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What about this 16x DVD±R drive? Is it a good performer or there something better in stock? I need to order a couple of burners in about 11 hours, thanks.

What is the story with SR post dates? The month is Oktober. Is it just me?

Bozo, Beat me to it. I agree about V2i! I still use DI6 (aka DI 2002) because restoration is so much fatser and the bloated DI7 installation is not needed. Also, it takes forever to boot from the DI7 CD. DI6 and the floppy versions of Ghost run really well from USB flash drives, too. :)

Drive Image and True Image have allowed the creation of images from Windows for years. They do lock some files so it is not always possible to continue working as usual. However, restoration requires booting to CD. IIRC Symantec purchased PowerQuest, so they may be using part of the the same...

The 7K250 meowing sound seems to be gone, at least on the drives made since June.

I hope the new BBS is not like SR where it is necessary to go through two pages and then back after replying if not logged in.

Thanks! So which DVD burners should I order to take advantage of the high speeds? I prefer models that do not eject the tray to perform verification.

SP2 was OK on the desktop PC, but messed up my notebook. :( It won't connect to the internet or burn/verify DVDs without errors, and it took forever to shut down. Screw it I say, so back to SP1...

Blake: That's way too complicated for the occasional, but large backups. I plan to send out about 100-120GB per month. Right now I have an old 4x Pioneer DVD and a 12x generic DVD which is burning the 8x media at 8x. Unfortunately the 8x and 4x on the same channel can only burn at about 4x...

Funny, I always think of George Reeves as Superman.

I need some good, but not perfect media. I burn data to disc as spanned RAR files and then check the CRC. A 5-year shelf life would be acceptable.

I see many of the 12x and 16x DVD writers for sale, but the blank media is only 8x. When will the faster media be available for general consumptions? I don;t want to suffer the extra expaneso of a 16x burner which will not be used at full speed until is it nearly obsolete.

Maybe so, but that is too much extra work and I don't expect that the extended warranty is transferrable. The main problem with the short warranties is that it makes selling used drives more difficult. We all know that the 2002-2004 drives were not inherently less reliable.

There is only one old WD2500JB. I gave up on WD 7.2K drives after that, since every one of the drives I purchased (800BB, 1000BB, 1200BB, 2x1800BB) had moderate to severe idle noise. Most of the drives are 200 and 250GB DM+9s, with two each 200GB Hitachi 250GXP and 200GB Seagate 7200.7 (just...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20041001024743.html It looks like everyone is moving to longer warranties. Naturally I have over 4TB of drives with the measly 1 year warranty. Many of my drives are expired or expiring very soon. :(

If I fully understood that, then maybe I would. :lol:

I think I'm gonna hurl. :puke-r:

Yeah, that is the drive I was referring to above as the 400MB Seagato [sic]. I wanted to know if anyone had information on other drives besides the 7200.8 and 7K400.

Oh Merc, I hate to see you go through this painful cycle again. :( If there is anything I can do drop me an e-mail.

No, its not that. (Remember I only have a dial-up connection.) There are 5.3TB in total, including some off-site storage, but not including 250GB in notebook drives. I found this thread at SR. I hope the time frames are reasonably correct.

Everything is within 12' of my head if that is what you mean. Eight drives are external.

Sorry for the typos. Nobody knows nothin', eh? ;) I hope to hold out for a few 400GB beasties. There are seventeen drives online out of about 28 drives trotal, but only ~400 GB free space. :(

My hard drives are enarly full and only one drive letters remains. I was planning to buy one o the 7K400 models as a stopgap measure, but they are not widely avaialble and rahter pricey. When will the 400MB Seagato drive be available? Are there otehr 400GB drives planned soon?

Is that an X15 or 15K.3? The X15 was only good for about 40 MB/sec. sustainer transfers.

Yeah, I saw the Japanese brochure a few days ago. I will probably ditch my 1D MK II at a bog loss (I have only tested it, not used it for real) and get a 1Ds MK II. You'll note my earlier thread about needing a new notebook. Guess why? :D

Hi all. I'm looking for the most compact and lightweight notebook Pentium M around 1.6 MHz with an internal DVD±RW and ~ 12" display. It needs to support 1GB RAM and use standard, easily interchanged 2.5" notebook drives. All I seem to find are the too large thin and light machines or the...

Sometimes cheap RAID 5 is less fault tolerant with respect to data loss than independent drives. You'll still be running regular backups, correct?

Or unless you need capacity. ;)

Has anybody else experienced slow interadrive copy speeds on SCSI drives? For some reason my 15K.3 and the X15-36LP before it were both very slow in this operation and heavy seeking was observed. Perhaps it is a difference in cache utilization, but my S-ATA and ATA drives are much faster. For...

What, where? Do you have a link?

I used a 15k.3 for nearly a year on an U2W controller then switched to U160 due to controller problems. In every test and active benchmark on a 32-bit PCI bus there was no noticeable difference other than burst rate. I think it will take the next generation (H2 2004) drives to make a...

Yeah, 2.5" will be the future, probably for S-ATA as well. It will be nice to have a compact SAS RAID setup. :)

Poor bear. :cry:

F-secure? Is that an abbreviation? :o

I dislike NAV as well, but what is the best AV alternative?

Anyone know if/when this optical technology will be utilized for something more generally useful, such as writeable data discs?

I will be very glad to replace my 2002 15K.3 with something better. Seagate or Maxtor if it is not too noisy. I also

Anyone notice the Atlas 10K V in the SR database? I think the next-gen 15K drives will be very interesting. :)

Every time I connect to the internet something unknown starts downloading. This is a new XPP installation and I turned off and disabled the Windows automatic update. I ran the SpyBoat SD and turned on the windows firewall. What is going on and what can be done to stop it? Thanks,

Maybe box is a better word. They are about 6x8x2.25 inches with wall thickness of about 0.5 inches. I don't know the polymer and don't have access to IR or Raman for a scan.

Where can one buy those white foam sleeves that protect hard drives during shipping? I received a couple of them when ordering drives from zizpzoomfly/googlegear and could use more for storage/shipping. Thanks.

You mean Gilbolt? Gilbot sounds like something in the 'bot family. :) I should have remembered since he asked about CF tripods. The multitude of user names here and at SR are so confusing I cannot keep track. Hell, I almost forget my old SR name used for so many years. :)

Hear, hear! I think all of us SR old-timers can relate to that. Aww. :(

Hmm. That reminds me of "Maxtor's unique DualWave™ multi-processor controller" implemented on the old 6800+.

I did not notice. When did that happen?

Thanks, I always try to disable AU on a notebook.

:D

Same here. There is a message about hijacking that I simply ignore.

How many extra megabytes are taken after the installation is complete? My C: partition is getting crowded.

Ohter than security, which I don't care much about, is there any reason to spend two days downloading SP2?