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Bonus Bin pins are out of stock but the regular "Series 1" listing still has stock for $6.99... didn't they discuss exactly this issue on a recent WAN show with plans to solve it? Want to place an order before they take down the "Gone Phishin" shirt listing and would love to get a bonus pin.

Is this the adapter you need? https://www.lian-li.com/product/pw-inc1tr/

Yes, clients and other devices are all fine. I didn't physically remove the card (everything's all racked up and stuff...) but as I said, I was able to get the connection working to the internet at least via the onboard. I then managed to nuke the drivers for the onboard in my attempt to remove and reinstall the drivers for the Intel card. Thanks! That did it. I guess I would have figured this out if I hadn't been so quick to rebuild the trunk after I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers. But now the question remains, why did the trunk cause it to fail when it was working fine and I didn't change anything about it? ... As a separate question. Can someone recommend what the best trunking/teaming settings would be to use for a setup like this, considering the card and switch I'm working with? My goal is good multi-client throughput. (I'm not new to basic networking... but I've never dealt with teaming before.) Thanks for your help guys!

So, I have a storage server that's being a bit of a pain right now. I just finished properly setting it up. A couple of days ago it was working fine - backups were more or less working (I was sorting out one other issue), and shared folders were accessible to every client that connected to it. Yesterday, I tried to copy some new stuff to it from my main workstation and discovered that it's offline. I go down and check on it and find some kind of strange issue with connectivity. Relevant specs: Intel Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter Windows Home Server 2011, fully updated HP Procurve 1800-24G managed switch Linksys E2500 wifi router The 4 ports of the quad card are teamed to the switch, which links everything else in the house. The Linksys router is also connected to the switch, and it connects to the modem to act as the internet gateway and DHCP server for the network. Symptoms: The clients do not see the server at all, either from the "Launchpad" or by any other method (web browser, RDC, attempts to access shared folders). The Launchpad simply states that "The server is offline". Helpful. The server can see some things on the network - the printer, for example - but NOT the router or switch (sometimes a client shows up but there's no connectivity to anything) The server has no Internet access through the switch The DHCP client list in the router DOES list the server, so it IS connected (I know, I know, I need to give it a static IP... that was on the to-do list) Internet access was achieved by connecting the onboard ethernet from the server to the switch, didn't test any other functionality this way though Things I tried: Disconnect and re-connect client machines (via uninstall/reinstall of Connector) Power cycle router Power cycle switch Factory reset switch Complete uninstall/reinstall of drivers and software for the quad-port card, recreating the team from scratch (at this point, the onboard LAN connection also disappeared from the available network connections... ?!?) ... help? Thanks for looking.

Promo code didn't work for me.

There are a couple of audiophiles in my family, so I'm going with some Asus Xonar products this year!

Not exactly. RAID cards may only natively support 4, 8, 12, or 16 drives with onboard ports, but you can go way beyond that with SAS expanders. For example - this 16-port RAID card actually supports 512 drives: http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/3ware-sas-9750-8i.aspx Then put 7 of them, on, say, Linus's new favourite motherboard: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P9X79E_WS/ Therefore, you could theoretically plug 3584 hard drives into the RAID cards. You just need 75 of these: http://www.netstor.com.tw/_03/03_02.php?MTA3 Assuming they're all 4TB, that's 14336TB or 14 PB.

I have a large box full of 10/100mbps ethernet cards...

Keep in mind that with an item that big, heavy and fragile, shipping is going to cost a significant amount, and buyers will take that into account when deciding how much to bid/spend. Figure out your shipping options and costs before you list it. You could also try your local Craigslist/Kijiji and sell it locally, and resort to eBay if that doesn't generate any interest (or reasonable offers).

My current storage solution is a Patriot Javelin S4 full of WD Green 2TB drives. Got it when it was on clearance at NCIX, but it turned out to be really slow and not very reliable. (Reds didn't exist at that point - if it wasn't for the fact that I already had a 2TB Green on hand, I would have gone Barracuda.) Now looking at building a dedicated storage server and these drives would be a great start!

Have fun at Computex! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pickering.jt/posts/10200133844223394 Twitter: @JTPickering - https://twitter.com/JTPickering/status/341608003390304256

Big update! See first post.

Awesome. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JTPickering/status/341346389630009345

Wow, lots of enthusiasm for this, thanks everyone... Sorry, I won't have much in the way of updates for a while as I'm waiting on some more parts. Still deciding how much GPU horsepower I need (aka, how much I want to spend)... Not going to be gaming on this but I will be doing some light video work. I don't want to dump a huge amount of money into this, especially since it's not my primary machine. Probably going to go with something in the GTX 650-660 range. I'm watching the sales... In any case, I'll be putting the GPU in last because the OSX installation will probably go smoother running on the onboard graphics - then I can get the drivers installed and put the card in.