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Now I found that reference. Of course 8 MB/sec. is horribly slow, but good enough for USB flash drives, iPods and assorted junk.

Cool - I guess. I don't get a chance to stay at the fancy hotels with giant TV sets. In most US cities I think we are normally allowed to spend $200 per day on lodging, excluding taxes. In some cities such as NYC, SF, etc. allowable limits are higher. An exception would be if the hotel is...

OK, I'll use a one-pass overwrite. I was thinking that the charge states may not be exactly the same after a single erasure and that some technique could be used to obtain an analog output and process the data. I do recall reading about 3-bit MLC memory, not just the 2-bit variety . I don't...

Presumably there is no point in defragmenting an SSD because the memory cell allocation is dynamic, but what about secure deletion. Prior to drive disposition, is a 7-pass overwrite method preferred or is it even necessary?

Probably both.

I meant on the hotel LCD display. I am fairly sure that there are all sorts of indecent HD products available to the market as a whole.

I have only used the opposite kind of converter - SATA host to PATA drive. Data was corrupted after a while and folder names became illegible, so I ditched that idea and reformatted the drive.

I have that concern as well. I am hoping XP will be usable for another 2 years. I am noticing that Win2K support is gone for almost everything new now.

Ignore list is a wonderful thing.

Colors should not affect function. Seems that you may have a medical problem?

Greg, Panasonic is ~100 billion dollar group of Japanese companies and Samsung is ~174 billion dollar Korean company. Neither are likely to go out of business before your warranty expires. ;)

Panasonic=Matsushita, not Samsung.

Ugh? Most of the companies I work with or for use Oracle or SAP for the serious work. They generate billions or tens of billions in annual sales, so they must be doing something right. MS stuff is only for the office desktop users, and then there are special purpose apps for various groups.

Hey, who ate the rest of my post? :(

Yes, and even most applications don't need the write speed as much as the read speed. I found that only the

Other than the page file, I'm not seeing why SSD is so important for the OS. Maybe a few seconds are saved when booting, but that hardly increases productivity and profits. It is much more useful for the applications that create large temporary files, or working with numerous small files..

I'm almost afraid to ask if they have the adult videos in HD. :o

I don't understand the logic. You will be doing something unsafe in the hotel room?

Newegg has a zero return policy on displays, correct?

I got a 32" Samsung. The image quality is OK, but the actual diagonal viewing area is only 26.5" from the cable TV. I can understand why the larger screens are popular and would get a 37" TV if it is ever necessary to buy a HD TV for myself. (I hope that won't be for 3-5 years.)

We usually just do cards for that.

Happy holidays. Just one more trip to Frys and I swear I will done shopping...

http://www.packagemapping.com/ http://www.packagemapping.com/?action=track&tracknum= You don't need to specify the major carrier, e.g., UPS or FedEx.

The 160GB X25-M was listed previously. A 64GB X25-E is listed, but it also is not yet available.

Thanks David. Obviously Intel knows something about how to implement flash memory controllers. ;) The X25-E was definitely worth the wait for me. The last time there was such a breakthrough performance in a new storage device was when the orginal X15 arrived. However, the Intel SSD is much...

I don't know what the subject is supposed to be, so it is difficult to determine why the exposure looks so wrong - but it does. Is it a special effects exercise?

That WD5000BEVT is fine, yet there is not much impro

So much for the Google... D'OH!

FF3? Why play the video games if that is slowing down everything else?

I'm afraid to ask—is that a pr0n disorder? Maybe Merc can explain? :)

Not 90% next year.

We all know what the intel can do. The question is whether the cheaper options can handle the random reads and writes without the stuttering. Iometer would be a good test. Sustained read

So video is much the opposite of still photography, where you want to view each pickle. Interesting.

Either one would crap in your luggage. :p

There is a screaming monkey in the luggage? Was Tea abducted? ;)

It could be worse. Know anyone with spinocerebellar ataxia? :(

What an ungrateful loser! You should have taken it back and told her "Happy Festivus." :D

I don't undersatnd that at all. Brightness is measured over a larger area than individual pixels.

No, I only have the E one. It is fast in a notebook, though the capacity is useless for my purposes.

The pixels would be easier to see if they were larger, i.e., on a lower resolution display of the given dimensions. Is that the goal with TV now or not?

Is 720p OK in the 32 inch size? The TV will be used for over the air programming, some cable and commercial DVDs. No Blue Ray will be involved.

The X25-M is a good choice for a notebook. :)

I can fit OS and apps easily into an 8GB partition on the X25-E.

So where can the ordinary user buy a hard drive or two that is packaged properly, at least less horrifically than by NewEgg?

Crappy drives? Maybe in a few years they will go bust and be sold to some other company.

Quality is far more important than quantity.

OMG! Apple uses sh*t components in their overpriced notebooks. I'm shocked.

What?

Damn, you missed out on the Shell Bicentennial Minutes. :)

Perhaps I am wrong, but the bad packaging/shipping of most OEM hard drives is a major concern.