Re: [H] drive checkout b4 rma

2008-10-09 Thread amartin
Why keep drives you aren't confident about? I'd let them go back. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:00:52 To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] drive checkout b4 rma My vendor gave me an rma for the 2

[H] drive checkout b4 rma

2008-10-09 Thread DHSinclair
My vendor gave me an rma for the 2 new drives I suspect are DOA. Now that I have re-built my array (with the remaining 3 drives), started a new raid, and built another OS, should I now go back and re-check the 2 suspect drives again? The plan is to try and add them as "hot spares" to the current

Re: [H] Upgrade Time

2008-10-09 Thread Raul Limos
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Steve Tomporowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any good place to look for benchmarks? Trying to find > something on anandtech is like pulling teeth If you're contemplating the Phenon X3s, better check out this article first: http://techreport.com/art

Re: [H] Windows 98 Se and USB Printer problem

2008-10-09 Thread Ben Ruset
That printer is a WinPrinter. Even if you had it connected via the parallel port, even a real one, it's not going to work without Windows 98 drivers. -ben Harvey Best wrote: I have a friend going through a divorce. He needed a computer and I had an old W98 SE box that was sitting in a closet I

Re: [H] Upgrade Time

2008-10-09 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Is there any good place to look for benchmarks? Trying to find something on anandtech is like pulling teeth On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends what the bottleneck is. If it's something that's using a lot of CPU > cycles and is multithreaded (mea

Re: [H] Upgrade Time

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Weeden
Not sure. I haven't gone looking for bench marks on CPUs/mobos in a few years. --- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Steve Tomporow