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Good company (OCZ) and a good price for a solid single rail PSU. Assume you won't get the $15 rebate, however, as OCZ is notoriously inconsistent about them. Bill

Good deal. I have been running a 1300VA for about a year and survived a few thunderstorms where the lights dimmed in the rest of the house. The primary benefit may be peace-of-mind, of course. Bill

You can't be getting 42MB sustaining writes with parity. Well, put another way, if you are then the rest of us want to know how. How specifically are you testing? A good test is to write an entire DVD (4+GB). Cheers, Bill UPDATE: Ah, I see that you have no parity. That should be the same performance as with a cache drive, btw. All the cache capability gives you is a drive outside of parity with a cron'd copy function.

Looks like this ... http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm Bill

Idiots.

This isn't a "for sale" board.

A sustained write (like that of a DVD ISO) should be ~10GB/sec.

Welcome! Stupid questions are not a problem, but we ask you to search before you ask. Your stupid question has probably been asked and answered several times. In addition to the forums, check out the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Wiki Bill

Burp! Yep, good here too. Cheers, Bill

I have found Tom's track record of functionality improvements to be more substantial and more frequent than most other applications on the market. Bug fix releases are even better - with betas rolled out every few days as the first wave of feedback rolls in. Bill

Going through the process of elimination is the right thing to do. Rather than arguing logically why each component should work, try a more pragmatic approach and recognize that something is broken. Go through the easy items one at a time. If after eliminating them your unraid still doesn't work, then move onto the next item on the list. We don't suggest solutions randomly, experience is talking. Bill

Yeah, no rebate necessary plus free shipping! Bill

All data points at the CPU being the least important component. I actually underclock/undervolt mine to save energy. So the answer to any modern processor is ... yes, it will be fine. Bill

Need lots more details. Linux? Mac? Vista? XP? Is the unraid working or not? Do you have a monitor on the unraid box? You have two NICs in the unraid or is the 3com in your PC? What speed (100Mb/GigE)? Bill

Really? A kidney sells for that much? Just think how much you can get by selling two! Bill