and the UPS guy carried it in on his own and damaged the TV. The second TV we had delivered we took a $30 white glove option. Had 2 guys in a truck come. They carried it where it was going, unboxed it, allowed him to inspect it and they removed all the packing materials. Definately worth it on a $1500 purchase. Christopher Fisk -- [Peter is talking in his sleep] Peter Griffin: Oh, Jenny... ooh, Jenny, Ooh, Jenny don't stop... Oh, Richard Jeni, your HBO comedy specials have brought laughter to millions. And what a sweet ass. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] New TV.
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: Make sure when it is delivered that they have 2 people carrying it. Had a customer of ours accept a delivery of a PC we sold them for their meeting room (instead of a projector) and the UPS guy carried it in on his own and damaged the TV. Typo above... PC should be TV Christopher Fisk -- Homer/Apu/Moe: You can do it, Otto! You can do it, Otto! Apu:Make this spare, I'll give you free gelato! Moe:Then go back to my place where I will get you blotto! Homer: Domo arigato, Mister Roboto! Team Homer -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] Thermaltake Blacx
I got one from Amazon (love Amazon Prime!) and will report back on how it works, though it seems fine so far! :P BINO -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of JRS Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:50 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Thermaltake Blacx I have one, works great I used it to back my stuff up before I bought my new Terabyte NAS running Raid 1.. I gave up on tape a long time ago, especially now that terabyte drives are so damn cheap. :) I still use the Thermaltake for doing ghosts, copying users data, stuff like that.. Have not had any issues with mine at all.. -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. From: Gary Udstrand g...@digitalwind.net To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:38:45 AM Subject: [H] Thermaltake Blacx Anyone have any experience with these? I was leaning towards the USB/eSata one along with a couple 1.5TB Seagates to back up my NAS.I plan on keeping one drive in my fireproof safe and the other will be shipped offsite. If I do this, what is the best way to store the drives? Static bags? Vacuum packed? Enclosures of some kind? I am not averse to spending a few bucks to protect the drives while they are in storage. Seems like a series of drives in a rotation is a lot better backup strategy rather than using tape http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?C=1346 -- -Gary
Re: [H] Thermaltake Blacx
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:34:02 -0700 Bino Gopal binogo...@hotmail.com wrote: I got one from Amazon (love Amazon Prime!) and will report back on how it works, though it seems fine so far! :P I have three that need a home. Two USB and one USB/ESATA. Al
[H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs
Hey guys, I ran into an issue I don't really have much experience with on my OLD P4 3.4 Ghz Dell XPS system from Dec 2004: The system came with 2 74GB WD 10k Raptors in RAID0 (which is still a pretty decent perf setup from what I understand). 1 is in SATA0 and the other is in SATA2. A couple years ago I installed a 250GB WD HD in the case, and plugged it into SATA1 (think that's correct) and things worked fine and the system booted fine, etc. So now I just got a 1TB WD HD and swapped out the 250GB one in the case with the 1TB. I had formatted the 1TB in the Thermaltake BlacX while attached to my laptop and it seemed fine, though I think one key issue is that I marked it as Active after the format. Concerned about that, I googled and most posts said it shouldn't be an issue in most systems. Well, as it turns out, it is an issue for me (not sure why tho). When the system boots with the 1TB drive connected (I disconnected it to get the system to boot) it gives me the NTLDR is missing. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart error! Freaked me out for a minute and then I googled (http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm ) and saw it had to do with boot order and missing MBR and realized it probably had something to do with that new HD being marked Active (since the 250GB one never was and it was installed in the exact same place). So my question: is there any way to fix this other than taking the 1TB drive out and reformatting it and NOT marking it as Active? If so, would changing what SATA port it's in (i.e. putting the other 74GB WD into SATA1, so it's seen before the 1TB one) make any difference? Is it as simple as changing the boot order on the PC b/c for whatever reason it's checking the drives in the wrong order? Does the RAID affect this in any way, or not really? Just wanted to get some ideas about what to do as I'm a little concerned with mucking around making changes to see what works since I've never really touched my RAID setup since I got the PC over 4 yrs ago and didn't want to mess it up and lose all my data since it's RAID0.and also to understand exactly how it was working in this case (or not working actually) for my edification. Thanks for any help guys! BINO
Re: [H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs
run fdisk and change the status to not active. Some MB's do let you choice boot order in the bios fp At 09:48 AM 4/9/2009, Bino Gopal Poked the stick with: So my question: is there any way to fix this other than taking the 1TB drive out and reformatting it and NOT marking it as Active? If so, would changing what SATA port it's in (i.e. putting the other 74GB WD into SATA1, so it's seen before the 1TB one) make any difference? Is it as simple as changing the boot order on the PC b/c for whatever reason it's checking the drives in the wrong order? Does the RAID affect this in any way, or not really? -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- C:\ The stick shift of computing.
