Recent content by alan.p

RedMonastery (Scarlet wouldn't fit.) Whatever the hell you like, dude. Anything at all.

Anyone got any rough figures on how much faster World of Warcraft loads? I'm thinking of both the load screen, and also ingame waiting for textures to hurry up and load in places like prime-time Dalaran.

Mine idles at about 75W or so, with the absolute cheapest CPU money could buy, and the cheapest motherboard money could buy that still had the features I wanted. Integrated graphics, again.

I tried to take some photo's of the stereo and speakers sitting straight on the left (the tigers are sitting on top), but the batteries in the camera died. Which explains why the flash didn't go off like it should've. Image quality isn't what it should be either. I didn't tidy up, no point in...

Plus that generic setup uses lots of port multipliers, doesn't it? And that kills the throughput. From memory, that Backblaze outfit compounded the problem by running the bulk of their drives through the PCI bus.

To avoid VESA flashbacks. (I think my 486 had one of those.)

More than a decade ago I got to have a play of Doom1 and Magic Carpet on a proper virtual reality helmet. Even with Doom 1 resolution, it was absolutely mindblowing, like going from a slow Ford Escort to a Lamborghini. But it cost something like $2,000 NZD to buy one. I've been re-reading Tad...

Boot -- 150W Idle -- 75W 3TB over 3x 1TB Samsungs

Anyone planning on compiling this and making a graph of it or something?

To be fair, if it's a server, it isn't as if you need to keep it in your bedroom or lounge. It can be stashed somewhere where no one will care how loud it is, as long as you've got a network cable that reaches and a power socket.

If and only if the prices come down. For the amount of storage they have for the price, SSD are enthusiast and company only.

Those things that clamp down a big heatsink to the drive with the force of a thousand hammers are probably a bad idea, too. I bought one and the drive I forced it on died within a day.

SMLib or ScarletLibrary sucked, so I decided on ScarletMonastery. That didn't fit, so it's now Redmonastery. Couldn't think offhand of any other libraries. Yes, I do remember NOW about the Discs of Norgannon, Dalaran etc.

So either with or without that prop, the card itself is screwed? :D

This is the raw image that my cheap, crappy camera takes. It cost me $30 NZD. I probably shouldn't post an updated picture taken with my sister's camera (she bought a good one for more money), since the dust doesn't show with my camera.