I say this is "correct" because "Windows 8 Preview" is not a final product, and is now fully deprecated and obsoleted and should no longer be used -- so it has exactly zero value to keep information on SuperUser about Win8 Preview
so the short answer is yes, a windows-8 question that duplicates the same essential content as a windows-8-preview question is a duplicate. But the question which was asked earlier (or which has better answers) should be edited, re-tagged, and the answer should be re-evaluated to determine its accuracy with the final release
and what is your preference: energy efficiency + low noise + cost effectiveness with low performance, or energy-hungry + high noise + costly with high performance?
higher RPM adds cost, noise, and power requirements but significantly improves throughput and seek times
you're also less likely to find high RPM in very high capacities
be very careful with buying any 4TB capacity drives right now, Thailand had an earthquake that set back the production of 4TB hard drives by many months, and they've been selling them almost exclusively as external HDDs, which means that if you purchase a 4TB that's been ripped out of an external enclosure by the seller, it comes with NO manufacturer warranty
they basically halted production of 4TB retail internal HDD kits for about 6 months and used the few assembly lines that were operational to produce external HDDs since they get better revenue from tacking on the sale of the enclosure
I got "burned" and bought warrantyless 4TB HDDs... I'm okay with them because I'll probably ditch them before they have a problem and they're not very likely to have a problem during the 2 year warranty period they'd have anyway, but still, I wouldn't recommend that anyone else follow my path
@DanielBeck does the enclosure have any sort of padding inside?
eight 35dB disks (7200rpm?) would probably be extremely loud, although most of the noise would be in the lower ranges, so it would add a sort of background noise rather than the jet engine effect of running a Radeon GPU's fan at 100%
@DanielBeck no, I don't think so -- if you're going for server-grade drives then you probably don't need to worry about them being ripped out of enclosures
but you can check the serial number with the manufacturer when you get them, and if they register as being external, immediately dispute the payment or get a refund from the seller if you can
my WD 4TB drives are the 7200rpm desktop/consumer variant; the drives are exactly identical to what the internal kit product would be, minus the warranty, and the fact that they've had their WD retail enclosure ripped off of them
@DanielBeck what you could do (if permitted) is get some kind of... enclosure enclosure :D a cabinet or something where you can install the enclosure and mostly seal it off from the environment around it... not sure how that'd impact cooling though
the lack of padding in a metal enclosure means that the drives' noise isn't going to be attenuated at all, so it would be at least as loud as having the disks in a computer chassis with no noise padding
probably louder because the sheer size of a computer chassis, plus the whirring from the CPU and case fans, drowns out a lot of the HDD noise
> keep the Ctrl and Shift keys pressed and simultaneously click on an empty spot in the lower left corner of the start menu with the right mouse button.
Hmmm... I have a 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7k3000 drive installed in the NAS temporarily. Sounds pretty tolerable to me, with 29 dB "idle" noise... 8 drives with 35db(A) each should be... 4 times louder or so?
windows 8 probably has it so you can press WinKey (since that's the new trend) + Ctrl + Alt + Capslock + press the scroll wheel while hovering the mouse (or finger) over the start screen
@OliverSalzburg sounds like a cool thing to do on a public computer that they think is "locked down" :D
Basically, I have a program which will be launched more than once. So, there will be two or more processes launched of the program.
I want to use the Win32 API and kill/terminate all the processes with a specific name.
I have seen examples of killing A process, but not multiple processes with t...
I want to terminate a number of processes, but I want to give each process the chance to save its data, ask the user about saving a file and even ignore the close request.
So TerminateProcess is out of the question, because it kills the process instantly. Another way would be to use SendMessage/...
@Luke no specific experience with the IQ800, but usually when I get into this situation it's either some clip that needs to be popped open, or a screw, or just using more force (sometimes you need ridiculously strong fingernails to do it, or a special tool)
I broke a 64GB microSD by sticking it into a SD adapter and it got stuck and I tried using pliers to remove it and it wouldn't come out, so I physically cracked the chip in half
FYI guys, I notice that the volume of new questions being asked is accelerating in the wake of people ordering things for Black Friday / Cyber Monday and trying them out and hitting issues. This may actually be as big as the Windows 8 deluge. If everyone (self included, hrhr) can spend a little more time answering 0-answer questions, I think it'd be hugely helpful this week.
@allquixotic I ordered a BFL Jalapeno, for the faster hash rate. Out of curiosity more than anything. These asics may never see the light of day though.
@allquixotic There is nothing about bitcoin that doesn't entail some risk, it is an experiment. So I figure it like any other investment - you only put in what you are prepared to lose, hence the jalapeno, the lowest cost asic they had.
@allquixotic I see the problem as being the asic take up will increase pretty fast, as the overall hash rate increases, the difficulty goes up, and finding blocks takes longer. Only those that get in at the start will get any rewards, and fairly soon, GPU mining will be a thing of the past
even if it were $3 per bitcoin I could still use that to churn through its upfront cost in like 3 months
@Hennes nope, and I guarantee a $30,000 miner is going to draw a ton of electricity... this is profitable for people who have a wind farm in their backyard or something
and no, you may not take my get rich quick scheme and use it yourself :P
step 1: buy lots of land in a windy part of the united states and wind turbines
@allquixotic Only at current difficulty and reward. The halving will happen before any of these ship, so halve your rewards, and the difficulty will go up as soon as these hit the market, so bitcoins will take longer to mine
@allquixotic I don't know if you have gotten your head around the bitcoin algorithm yet (it took me a while) but it is designed so that a new block take a certain amount of time for the network to mine. So if there is greater computational power in the network, the 'difficulty' goes up until the amount of time to create a block gets back to the right amount of time
@soandos There is a finite amount of units of whole bitcoin - 21 million, but a bitcoin is effectively endlessly divisible. Currently to 8 decimal places, so you could argue that a single bitcoin represents 10,000,000 units of currency
@soandos It depends - btc isn't like other currencies, so I think it isn't possible to say right now what the inherent problems are, or at least, it is out of my scope to be able to comment on them :)
I think I should continue along the path of treating it primarily as a means of heating my room... Watts in, BTC+BTU out... weirdest chemical/thermodynamic reaction in the universe (so far)
they never taught me that you can convert watts into BTC and BTU in high school
but that means i can't run it during the summer when it's actually going to increase my A/C bill by using it
@soandos I really don't know, my assumption is that if you have an endlessly divisible currency then having a circulation cap is less important than with other currencies. And also that as btc is not tied to any state, the impact of its value decreasing doesn't impact the economics of any state versus any other. In that regard, you could describe it as a primary currency - like gold, and all others are secondary currencies
I hate it when I'm asked by the boss to do something and then he has someone else do it in another, technically-inferior way and takes their solution over mine without ever mentioning to me that what i was asked to work on i wasn't expected to actually finish
Let livid = True
i need a 50 point bounty awarded to me so i can have 6,666 rep... and screenshot it and put it in my profile or something
Basically, I have a program which will be launched more than once. So, there will be two or more processes launched of the program.
I want to use the Win32 API and kill/terminate all the processes with a specific name.
I have seen examples of killing A process, but not multiple processes with t...
