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Myron - It sounds like a product like Acronis True Image Home will do what you're looking for. Like Techman said, a scheduled backup wouldn't be as useful if you had 24x7 activity but for simple file replication, you can't beat the product or the price. It makes incremental backups of...

Sorry guys - by the time people abandon 'em, you don't want it. You can buy a new Dell Vostro series on their website for around $450 with your choice of XP or Vista. That's a killer deal for a brand new system.

What's even funnier is that CD/DVD drives typically use smaller screws than those used to mount hard drives. That means they're not likely be any good to mount the HD. Like Weaselboogie said - most Dells use those green plastic rails anyway. I've got plenty of spares around the shop just in...

The disadvantage of a widescreen monitor is that you get a lot of filler space when viewing websites designed to be centered on the screen. If it wasn't displayed like that it'd be out of proportion and everything would look squashed flat. Signs101.com uses all of the available screen width...

Keep in mind that anything that's old enough to have 128mb sticks of DDR is also probably so old you won't notice a difference after adding any amount over the existing 512 meg, especially for office/email type use. Taking that thought a bit further, it's also unlikely that the motherboard...

Yep, all antennas are "just" lengths of wire. It's knowing the right length to make it for the frequency you're working with that's the trick. The video uses a known-good template so it's easy duplication after that. When I was a kid I always tried custom antennas for my walkie-talkies. You...

My point isn't really the price; it's that a dual Xeon system is not necessarily better (faster) than a single Core2Quad for this purpose. "More = better" sounds good on paper but when you look at the build as a whole - processor cores vs. memory access vs. disk access - you may be surprised...

If you're just going to do design with the computer you won't have many issues. Many shops like to be able to do more with their big machine than just design though, and that's where incompatibilities come into play. In another thread I've talked about how everything must be 64-bit before it...

You can run (nearly) all 32 bit programs in XP 64. However, that compatibility is also the problem! Until the platform is 64-bit-everything, you won't get all the gains that true 64 bit can provide. Not only must the system be 64 bit, the program must be as well. Right now you're running the...

Less capable of doing what? Functioning as an enterprise database server, perhaps, but not for graphics design. There's no bandwagon here. I'd never heard of your machine or your company until after I was a member here. What others have done doesn't concern me -- it's what I can do that...

Look up Dell's Vostro series. It's aimed at businesses and comes without the trialware that's typical of the big PC companies. They're equipped with everything you're looking for. They've also got crazy-low prices right now to get the name out. You could save as much as half off compared to...

Enter the Sign Monster Wow - miss a couple of days due to jury duty and a hectic workplace and look what I've missed. I normally don't mention other products by name; I prefer to concentrate on what I can offer. Now that it's already under discussion I feel it's fair for me to weigh in on...

10 years ago I was still working for an ISP doing server administration. 15 years before that I was working on an Apple II with a 40 column, monochrome green display. I'm not really old; I've just been doing this a long time! I'm used to systems with thousands of users who depend on nearly...

Any time I use RAID 0 I also recommend good backups. You can't deny the speed/price ratio here and that's what I was looking at. Disk space is cheap, meaning it doesn't cost much to back up even several workstations to another device "just in case" while enjoying all the throughput in daily...

Hey Bogie - I've got a device that replaces two 5.25 bays with three hot-swap SATA bays :biggrin: It's around $75. The enclosure takes 2 normal 4-pin power plugs and one SATA connection for each drive. It includes a fan to keep the drives cool. To swap drives you simply press the...

Truthfully, you'll have a hard time beating a machine with those specs by more than a few dollars. Those parts do add up, especially if you use quality brands. I can offer an identical system with XP Home / Pro for $829 / $879, plus shipping of course. This is a 500w power supply, Asus P5B...

In 1987 I set up my Apple IIGS to use 800k of its 2 MB (upgraded) memory as a RAM disk. I then copied the boot disk to that area and rebooted. It only lasted till I turned the machine off but it was light years ahead of disk-based access -- and I had the ultra-moden dual 3.5 + dual 5.25 setup...

Bogie - Be sure your router is up to the traffic demands if you'll be doing large format printing over the network. The typical Linksys/DLink style SOHO router doesn't like sustained heavy loads; overheating is common. I've already spoken to a couple of shops from this board that were...

It's important to note that the speed of these solid state drives isn't any quicker than "normal" drives when used singly. Their advantage is that they scale nearly perfectly when used in RAID, something normal drives don't do. Instead of 3 drives giving you twice the performance of 1...

Here's some good reading: http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/ While the $3300 drive may be more than you want to spend, a few $800 16 gig drives in RAID may be the middle ground you're looking for. It'd make a killer swap / temp drive! The article shows the importance of...