Recent content by 3p0cHx

Certainly people will see more and more of the painstakingly slow performance of budget NAS devices as they are beginning to proliferate the business and home markets. We are copying ~2TB from a Western Digital NAS to a QNAP with RSync. Because it looks like SSH is causing high CPU usage on the...

I've read that Asus and ranks as the best most reliable notebooks with the fewest returns. HP last... http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place With a 3 year return policy on batteries I'm sure they are trying to retain this image.

I don't see a TV tuner card for this build..? Does the video card in this build include support for DVR/media center?

would this be a good platform to migrate to if the shop is already running SBS2003? Does this system include licenses for Word, Excel, ppt? Is Outlook only web-based? Do you upload your data shares from SBS2003 to the cloud?

looking for a 10" LCD notebook/netbook w/ windows 7 ultimate touchscreen HDMI+audio out, wifi N + gigabit, GPS, bluetooth for tethering, big solid state hd, blueray, with 8 hr battery life and a media center remote for under $600. Essentially looking for an HTPC that I can attach to a big LCD...

The only hardware problems I've had was adding my Vizio 42" LCD TV as an external monitor to my Acer Ferrari 5000 laptop - the LCD TV (HDMI) turned an ugly purple/fusia color. Under XP it works fine. This is after trying different video drivers. But otherwise, you'll love 64bit Windows 7 it's...

Would this be a way to create a fail-over connection, so that if one wifi connection is getting interference, the other virtual connection will take over and you'll resume browsing? Or will it allow for bridging so that if you have 2x54mbit connections, you'll effectivly have 100mb?

No problems at all, running it on a Ferrari 5000 and only driver issues were with the SD card reader and Webcam drivers not installed by windows. Used the vista 64bit drivers from the Acer site. Windows 7 is really growing on me especially the app previews on the task bar. Just hovering your...

I liked the article too, but it was thin on the software running the targets. I would have liked to have seen additional info on the way you expand storage to volumes, what filing system is used, & how to check for errors, graphical charts, and failover. I found NexentaStor which is a virtual...