Recent content by Pinchy

"Technically" you could get one wireless N 300 router and (providing each tablet has an n connection) connect everything to that, as DHCP can assign 254 addresses out of the box. However, realistically, you wouldn't want that much traffic on the one "commercial" router. I've never tried it...

lol cheers for the replies. Havent got a free PCI/PCIe port on the current board. Yeah was gonna do that, but now am too used to having a computer on 24x7 to do what I use it for. And I don't really care about CPU usage, as long as it isnt constant CPU usage (i.e. if it goes to...

I can go to ITestate, who have the same drive for the same price, or the 1.5TB version for $115. However I am staying away from the WD greens and RAID. The board I am going to use (as it stands) will be the G33M-DS2R which only has ICH9R :(. BTW I am on a gigabit network.

Well thanks for clearing that up, lol. These LP drives sound interesting. Ruling out the WD Greens (cheapest, at $115 AUD a drive), what would be a better buy: 3x Seagate LP's @ $90 USD (100 AUD) each (plus say, $30 postage and a fee for someone to send them) from the US (and i will need to...

I do run a few things off it, to be brief: Stream media, have a website running off it...PHP, java(tomcat) and mySQL (mainly for web dev and home usage...nothing too intense), run an FTP server which I use frequently, torrent box (seeds 24/7, have webUI set up on it), and of course have the...

LP drives not avaliable around here for less than $250, lol. I'm tossing up between the Samsung eco drives or WD greens atm. The other alternative is a Seagate 7200.11, however they are more expensive than the both of them and are not green drives. @nt1, (or anyone, really haha) whats RAID5...

Yeah I really want a RAID 5 array going, however the limits on the cases is what holds me back. Dont the greens/LPs run at a slower RPM? How much does that affect performance? And what kind of power difference would be in it? I'm still unsure of the best option to go for. Small, fast drive...

*bump* What are the best drives out ATM even in terms of just size (price/performance/size/reliability): 500GB/1TB/1.5TB/2TB?

Well it is the govt, so don't expect their "promises" to be fulfilled anytime soon lol.

You were getting 30mbit speed before. 30Mbit (megabits) equates to 3.75MB/s (megabytes). So when it was running at 3-4MB (I assume you meant megabytes) it was spot on. Now the slower speeds...what are you downloading off? Try getting a file off the bigpond site and see what speed it downloads...

Yeah USB 3.0 has that hypothetical speed, but his drive is capped at 3.0Gbit as he has a SATA II drive/controller (Refer to the OP). I should have worded my post better, however. That isn't the case. If both the HDD was SATA III and the controller was SATA III it would still operate at the...

Okay so the servers 500GB now only has 4GB left and it is running at less than 2MB/s. It only has IDE so the limit would be a 500GB HDD, and I haven't got the case room to put a SATA adapter in and get a SATA HD. As you can see, it isn't very powerful but does the job. And with a 60%...

As mentioned above, if it gives you hell, just ring MS and tell them your old motherboard died and you got a new one which was the only one the shop could reimburse you with.

Nothing other than drag and drop.

Done that and did nothing. Even if it was the cable though, it is still odd that it can transfer at at least 11-12MB/s (when downstairs) but when it goes straight into the PC it only does 5MB. Well all cables were brand new and I have tested/changed them all except from the 30m one as that...