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  1. Nice. Now work on getting multiple satellites up in a coverage cluster.

    Ugh I need more memory.

    B9, KW, FAR and deadly reentry together total almost 400meg of files, which is not much less than the 650meg all the other mod parts take up already. I don't know if I can add them.

  2. Get kerbal engineer or mechjeb (or both). You need something like 4000 dV, with a minimum of 1.5 TWR across all stages to get a good stable orbit.

    Also, keep your speed in check if you overbuild your TWR (more than 2). Going above 200m/s under 10km is wasteful due to friction losses.

  3. Deadly reentry would be fun for deorbiting stuff.

    I've got two projects after work. Make a set of parts for extraplanetary launchpads (using included models since I can't make em) to convert ore-metal-shipparts that is smaller, lighter, and less energy efficient than the current massive parts.

    Decide whether to continue with the save I have and grow out my com-array or get B9, deadly reentry, and FAR and try a new one, possibly streaming it.

  4. Been tempted to get KSPI but not sure how it will work with what I already have.

    Though due to remotetech blowing up two careers so far (did not know of the community fix from the 10th he just updated the thread with) I know a good progression to getting started on my first station.

  5. Ah! Well, since the pack isn't even public yet there's no way to get series episodes out early....unless....

    CanVox, break out your puppets. We've got a show to put on!!!

    You realize a live streamed minecraft themed puppet show would probably pull in 10x the donations of this b-team stream, right?

  6. The motherboard you have selected in your part picker does support RAID 0 so you're capable.

    The actual setup will require changing BIOS settings before you even begin to install the OS. How exactly you do it is unknown, every manufacture has a different BIOS setup, some have the raid in setup and others a separate config dialog during POST.

    Wouldn't be automatic because there are a dozen other ways to use two+ identical drives. Your chosen motherboard supports RAIDS 0/1/5/10.

    No RAID- Drives are independent.

    RAID 0- Striping, data is split evenly between multiple drives. Requires 2+ drives. Multiply space and transfer rate by number of drives (assuming identical drives). No data protection.

    RAID 1- Mirroring, read/writes data to multiple drives simultaneously. Requires 2+ drives. No performance gain but if one drive fails the system keeps going with no data loss.

    RAID 5- Striping with parity, stripes data across all but one drive, extra drive stores parity data. Requires 3+ drives. Good performance gain with fault tolerance, if one drive dies the data on it can be recalculated from the remaining drives until a replacement is put into place and data rewritten to it. Total storage is drive space x (number of drives - 1).

    RAID 10- Striped mirror, creates multiple groups of striped drives and mirrors data across them. Requires 4+ drives, always an even number. Combines the speed of striping with the fault tolerance of mirroring, though expensive to create and generally considered inferior to RAID 5 by professionals.

  7. I thought that too at first, but if that's true in this case, why did it work when I plugged both USB ends of the cable into a hub, that in turn was only connected to a single USB slot on the laptop?

    When you're talking a switched power provider like a USB port it's not that the port can provide X watts and no more, but it can provide X watts while staying under tolerances.

    Draw more than it is rated for and the PWM circuit will start producing more waste heat than the part was designed to shed normally.

    It works because you're overdriving the power circuit and dramatically increasing its failure chance.

    No what I meant was is two SSDs in RAID 0 faster than one normal SSD?

    It will be yes, but you are doubling your chance of a catastrophic failure. With RAID 0 there is no fault tolerance, if one drive goes out you lose all your data.

    You have to weigh the speed and storage bonuses (0 uses both drives as one so it adds the space together) vs more than double chance of failure. Most people who run what you plan do a normal main drive and a RAID 0 array for swapfile and game file storage. The system stays running on a safer drive while the speed critical stuff runs off the array.

  8. KSP peaks my memory usage system wide to 90%. Big ol' memory hog mod is the last thing I need.

    Only reason it peaks that low is I've got the memory reducer mod set to aggressive.

    So far all my mods are working nice. Probably going to swap out mechjeb for kerbal engineer if only because with remotetech it can still stage and do other commands to a probe with no connection.

    Also need to tweak some unlocks. The airship drone in the hooligan labs thread unlocks a powerful RTG and probe core with basic rocketry, the first node you unlock.

  9. Heh, that is a nice one. If my current set has some ram wiggle room I'll have to add that in.

    I tend to look at the little ones too. I recently found a little scoop and a camera that lets probes do crew reports and soil samples. Should be nice after a wee bit of tweaking.

    http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/63628-0-23-Beastly-Science-Scoop-O-Matic-and-more!-%28JAN0214%29

    Been a month since I actually played so I'm getting updates/alternatives for the mods I had. If anyone wants to help I'm looking to make sure all the mods interact nicely (KAS grabbing for small parts, tech tree integration, resource storage and usage, ect...) and turn it into a modpack of sorts.

  10. Awesome, also I've heard that RAID 0 is faster than one SSD if you have two identical ones, how do I set that up? Also do i need an optical drive to install Windows 8?

    Bulk transfer yes, read/write oh hell no.

    RAID 0 is striping, which means you send half the data to one drive and half to the other, writing to the same spot on the disk at the same time with even bits going to one drive and odd to the other. It doubles the transfer speed you can get out of a logical drive.

    Unfortunately you still have seek time, which on a SSD is 0ms vs whatever your drives are rated at. If you have a lot of smaller files to transfer, an SSD will fly circles around the best HDD.

    I have an SSD in my work laptop, 5 year old dell running win7. It boots in less than 30 seconds.

  11. Me too. But I'm decent with C++, Java, and Javascript so the particulars shouldn't be that hard to get.

    Edit: Sorry planet, had a computer blow up and the mojang EULA crap kept me posting during the little time I had leftover. Another time?

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