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  1. warren

    New Solid State Drive

    My laptop has a 128gb msata 2.0 solid state and 1tb normal HDD The msata works a bit like memory it's clipped into the main board.
  2. warren

    New Solid State Drive

    A lot now have, as prices plummet more and more are ditching them they are far superior
  3. warren

    New Solid State Drive

    As you may have noticed, the site is somewhat up and down at the moment, I "had" traced it to Hard drive issues which is why i moved it to a Virtual Server so the whole site is encased in one file that could be easily moved to a new Drive. I did do this however the drive it now sits on is...
  4. warren

    Reboot..just

    Yeah I was stress testing the drive, it only needs 30 seconds but it got half an hour.
  5. warren

    Reboot..just

    Done :) it was supposed to be running for 30 seconds but I heard the magic words food and all other thoughts left my mind
  6. warren

    Reboot..just

    Yes I left something running while my dinner was ready gimme 2 min
  7. warren

    Reboot..just

    tracked down what was causing the outages it was the HYPER V backup, it was "supposed" to be a hot backup (doesnt take the site down) but it wasn't and as i back up twice a day now this was causing a system loop. Ive now replaced it with a new backup manager that explicitly uses hot backup...
  8. warren

    Reboot..just

    seems write caching was off on the server, i have just switched it on and this seems to have fixed the OS drive.
  9. warren

    Reboot..just

    server 2012 R2 is what the server runs :)
  10. warren

    Reboot..just

    I have now disabled all windows automatic updates.
  11. warren

    Reboot..just

    about to reboot again as windows updates (for the virtual server is kicking in) there must have been a massive update over night to both servers.
  12. warren

    Reboot..just

    the server refused to restart (trying to find out why) I had to do a cold restart and wait until the services restarted i think the main OS drive may be failing.
  13. warren

    Reboot..just

    *sigh* having just logged back in it's still on *restarting* so expect things to go down for a few minutes...
  14. warren

    Reboot..just

    I just had to reboot the forum due to a windows update, I need to turn them from AUTO to manual to stop them installing when they feel like it.
  15. warren

    Castle Bromwich

    It's also where I lived/Grew up/Terrorised. I remember the Castle, I remember getting money of Dad to buy some Prawn Cocktail crisps, i remember seeing things like airfix kits and it had a musty kind of smell.
  16. warren

    Griffins Shard End/Lewis's

    been passed them many times and everytime i did i always thought...why are they here how did they get here? now i know thanks :)
  17. warren

    Forum Donations

    you can now also donate using the forums inbuilt functions: - see image for details this uses paypal.
  18. warren

    Photos - Uploading

    you can also drag a photo/picture directly into the post drag and drop style
  19. warren

    Membership Titles

    Click your name after that click personal details can any of you see that?
  20. warren

    Membership Titles

    you can set your own custom title by going to the user options just click on your name and choose what you want as you custom title. <-------------as you can see by mine
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