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Only drives tested before they go out, IIRC, by Seagate are SCSI. So, depending on where they are made, you are gambling, but not much. What's Fry's return policy? For buying IDE drives, www.costco.com is the best, due to their return policy, any costco outlet. Compusa, with their absurd 14...

New AOL isn't THAT bad... s

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Why bother? It already has ATA 100 on the motherboard. How many drives can you fit in this thing? Buy a couple drives for the 100 channel, and use that, and save yourself some money. SATA has yet to approach scsi as an interface, and, ATA is fine for mass storage. S

Funny, but my results and experiences have been so far out of whack with SR that I see no point in visiting. The ONLY reason for me to check there is to find out the reviews on IDE/ATA drives, and, since they all seem to be pretty much the same, it just is an easy place to find out which drive...

Liam, unless you raid, none of that stuff is going to matter. Those drives aren't going over 100 mb sec, anyway. s

The only controllers I really trust are either Intel chipset based, or 3 Ware. None are cheap. I'm not very experienced with ide/ata stuff, so everytime I end up trying something, I usually get shafted, and it costs me money. Talk to the guys here, or, go to Costco, buy a Maxtor that's bagged...

Check that. That 15.3 maybe defective. You can send it to me, and I'll try it in Raid O, with the other one I have, and I'm sure you'll find it's defective. :wink: s

You are doing great. The X 15 is running fine, and so is the other drive. UW max is around 35-7 mb sec, real world. LVD max is around 75 mb/sec, real world. Haven't tried the 15.4, but my 15.3 maxed at 73 mb/sec. s

ROFL :excl: That Promise stuff just kills me. They haven't changed since they started. I hate to admit, that through a number of factors, I have an actual, Promise ATA 133 mhz dual channel card up and working in my Xeon machine. I bought a Sonnet Tempo Trio card for the mac. Wouldn't work...

I should have known better. I bought a couple versions of their software, IIRC, one for mac, and one for PC, and they didn't work real well. Gave up on em, until I got the bundle with the LaCie-Liteon external CR-RW's, one version 5, and one version 6. They both work :eekers: :excl: :excl...

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And how does one turn hyperthreading off, and on, to test? s

Howell: :salut: :salut: :salut: :wink: Anyway, I don't fully agree, but I do resemble that remark. If 2 gig sticks ever become reasonable, I can run 12 gigs of ram, and with one gig sticks, 6 gig. Funny part is I've heard guys with similar setups that can't notice much difference between...

You know I really have to say, the irony of Davin and Eugene actually saying something bad about ide, or SATA drive setups, that would increase their advertizers sales, is dripping. After my Maxtor/Promiselless experience, I figured that out, early on. Odd that I was ridiculed for that, and...

Yes, SATA Raid 0, and ide raid 0 generally suck. We know that. Perhaps with SATA2 we'll finally see something to start considering giving up scsi for, but I doubt it. As JTR1962 has posted, using ATTO, you can get bumps in speed from certain block sizes, and functions, being held in cache, on...

Oh, I really hope so... s

Some reason Windows firewall XP didn't work in SP1. Said something like dependent services weren't started, etc. I might have tweaked em, but I don't remember what I tweaked. Installing SP 2 has allowed me to enable the firewall, which is comforting, since all my research shows that any other...

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Well, yes. :wink: I do have reasons for the scsi cable position. Everytime I had a scsi problem, it turned out to be a cabling problem, well, about 98% of the time. Which reminds me, I have one cable that's backwards for everything I use it for, and I'm going to take it down Wednesday and see...

Well, I found the "kit". Seems like they charge a heck of a lot for a couple cables, and I'm wondering if the "utility" is the one downloadable for the Parahelia series, supporting mutiple monitors? Apptimizer 2005 surround gaming...

Cable for Matrox P-650 to run three monitors??? Hi I was wondering if anyone has tried using three monitors with a P-650? If so, where did you get the cable? Does the P-650 support three monitors? From Matrox, it appears it does... Thanks gs

LM: I don't use RAR, or encryption for that matter. I've tried MSFT's disk compression on my two backup drives, and the time it takes to run is not worth the savings in disk space. That's why I have the SCA box on this machine. For what it's worth, the compression utility did soak up some of...

Matrox guys can't seem to get it to run on Matrox Paras, so far. s

Grim: The components I have in my beige aren't really good, or supported with OS X. Start with the Voodoo 5500 card, no drivers for it in OS X. Oem ATTO UW card, was for a long time, unsupported in OS X. Don't know currently. Beige isn't really supported, either, and loading OS X on it...

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Is it still avaliable for macs, and, if so, what's the hardware support like? s

I've thought about installing it on a couple of extra boxes I've got around here, but I don't have room to set them up, really. Guess I could use Linux for email. Any virus problems? s

Get out the soap. One would think this box could play something besides Quake III. I'm pretty sure the disks are defective. It kept looking for files that were not installed... and would not uninstall. s

Howell, you may have a point... s

Funny Tannin, but not only computers, but that extra ten years would have been nice. 10 years of Hawaii with less crowds, etc. for surfing... s

You watch a DVD on one screen, rip another in a another DVD reader, And open IE, and type this in another. Amazing part is, all works and goes smoothly... s

Having less luck with Tiger Woods 2003 on the pc. Apparently the Matrox P650 driver is not working real well. See if the patch fixes it. Just had to reinstall the entire game... Do a complete install, then the game asks for the CD's? This one maybe going back. Costco is a wonderful thing... s

Don't ask... Probably because it can look really good, using the Voodoo 5500 and the Sony monitor, and, perhaps I just hate to see all that software sit in a box. The end result was, crashed system. Somehow I changed the setting for the video card to out of range for the monitor... The result...

MAC TO PLAY GAMES???? I got the great idea of trying to get stuff to run on my mac. Now most of my games work ok, but they are 7X and 8X. I'm running 9.2.1, and, its a frigging nightmare to get the old games to work on it. The machine is probably best with 8.6, but I can't remember why I...

DD: You run a gaming rig. Get RAZER mouses. If you don't like the difference, your customers will. s

Well, I point and shoot with my left hand and the mouse, and use the right to move, jump etc. using the up and down arrows. I use a MSFT internet keyboard, and currently the logitech mouse. For some reason, at maximum dpi for the mouse, I have a better chance of Fragging Xaero. Only took me...

"Amy is around more?" What's up with that? s

It just dawned on me why I like the mouse so much. I'm lefthanded, and I have to have nuetral mouses, or designed left handed. s

RAZER does a pretty good job of describing that on their website. In games, you get percise targeting, without skipping over your target, thanks to the high dpi rating. It's also easier on your wrist, since you don't have to move it as much. The Boomslang line just worked great, and fit my...

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I greived greatly when someone spilled wine on my mouse, and killed it :cry: I'm using a Logictech, which isn't bad. However, when going up against Xaero, I really like the Boomslang, and, it just got more comfortable after awhile. ONly problem is the ball gets dirty, but, since it's under...

Thanks. Didn't know that... s

Seagate has always been great, even on support of someone else's drives, on someone elses raid cards, f***** Promise. Can't forget that... s

Never made the trip with a phone. Always had two hands on the wheel... s

http://store.razerzone.com/ And half the price the boomslang was... s

SF offers sex change operations for city employees. Anything to get people to take what the mil pays, and work for the armed forces, and, this will help surgeons who make jack in the mil, have a viable skill when they get out. I LIKE the fact that our tax dollars are actually going to...

SCSI! :roll:

When you start shopping for drives, you may well save the cost of the box, since every really good deal on a scsi drive seems to be an SCA 80 pin, with a converter, or without. s

Good points. s