WanderingAries
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Quote:Actually, I have NTFS/HFS+ drivers for my Mac/Windows machines, so that's not an issue. The real issue is that until I get money for that build I had you guys help with (the one that uses the new UEFI BIOS), I'm restricted by file system partition size limitations.Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
If you don't care about being supported on non-Windows platforms (using NTFS is a bit questionable anyways... but using FAT32 just seems wrong for your 'backups'!), you could simply buy 2 cheap external drives, and then have Windows create a software raid.
Don't forget about the holographic data storage drives! I've got a link somewhere in my bookmarks, but I'm sure that's still in R&D.Quote:It's likely the storage market will stay fragmented for many years, unless a hot new technology comes in and obsoletes both rust buckets and SSDs (Memresistor-based storage is one of those 5-10 year technologies that promise to change the world... it stinks of a perpetual 5-10 year technology, though). -
Quote:there's absolutely no reason to have an SSD or even a hybrid mass storage drive. that'd be like using a sports car as a school bus.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Not for mass storage we won't.
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I don't have either (yet), but I'm told that the 680 will run quite nicely on optimal settings and that 690 (dual core right?) will likely make the game cry with its awesomeness. I think the 680 is $500 vs $1k for the 690 though right?
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Firstly, I got a good LOL out of this:
Quote:How many blocks away do you sit from that screen?!?!Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 19200x10800
3D Resolution: 19200x10800 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No
NeWay, looks like that ESAT thing's geared more towards corporate malware security, but either way you've apparantly got two sets of security suites running and they're likely not playing well with eachother. My instinct would lean towards the ESAT being a bit more restrictive to gaming type apps than McAffee, but even McAffee is a bit bloated on its own. Granted, I'm sure just about everybody's drueling over your system specs right now and I doubt you're coming even remotely close to over tasking it. You might wanna try picking one security suite and uninstalling it, then see how things go. -
Quote:Trust me, I have the "for parts" ebay history to prove it. :-XOriginally Posted by houtex
Ask a few of us: We use Co* to KILL THINGS. It is, still, so far as I know, the baddest thing you can do to any computer. I don't know why, but it maxes CPUs, Memory, North/south bridges, network ports, and video cards. Only thing it doesn't stress is the hard drive. Well, and if you happen to have a floppy drive, that doesn't get hit at all.
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Quote:I can see how RAID configuring active green drives would be a Bad thing, but in a situation where they would remain mostly offline (IE: unplugged) I'd think that it would become a non-issue.Originally Posted by OmnipotentMerlin
Um my understanding is that it is a bad idea to raid the green drives. There meant to sit idle more often and haven't be reinforced to run high speeds alot and be accessed and written alot. Aka what I am saying is that raiding said drives will burn them out way way faster cause raid will use the drive highly.
Overall I seem to have a collection of WD drives (mostly the passports) with the exception of a Seagate that's serving to backup my PS3 as it requires a FAT32 partition and I think I'm done upgrading the HDD in the PS3 for now (last upgrade was 500Gb). I've clocked 3 out of 4 Fujitsu(?) factory installed laptop HDDs as dead within 5yrs of purchase so I definitely won't lean that way ever again. I used to buy Maxtor disks back in the day, but I don't even think they exist anymore. :-p -
Make this apply to any other "Power Suppression" related event and I'll be happy. Speaking specifically about Vanity Travel Powers, this factor is actually making me only use them on toons that I rarely take toggle powers on (which is a rarity in and of itself). It honestly makes the decision to purchase one on the market very difficult in terms of cost vs functionality.
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[QUOTE=VKhaun;4231806]So I just got out of my time machine.../QUOTE]
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Quote:Yeah, these words just took on more meaning today as I got the results of my first financing option. I figured it'd fall through, but if I manage to get enough stuff through ebay/amazon (and out of my closet/pile), then I'll get there. Funny enough, I was pretty much settled on those choices as well, but until my new build happens, I'll be restricted to the 2Gb RAID1 due to BIOS limitations.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Honestly. Personal preference.
Some people will swear by Seagate. Others by WD.
Personally, I'm a WD-boy. I've had exactly ONE drive of their fail on my in the last 30+ years. And that was a drive that did 24x7 NAS duty for nigh on 8 years.
Also, on the hybrid drives. "Limited capacity"?
Seagate's hybrids are 500GB and 750GB. Yes, the flash cache on them is much smaller. Now I wouldn't recommend it for use in your storage array. But if you're looking for a primary drive, and don't want to spend for a straight SSD, it's a nice option.
A pair of these would basically triple your total storage space.
If those are a bit too "spendy" for you, a pair of these will double your total storage space.
