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Seems like a lot of trouble to me to have a bootable drop in replacement backup.

That'll work real well if you want to receive calls on it. :drunk:

Except congress controls spending, not the President, and we all know which party controlled congress during the majority of each of those President's tenures.

We're now putting movie reviews in the PC Gaming thread? :rofl:

I should have added a balanced budget with the spending capped at a percentage of GDP. Forcing a balanced budget isn't enough because the geniuses will just keep spending more. This should explain it pretty well: I wouldn't. They got us into the mess. They can get us out of it while being...

Sorry, I meant income, not wealth (which you can still only do once). However, that not withstanding I'd love to hear your argument explaining the morality of seizing the assets of the "rich" to bankroll out of control gov't spending. Second, your numbers don't add up. The article you linked...

I'll play... The problem is it's all smoke and mirrors. Did your wages also go up 10% a year? Even if they did (very unlikely) it's still hardly in your favor when you look at the big picture. Your $250k house is now worth ~$403k, but that house you want to upgrade to isn't $325k anymore...

A more accurate 500MB test: Sequential Read : 106.736 MB/s Sequential Write : 106.747 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 39.349 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 55.288 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.485 MB/s [ 118.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) ...

Good idea... Samsung F4 2TB 5400RPM: Sequential Read : 105.556 MB/s Sequential Write : 105.540 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 71.049 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 161.962 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 1.026 MB/s [ 250.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KB...

:idea: Perhaps Time can name for us one country that has fallen apart / gone to war / been taken over by a dictator / etc as a result of deflation.

No it's not. It works in a banana republic where the populace doesn't have money saved and personal wealth. The gov't should not be intentionally inflating the currency (effectively stealing wealth from the citizens) in order to cover up it's incompetence. It's also worth noting that the US...

Which is great if you live in a banana republic or Zimbabwe. The rest of us don't want our retirement / savings undermined by quantitative easing (intentional gov't sponsored inflation) by a bunch of idiots with no clue how to be fiscally responsible and no sense of obligation not to bankrupt...

Removed Double Post (I really only hit submit once).

A trade imbalance is not automatically a bad thing. It means your trading partners end up with a pile of your money and are likely to invest it back into your country because they need to so something with it other than swim in it in a vault like Scrooge McDuck. Printing money with reckless...

So I decided to put together a little timeline on the P67 experience. I bought it 1/27/2011 and as of 4/27/2011 all 4 SATA-II (3Gbs) ports are basically dead. The system was not heavily used. It was not a primary use machine. It was used basically for video compression. Up until 4/15 the...

If the US doesn't raise the debt ceiling they won't automatically default. It just means they can't borrow anymore money. They will still be able to service the debt with tax revenues. And, it will force the gov't to do some real spending cuts. Not the sham imaginary ones they did a few...

I find it hard to believe that a single person managed to make a late change to the chipset all by themselves. Doesn't Intel do peer reviews? :scratch: At this point I'm leaning toward at least waiting to see what the Z68 boards look like and how much they are before getting a replacement for...

Anyone got a source with reasonable prices on Dell PERC 5i / 6i batteries? It seems that on Ebay if you want a new Dell battery you're paying ~$50. Used ones with maybe half of their life left are just over $30. The most promising thing I found was a seller in HK with new non Dell batteries...

Maybe... Not sure if I want to swap this out now, or wait until May 8th and see what Z68 boards pop up on the market. Microcenter says I have until the 15th to return the board for replacement / refund. I'm tempted to take the refund and get a Z68 board though I'm not sure I want to be an...

They're pretty much the mirror inverse of the fall of the dollar.

Well, it's basically dead. Even after powering off the system and rebooting or warm rebooting pretty much any attempt to use one of the devices connected on the 4 SATA-II (3.0Gbs) ports will cause the HD Light to stay on and the drive access to fail / error out. Even running chkdsk on a almost...

Well, it happened again. This time I decided to try the optical drives connected to the other 3.0Gbs SATA-II ports also after the HD generated a delayed write error. Sure enough they were non responsive / unreachable. So, I feel safe saying that this is the Sandy Bridge chipset error.

I tell you what. You buy one, send it to me, and I'll let you know.

So, I ran the test and submitted it for my Buffalo RUF2-S 4GB stick (Japanese product link). It would land 6th for write speed and 8th for read speed out of all the drives they've had submitted to them. :rofl:

Sandisk Extreme III SDHC (older non 30MB/sec one): Sequential Read : 19.996 MB/s Sequential Write : 19.755 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 19.788 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 3.379 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.808 MB/s [ 929.6 IOPS] Random...

