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Obviously you don;t have teh WD740GB and teh 7200.8, 7200.7 and all the other slow seagate drives since the origuibnal ATA which did have a fast acess time, but not the buffer.... Ouch... The dietCoke is pewing ut my nose. A Seagate idE drive made fast by shortstroking.

Given the mediocrity of the 400GB 7200.8, I doubt that 160GB/platter 7200.9 drives will be very impressive. If capcity needs are minimal, why don't you just buy faster drives such as 740GDs?

Uh, hello. Seagate has had a 400GB drive for nearly a yera.

By the time Samsnug has a 500Gb drive on the martek, hitachi will have a 1TB drive. :)

Yes. Perhaps I should have been clearer. All 1716 viewers that liked the show bought the DVDs. :) I'm sure many would be horrified by my favorite TV series.

...all 1716 viewers that liked the show. :o

Hmmm. I thought you were over 1000MB/sec. back in the 75GXP era, but that must have been Flagreen.

Go to the doctor!

When did this arrive?

Oops. I meant "Fire bowl."

"Fire bowel" is an apt description for the 7K500, though it is not like the 36z15 or others of that ilk.

Well that is interesting. I always thought Hibachi was such a popular brand that it was utililized as a generic name. Having zero experience in operating a barbeque, my knowledge is rather limited. ;)

Does't Hitachi also make barbeques as does Hibachi? I recall some joke about the confusion between the the two brands. Anyway, the 7500K is hot enough to fry the nads and emits a faint, but high frequency whine that is different from the 7K250. The 7K500 also takles forever to spin up. :(

Well, the 7k500 sucks. They should stick to making barbeques. ;)

Heather Chandler: "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa?"

Of course what would one expect Samsung to say, give their puny 2-platter drives and investment into flash memory? I'll likely be long gone before flash memory takes the place of large hard drives. :(

So the order of prefernce is Hitachi > Seagte > Maxtor? Wow, times have changed then! Of course I have about 15 Maxtor drives (>3.5 TB) from 540DX to DMP 9 to DM 16 to DM 10, though mostly DMP9.

Thanks Doug, but I tried that. All five of the local stores were listred as limited availbitl, i.e., NMT 2 units/store. At the local store there were none to be found although claimed to be in stock. I think Hitachi was not able to deliver the divers as sooon as expected.

Really? My experience has been that after the price has been negotiated they don't care whether you pay cash or finance. I'm no expert though, and I don't buy fancy cars that have extermely limited availability. If I don't like the vibe, I go to another dealer. ;)

I orderaded the 500GB PATA 7K5000. If the Hibachti is not a good drive, I can use it for a backup. If it is nide, maybe I'll get an SATA one as well (in November). I will continue with three primary data drives. One must be the 300GB SATA DM 10. Now here is the question, which two other...

What about paying cash for a car? I suppose that is not economical in some way, but it sure makes things easier. ;)

Lately I have been using Acronic Trueimage, which seems to work well. I like that it runs from either internal or external bootable media or the HD installation (only about 20MB) from Windows. There is no activation/registration nonsense as well.

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5055 The 100-400 and the 18-55 kit lens I believe.

Unless I can find a 1394b to SAT bridge, more SATA drives will be of no use. Only five directly connected hard drives are allowed in the system due to RAM limitations. The four primary drives are the 15K.3 (boot/apps only, no data), 300GB PATA, 300GB SATA, and 400GB PATA. The fifth drive is...

You should also get Downloader Pro. It is the best downloader around and allows creation of simultaneous backup copy to another drive. The ideal travel setup is to download from CF card to the notebook and backup to an external 2.5" drive or PSD. It is much faster than making a second copy to...

Tony, I have been using the Delkin adpater for almost two years and have downloaded around a terabyte of data without any difficulties. I can also unplug the card and/or remove the adapter without any problems whatsoever. The notebook uses XP SP1 if it makes any difference. I recall reading...

