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Jason W.

Jason W.

Joined on 06/21/04

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Most Favorable Review

What a hassle

HighPoint RocketRAID 640 PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card
HighPoint RocketRAID 640 PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: So its a PCI 4x SATAIII card with 4 ports that work.

Cons: As others have stated, getting a system to boot off a disk not on this card is a huge hassle. I was skeptical of this issue as were others. I have a SSD on local on-board connectors and 3 3TB SATA III drives in a RAID5 array on this card. The system is one of AMD's new A8 APU system on a Gigabyte GA-A75MUD2H motherboard. I was never successful with the on-board RAID system and a RAID 5 array of 3TB drives (they kept showing as individual drives) so i bought this card. As others have said to get a system with a boot drive not on this card you have to re-flash the firmware with the 1.0 release (latest on website) with the /C switch then disable the Reallocate EBDA and Init13. High Point get your act together how did this make it past testing

Overall Review: In order to complete this process do this. FYI: the gui tool dosent appear to run on Win7X64 1) Google Freedos + USB and follow the instructions on creating a DOS boot stick 2) Download the firmware from High points site http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/BIOS_Driver/rr64x/BIOS/rr640-bios-v1.0-100107.zip 3) unzip the contents then copy the files to the "flash" dir on the created USB stick 4) make sure there is no array defined on the card (ctrl + h at boot) and delete any configs 5) set BIOS to boot from USB 6) Boot from the USB stick (press enter when it says BOOT) 7) navigate to flash dir 8) run load.exe /C and type the BIOS file name when prompted, then Set the Reallocate EBDA and Init13 to disabled 9) save the backups and configs and let it do its flash thing 10) reboot and set the bios to boot from whatever media you want first IE CD then set the HD boot priority to the desired drive (in my case the SSD) 11) Install OS then install raid drivers then co

First Impressions

Cisco Small Business WAP121-A-K9-NA Wireless-N Access Point w/ PoE
Cisco Small Business WAP121-A-K9-NA Wireless-N Access Point w/ PoE

Pros: The feature set on this is outstanding. POE

Cons: None

Overall Review: Im currently using a very basic setup single wireless net, no logging or access control/auditing features. Planning on setting up 3 on separate nets in the future

Great Switch

D-Link xStack DGS-3200-10 Managed Managed L2 Switch
D-Link xStack DGS-3200-10 Managed Managed L2 Switch

Pros: This is a great switch, Picked one up locally to replace some dumb switch's that were handling iscsi and this does the trick. Nice polished interface as well

Cons: none

Overall Review: haven't implemented LCAP as XEN server doesn't support it (that i know of)

works exclent

GRIFFIN - RoadTrip FM Transmitter & Car Charger for iPod (Charcoal)
GRIFFIN - RoadTrip FM Transmitter & Car Charger for iPod (Charcoal)

Pros: I have both a first Gen Nano and a Second Gen nano it holds them fine. The people complaining about radio interference need to set to a channel that there is no nearby broadcast on.

Cons: none

Overall Review: none