Sandisk Extreme IV 8GB CF in a Kingston USB 2.0 reader (UDMA): Sequential Read : 31.689 MB/s Sequential Write : 28.112 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 31.609 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 9.485 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 5.989 MB/s [ 1462.3...

Here's the same Lexar Professional 133x 4GB SDHC card in three different USB 2.0 readers. Reader 1: Sequential Read : 20.274 MB/s Sequential Write : 19.344 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 20.217 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 8.726 MB/s Random Read 4KB...

Interesting that it writes faster than it reads at with the 4kB files.

I haven't, but the reader will obviously be a factor also.

They've gotten bigger, but they certainly haven't gotten faster in dealing with small files.

Sandisk Cruzer Mini 256MB: Sequential Read : 8.421 MB/s Sequential Write : 5.146 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 8.383 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 3.892 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.107 MB/s [ 1002.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) ...

Patriot Xporter XT 4GB: Sequential Read : 31.404 MB/s Sequential Write : 7.675 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 31.254 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 1.652 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 7.548 MB/s [ 1842.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) ...

OCZ Rally 2 512MB: Sequential Read : 17.193 MB/s Sequential Write : 13.606 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 17.184 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 8.844 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.686 MB/s [ 899.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.136...

Corsair Flash Voyager 2GB: Sequential Read : 28.642 MB/s Sequential Write : 6.855 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 28.677 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 1.696 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 7.663 MB/s [ 1870.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) ...

OCZ Rally2 16GB: Sequential Read : 23.749 MB/s Sequential Write : 9.121 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 23.210 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 1.254 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 5.563 MB/s [ 1358.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.020 MB/s...

Buffalo 4GB RUF2-S (dual channel SLC): Sequential Read : 30.540 MB/s Sequential Write : 22.638 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 30.511 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 11.135 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 6.511 MB/s [ 1589.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KB...

Alvira? Are you turning into LM?

7K3000's... The latest.

The same drive seems to be working on the same port now. I copied a pile of data off the drive after rebooting to another (on a SATA-III) without issue. :scratch: I guess I will stress test the drive / port some more later.

Why should I? I still plan to swap out the motherboard. Microcenter will accept them back until May 15th offering a full refund in the form of a gift card / store credit. I'm not sure if I want to do a 1:1 swap or take the refund and get a Z68 chipset board after they come out May 8th.

Well, OEM installs don't have the same phone home activation scheme anyhow, but I'd bet even the phone home activation would work if the hardware hasn't changed.

It had better be $0 since the same product key works on both versions.

Because I have more than 2 SATA devices in the system. :rambo: And, I didn't expect the ports would fail so quickly (assuming that's the reason for the failure). This drive has only been spinning for a week on one of the ports.

So I came home today to find that one of my new craptacular 2TB 7200RPM Hitachi drives that had been marked as "unreadable" by Windows XP. I couldn't read anything off it, and Windows XP was giving the delayed write failure message in the system tray. The Disk Management Console listed it as...

So I came home today to find that one of my new craptacular 2TB 7200RPM Hitachi drives that had been marked as "unreadable" by Windows XP. I couldn't read anything off it, and Windows XP was giving the delayed write failure message in the system tray. The Disk Management Console listed it as...

True, but they're not 1024x800. It's a typo. I meant 1024x600 (which is what most 10.1" Netbooks are).

Well, the tread pattern is drastically different between the ContiExtreme Contact and the DWS. I would think that the less aggressive tread pattern of the DWS should make them quieter.

They seem quite a bit quieter on concrete than the Michelin Pilot Exalto A/S I had on the car before. I've used Toyo Proxes T1-S (summer tires), Toyo Proxes 4 (all seasons) in 245/40/18. I've used Michelin Arctic Alpin (snow tires), Continental ContiExtreme Contact, and Michelin Pilot Exalto...

None of that gets around the awful 1024x800 screen resolution on most netbooks. Even if you're the most patient person in the world and can tolerate the slug of a CPU having only 800 vertical pixels will drive you crazy. I had one and couldn't stand the screen resolution or the sluggishness...

I put a set of Continental ExtremeContact DWS tires on my car over the weekend. They seem pretty good in the few miles I put on them so far. I guess they were worth the wait (it seems they're perpetually on back order).