tthurman

Happy Birthday!

Glad to hear you got things working.

It's not many that have the talent and patience to commit to authoring quality user guides, we are fortune to have such a valuable resource in the community. Congrats! <edit> For those unfamiliar with the guide, be sure to check it out

Hey lighty, great to have you posting in the forums! I believe I've seen some others post about load and shut down issues with steam in the past. Your best bet is to follow Tempest's help guide and post for assistance for this issue here in the GameEx general forums.

Well, personally I rate mods by how many times I return to play them. In my particular situation, I'd have to say counter strike has been the best one I've come across, although it has been years since my CS days (I wasn't all so good at it anyway, but the company was great, well, minus the hackers)

I spent many years in the commercial offset side of printing, and I look forward to seeing some of your work. I'm going for the less is more thing, and may have one area for a graphic, and if so, don't be surprised to hear from me.

Ouch hmm, think I'll stick to watching memtest86 for now, thanks though!

Thanks everyone, I appreciate all the positive reinforcement, and look forward to doing everything possilbe to promote this community of great individuals. I thiink it's safe to say that GameEx is at the threshold of a new era, one that will bring with it a huge leap forward in the frontend so many not only use, but actively support. I continue to learn from the vast number of experienced users here, and I feel honored to be recognized by a community I have such great respect for! Having been welcomed to a "Monday" at work, this has most certainly been a bright spot I needed today!

I have to admit, a bit of digging into this and I start seeing the plus sides to one, and the likewise the minus to the other. In looking for a really robust solution, Raid 10, or 1 + 0, seems the way to go, but man does it eat the drive space, and I always lean to the side of cautiion, to much so perhaps. This gives me a new appreciation of the decisions going into configuring the big stuff, and why the hot swap is so attractive. Also this makes my raid 1 with the x-copy to the external solution continue to look attractive, well as a cheap alternative anyway. At first blush, I hadn't considered the power side of building one from recently retired parts , pretty bad since I have to deal with poor power managment alot. Regardless, it makes sense that a purpose driven NAS will be much more power efficent, and in the long haul, most likely represent the best choice. You've got my attention for sure there Tom

Your post got me to looking at the ReadyNAS product, looks pretty nice too. I like the sleek design, and the fact that it's not a huge server tower as well. I may very well look into them more down the road, but the repurposer in me has to go the route of trying some stuff I have laying around first. If it becomes a big pain in the arse, I'll already have the drives on hand to load into a prebuilt. QNAP stuff is nice as well, a little to nice right now Thanks for sharing your setup!

Check this Dazzle, looks like a good primer.

I'm just scratching the surface, but yeah, that's what I'm picking up in this thread. Even the WD my Cloud or whatever was criticized for only a 2.0 Ghz CPU, but on the the end of the spectrum was said to be okay with 512 GB DDR3. Perhaps it's CPU or memory, but not necessarily both? This will give me something to read up on for certain.

Yeah, but what about those "reds"! Oh, I need a pot stirring emoticon. In all seriousness, this looks like an ideal solution as I've got a P45 board with an E8500 and 8 Gig's of RAM not being used. It's a bit suprising that some are suggesting a gig of RAM per TB, but perhaps it's my ignorance showing. What controller are you using?

Yep, but thankfully they don't all fail, and we've got RAID to lean on for that added "protection" layer. Then again RAID could be nothing more than an evil conspiracy by the storage manufacturers to make you buy more drives, BUT that's an entirely different rant <no worries man, was good banter while I was researching these.> <thanks Adultery, I'll be reading up on this for sure. Just during this thread I was realizing the commercially available solutions aren't exactly stellar.>

Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence, take your pick, but either way they win! They're all the same, even up to the big boys NetApp, 3PAR, VNX, stuff isn't supposed to last anymore, three years and the service contract costs more than new, that is if you feel like rolling the dice!

I know what you mean. Anymore, all mechanical drives seem to be luck of the draw. I've got Seagates from 2006 in workstations that are still spinning away, but they too have fallen out of favor. I only mention the WD Reds as that's their intended use. It appears the SOHO market for this device is still early on. This Buffalo seems to have become available in late summer, but the details seem rather sketchy and there's not enough user info to go on yet. Everything else is getting pretty so so reviews at best, and I can't justify a storage shelf here for the house.

No doubt about that! I've only started looking for a home based solution, but the idea of having some big ole WD Reds, sure sounds nice.

I would like to move past the limitations of external USB HDD's, have something more robust, as well as more widely available on my home network. I've been looking at some eight bay e-sata drives, and I don't mind the idea of sharing it from my RAID'ed workstation, but at the same time I would rather have a true NAS based enclosure sitting on the network. Just wondering if anybody here has experience with SOHO based NAS they could share

Might be worth a shot! <EDIT: just found that with a quick search, hopefully I'll have a chance to soon give 0.155 a go myself , and see what happens. My intent wasn't to steer away from headkaze's topic >

Did you try the previously released tools? The MiniGW linked in headkaze's instructions for the complier link to the previously released 2012 version. Dazzle and I had a day of dueling compilng sessions tracking this down when 0.154 was released, only to find that to be the culprit. I was still using the older release, and eventually it was discovered that was the only difference in our compiling environment. B2K24 managed to work around this by altering his directory tree, but I can't seem to locate that thread right off. Could very well have nothing to do with it, but it's something simple to try.

The one I purchased actually has a six pin power connector, and honestly I've not really put it through the paces from a PC gaming perspective. I've been running Folding at Home on it 24/7 since I installed it, and it stays cool as a cucumber under continuous full load with both core 15 and 17 work units. I can't hear it either, something I most certainly couldn't say about my Gigabyte - Zalman edition 9800GT. Cranks out between 35 and 70K PPD in F@H too FWIW the 9800GT would net about 5K PPD, so the 750 Ti runs circles around it, and does so without breaking a sweat

I can't thank you enough for providing this software! It has greatly simplified things, and makes stayng current very simple, and convenient. Thanks man!

Thanks, missed M & B completely!

Nothing worthy to add to this thread, but man, I learn something new here most everyday I was completely clueless about this.

Nice, still haven't watched that DVD! Since day one, I've always had that scene from Stripes in my head!