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I've got a Zonet 4 port powered usb hub. And this thing is HOT as in possibly burning when I connect the AC Adaptor. Are they all like this?

What transfer rates should I expect for a hard drive in an external enclosure hooked up via USB 2? I'm getting something like 24MB/s and wondering if that is good or slow or what. Here are some hdtach screenshots Quick Test Long Test

Anybody need a UPS battery 12V 7.2AH? I ordered an APC replacement RBC4 and they sent me an RBC2 I think. They don't want it back and I don't want it in my house. This is the item I received that you would be getting: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170090674948 It is...

Anybody else see those domain for sale pages instead of storageforum today? I'm glad Doug fixed it. But what happened? Maybe it was just me.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/02/13/inphase_shipping_holographic/

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2919 Interesting comparison of SCSI, SAS, SATA I/II

Opera calls downloads transfers. I thought that was silly. But it always wants to bring the transfers tab to the front when I download something. Anybody know how to change this? something like open transfers tab in background or something? I looked in the prefs and couldn't find one.

Anybody got a spare parallel port PCI card lying around? I've got a relative with a shiny new btx based pc with no parallel port and an old hp laserjet 3.

I'm thinking about a new camera for xmas and stumbled upon the Panasonic DMC-TZ1. The link is to the Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) review. Is there anything else like this camera with the 10x optical zoom in a compact format? When do you think the new revisions to this model will...

So I got two 250GB SATA drives (7200.8) from woot. I have existing in the computer: 1. 36GB fujitsu 15k RPM scsi drive (18GB used or so) 2. 120GB maxtor PATA drive used for data (110GB out of 120GB used) 3. 160GB seagate PATA used for backups (in removable tray) 4. 30GB IBM 75GXP (linux which...

So I'v got a 32 inch panasonic TV, the regular kind not lcd or plasma. It has two video inputs one in the back and one in the front. We were hooking the kids vsmile and plug in tv games through the front input but the little hands of our littlest one wants to grab any wire and shake it...

The retail box is only $20 + $5 shipping at newegg. I'm highly tempted to buy it to try it out.

Anybody want this Tool 10,000 Days CD, you pay shipping otherwise free. I listened to it once and made one backup copy which you'll also receive. Needless to say I thought it was the suck.

Anybody in Cleveland, Ohio? I'll be there Thursday night.

What is a high temp for an AMD 1800+ processor? My dad's computer is running close to 60C. This has me concerned. When I opened the case it was dust bunny city. I'm thinking I need to add a couple new case fans and either reapply or replace the processor's heatsink and fan.

Can you guys recommend a 17" Flat Panel Monitor? My pops wants to replace his monitor with a 17" flat panel. He doesn't have the cash for a 20" dell like I have. And the best buy seemed expensive. So yes money is a factor but let me know what you think. I told him to get the Samsung 17"...

So my brothers dell dimension L800CXE (Intel 810 chipset, 82801AA ICH controller) was getting low on space. Considering it had a 20GB drive in it, I wouldn't doubt it. It originally had Win ME on it but sometime ago he installed XP Pro. He had SP2. I added the EnableBigLba key in the...

Warning: sort of mindless ramble follows mostly to document what the heck I'm going to do for my own benefit. No real tech support issue as I can handle it but advice is welcome. So my dad's computer has been shut off the not so nice way too many times or something. It has windows 98, mostly...

Anybody live in italy? I've be visiting Rimini, Italy end of may and early june.

I just realized what the flashing yellow lights mean. I missed some ok crap. Maybe there is some ok crap coming up. But I think it is getting close to 3 days now.

Is there a way to find out the IP address of where a website was? I know the IP of where it is now. But I want to know the last IP it was hosted at. I thought maybe googles cache would have IP information but no. Any search engines include IP information?

So I'm looking for an IDE hard drive rack. Must be PATA not SATA. An example, Vantec MRK-102FD-SL, I was looking at is here. Currently I have an external enclosure with my backup drive in it (where I keep my backup images). But configuring either external usb or firewire with a ghost boot cd...

I'm encountering timeout error messages when checking for mail in Thunderbird 1.5. They are not real timeouts as they occur instantly. Windows XP SP2, AMD X2 3800, NOD32. I've done some research that I thought I'd share here. Most people believe this is a dual processor problem. So some have...

I've been having a problem even before the latest upgrade I think but really only recently. Maybe since the firefox 1.5 upgrade. Essentially I visit the forum by going to the forum index page then open a tab for each unread forum. Then I open a tab for each unread topic. This should mark all...

So we leased the new car tonight. For reference see this thread. It is a 2006 Toyota Sienna CE. Capitalized cost was 22100 whereas invoice was 22362 before adding in the TDA (Toyota Dealers Assocation Charge). So I think I did pretty good. I used the package available at...

Anybody live in kansas city MO? I'll be there the night of 28th and day of 29th for business.

