This is what will be ordered on Monday:

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD $40
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb $36
Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) $130
ENERMAX INFINITI EIN720AWT 720W PSU $150

I changed one to a different Seagate […]

It seems I cannot use registered ECC RAM in ASUS M4A79T Deluxe m/b.
So I’m going with Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) for $130 instead.

The parts I ordered last week arrived on Friday. Unfortunately I forgot to order the RAM. It turns out the RAM I had selected was the wrong RAM; it was DDR2. The m/b takes DDR3. But I didn’t find that out until after I ordered it on Saturday, along with two […]

Tonight I purchased the following items:

ENERMAX ECO80+ EES620AWT 620W for $120
Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe m/b for $180
AMD Phenom II X4 945 CPU $150
2x SYBA SY-PEX40008 PCI Express SATA II 4 port at $60 each for $120
Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM ECC $97
Intel EXPI9301CTBLK 10/ […]

HAST has just been added to FreeBSD:
HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines connected over the TCP/IP network. Those two machines together will be called a cluster and each machine is one cluster node. HAST works in Primary-Secondary (Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the cluster nodes can […]

The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives. It runs on various operating systems and allows you to create a bootable device from an ISO image.
This could be useful for advocacy purposes.

Interesting posts here on ZFS tuning, espcially posts #34 and #35.
Post #37 has an interesting perl solution.

I recently wrote about a tower case solution which sliced $500 off the cost. Last night we found an ASUS m/b for a Phenom II which supports ECC. This will be a cheaper faster solution. I will, however, have to buy a NIC. This NIC runs a Realtek chipset. No […]

I’ve started seeing these messages recently:

openvpn[2688]: latens.example.org/10.99.36.17:60467 Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: bad packet ID (may be a replay): [ #999 ] — see the man page entry for –no-replay and –replay-window for more info or silence this warning with –mute-replay-warnings

After reading the man page, I decided to add the following and restart openvpn:

replay-window 64 20

We’ll see….

Based on several recent posts, I found a new case, which I like quite a bit. My thanks to Dan Naumov for the concept.

LIAN LI PC-A71F Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case $240 (from mwave)
Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W PSU $80
Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
Intel S3200SHV LGA 775 Intel 3200 m/b […]