The C7-D is about the same speed as a PIII-800. However, it will use less power than the Athlon. The C7/MB combinations have ridiculously low power consumption profiles that make the Atom combos seem hungry. For any media or heavy general purpose context switching stuff, the C7 is indeed around the...

I want to do software RAID and disk encryption. I plugged it earlier, and I don't actually use it very much for that, but the Via C7's hardware encryption engine (SHA, AES, Montgomery Multiplier, RNG) is capable of some impressive encryption speedups with reduced CPU usage and ridiculously low powe...

I'm also extremely interested in ZFS with Opensolaris and iSCSI. I used the Linux "appliance" OpenFiler (basically a customised rPath build that can be ruin on bare metal or virtualised) to build a software RAID5 NAS box with iSCSI, NFS, RAID-1 CF cards on an IDE adapter for boot/system devices, RA...

I've had two Truepower 330 failures . One also took out the MB. I have a low opinion of Antec PSUs of course. Nice thing though.....when they fail, you can cut off the monster long wires, and use them for nice extensions to good Fortron PSUs..... :lol: My experience is the reverse of yours. My Fort...

I like the price: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.cfm?start=0&catid=18&threadid=199177 But I note from this article that there are three different platter configurations of the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB drive. http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200302/200302276Y200x0_6.html Basic...