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A not so technical friend in India is shopping for a laptop. He often travels and stays months in Malaysia and so needs to be able to use the laptop there as well. He typically connects to the internet via wifi, but sometimes must use a telephone line (yes, with a modem). And of course there will be times when he has to plug into mains power to recharge the battery. So to be able to fully use

An interesting thing I just noticed here testing out some Firewire drives with OpenSolaris. Setup : OpenSolaris 2009.06 and a dev version (snv_129) 2 500Gb Firewire 400 drives with integrated hubs for daisy-chaining (net: 4 devices on the chain) - one SATA bridge - one PATA bridge Created a zpool with both drives as simple vdevs Started a zfs send/recv to backup a local filesystem Watching

apparently if you don''t order a J4200 with drives, you just get filler sleds that won''t accept a hard drive. (had to look at a parts breakdown on sunsolve to figure this out -- the docs should simply make this clear.) it looks like the sled that will accept a drive is part #570-1182. anyone know how i could order 12 of these?