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You know Comcast caps monthly data usage at 250GB/month, and that includes both upload and download. How much do you normally use? They only enforce it if you live in a high congestion area. I live in a small beach town so I've never been bothered by them about my consumption. I do about 500-750GB a month usually. I've done 1.5TB in a month before without hearing a peep from them.

Sorry to bump this old thread but I just wanted to say I signed up for Astraweb with the $96 per year deal a few weeks ago and it's been great! I max out my 50mbit Comcast connection, getting 7.7MB per second with the powerboost for the first 200MB or so and settling down to a constant 6.5MB per second for the rest of the download. Knowing it can max out a connection that high has got me itching to pay the extra $50 a month for the 105mbit Comcast service.

Are you sure the warranty would be void? I don't know about the warranty status of refurb stuff but but I bought a new external 3TB WD drive a few months back and removed it from the enclosure. I just checked the warranty status on the WD website with the serial number printed on the actual drive and it says it's got the two year warranty.

I use one of these in my HTPC. Makes a huge difference in boot times and overall "snappiness" of the system.

I have both Plex and XBMC installed and both work great. I love Plex on it because it keeps the native Apple TV look.

Price is up to $159.99 now. I found a 3TB WD external on Best Buy for $129.99 with free shipping. Picked it up before prices go up even more as I'll be out of space by the time prices come back down.

That is not true. Avahi can be installed on 4.7. The reason it won't work is the reason stated in my post. And FYI Avahi has nothing to do with AFP. Avahi is a open source Linux implementation of Bonjour, the service discovery software made by Apple for OS X and Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)

You need 5.0 because it requires the version of slackware that unraid is based off of (13) and won't work on the version 4.7 is based on (12). I have it up an running on my server running beta 12a and it works great. That is enough RAM (I'm using the same amount) but as far as the processor it will work fine for the plex media server, but if you want to do transcoding so you can watch stuff on your iPhone/iPad/AppleTV it might not cut it. I have a 2.4GHz Pentium Dual Core and that works fine. You'd really have to try it to see if it works ok.

Might want to look in to an AppleTV 2 and jailbreaking it. That'll do 1080p and it's $85 refurbished with free shipping on the Apple online store. I have one that I have Plex on (along with XBMC but I prefer the Plex look on the ATV2) with the Plex Media Server on my unraid server and it works like a charm. And it's so small I have it mounted to the back of a TV completely out of view. It's only a little bigger than an hockey puck.

I've got one of these in my HTPC. I upgraded from a 7200RPM drive. I don't have any media on the PC but boot up time, application loading time and just general responsiveness is noticeably improved.

Ditto on the Irene comments. No lost power or even the lights flickering but once or twice I did here it do the battery click. Familiar sound to me with the old electrical lines in my old house built in the early 1930s. Whenever the compressor kicks in on my 12000 BTU window AC unit that's in the same room as the UPS I hear the battery click so it's getting a good workout. I paid $105 shipped a few months back so this is a good deal.

This is a great power supply. I actually got a slightly better deal on it. $23.99 a few months back.

Do any of the unraid ftp servers support FXP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol With FXP support and the feature enabled you can transfer from one FTP server to another directly.

I agree, but time is money, and it's much quicker to flatten a drive than to hook it up to a box and wait for it to do several erase passes. I do remember seeing demagnetizers though, and I'd assume they'd also work just as well. It would only take a few seconds to unscrew the cages. Those suckers get expensive when you're replacing them with every new drive change. It's quicker to just replace the tray with a new one then swap it. If one of us wanted to take some of them off in out spare time to keep for personal use we could but no one ever bothers. Not sure if either of you have ever worked in the health care industry before but because of the HIPAA and HI-TECH acts we have to actually destroy all devices taken out of production, whether its because they are broken or being upgraded, replaced, etc. Even keyboards have to be destroyed. Crazy, I know.

Funnily I somewhat regularly put them under crushing force. We use Supermicro cages in the servers here at work and when we replace a server or a cage or even a dead drive (we have lots of spare trays) we leave the hard drives in the trays and crush them in our hydraulic hard drive crusher because I work at a hospital and they have private patient data on them hahaha. They are actually pretty damn tough. Our crusher will break a hard drive in half like they are made from cardboard but we usually have to do three or four presses before it'll crack the tray.

I ordered one when this deal was first on back in May. It's been great so far. Kept my unraid server, cable modem and router up and running when my girlfriend kept blowing the fuse from her hair dryer.

Try logging in to your account before you add the item to your cart maybe?

Get 20% off all Norco and Supermicro server cases at Newegg by using the coupon code BTEKDHK36 at checkout. The code expires on 6/26/11. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory=412&Description=&Type=&N=100007731&IsNodeId=1&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&Manufactory=10473&Manufactory=1655&nm_mc=EMCPP-IT062011B&cm_mmc=EMCPP-IT062011-_-PPS1-_-banner-Server-_-PromoWord Also, use the code BTEKDHK28 to get 10% off and SSD. Good for the next 48 hours. http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=119&name=SSD&nm_mc=EMCPP-IT062011B&cm_mmc=EMCPP-IT062011-_-PPS1-_-banner-Flash%20Memory-_-PromoWord

That's not true for iPOD devices. They did not charge for iPHONE devices. My mistake on the timeline, Apple stopped charge over the updates to iPod touches over a year ago, not two. Since the release of the iPad all iOS software updates for all iOS devices(iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV 2) have been free.

While I agree with the above, I have no problem paying an upgrade fee for significant new features. Microsoft and OS X work this way, as does iOS on all iDevices (save for the iPhone). Apple hasn't charged for iOS updates in over 2 years.

I have the next model up from this one, the 1000 VA/600 watt model and I love it. I got it a few weeks ago when it was on sale for $109 shipped. I decided to pick up it when a power outage from a storm a month or so ago killed one of my WD 2TB drives. Thankfully no data loss. I had a chance to test the UPS this weekend when I had too many things running at once and blew a fuse It didn't skip a beat.

Not if you're me and happen to live in Delaware which has two CompUSAs and no sales tax!

Refurb Apple TV 2 for $85 bucks shipped ($99 shipped new) - http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipod/apple_tv?mco=MTkyMjgwMzQ IMO this kills the boxee box in terms of bang for the buck. Jailbraking and loading XBMC on it takes 10 minutes and you've got full blown XBMC running on there drawing almost zero power...the internals are basically an iPad. 2.4/5GHz N wireless, HDMI, 10/100 ethernet and optical audio out. I got one and I love it. Only downside is 1080p can be a little sketchy but if they release a new one this fall with the iPad 2 chip in it 1080p will be a breeze. And at only $99 brand new I can afford to just put the old one in the guest bedroom and get the new one.