Re: [H] My PC Build for January
Just wanted to give a shout out to everyone for the suggestions and ideas. Another good lil PC built and a user happy thanks to your ideas, suggestions, and contributions :) On Jan 4, 2008 4:55 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FORC5, Bought 3 of those last year. Have 2 of them under power as I write this. One in the this machine even! So far, so good. Nice, quiet drives. Happy so far. (and, why I am looking to a NAS..) Best, Duncan At 14:34 01/04/2008 -0700, you wrote: FWIW just built a new system for a customer and used two seagate 160's, mostly because of the warranty ( 5 years ) time will tell. I personally gave up on Maxtor even though I have a couple of old ones still chugging along just fine in a *backup* server. :-| Not sure why, their RMA procedure was always tops. Use to like IBM but with the merge to Hitachi their RMA procedure is lame ( last time I checked NO advance replacement, must send in the drive first ) fp At 01:40 PM 1/4/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: Thanks Francisco, I too have a long history with Seagate. I do know that stuff (rma) changes over time. I suppose that since I have had few failures I have not experienced Seagate's new RMA process. I'll now look at WD. But for now, I am still pro-Seagate for the long term (24/7 operation). Best, Duncan At 11:46 01/04/2008 -0800, you wrote: I've actually had quite the opposite. After loosing my final WD drive last year (Dec) (400gb sata) I have sworn off WD. A buddy of mine also loves to buy WD, raptors for speed, but has had the same type of problem where they just wear out quickly or just go bad. It could be because they tend to run hotter imho. As for my seagates, the oldest one I currently own is from 2001, and it's still humming along just fine. On Jan 3, 2008 12:33 PM, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd go Western Digital over Seagate. I replaced a lot of dead and dying Seagates, and very few Western Digitals. I only sell WD, and I have a very low failure rate. As an added plus, WD will cross ship and Seagate won't. T At 04:25 PM 03/01/2008, GPL wrote: I have been looking for a hard drive, sata, in the 250-320 gb range. Looking at the following two that were rated customer choice awards: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822144701 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148140 Despite obtaining a customer choice award some of these drives have some bad user feedback that worries me. We dont need to go raptor here, more space is worth more than speed for this build. Should I stay away from these drives? Probably, what might you folks suggest? On Jan 3, 2008 3:22 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thane, Was not aware of asking tricky questions! Perhaps, I just find myself in tricky situations! (seems like it lately!!!) In any case, in 2008, I'll try to be less tricky :) Remove the card? The AP is on a separate plug-in card? That would do it 4Sure! Will keep doing research. Looking for future spares..which will be whole upgrades, now! Thanks. Best, Duncan At 16:05 01/03/2008 -0400, you wrote: Of course you always ask tricky questions. :) According to the manual, you can, although I haven't tested it. I *think* you might be able to remove the card itself. You could, at the verty least, disconnect the antenna, which should make the wireless unusable. T At 03:43 PM 03/01/2008, DHSinclair wrote: Thane, Can the WIFI-AP be disabled in bios? I like the rest of the feature-set, but do not wish to have a wifi rcvr just to use the m/b. I've used asus m/b's since 1999 and like the quality, features and reliability. Best, Duncan At 14:45 01/03/2008 -0400, you wrote: At 01:29 PM 03/01/2008, GPL wrote: ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $139.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131196 I've used this motherboard a couple of times, and I like it. Seems reliable. T -- -Francisco http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Overestimation: Thinking that all your geese are swans.
