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Mythbusters James Bond Special

Agreed 802.11n is a pretty big advantage over g. I have a "draft-n" wireless AP and with WPA2 enabled max speeds I see are about 6-7MB/s.

Hey Mike, it's cool that the MPX3's usable range is working out for you. The SP amps do make wonderful pre-amps if the situation makes them feasible.

Ehh I dunno thats way too generic IMO. When I think server grade I think SAS 15,000 RPM drives . Though in the case of the Time Capsule if we go with that 5-yr warranty idea and the 500 or 1000 gig options the drives are most likely the WD Caviar RE2 or the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 series. Both solid drive lines but ironically have shown to have equal or worse failure rate than the "lowly consumer" level grade drives. Honestly these days when your talking about SATA drives their are so few differences across brands and manufacturers it hardly matters . Mike, I think a good analogy here is to compare apple's use of "server grade" to ray's use of "military spec". Equally meaningless, useless and total utter BS.

The server grade thing is total BS. Just Apple marketing at it's finest.

haha, though it is funny watching him make an ass out of himself

Dirty Jobs on Discovery HD

Well wireless encryption no matter wep, wpa, wpa2, etc, etc is all breakable to some extent. WEP takes about 2 minutes at most WPA takes a while longer. But yes a usb ethernet adapter is a pretty good idea. Unless you need that 1 USB port for something else .

Except wireless isn't exactly what I'd call secure, so yeah Ethernet still has a place in computers

On an unrelated apple note it's nice to see the new iTunes (7.6) finally has 64-bit Vista support.

I know I'd rather have the 8 core mac pro.

Yeah honestly the new dual quad mac pro was a bigger announcement than anything that came out at MacWorld today in my opinion of course. It's also priced surprisingly well.

JACOB CAN'T HAVE ONE

Oh I'm not saying it's a good thing (in fact I'd never buy one) I'm just saying theres no way to get it that thin and still have an optical drive built-in.

Theres no way you could get it as thin as it is w/ an optical drive.

Another niche product which the mac fanboys will eat up

Just finished watching the 2nd episode, I'm starting to have high hopes for the series.

I watched it as well and my thoughts pretty much mirror yours. I think it could end up being a pretty good show. The cast is pretty good and yes especially Summer Glau .

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Not really you pretty much have to do with mirroring (RAID1) unless it can support using the drives in non-raid mode. Then you'd just have two separate 320gig drives.

Another option for the OP might be MisterX if he's still building M3's. Other than that I can't think of any other M3 builders off-hand.

Ok if it's showing up as one 640gig drive then you setup a RAID0 array. Be aware that this is designed for increased speed but comes with some serious drawbacks. If either drive dies you lose everything on both. Have you tried getting the latest promise drivers?

Ah yep I kind assumed you had installed the drivers for that already . Glad you got it figured out and remember while raid can be a savior at times its not a replacement for doing backups.

Did you ever format the drives and did you actually want to set them up in a raid array? If the RAID array is initialized correctly you should only see one logical drive and you'd be able to partition and format it.

By raid utility are you referring to the raid bios/setup? Or some windows based utility? Oh and which raid are you using I believe that board has intel raid and promise raid on it.