Honestly, I'd recommend going for the larger ones if you can afford it. You're not REALLY space-crunched yet. But backups have a way of accelerating in growth the longer you keep them. A 3GB RAID1 would probably keep you in free space longer.
That said, you're thinking an internal/self-built solution would be better than buying a premade external? I obviously wouldn't need what that links to, but it gives you the idea. -
Quote:That and you can't get it to do other things like defragmenting the HDD below 12%. Dump your internet cache, delete system temp files, and if that doesn't give you back enough space then you'll wanna look into either deleting non-essential software or a second drive to move things like the game, music, or anything else that's a group of large files. Atleast, whatever won't cause windows to crap out in the process.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
My recommendation would be to free up space on your hard drive. Windows doesn't perform well when Free Space is under 20% or so.
*re-reads the specs* oh crap, that's a laptop isn't it. There goes the 'second drive' option...I normally don't suggest it, but you could disable the hibernation file so long as you don't plan on using that feature or always make sure to properly shutdown the system. That'll give you a couple gigs of space back. -
Quote:NP, I actually double check a scan using this as for some reason it just makes me feel like it's doing a better job than windows alone. It'll actually show you the temperature of your drives even as well as all of the available SMART information. There's a 'scandisk' tab in the application that you can use to inspect the drive, just set it to 512k bytes (1 sector) and let it take its time scanning. You'll want to shut down anything else that's running so it doesn't go slower than necessary. Normally it takes atleast an hour for me on small drives. While it doesn't repair, it should give a confirmation of the status of the drive. Also, the SMART Info tab will give you red flags for anything you need to know so long as the drive has sensors for it.Originally Posted by Allastor
From an external surge, and I was in game the first time it happened. The second time happened while Windows was starting up :/ I just ran a HDD scan, but nothing seem out of normal. I would have to have someone look into my PC, since my knowledge only gets so far
Thanks though.
For the rest of the computer, you can use this to give you an idea of how everything else is running temp wise. It also has a SMART tab if you really wanna be thorough with the HDD testing, but the Exotics tab is where the magic is as that'll give you CPU, GPU, and HDD temps as well as much more.
For game specific issues, go ahead and checkout this link and follow it's instructions. Note its reference to HiJackThis, you'll want to follow that link as well and post here with the results of everything. You may wanna open up notepad and past each result so that you can simply post things all at one time. -
Power flickered in the room? External powersurge, then we'd probably need to check for possible component damage, corrupt HDD, etc.
Power flickered on the PC? Too much power draw on the system and/or overheat causing the system to shutdown. Make sure vents are clean, etc.
You might wanna do some system checks like scandisk for the HDD and run some temperature testing. Since the launcher doesnt' wanna run and you were ingame(?), then it's entirely possible the HDD needs some looking at as there's some possible (but likely repairable) data corruption.
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This was about the only forum I found appropriate, but this isn't game related.
I'm looking at long term storage drives that likely won't be accessed very often. This has become a pressing matter as my current drives are quickly reaching capacity and I just had a primary OS drive just give me the SMART failure flag (with the only available replacement being an existing in-use backup drive). For reference, the drive that died was a 10yr/o WD and that seems to be the key mark for drives as I've had three internal PATA/IDEs die at the 10-12yr point in the last couple years.
Currently, I have/had a redundant system of twin internal 500Gb PATA drives that held my 2nd copy of the handful of various smaller 2.5" SATA internal and external drives. I pondered a hybrid drive, but I don't need the speed and limited capacity. I'm a little concerned about OS compatability so drive capacity, while I'd love some >2.5Gb, has made this a little tricky.
Right now I 'think' I'm split between WD Caviar Green and Baracuda Green drive models as they seem to be what I'm looking for. WD has this neat twin drive setup that can be configured to RAID Mirroring (the type I'd probably want for archives?), but it's an external and I'm not sure what the transfer speeds would be like (likely using USB 3.0) for large backups. For that matter, I'm wondering if I should instead go either internal (w/ possibly RAID again) or use one of those drive cube things that you put your own drives into (NAS/SAS?).
Are there any magic numbers (required storage + defrag padding space perhaps?) or new drive specs I should know about? I noticed that all self-enclosed external drives have that virtual partition crap, but with big enough drives partitioning likely won't be a necessity. It also looks like 4k partition schemes are likely mandatory at this point, but I suppose I could keep the existing smaller drives for use with any old OS's I tinker with to be safe as I'll likely stick with Win 7 x64 (and maybe Lion at some point farther in the future).