Re: [H] My PC Build for January
Thanks GPL, The collective is king, still! Always happy to help, when I can. Best, Duncan At 17:17 01/13/2008 -0500, you wrote: Just wanted to give a shout out to everyone for the suggestions and ideas. Another good lil PC built and a user happy thanks to your ideas, suggestions, and contributions :) On Jan 4, 2008 4:55 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FORC5, Bought 3 of those last year. Have 2 of them under power as I write this. One in the this machine even! So far, so good. Nice, quiet drives. Happy so far. (and, why I am looking to a NAS..) Best, Duncan At 14:34 01/04/2008 -0700, you wrote: FWIW just built a new system for a customer and used two seagate 160's, mostly because of the warranty ( 5 years ) time will tell. I personally gave up on Maxtor even though I have a couple of old ones still chugging along just fine in a *backup* server. :-| Not sure why, their RMA procedure was always tops. Use to like IBM but with the merge to Hitachi their RMA procedure is lame ( last time I checked NO advance replacement, must send in the drive first ) fp At 01:40 PM 1/4/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: Thanks Francisco, I too have a long history with Seagate. I do know that stuff (rma) changes over time. I suppose that since I have had few failures I have not experienced Seagate's new RMA process. I'll now look at WD. But for now, I am still pro-Seagate for the long term (24/7 operation). Best, Duncan At 11:46 01/04/2008 -0800, you wrote: I've actually had quite the opposite. After loosing my final WD drive last year (Dec) (400gb sata) I have sworn off WD. A buddy of mine also loves to buy WD, raptors for speed, but has had the same type of problem where they just wear out quickly or just go bad. It could be because they tend to run hotter imho. As for my seagates, the oldest one I currently own is from 2001, and it's still humming along just fine. On Jan 3, 2008 12:33 PM, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd go Western Digital over Seagate. I replaced a lot of dead and dying Seagates, and very few Western Digitals. I only sell WD, and I have a very low failure rate. As an added plus, WD will cross ship and Seagate won't. T At 04:25 PM 03/01/2008, GPL wrote: I have been looking for a hard drive, sata, in the 250-320 gb range. Looking at the following two that were rated customer choice awards: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822144701 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148140 Despite obtaining a customer choice award some of these drives have some bad user feedback that worries me. We dont need to go raptor here, more space is worth more than speed for this build. Should I stay away from these drives? Probably, what might you folks suggest? On Jan 3, 2008 3:22 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thane, Was not aware of asking tricky questions! Perhaps, I just find myself in tricky situations! (seems like it lately!!!) In any case, in 2008, I'll try to be less tricky :) Remove the card? The AP is on a separate plug-in card? That would do it 4Sure! Will keep doing research. Looking for future spares..which will be whole upgrades, now! Thanks. Best, Duncan At 16:05 01/03/2008 -0400, you wrote: Of course you always ask tricky questions. :) According to the manual, you can, although I haven't tested it. I *think* you might be able to remove the card itself. You could, at the verty least, disconnect the antenna, which should make the wireless unusable. T At 03:43 PM 03/01/2008, DHSinclair wrote: Thane, Can the WIFI-AP be disabled in bios? I like the rest of the feature-set, but do not wish to have a wifi rcvr just to use the m/b. I've used asus m/b's since 1999 and like the quality, features and reliability. Best, Duncan At 14:45 01/03/2008 -0400, you wrote: At 01:29 PM 03/01/2008, GPL wrote: ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $139.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168131 31196 I've used this motherboard a couple of times, and I like it. Seems reliable. T -- -Francisco http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Overestimation: Thinking that all your geese are swans.
[H] Possible router faliure
Hi folks, I don't ask much of the list very often but I'm up against it now. I am running all Linksys equipment, BEFCU10 cable modem, BEFSx41 hardware firewall router, and a WRT54G wireless router setup as an access point off the wired router. PC is custom with Aopen m/b, 1GB Corsair dual channel RAM. Athlon 2600+ CPU, 120 and 250GB Seagate Harddrives, Nvidia FX5500, 256MB video, Liteon DVD burner, and Viewsonic E70f+ monitor. My up and download speeds have slowed to near dial-up proportions, consistently. For example, I start a download of something, from anywhere, and get an immediate burst of speed, 4,5, or 6MB, and it immediately begins to slow to 1-300K, some times less! I have checked my speeds with Broadband, DSL, and SpeedTest. All give the same results in the 2-300K area downloading. I have called Comcast regarding this and all they came up with was to disconnect everything and connect directly to the modem. They claimed that their equipment indicated that I was getting 4-5+MB consistently and uploads in the 350K vicinity. I did connect directly to the modem and, for once, Comcast was telling the truth. This all started sometime after I had installed the wireless router. We had a defective Netgear which it replaced. I have removed the wireless completely and it is still slow. I have removed the wired router, reset it, and tried a new setup. No luck. Removed wired router and tried to set up wireless as primary. I had no luck with this as it does not recognize the wireless router. I have no idea why. When all routers are connected the connected PC and laptop work perfectly, except very, very slow. My email is so slow downloading that it occasionally times out. Please yell if you need some more info. I am sending this to two lists to warn those of you that are on both. Sorry for the long post, but can anyone help? Jeff
Re: [H] Possible router faliure
At 20:03 1/13/2008, Jeff Lane wrote: Removed wired router and tried to set up wireless as primary. I had no luck with this as it does not recognize the wireless router. I have no idea why. When all routers are connected the connected PC and laptop work perfectly, except very, very slow. My email is so slow downloading that it occasionally times out. Please yell if you need some more info. I am sending this to two lists to warn those of you that are on both. Sorry for the long post, but can anyone help? Jeff You could buy another router and substitute it for the questionable one. WRT54GL - with the DD-WRT firmware. Never hurts to have a spare router around anyway. Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
