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Are we talking digital here? I don't see the sound chip on my motherboard as much more than a router for audio data.

Where's the gigabyte of cache?

These are edge cases. Few people use laptops as portable file servers....

I dunno. I can buy a 60GB SSD today for about what I paid for a 30GB one a year ago. I think that what you're really saying is that spinning disks will be relegated to niches. I don't disagree.

ZFS?

Do notebooks actually need drives this big?

Agreed. Spinning disks will stick around as long as they are sufficiently cheap enough. Even if they can't pack the bits much closer together, making flash will continue to get cheaper. On the other hand, it really is getting harder to pack the bits closer together for spinning disks, and it...

I hope so. That way they can stop taking up space on the cards. Working with those DisplayPort dongles is going to suck.

I'm thinking of starting a drive futures contract. That way I can buy tomorrow's data storage at today's higher prices.

I dunno. I've never heard of anyone getting a refurb drive from OCZ. And I will take a nasty old refurb if the price is right. I've gotten a lot of perfectly good reworked parts on the cheap.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?64753-A-simple-guide-for-speeding-up-EOL-OCZ-SSD-s. How about the "Performance Tool?" http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/All_OCZ_Indilinx-Based_SSDs/

I might suggest RMA'ing the drive and selling the replacement....

Frankly, I had expected that the spinning disk manufacturers would merge or joint venture themselves out of existence.

I'm pretty sure that Seasonic PSUs are expensive, whether they have fans or not.

You don't need the disk, just the BIOS files.

According to the UPS, my system is pulling 414W right now. The fan must be going because blazing hot air seems to be moving out of it.

It seems like its heat production is more likely to be the staggering statistic.

It also excludes files that you don't have the rights to (and, therefore, can't see). This includes some system files, as well as metadata.

There's more than enough solar energy hitting the earth to fulfill all of our needs. It's just inconvenient.

I think that this is why they invented the MacOS.

No, but it's quiet. I have one. Frankly, if the fan ever spins, I can't tell.

Are you comparing "available" to "free" space? The Windows Explorer's "free space" is capacity minus used space. "Used space" does not include files and folders that you can't see, i.e. those with the hidden attribute. Go ahead and pick in volume with hidden files and folders. Compare the...

My copy of Alpha Centauri is still sealed.

Who needs quick charging? Just swap it. http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1050971_want-to-hail-an-electric-taxi-cab-head-for-san-francisco

How does the FreeBSD implementation compare to Solaris's?

What are we talking about here?

Are they still aiming this at laptops? That seems like the one market where this is totally not worth it.

Neither Seagate nor Samsung have been dumb enough to put the word "ass" in the model number for a drive. Not even an "a55."

Are you comparing "available" to "free" space? These aren't the same thing.

On NTFS, files smaller than the cluster size are stored in the MFT. This saves a lot of otherwise wasted space.

I fixed it!

I might suggest ZFS.

The 6800s are definitely replacements for the 5700s. I'm happy to buy last year's card at a discount when the new stuff comes out....

Almost as good as an interview question I've received several times: "Do you know Adobe?" "Adobe what?" "Adobe." "Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, or what?" "Yes."

An every other motherboard manufacturer which has this -- which is pretty much all of them.

...Apparently depending on where you are, since it's always "evening" somewhere....

I remember reading this for the first time, when someone forwarded it to me about fifteen years ago....

Is this a big deal?

They use the same back-end, but orders are fulfilled differently. They also have different CS.

So, this might be useful for people who, for whatever reason, blew money on an SSD and run an older operating system, but can't be bothered to use one of the several free tools to do ostensibly the same thing.

Please see my initial post in this thread. Thank you.

Does it work in Windows 7? Until the XP patch, it was pretty goofy on NT OSes.

It's been three weeks since we put in the request with the IT guy, and we have no laptops and no printers (even the $1k HP he insisted on). Folks here are now starting to think that there's an issue. I may be able to convince someone to at least ask the IT guy's manager what's the deal is....

I'd suggest buying from the eWiz site rather than superbiiz. Inexplicably, I've always received slower yet more reliable service from eWiz.

How many hackers are buying crappy Gateways?

I'm not sure that there's enough value in it for a lot of people to hack it. Folks would only do it for the challenge.

Yes. And the drive that they sent still failed. I imagine that the wings help the drive contact the edge of the box better.

Is this good?

When is Bulldozer due out? You might want to wait for that, even if only for the possible price fight.

I wouldn't bet any money on that....