I guess I should give a current list of archive stats. And after getting this far I'll likely need two solutions even because as of right now I'm actually maintaining a combined set of archives for 3 PCs and a PS3 (which has its own dedicated drive so I'm not worried).
Ok, here's my archive map:
ISO Drive: 198Gb/320Gb Used, Contains my massive archive of MSDNAA software, any and all purchased software that wasn't in the form of physical media, an ISO copy of every OS I have a physical copy of, any utility software I've ever downloaded and found useful, and any and all updates to the mentioned software that I find down the line.
Archive Drive: 251Gb/500Gb Used, Contains 10Gb of archived school work, bills, medical docs, etc; 5Gb of "to be purchased" (when I find the appropriate CDs) MP3s; 300Mb of active documents; 30.5Gb of 320kps CD-MP3s (a digital version of the CD binder); 30Gb of pictures (with the chance to easily triple as soon as I get the archiving project funded); 167Gb of videos (same details as the pictures, but NO PORN!); and misc other things like to be decided downloads, tiny cache of yet to be read eBooks, etc. The pic/vid archives alone account for most of the storage space used and may need to simply become a separate solution, allowing my normal archives (digicam pics/vids, etc) to be split since they're much smaller footprint wise.
Backup Drive: 50Gb+/60Gb Used, Contains the combined installation backups (clean OS and post software installation versions) for each of the three computers. Originally it was stored on the 320 Gb drive and running low, but seeing as how I lost the primary laptop and slimed down to a single OS I was able to trim the backups....for now. I actually have need to keep this drive empty for when the day comes that my PS3 ever has to be repaired (way) out of warranty.
Car Audio: 60Gb+/120Gb Used, Contains the ISOs, down coded versions of, and Roxio template files for my car Data MP3 collection. Basically it houses the down-sampled music that's played in my car in such a way that if a CDR gets damaged/lost or I purchase new music, then all I have to do is update the ISOs/templates and re-rip a CDR.
So....yeah, I'm pushing my luck now that I've lost half of my redundancy. -
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You has a *bux?
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Quote:Normally the posts following said flames mention linking to existing necrotic threads...trust me, I've triggered them. :-pOriginally Posted by CinnderScot
Besides, if RedSwitchblade had started a new thread, someone would have flamed him for not searching to see if this subject already had a thread.
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Silly Q, but would turning down the GFX affect the data usage at all in this case? Since the Op hasn't asked yet and I was curious.
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Quote:And yet they don't want you to have your own townhouses...Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
No that 5 person minimum stupidity is reserved for other MMO's. Our devs wisely chose not to inflict that imbecilic bs on us.
But yeah, create a new group if you'd like and go with the channel thing as (unless This has changed) you can only have 5 coalitions per group as well. -
Quote:do what? HTF does that work?Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
It's not random.
It goes to the character that logged in most recently of the next rank down. BUT...if another character of the same rank logs in before that character logs in again, it switches to them automatically. -
Did you forget your daily glass of NO2?
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Isn't there a way to tell the system to not use the intel GPU long enough to rerun the test?
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Quote:Because those are likely using the less hardware tasking DirectX tech, not the OpenGL that CoX uses. CoX can task the crap out of a system. nVidia chips need good cooling btw, so I'd check your temps using Speedfan. I have an older GPU (7600) and see the same kind of stuff you're seeing. When I toggle to my temp meters I'll see them in the 60C-70C+ range. Also, you're pushing the x86 memory barrier a tad so there's a chance that could be related.Originally Posted by Bronxjackass
Now, I know my computer isn't a powerhouse, but it's certainly not the slowest and most outdated machine either. I've previously had no problem running Crysis on High, GTA IV on Medium, The Sims 3, Kingdoms of Amalur, Fable 3 (on Low). So I know I am capable of playing modern games on this system.
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Quote:...until we realize that one can only have so many vanity pets or Large inspirations. :-pOriginally Posted by Robo_Knight
Well this sounds like fun...
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yeah, making sure stuff's not on the walls or close to the new doorway tend to be key. Then again, I've had perfectly good rooms setup, moved once, attempted to move back, but something "changed" without me doing a thing that resulted in reworking the room until it'd allow me to move it back sans issue.
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Quote:Well that was an eyeful. I saw a bunch of "file missing" entries and I'm curious as to whether this GPU's strong enough. I don't know what a Series 2 chip is, but someone else is bound to make it here soon enough with clearer answers. Granted, you're playing on a low rez (15" screen?) so there's less to draw.
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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 260M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0618&SUBSYS_1A521043&REV_A2
Display Memory: 2797 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1005 MB
Shared Memory: 1791 MB
Current Mode: 1366 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)