Re: [H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs
Ahh, I was just being stupid--for some reason (despite looking at it 3-4 times last night, though this was at 3am and I was pretty tired) I missed seeing that SATA drive was higher on the boot list than the Intel RAID Array! So since the 1TB SATA drive is marked Active for boot and was higher on the boot order, it was looking there first; interesting... So the SATA port it's connected to on the MB has nothing to do with it, right? That makes more sense...ok re-ordering the boot menu now and plugging it back in. I've got the 4th and final SATA port connected to my eSATA adapter (also from Amazon for $15) and using that for the Thermaltake BlacX...so getting full use of all 4 of my SATA ports! BINO P.S. On that note, I've got this Intel RAID Array and I think it's a software RAID; are there any threads I can lookup or does anyone have any comments on whether it'd make a difference to do HW RAID instead? Ignore the fact that it's all old stuff; I'm more just wondering for future system reference...thanks! -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:20 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs run fdisk and change the status to not active. Some MB's do let you choice boot order in the bios fp At 09:48 AM 4/9/2009, Bino Gopal Poked the stick with: So my question: is there any way to fix this other than taking the 1TB drive out and reformatting it and NOT marking it as Active? If so, would changing what SATA port it's in (i.e. putting the other 74GB WD into SATA1, so it's seen before the 1TB one) make any difference? Is it as simple as changing the boot order on the PC b/c for whatever reason it's checking the drives in the wrong order? Does the RAID affect this in any way, or not really? -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- C:\ The stick shift of computing.
[H] SATA port multipliers?
Hey guys, I've got a client wanting a machine in a Silverstone SG05 case ( http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=sg05area=usa ), and the current leading candidate for the mainboard is the Zotac 9300-ITX ( http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16642 ), the basic objective being to cram as much power as possible (with a bit of an eye toward value, he's held off on the 3Ghz core 2 Quad at least) into as small a space as possible. the snag that arises is, the SG05 has 1x slimline optical bay, 1x 2.5 HDD bay and 1x 3.5 HDD bay Client would _like_ an SSD as the boot drive in the 2.5 bay, a big data storage disk in the 3.5 bay and a Blu-ray burner (!) in the optical bay, however the Zotac mainboard only has two SATA ports (and one ESATA on the back) So, to make that config happen I need the Nvidia 9300M chipset to play nice with port multipliers (and apparently that's quite hit and miss?), AND a tiny port multiplier that'll run off the internal power, or a USB to SATA convertor I can hang off the internal USB ports (and power internally also.) (the esata port is wanted for other uses, and so is off limits for one of the internal drives, on top of that being a horrifically clunky cabling job) Suggestions? I know I'm after something that's possible from a technical standpoint, but it's something extremely niche, so I'm not hopeful, but maybe someone else on the list has some idea if I'm barking up the wrong tree, or indeed barking up any tree at all? TIA -JB
Re: [H] SATA port multipliers?
I'd use a USB to SATA adapter off one of the internal usb headers for the blu-ray drive. Use one of these to keep it tidy. You'll also need a slim sata to sata cable http://cgi.ebay.com/12%22-305m-Slimline-SATA-Cable-Slim-Drive-CRX890S,AD7670S_W0QQitemZ130296426485QQcmdZViewItem http://www.logicsupply.com/products/afap_082usb I've done a few systems using zotac ITX mobos lopaka --- On Thu, 4/9/09, James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com wrote: From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com Subject: [H] SATA port multipliers? To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 5:05 PM Hey guys, I've got a client wanting a machine in a Silverstone SG05 case ( http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=sg05area=usa ), and the current leading candidate for the mainboard is the Zotac 9300-ITX ( http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16642 ), the basic objective being to cram as much power as possible (with a bit of an eye toward value, he's held off on the 3Ghz core 2 Quad at least) into as small a space as possible. the snag that arises is, the SG05 has 1x slimline optical bay, 1x 2.5 HDD bay and 1x 3.5 HDD bay Client would _like_ an SSD as the boot drive in the 2.5 bay, a big data storage disk in the 3.5 bay and a Blu-ray burner (!) in the optical bay, however the Zotac mainboard only has two SATA ports (and one ESATA on the back) So, to make that config happen I need the Nvidia 9300M chipset to play nice with port multipliers (and apparently that's quite hit and miss?), AND a tiny port multiplier that'll run off the internal power, or a USB to SATA convertor I can hang off the internal USB ports (and power internally also.) (the esata port is wanted for other uses, and so is off limits for one of the internal drives, on top of that being a horrifically clunky cabling job) Suggestions? I know I'm after something that's possible from a technical standpoint, but it's something extremely niche, so I'm not hopeful, but maybe someone else on the list has some idea if I'm barking up the wrong tree, or indeed barking up any tree at all? TIA -JB
