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Using a Gigabyte onboard RAID controller I compared RAID1, RAID5 and RAID10 arrays using 500Gb Seagate SATA drives
Standalone the drives provide about 100Mb/s read and write speed.
RAID1: 2 x mirrored drives

Read = 100Mb/s
Write = 100Mb/s

RAID5: 4 x striped drives

Read = 300Mb/s
Write = 80Mb/s

RAID10: 4 x striped & mirrored drives

Read = 220Mb/s
Write = 220Mb/s

This one is a keeper http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I accidentally tried to install Ubuntu over my 500gb data disk. It deleted the NFTS partition then wrote its own ext4 file systems to the disk. Fortunately it died with an error then I realised my mistake.
The lovely folk over at expert sexchange referred me [...]

This is a lower end 60Gb Solid-state drive. The more expensive drives have significantly faster transfer speeds.
Typical SATA transfer rate performance around the 2048 bye size is 70MB/Sec read and 80MB/Sec write. This SSD drive is showing 92MB/Sec Read and 128MB/Sec write – so 30-50% faster.

If you want to transfer your .com. .net, .biz, .us, .org or .info domain, you will need to contact your current registrar and request the domain’s Authorization Code (also referred to as an auth code, Authinfo code or an EPP code). An authorization code is usually a 6- to [...]

Heres some good sites for component and system benchmarks comparisons
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/
http://www.passmark.com/baselines/index.php
http://www.passmark.com/benchmark-reports/index.htm

Here’s a great free site for transferring large files to avoid email limits
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/

In order to open PDF files you must have Adobe Acrobat reader loaded. You can download and install this from http://get.adobe.com/reader/
If you already have Acrobat loaded and when you double-click on a PDF file it is still trying in Word and coming up as garbled text, you have a problem with the file Association.Â
In order [...]

Youtube videos allow for widescreen in 16:9 format.  When you upload a video it will play using a 427×240 pixel format.
A lot of screen recording tutorials look crap because the video is uploaded from an orginal 800×600 or higher then reduced to the 427×240 format, causing letterboxing and poor quality. Although this loss of quality is not so [...]

Sometimes you may want to create a specific icon for quick launch or desktop. For example I have website links that I use a number of times a day and wanted a quick launch button for them, but did not want to use and Internet explorer icon.
To create the icon go to start\run and enter [...]