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:o :rotfl:

Oh, that one does have two separate ports. :oops:

From what I gather they mostly use a 2-port USB header, one for the USB port and one for the readers. There are also a few devices described as hubs. Maybe I'll see what is available at Fry's next week if they are all pretty much the same junk.

I'll think about it next year. Meanwhile there is another problem. My disk is too thin. When inserted into the slot it rotates and gets stuck before going all the way. :mad:

Look at their website. :o Is it any wonder? :roll:

Bleh. It's not worth doing a hundred times. :profleft:

No, I only align the advancing format drives.

PM=Port Multiplier. Even some cheap PCI/e cards or onboard controllers support PM, such as those based on the SIL3132, JMB36X, etc.

I have some similar ones from Thermaltake. They work just fine for USB, but you need a controller with PM capability to see both drives in eSATA mode. There are no IDE toasters AFAIK, because the IDE spec does not support hot swapping. I've destroyed some drives that way. ;)

Did you see the post here? That was after an unknown period of use, maybe 25-50times. The actual performance is much worse than STR indicates. It was slower than an old 200GB 5400 RPM notebook drive for example.

It looks this after one write.

Thanks. That one finally worked. However, the drives goes south after about 15-25 writes. Even after one write, the graph drops.

Yeah. I missed that one. It still seems risky to have that info out there for all bots to see.

3.5" is OK too.

I don't know how reliable the vendor is, but here is the F3 at a decent price.

I find many at the Egg, but there are many problems too. Have you used that specific one with good results?

It is power like kW. I think in many more advanced countries that is the unit anyway. Horsepower is a ridiculous, ancient unit about as stupid as a yard or pint, etc. :tounge: Torque is force-distance. Don't they teach these things in elementary school (or whatever it is now) any more?

I'm not sure what to call it, but I seek one of those 5.25" front panel dealies that has a couple of USB ports and SF, SDHC, etc. sockets. Are any of them worth a damn? Technically I only need USB, but may as well have more. Thanks.

I know you can install Win 7 to the first partition of a drive previously prepared with 2 partitions and it will not change them or add the 100 MB.

Back in the days of SR I tried the dynamics in W2K compared to the Promise RAID 0 and neither provided much benefit other than larger capacity.

UPS is out of alignment at this time of year and it's wacky with two of them offset. I shall wait until 2011.

I have more faith in the enterprise grade SSDs. Presumably they are designed for more write cycles and have more reserved space. Likewise larger drives are theoretically more reliable with respect to wear. By the time 1TB SSDs are inexpensive, the wear factor my not be such an issue. 3000...

I'm not sure why you need four partitions, but TI worked fine with two partitions on my WD 750GB advancing format drive. I used Acronis to restore the C: partition from a smaller drive and resized C: as desired. I booted the restored OS, created and formatted a second partition in Windows, and...

Oh man, I would back it up anyway.

If one gives a new, retail BD player and 8 discs to an octogenarian, will they be able to play the discs without the internet?

Linux vs. the Windows?

That is correct. Or if you have aligned a partition, made an image, and restored it to the same drive it will remain aligned. I believe that started with TI 2010. I remember the issue with my 750GB notebook drive in the spring.

It is not a very good deal that the original price was $99.99 and now the price is $99.00 with $0.99 shipping. ;)

How about this deal? Note the shipping. :D

So they know everything you watch on disc and must be connected for each new one? I'm having second thoughts about buying one for Christmas.

I have IE8 on the XP32 system, which behaves better.

I see RSI. :o

Would The Egg or other major sites look different?

Why would a Blue Ray player need to be online? I don't like that idea at all.:spiderman:

What do you mean, one setting? There are many settings for different purposes. I only use about three of them.

Anyone who need something to be flat. :lol:

How can the Egg be sold out? :cat: Maybe something is out of stock for a while, but there are always more drives.

Happy day, but how do we all know this?

IE8 causes problems sometimes on the one system.

Yes, it can be annoying, but I'm not so upset as you. I'm just glad it does not keep blaring at me with a sign that IE6 is out of date as others do. :D

I'll have to reinstall Catalyst in the morning, but I think there was no other monitor.

I asked if they had the same holidays. I've never been to Canada or Québec or whatever. Maybe in 2011...

Yes. It sees one monitor only as if the other one does not exist. :(

Not even if hell freezes over. :smack:

Québec does not follow the Canadian holidays?

I don't remember it being on the diagonal.

I'm not viewing anything illegal; I just want to view static images. It must be a Windows problem because both monitors display the POST and the first XP screen, then the second display blanks out.

I don't understand the point either. It looks like some German or other European students with nothing better to do. Maybe they could sell it to the government.

Freezing is very expensive and has not been shown to work. :right:

I have not done it in years, and it may not be worth the trouble anyway. I'll most likely be on vacation in parts of December, so if it is not replaced in a week I'd be concerned about a box lying around or being returned to the sender. I have a few retail drive boxes and would put that in...