Promise TX2650

Well, I got my Samsung 1TB F3 hdd after reading various good review from the web.

Happily got the hdd and went home and tried to install the hdd. Boot up fine and into OS. Then launch WebPAM tool by Promise RAID via http.

Great...can only perform RAID 0/JBOD on my two hard disks. My primary is a OS disk. Gosh this is not what I want now. I wish to perform RAID1. But I can't without deleting the primary logical partition. And if I do that, I will loose my OS disk.

I guess I am stuck and just have to get another hdd and then perform a mirror.

Promise raid tx2650

This is a entry level raid card for desktop. I used it for raid setup and plan to use it for raid 0 stripping. However the idea of raid 1 strikes me and I might give it a go not to worry about my file backup. Though it still compulsory to perform backup. But for busy user like me might be a good temporary alternative. 

Installation of the promise card in windows 7 is not smooth. I hit into several issue and blue screen as soon as I get the card installed into my pci-e 1x card. I have to unplugged my sata from the card and connects back to on board sata to boot into windows 7. Then I run the installation cd. The windows tries to install a driver for my sata but was not successful. I have to manually update with two driver that comes with the cd. As soon as its done, you are up to go. Point your browser and enter http://localhost:8080/promise

The only issue that I had was the ctrl +f key seems not allowing me into the raid bios upon startup.

Else I am looking forward to raid when I shop for hdd this weekend.

Promise fastrack tx 2650 raid card

Working late

Been quite a while that I did not work late. Today was staying back a little late.

Encoding and transcoding

I was surfing the web last night and bump into this two terms -encoding and transcoding used in video capture and editing.

One website mentioned that encoding is transforming from a looseness ie original contents eg wave files to a loss format eg mp3.

While transcoding is converting from a compressed to a more compressed mode.

I am looking at several cards that does video editing. One of them is the leaktek a taiwan manufacturer. Software used tmpneg 4.0. Very powerful card. Nice card.

Amazon.com,newegg.com,buy.com are several e shopping sites.

I have tried vpost and comgateway for shipping service.

Happy shopping.

My colleague has resigned

Having joined my new company for a month, and l was lucky to click along a new colleage whom come from a very similar background like me. However this morning he told me that he is resigning after a short two months with the company. I was definitely sad to see him leaving.

Yealink voip

I am going to get the Yealink voip phone. Its is being distributed by Lantone systems in Singapore. Two interesting model t18 & t20. The latter has a lcd screen to configure ip address. While the former requires a computer to get it configured. Apparently skype software is not supported.