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So am I totally screwed or will it die down after a while?

Mine is on the loud side but not as loud as some similar high speed drives. Maybe your unit is defective.

Suddenly I am getting tons of spam all day, maybe 75/hour. All of them are about mail delivery failures. My mailbox will be full when I return from work tomorrow if this keeps up. Is something special happening today? Usually I get about 30 spams/day on that address.

I have done #1. :D

Yeah, but those TYs are only 8x. The Verbatim 16x works great in my 3500, but I am looking for an alternate for the second disc. Are there any other good 16x media?

The difference in Extreme III speeds is not that much, 8.0 MB/sec. for CF vs. 8.6 for SD. The differences between CF and SD in the 1D MK II are more, but I no longer have that body. The 20D needs fast CF cards as well, since it has a measly 6-frame buffer that fills in 1.0 sec. at 5 FPS. 1GB...

Well, you will probably horrified to know that I purchased a 100GB Seagate Monumentus 5400.2 from Newegg on Tuesday, before I read this thread. :o Now I see that they are even less at CompUSA this week and was contemplating adding a couple more.

The SanDisk Extreme III cards are rated 133x (20 MB/sec). Presumably they use the new spec and there will be appropriately faster readers as well. Unfortunately the new cards will not be available until the end of January, and I need to buy another 8GB of CF cards next week. I hate buying...

I assume you mean the Seagate ATA drives have problems, not the SCSI drives. I have been using nothing but Seagato boot drives for years: 18XL, X15, X15-36LP, 15K.3. I was being a bit sarcastic about the SR reliability database, Tony. You may recall that I agreed with your comments in the...

Pradeep is correct. PCMCIA adapters are terrible, achieving only 1.4 MB/sec. at 100% CPU. I already have the Delkin Cardbus adapter and have used it for years. Unfortunately CF reads speeds are limited to about 4.5-5 MB/sec. on most cards. I have used one Cardbus adapter and the external...

Wow, are Hitachi drives more reliable than Seagate drives now? I don't have access to the SR database and have been out of the loop. I was rather unimpressed by the 3-week Hitachi RMA though.

In order to speed the download process I sometimes use two CF card readers simultaneously. However, the notebook has only two ports, so I would lose the mouse. A USB hub could be used, but that means more stuff to carry around and set up. Are there any card readers with two independent CF slots?

I do not see how religion has any bearing on the comparison. I simply prefer cooler and quieter drives with faster transfer rates. Presumably the drives with more platters will be more expensive as well.

Who wants 5x100GB platters? I would rather wait a bit for Seagate's 3x166GB/platter drive.

I don't think HGST is very worthy. The RMA time for the drive was three weeks. :( Years ago I had an IBM drive replaced within the week. ;)

Kevin/Tony, I expect that the drive will be labeled if it is refurbished, but did not know if the bag would also be labeled as such. Given the mfg. date, it is probably new. Is it usual to receive new drives for replacements? Perhaps it is no longer economical to repair 200GB drives.

After 3 weeks the replacement 200GB 250GXP arrived on 12/14 during my vacation. Now the question is whether it is a new drive or a refurbished drive. The antistatic bag is sealed and completely opaque. The label on the bag reads Made in Thailand by Hitachi... and the date is NOV-04. If it a...

I did not expect the title was related to anything organic, but rather a graphics card or the latest video game.

Sorry if this sounds like a silly SR thread, but between Fujitsu and Toshiba which would you choose for a 4200 RPM 100GB 2.5" drive? I need a couple of drives to upgrade two external storage devices. (Performance is not an issue and 4200 RPM is better for battery life and cost.) Is there any...

I discovered by accident that the JPG file association with Photoshop was causing the problem, and received links confirming similar experiences. It seems there is no cure other than removing PS as the default application for JPGs. It is annoying since the problem did not occur in Win2K.

Thanks, but that is not it. The same thing occurs in Detail, List or Icon mode. I think Windows is making some icons in the background. Indexing service is disabled. That is one of the the first thing I do after installation. I don't normally worl with JPGs on this notebook, but the...

Why is the XP Windows Explorer so slow when jpg files are present. Whenever I view a folder (detail view) containing jpg files, the icon preceding the file name appears one at a time. It appears that Windows is viewing or opening the files behind the scenes, draining resources and making the...

The first one!

Well, why do people usually receive congratulations here?

Sorry if it is too subtle, but there is no relation between my comment and the "I rule" thread. :oops:

for reaching new heights. :)

Merc, Why did I expect you to say something like that? :lol: I cannot image anyone having enough to fill 100GB, much less 100TB.

Merc, I hope you are OK and not too manic. Let us know some details. :)

Is that why the site was down?

I don't know about those video things with fans. I still have G450. :)

I dare not click the link. That likely makes me a superzero. ;)

What about all the people who leave PCs running 24/7 with nobody home? And how many power plants are needed just for the newer Pentium 4 flamethrowers? :P There should be some little Pentium M desktops that are cool and quiet.

Well, you know how I feel after the SATA connector broke off in my WD740GD. :( I nevr returned teh POS for RMA. I'll throw it in the tarsh one of these days.

The RAW conversion times were with only 8-bit files. In any case, I will have no budget for upgrades anytime soon. I need to buy a 500/4 IS and a 20D as well within the next month.

Are you using DPP 1.5? Even worse, the subnotebook with 900MHz Pentium M ULV takes 39 seconds. :eekers: At least the 100% preview is much faster than with the older DPP and the horrid FVU/EVU.

Done! But now my PC seems slower than ever. RAW conversion times are around 19 seconds per frame. :(

Better is relative to intended usage. I suspect that Swift's camera is not handholdable and that it is only useful for stationary images. I'll stick with my "low-res" 1Ds MKII. 16.6 megapixels and 30 FPM is sufficient for general use and the occasional big enlargement. :)

Yes, but so is the one from NewEgg. I have not seen the SATA version for sale yet.

Huh? The regular price is $280 here.

Last week they were on sale at CUSA for $240 with a $30 rebate to boot. That was still reasonable even for one like me who is too lazy to send in the rebate. ;)

Jeez, look at the STR of the Maxtor. :o I think it will lust about limited by 32-bit/33MHz PCI bandwidth of my system.

The Atlas 15K II looks pretty good too in the SR database comparison. Presumably the 36GB models are relatively quiet and cool compared to the 147GB models of the same family.

I'm easily confused. :) It feels like walking in on a film 5 minutes after the start and never catching up.

Interesting. However, the CAS filter works perfectly in my system. It is too bad he departed SR.

So will I look like Vernon Wells? ;)

I really don't understand the plot, but violence is always popular. Is the whole story outlined in detail?

I recall that the 80GB model may be a lower-performance economy drive, not really the same as a single-platter 7K250.

USB 3.0? I am not familiar with that. I purchased a new mouse recently, a classic 1.1A PS/2 wheel Intellimouse. :D I don't have any speakers at all, only a cheap pair of headphones. Since I don't play the computer video games, audio is rarely used. I keep buying the same basic keyboards...

Well, I think that a qUad CPU system is is out my price range. ;) I only have a $5K annual personal computer budget.

I noticed something strange upon further examination. There is a nearly continuous decay in transfer rate, which indicates there are a very large number of zones. Is this a new way of maximizing data density?