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I find that there's a lot of variability even between drives that are theoretically the same model from the same manufacturer. I bought a dozen 4GB PNY Attache drives that I use for OS installation media and I've observed that some of them consistently install Windows 7 more slowly than others...

The Gigabyte H61-USB3 is kind of a half-assed board. It performs well enough when paired with an i3, but I can tell that corners were cut to get to its price point. Even the packaging and manual are weak compared to the usual Gigabyte standards. And yes I stuck a PCI I/O card in it. It might...

Today's punctuation lesson: Comma usage courtesy of Purdue's Online Writing Lab. I will acknowledge that I'm occasionally guilty of this one myself but I'm not the person in this thread with a JD, either.

I think that's the best policy as well. There's very little online that is directly attributable to my actual self. I like it that way.

I have an Aquos and don't have any particular complaints about it. I've never had to deal with their service department. Personally, I'm not at all a fan of Plasma screens or all the power they use, and I'd rather have 1080p than 720p regardless. I'm not sure 120Hz display modes are worth the...

Coug, I live in the toxic waste capital of the United States. People who worry about inhaled particulates don't live here to begin with. I did buy a Gigabyte H61M board over the weekend, just to see how well it will work for my purposes. And mubs, Parallel to USB and Serial to USB adapters...

I'm a social networking conscientious objector. I am sort of interested in how well Spotify does or does not work. I suspect it's "not" in my case, but that's the curious part.

My G1 X25-M is definitely near the end of its life. I cloned it and pulled it On top of that, one of my customers, the same one who had his 160GB X25-M die before, had his drive die again. I don't know what he's doing that kills them but at this point I suspect it's his fault rather than...

The unit is not big enough for the space I have, but it's the standard unit for my apartment complex. I'm not allowed to change it. I just leave it off and put up with the heat. I'd still rather rent than own a home.

I still have a Catalyst 5005 sitting around, but that's probably not what you're talking about.

It's not like I know people who are still buying them. It's just that they've had them for 15 or 20 years and the damned things still work and cost (relatively speaking) nothing for consumables. I don't blame anyone for wanting to stuck with them. They're like the cockroaches of the printing...

The Parallel port is close to a deal breaker. I've been telling customers for years that the best personal printers ever made are Laserjet 3s and a lot of them still have those old printers. IDE is far, far less important, but there's a convenience factor there for dealing with old machines...

I read somewhere, a couple years ago, that Intel put some engineering talent into developing a low cost, self-contained water cooling setup that could be easily installed, and that the final product of that development was under $25 per unit. I want to know what happened to THAT.

Verifies seem to be really CPU intensive on TI2011 in a way I don't remember them being on TI2010.

My standard business system build for years and years has been an LGA775 G31 motherboard (preferably one with IDE and a parallel port) with a mid-range CPU and 2GB RAM in a decent case with a quality PSU. I usually target $350 - $400 or so for hardware on these boxes. There are so many...

TrueImage 2010 definitely works with AHCI. I suppose it might not work with a Z68 6Gbps controller since that's not part of the standard ICHwhatever deal but AFAIK it's still a supported product and there's probably an update that addresses that. TrueImage support is usually kind of worthless...

That's simple. Intel motherboards are NOT RETARDED.

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It was 93 degrees in my apartment last night at 11PM. With the computers turned off. All of them.

That's pretty normal for BIOS updates.

I hope you like MPEG2 video.

I've noticed an odd behavior from the G1 X25-M in my gaming desktop. I only have one game installed in the 80GB space, City of Heroes, but since I had time to play this weekend, I did. Unfortunately, what I actually spent most of the weekend doing was tracking down weird lag spikes in-game. My...

I've noticed an odd behavior from the G1 X25-M in my gaming desktop. I only have one game installed in the 80GB space, City of Heroes, but since I had time to play this weekend, I did. Unfortunately, what I actually spent most of the weekend doing was tracking down weird lag spikes in-game. My...

