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Yes, I was talking to Tim Z (Holywood) that evening and when he told me about the disaster I was shocked and saddened. What a dark day that was!

Doug, I have this one. The shell is metal and assembles with two thumb screws. The fan is reasonably quiet and keeps the drive cool. It has a real power switch. BTW, there was another 5+ minute outage. Ctrl-C is your friend.

20GB for Windows Vista? Holy sh*t! What is the minimal installation?

Why would anyone wash a thumb drive? I'm almost afraid to ask.

:D External!

I meant a single drive not that fancy server stuff.

Actually 3x200GB is not a bad idea. I wonder why nobody has done that, except perhaps that it does not fit into the market slots. Several manufacturers will probably have 3x250GB drives later this year, so it may be a moot point.

Which are the best external drives, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, etc., or integrators such as LaCie, Iomega, etc.? 500GB seem to be the sweet spot of efficiency for the purpose. Thanks.

Specs?

What is this, about the 5-year anniversary of SF?

6500K is the usual standard but it does not work well for me. However, I find 6500K too blue. Something around 5200K looks best to my eyes.

Of course not. ;) If you want accurate color the display must be calibrated. Uncalibrated monitors range from "sorta OK" to downright awful.

I still use the old WIPE; it kills anything and everything.

Hey, I should get that!

I have both the Spyder 2 Pro and the Eye-One Display 2. I prefer the latter as it offers more control and more accurate profiles IMO. One can see the difference in display calibration strategy by watching the process. The Eye-One measures not only an ascending R, G, B then grey patches, but...

The site was down again tonight. I think your ISP is going down the tubes. :(

I thought about that one, but it seems a little pricey for the purpose. I also read some reviews (can't find the link) indicating that the Sony was unreliable. There is a fairly cheap one, the TEAC CD-RW880. I dunno.

There were over 180 this afternoon. And why was the site down, again?

The image is gone.

I am particularly interested in the low power modes of the 7K1000. Are they controlled by the drive or through drivers, controller firmware, or what? The newer Hitachi drives have substantially lower 12V startup currents than other brands, which is nice, and the slower spinup is not a problem.

Kids are always coming up with those wild schemes. :) One question leaps to mind. If the system leaks and floods or other damage is incurred, would the insurance cover it, assuming that the plumbing modifications were not done by a licensed contractor?

My 5-platter 500GB Hitachi (or was that Hibachi? :)) seems to be fine.

Less than about 120GB seems to be a throwaway now. I have about 39 drives, mostly 200-750GB with an average 250-300GB. More 750GB and larger drives would be nice.

Where is the Seagate 1TB drive? http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/internal_3.5_inch_hard_drive

I guess it will be only about 910GB, but still...

Maybe the 750MB drives will be substantially less expensive in a few months. Is this a 5x200 or 4x250 drive?

404, baby!

There is no computer available nor understading of the operation for one in 80s.

It has less than half the STR of the original iRAM. :( Whatever happened to the SATA II version of the iRAM?

The Ultra II 8GB card is known to be slow compared to smaller Ultra II cards. Use the Extreme III (20 MB/sec.) or Extreme IV (40 MB/sec.) where faster download speeds are desired.

I'm looking for a decent CD audio recorder. Do they still exist, perhaps something in the $200-300 range? Thanks.

My arteries are clogging just thinking about all that deep fried fried stuff. I guess your doctors allow you to eat all of it.

I wish I could justify the cost of all those fancy systems. :( Of course if I spent $20K on the storage servers, where would there be funds for the trips to obtain the images? The HDs would be empty.

Merc, Perhaps you need more light or a faster lens? How many cats are you allowed?

David, Do you have all of the data on one RAID 5 array and then the backup on another array? That would be too much risk for me as arrays can become corrupted when drives are kicked out or controllers can fail. Unless the second array is in a separate location from the primary, there would...

That would be nice, but how is it backed up and how do you stand the noise? The problem I have is too many 250-300GB drives, worth nothing to sell, vs. buying a bunch of 500GB or larger drives. Now I have only five 500GB drives (one external only) and a couple of 750GB drives (ATA), a couple...

Now I filled the second 500GB drive to only 292MB free. At least it is getting my money's worth. :)

I got some 500GB drives yesterday and now one is quite full already. Is it possible to defargmentate a 500GB drive with only 708 MB free?

What about jail or prison? One could be incarcerated for months or years and not post.

I could use 4GB for the 2nd PS scratch disk if it could achieve 300MB/sec. STR.

Well, that is intersting, but the ATM I frequent has an open channel design like a gas station pump, where the card goes in only partway. That trap would not work in such a case because the user is always gripping the card.

Actually it is the other way. When not logged in the times are EDT (or Atlantic-Canada ST), but after logging in they are EST.

OK, I get it. When not logged in the times are EST, but after logging in they are CST. However, my default time zone is EST. (It must have been like that by default; I did not set it.) Is anyone else experiencing the same issues?

WTF, did the time zones just finally return to standard times?

The squirrel is overexposed and too blue, but file download was normal a couple of hours ago. I have a slow line only 88-90KB/sec anyway.

Maybe I should buy some WD drives. :) Merc would probably have worse words for them than spit.

There is no obscenity or the like, but it is just upsetting.

What, no decent customer service?

Oh man, I should not have opened that link!

Apparently IE 7 does not like my computer and will not install. Screw 'em I say.