Good show and great new intro. good work!

I just saw the episode and I must say dig the new intro can't wait for tomorrows show see you later

hey, nice fresh intro you got there. I really really like it

RAID5 is great for when one a drive goes up in smoke, since you can go for a slightly different drive and just suffer deteriorated performance from it, should the disks you used have been removed from the market...

...but what happens if the controller dies five years down the line? Is there any standardisation in how the arrays are actually constructed on the disks, meaning you can take your working drives and put them onto a new controller? Can you even replace it with the same kind of controller? Or does a dead controller = total data loss?

LOVE The new Intro. You guys needed that. =)

ANY ONE ELSE HAVING PROBLEMS VIEWING THE LIVE SHOW WITH WMP?SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS>

Loving the new opening, nice job guys!

sweet intro!!

OOO AAAAH OOOO AAAAH - Love the new intro - now if we can just do something about the tool shed walls in the background we'll be in business...lol

Good thing the content and its delivery is so good.

Keep up the good work guys.

Best Regards, Jim

//For GelatinousBlob//

Yes. RAID 5 can be made to be very resiliant to single drive failures. There are some basics to know and remember, RAID 5 uses "distributed parity" - with a minimum of three drives. It is best if the drives are the same size, but they may be of different sizes - HOWEVER, each drive would only bee seen to be as big as the smallest drive. RAID 5 also works best when one uses many drives - the more the better as I/O increases as an exponent relative to the number of drives used. A three drive array would actually provide slower read/write but an array with 6 or 8 would be quite fast. One may change out controller - but be very careful to re-connect drives to their original ports! One may also add more drives on the fly, or hot-spares and with a hot-swap cage, one may swap out drives while a server/host machine is still running. Most feature software to help engineers manage their arrays. Some allow for multiple arrays of different types - say a RAID 1 mirror for systems files and another RAID 5 for data. Personally, I like RAID 6 -which allows two drives to fail and still maintain the array. It is economical and provides peace of mond for critical servers. A few other things to know - be sure to use a RAID controller that has a BBU, or battery backup unit - this power on the controller allows for safe use of write-back cache and preserves parity in the event one should lose power. Also, choose a controller that provides a slot for added on-card memory. This supports its buffer and greatly enhances performance. Those we use and build our servers with typically ship with 512MB of added cache memory. 3WARE makes some great controllers that allow one to build lower cost, high performance arrays using SATA I/II drives. Icy-Dock, makes a great hot-swap cage for smaller servers and Intel has a great case with an integrated cage. Above all else, read the manual! and practice a lot - building, breaking and managing arrays. Good luck.

Hey,
Is anyone else having problems with the H.264 version? No matter what I use to play it, I get a buffer overrun error at about 19.5 minutes into the program. I'v tried Media Player Classic and Quicktime. Odd that they both do this.
Gonna try divx now...

the new intro is awesome! watched it like 3 times over!

Well, so far, the WMV, DiVX and H.264 files stop at the same spot--around 19:38 into the program. The WMV restarted while the Blu-Ray commercial was playing.
The 19:38, by the way, is a guess...that was the last time that I could actually forward to in Media Player Classic.

NICE NEW INTRO. I think you should get an expert to spruce up the intro music too; make it higher fidelity, add some 'edge' to it. Technooooooo

Great show guys - I enjoyed it very much.

Ya know, IP Telephony has legs beyond Skype. Many companies, including my own and many small businesses we set up, use and integrate IP telephony. We've been using it for over two years and operate and set it up for our customers as a routine option - part of a unified communications package - not to be confused with Microsoft's "Unified Communications" initiative - but the goals are very much the same - far better and tighter integration of all communications at less cost and across a greater mix of hardware and client types. Cisco and companies like Packet8 have been in this market with great solutions for a long time and they are as reliable as any business telephone system and service one may find - yet they are as accessible to regular home users as Skype is.
I think such solutions deserve inclusion in your reviews.

Also, Patrick, what is up with people pressing guys like Robert to "defend" his use of Windows Vista? I mean, it does seem that every time the guy mentions Vista, he's made to defend and justify his use of the OS. So Robert picks up one that he can easily defend without violating the bay area edict against breathing a word that is positive about Microsoft software - gaming. I'd like to know - no, let's go a step further, kindly defend and justify this type of reaction to another person's "choice."

I mean, guys, some of us are a bit turned off by all the hip folks out there being so tolerant - right up until one makes a "choice" that doesn't meet with their approval. It's just an operating system - it's just a new Windows version. I'm sure Robert isn't going to be harming any other platform by also using Vista. It just flips one - "Fix your crappy software... " Fixed. "Oh man, unfix your software and back port it to W2K and XP or we'll say your forcing us to upgrade." It's daffy - especially when that entire camp acts so damn cool/hip as they say such stupid things. It's like saying, "Hey Ford, come upgrade my 2005 model with all the new hybrid technologies shipping in 2007." What's up with that? I bet Patrick will run Vista on the show - in Windows Classic Mode - just to make it look bad as they used to do on TechTV/ZDTV. Why not just show Vista as it is and let it stand on its own - merit, or the lack thereof. It's like being in some weird socialist run state media house where the headline read like this, [opposite Moz/Firefox security updates - "Mozilla Updates Firefox"] (Accurate for sure, and pretty responsible wording). Now [opposite Internet Explorer you will say, "MS finally plugs 11, count em, 11 critical, own your box vulnerabilities in IE."] All I can say is this, keep this sort of stuff up and DL.TV will go the way of TechTV. MY advice, be passionate and "positive" about all of it and only be down on things that don't sell well - the market will support that fair judgment.

Love the new intro, it's snazzy. And to Robert, 200,000 DS Adapter is not really a lot in japan when they have been selling 150,000+ systems a week in just japan, for all of 2006 and just for the first two weeks of December have sold just under a million units. So I would probily just consider this a bad batch of power chargers.

Hey, great show guys.

I'm hitting you guys from the UK. We've got our motor shows checked (Top Gear, Fifth Gear) but one thing we're lacking is a proper tech show.

Thanks.

The new intro is great, it even makes the music sound better. Got rid of that annoying laughing baby, good job.

cool intro but I miss the old theme music

Boom, wow!!!! Not another crasholla.