So I've got Ghost 2003 and I need to create a boot CD with USB support. Only problem is I don't have a floppy drive so I can't create a floppy disk first and then get the image. So anybody have one of these or know how to create one. I can create a ghost bootable cd no problem. I just need...

Anybody that knows SCSI better than me want to help a netizen out? http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=21198

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200511/SP2504C_1.html What we expected no? Does the reliability results at the end for the P80 surprise anyone?

So picasa acts up on my dual core machine. So I cobbled together a littel C program to run it in uniprocessor mode. The path is hardcoded in it to C:\Program Files\Google\Picasa\Picasa2.exe. Download C Code Download Exe Maybe this will help someone else out. What was happening was it was not...

SR TestBed4 article is up

I'm a newbie when it comes to DVD burning. We only have region 1 encoded ones here. But I just got a new dvd burner. So I thought maybe I can just copy it onto a DVD-R and make it regionless or something. So I impulse bought a three pack of DVD-R blanks to try this out. I'm making backup...

Anybody have any particular recommendations in the 20-in-1 type 3.5" drives? I got rid of my floppy drive and there is this hole there or was until I put my old zip drive in it so I could read all the info off my old disks and transfer it to my backup drive. Now it just sits there to block...

So our 1999 Saturn SL2 is just too small and low to the ground anymore. With two kids in carseats the passenger side seat has to go far up so if we all have to go somewhere I have to sit in the passenger side as my wife doesn't fit there. So we want to get another vehicle - used. We want bigger...

Anybody know what the 160F could be? Gigabyte K8N-Ultra SLI motherboard with AMD x2 3800+.

MBM isn't being maintained anymore so what do you all use. The temp readings from the sensors provided in my case are reading 99 and 101 degrees F. Gigabyte provides a way to monitor them but I want something maybe that sits in the system tray. Simple is better.

Is the nvidia firewall any good? Any reason I should use that over the windows firewall? Which is how I have it setup right now. Do I need to use their software to get the benefits of the hardware? And I'm not sure but I think it is conflicting with NOD32. I installed NOD32 and on reboot and...

So I've done 1 AMD processor heatsink install about 2 years ago. For my new computer I ordered the artic silver 5 and plan to use the stock AMD heatsink. The processor is an AMD x2 3800+. I think I'm irrationally fearing installing this heatsink. Any picture or video guides out there to allay...

See: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2481&p=13 Very interesting that the new ATI board combined with the Silicon Image chipset is trouncing the MSI that has the same chipset.

Alexander James Rickards was born 07/28/2005 08:04AM Eastern Time by c-section. He weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces at birth. The baby is perfect and mom is recovering well.

My new Computer Money just came in (big bonus and wife agreed that anything over 8000 was mine). So now all I have to do is figure out what to buy. I've got about $2000 to use and I want to get a nice LCD monitor with that too. I was thinking the Dell 2001FP but maybe the widescreen version...

My APC Back-UPS Pro 650 just (about 5 minutes ago) started beeping and the bad battery light is now constantly on. So the question is what should I do, new battery or new UPS. Recommendations welcome. I'll be trying to keep costs down hopefully to under $100. What it has to support: 17" Monitor...

XP home doesn't support multiple processors according to MS website. Does it suppor the new AMD chips that are dual? In other words: Is it a licensing limitation? Or it doesn't include the multi-processor kernel? Also does anybody know if you can get fast user switching to work with XP...

For work, I'll be in Auckland, New Zealand for training the week of May 30th. Anybody live in those parts?

I've got some old textbooks that I wanted to get rid of. Anybody know the best place to sell/donate them? List of books if any of you are interested (books are free - you pay shipping) Modern Operating Systems (0135881870) ~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach...

So this weekend I installed (still installing) gentoo 2005.0 starting with the minimal install disk and x86 stage 1. That seems to be going well. Although now I'm at the kernel configuration (make menuconfig) step and I need advice as to what to enable/disable/modularize. I picked reiserfs as...

If I buy windows XP, can I use that CD to install it on another computer but use that computers license key? See I want to upgrade my home computer with win2k pro to windows XP to have platform parity with everything else I normally use/support. But I have a need to reinstall from scratch my...

So I recently moved my computer, cable modem and netgear MR814v2 router downstairs. I had to run a cable for the cable modem. So I have less use for the laptop, since I can just use the desktop. What I was noticing on the desktop got much worse on the laptop when I tried to use it for the...

I was in the hardware store (Ace Hardware) looking for cable to use with my cable modem. There were basically two choices. One without a broadband rating and one with. I picked the last one. Comparing it to what the cable company used they are both 18AWG and 75 something. But the cable...

Previous Thread http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4353 Quick Summary: Delay Write Failed messages out the ying yang! Longer Version: So I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB. And an enclosure with firewire 400 and usb 2.0 ports. I'm using the firewire 400 as I only have USB 1...