Over the weekend, I got an LG Smart TV Upgrader for $50. For that money it has some stupid apps (meh) and offers DLNA support for streaming video. I've since found the Seagate/WD streaming video doohickeys on Ebay for not much more than the LG, but it's another interesting option.

Not any more. These days I'm lucky if I can get three hours of work in on a Saturday. I can do a lot more remotely than I used to but other than basic monitoring I don't need to do much at this point.

I had horrible problems using 2TB Seagate green drives in Windows SoftRAIDs. I suspect there's something in the drive firmware that makes them a bad choice for RAID scenarios, like extra-long thermal calibrations or something.

Oh that is quite useful. When I looked before I could not find such an item. I need to get a couple of those. Thank you sir.

I'd kill to get a USB3 PCI card so that I could make it available on all the servers I manage, instead of just the few that happen to have PCIe instead of PCI or PCI-X. Much as I've been advocating for tape, a backup system built on several 1TB 2.5" USB drives that only need one plug would be a...

I have not yet had a bad tape. They're supposed to last years in use assuming a moderate rotation schedule and to be stable for long-term storage after that.

I got my library off Craigslist. Take a look at Provantage for the hardware. As I recall they were hundreds cheaper than some of the other usual suspects.

I've never bothered to turn on compression. It would be a waste of time. I have two backup jobs that are ~13TB and 8.5TB right now. I make a new full backup monthly and just do incremental backups on a weekly basis. It's not a huge deal. I was able to get my Tape Library from a shuttered...

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Your computer got a vacation, and now it has to go back to work. Sucky, sucky work that Adobe makes it do. More sucking than a republican in an airport bathroom. Have I said lately how much I hate flash? Because I hate flash.

I've found LTO4 tapes for as little as $19 each.

I don't know. I see signs every time I drive to Knoxville.

Some people pay good money for that sort of thing.

That's Kentucky. I think Interstate 64 in Kentucky is called the Kentucky Memorial Bourbon Trail or something.

Don't get Stereodude started...

Of course the ideal would be to have multiple drives. Single point of failure, etc. But in my experience from years of IT work, I've not seen issues of having a tape made in one drive not being readable in a different one. I've seen problems with god-awful backup software not being able to do a...

I had to become familiar with BE to help out a friend anyway. It's fine. Kind of. There are a bunch of different tape libraries out there. Dell and HP and Tandburg and several other companies make them. The distinctions are pretty minor. There are also larger library systems, but they don't...

You're going to have to look at library systems, not single drives. You'll find that your mid-range library system will be either an 8-bay or 16-bay changer that will fit in a 1U enclosure. You'll connect it to a SAS controller and the library's full function will be fully supported by only some...

If you're doing things right, you should probably have a near-line backup on a NAS or something and something offline for archival storage. Your redundant server might or might not be serving that purpose, depending on how you're syncing it, but it's still not the same thing as having something...

Seems like a function that's only found on the cheapest controllers, actually.

So you have $3500 worth of disk drives but you're not willing to consider a more stable form of storage?

You can specially configure a Windows install disk to point the users folder to a different drive. You could also create a symlink or a junction point in NTFS that points your stuff to where it needs to go, though I'm not 100% certain about whether Windows would be OK with doing that for a...

It's not going to happen that way either because there can always be a vastly more efficient codec given sufficient CPU power.

Apparently the new trend in e-tail is reducing costs for logistics. Newegg's getting worse, Amazon's getting worse. This does not bode well.

IIRC he worked for a bank and then for Pacific Bell, not PG&E.

In the end, that comes down to everyone wanting a piece of the pie. That's not going to change. Personally I want devices that are versatile enough to deal whatever is put in front of them. The devices that are best able to do that are computers with general purpose operating systems, not...

RDP can disconnect and very quickly re-negotiate a connection if the session remains open. I could very easily imagine a circumstance where someplace in the mess of RDP over VPN over internet connection where some part of that connection momentarily stopped working without actually ending the...