Merc, Don't mind me, I'm just a curmudgeon who does not care for most of the stuff on TV and in film.

Hmmm. I must have different tastes. Firefly was pretty much crap. The premise was good, but the writing and acting were mediocre. I guess it appeals to those who like all the low-budget stuff on the Sci-Fi channel for example. Maybe the film will be a cult classic, but I'll wait until it is...

I have mostly 250GB drives, some 300s and a couple of 400s. All but a couple are PATA. Anything less than 400 sems small. I gues the short- term solution would be to buy one 500GB SATA and one 500GB PATA drive to replace a pair of the 300Gb drives, and hope the Hitachis are not too hot and...

If you recall, Eugene reviewed a sample of the 10K II in early 2000 and other ones with different firmware later. General availability was delayed and delayed and delayed yet again. Tony made many comments about that drive. ;) Meanwhile the similar Cheetahs were out and about far earlier.

More like 5 years, one would calculate. ;)

Not yet. If you are satisfied with the results then you will be OK. If you are not, then an endless money pit may open before you. :) Seriously though, there may be acceptable optically better solutions that are less versatile, especially at the wide end. Let us know how it goes.

I am long-time member of FM forums with thousands of posts to my name and hardly the only one that received a bad copy of the Sigma 120-300/2.8. ;) In any case the 120-300 has some significant shortcomings (especially for nature photography) that would be present even in a good copy. Your needs...

Tony, The 120GB Seagate 5400.2 has worked well in my old Fujitsu P5K, though it is too small for a 2-week trip. It is cool, quiet and noticeably faster than the 100GB drive it replaced. If speed is of primary importance over capacity and power consumption the 100GB Hitachi 7K100 drives are...

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Arrr! I'm dying here with so many TB of data. And what is with the Corvair; did you ever own one?

Wow, crispulo was eons ago! However, SR started in March 1998.

It is #2 here.

Yikes, no wyou guys are spending al;l my money.. ;)

The Galapagos Islands are on the equator. It was cool to go swimming with the penguins there, and in March a wetsuit is not required as would be in the Southern ocean.

If I knew what I were doing, I would be dangerous. :D Building fileservers is beyond my emotional capaacity for certain. Of course I probably shoudl have spend the $8K last year to buy a couple of proper external arrays. I guess they are a bit cheapre now. My stystem is so old and there are...

IIRC that did not work when the drives were plugged into a different FireWire port/controller or on a different FireWire bridge - I forget the problem exactly.

I tried an off-brand (can't remember the name) 3.5" multicard reader this spring. Unfortunately it sucked up around five drive letters and many of the main hard drives were not accessible! Then the Explorer kept crashing. :evil: So be careful if you don't have enough extra drive letters or...

Hah, good luck with that! I tried the 100-300/4 and 120-300/2.8 Sigmas with and without TCs. The 120-300 was a terrible lens optically, and even with a "HSM" motor AF was flaky. I suppose if one buys 3-5 of each lens then one can eventually get a good one, but after I returned the 120-300 the...

No. The whloe point here was to separate the crop factor/angle of view issue from the real concern, pixel size.

The 12.8 megapixel (@ 8.2 µm), 35 mm sized 5D is for general use (3FPS max) and has much larger pixels than the 20D, so it is less suited to distant subjects. The 20D has 5FPS and smaller pixels (8.2 million @ 6.4 µm) which should be better for your needs. For example, in order capture the...

Hmmm. The 100-400 is fine for what it is, but is actually the worst lens I own. However, nothing else covers that range and is as usable. Well, I thought that one 1Ds MK II would solve all the problems, but it does not. That is why I have two of them and a 20D as well. :)

The 20D and 100-400 are a favorite of nature photographers due to the low cost, relatively light weight, and sufficient image quality. AF of the 100-400 is fast on the 20D, though less sure than when used on 1 series body. And of course you will not find a more responsive body in terms of...

Does that mean I can get a massage whilst waiting for my appetizers? Cool.

Do they know the difference between lose and loose? :D