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  1. I just bought a Antec 300 along with: i7 930 Asus P6X58D-E 6gigs of Corsair CMX6GX3M3C1600C7 Kingston SSD Antec NEO ECO 400C 400W Continuous Power ASUS EAH4350 SILENT/DI/512MD2(LP) Radeon HD 4350 512MB Everything arrived last Thursday and I'm anxious to build the rig. I eventually want to go with water cooling and overclock to 4 Ghz or so... Is it OK to use the stock cooler on the 930 for now while I'm researching what kind of water cooling stuff to pick up? (Obviously woudn't overclock yet) Also, would there be an improvement with a larger, three fan radiator mounted outside the case, (maybe on top...) Or would the parts people list here be enough for the job? Thanks in advance!
  2. It is interesting that you mention FSX, since that is one of the main arguments for getting an i7. If you want to prove you have a better setup, compare the frame rates of FSX setups. The other argument you can make is that your setup will last for a very long time, since, as people point out, programs will harness your chip's potential as time goes on.
  3. When you say decent do you mean well in excess of what the Cavalry NAS will do? or about as good? Thanks again, Jon PS. If I give that route a shot, I'll do some testing for the cause!
  4. Excellent info... thanks a lot. It sounds like the nas box is the way to go if I'm not too concerned about speed and want a small, simple solution. I'm curioius to know about the small PC. I have a couple older ones lying around that I could probably resurrect. If I recall, I even have one of those Promise ATA66 cards I think, which if I recall, can handle Raid 1... What kind of processing capability, Ram, etc. would you need to surpass the performance of the CAND3001T0? I know that's a specific question with many different answers, but just in general. I guess a better question would be, what were the specs of the above mentioned PC? Also, you mentioned 100ms/s... was that 100 megabits? megabytes? per second?
  5. Wow, That was an excellent review. Great job! I'm considering this unit as a way to FINALLY do what I've been saying I would for years and get a simple network backup solution and I was wondering if you guys could give your thoughts on some questions that came up.... 1) They don't really offer any way to notify you if one of the drive fails, and I would think a simple email notification could be very simple. Do you think this is a feature that could be added with a firmware upgrade? 2) They have a "warranty broken seal"... Do they expect you to send the unit in so they can replace a drive if one should fail? Secondly, would any 500 GB drive or bigger work? Would it have to be the same make, etc? A big seller of this unit is to be able to run a mirror setup - but what good is that if you don't know when it fails, or it isn't simple/practical to deal with the issue when there is a failure, right? 3) I was kind of disappointed by the transfer speed rates. I suppose I could deal with a 36 GB/hour transfer rate since populating the device would just be a one-time deal.... But what is the point of having Gigabit Ethernet, capable of ~ 125 Megabytes per second, if it doesn't even come close to that? Would the performance be the same if it was dealing with 100 megabit? Thanks again, Cheers , Jon
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