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Greg, Can you do run four simultaneous instances of RAR (with encryption) from four source hard drives to four target drives? That is a killer on my single CPU machine.

That would fine if the chipset provided 8 ports. 2 or 4 is not sufficient. A single, non-RAID Promise controller should work fine.

The 7K400 results have been there for ages it seems. I just wish the drives were available for sale in the US.

Isn't that the truth! The speed of the 1D MK II is seductive, as is the low noise and improved dynamic range. :) But the detail is so much less that I try to use the 1Ds whever possible. In a way, I hope the 1Ds II does not appear too soon. The bank accounts are running on fumes and I have no...

I have tried five other mice of various types, but keep returning to the same old PS/2 wheeled Intellimouse from the 90s. That is one item that MS did right.

For other than very simple work, you really should use PS or a similar program that allows for adjustment layers. Every time a image is globally changed and saved as a TIFF, information is lost. Working in 16-bit mode helps in this regard. Also, outputting as a JPG causes image degradation...

Have you ever driven at high speeds for hundreds of km at a stretch? At 230-250 km/hr. one is alert at first, but after a few hours the same stresses that cause alertness cause one to tire and drive in a dangerous haze. Making poor judgements and/or falling asleep at those speeds can easily...

Perhaps other manufacturers will follow suit. I have nearly 3TB in drives in my system with 1 year warranties from 2003 and 2002. Half of them are expired, so I will be glad when "fresh" drives with longer warranties are available.

Good luck, Merc. I hope this will help you both in your continuing relationship with them and, finally, moving on to other romantic interests.

Not quite. :) Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some.

What has happened at SR over the years is a damn shame. :cry: Maybe I should change my sig to "You see, you don't have to live like a refugee."

Hi Frank. It is nice to have you here as yourself. How is the BBH?

Is there any speed increase beyond 16x expected for a standard DVD±R? I can pass on dual-layer drives until a higher density format arrives.

I could not reach the forum last night. Did something die?

I forgot to update this thread. After receiving the new PS there were no further problems. I never needed to install it. So now I have another space-consuming $100 object. But if I throw it away, no doubt my current PS will fail or something. :eekers:

Well, that dual-layer deal just blows. :( Having been burned by numerous, expensive incremental CD writer upgrades from 2000-2002, I have been sitting on a 4x A06 since last August. Presumably 16x is nearing the practical rpm limits. Would September be a good time to buy a pair of the 16x...

Hrmm. Why the slow dual-layer speed? Is that to be expected from dual-layer discs in general?

What about Western Digital? Mickey could be next. :(

:eekers: :?: :mrgrn:

I always forget about Samsung. Do they even sell hard drives in the US? I have not seen any.

You're quite right. :oops: I'm too tired to think cleary. 4-5 hours of sleep a night for more than two consecutive weeks is killing me. Back to the point that should have been made initially. Seagate has announced the 7200.8, but no new 5400 rpm 3.5" drives and Maxtor has announced the...

:lol: The U series drives or whatever 2-platter POS Seagate makes now don't really count. ;)

There do not seem to be any 5400 rpm drives being introduced. After the Maxiline III replaces the II, would it be reasonable to assume that it is the end of 5400?

Humidity may be good for the skin, but it is bad for electronics and mechanics. Water can accelerate many chemical reactions, including corrosion. In which geographical region is your garage?

Yikes! That graphics card is huge and really sucks the juice. :(

It would be really nice to acccess more than 2GB of memory in PS. :)

According to the specs the 30" display requires a NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL Card. Are they not available for a PC?

ARC has the advantage of integrating image processing features as part of the RAW conversion process. BB only does straight conversion so conrolleed denoising with NI or NN may be required as a seperate process. Some people like the various versions of C1 as they do provide an excellent...

Apparently that is the case, but I am not sure about the SCSI drives, since there is only the one 15K.3. ;) I've already revealed too much.

I don't upgrade for fun, but to increase capacity. I have a regular buyer for all the used IDE drives. Thirteen drives (2.5TB) are running at the moment. I may slow down on the upgrades if I live long enough to see 5TB drives.

I think it is a "brown" thumb. Are those the same old 5120s that were part of your infamous Fasttrak66 setup five years ago? Why do you keep hard drives so long? I would replace them every 1-3 years.

Who wants to have to keep buying and refilling compared to recharging? And won't it be fun traveling on airplanes with a 3-week supply of fuel? :eekers:

Whether it is a 250GB Maxtor or WD740GD, the drive size makes no difference. The sixth and higher drives detected in the BIOS are not accessible. The order in which they are detected obviously depends on the controller, southbridge, on-board, or PCI card.

Yeah Gary, we need 64-bit computing all around, including Windows. I could probably live with 3.5GB since only ~3800MB are available anyway. Not anticipating the future problem, I sold the 512MN RAM a while ago so I can not test 3.5GB. 3GB is not always sufficient for good performances -...

Yeah, but I'm too broke to buy anything like that. Pray explain why? I also assume there is not enough address space. It is strange that the hard drives are affected and it does not matter which controller, southbridge IDE or SATA, onboard IDE or SATA, add-in PCI IDE controller card is used.

Not exactly. The original plan was to move two of the old internal 1394a backup drives to an external 4-bay 1394a enclosure with (two removable drives). That would create space for two more internal primary (IDE) drives. There would also be two more backup drives added to the external...

I don't understand how that works. Are two layers burned simulataneously to achieve 16x? Does it burn a standard DVD at 8x or 16x?

It is interesting. Access times suck big time. Is that indicative of future, drives with denser platters, or will perpendicular drives fare better? It is also interesting that it does well in SR test suites. I think they are affected by cache more than SR would like to admit. Maybe it is...

I don't know if WB 99 works on newer systems. Otherwise, the new HDTach is viable for low level tests.

It could be a DMA or IDE controller problem if not a dying drive. I get 55.22MB/sec transfer rates when copying 4.35GB from a 15K.3 to a DM+9. The CPU utilization (1 CPU) is about 25%. The 18XL is a very old drive capable of only ~36MB/sec IIRC so CPU use should be even less.

Grrr! Why is it that nothing simply works without causing some other, seemingly unrelated, difficulties? I hate computers.

Time, You are quite correct that the results are valid for that particular system. However, many people read that article and infer that more RAM will significantly slow many or most systems. Greg, Registered RAM may be a lesser issue with dual-channel memory.

That refers to an old article that has since been refuted by many others, including one at Lost Circuits (IIRC). Anyone with 4GB will tell you that they were smoking something. RAM rocks, as Greg would say. :)

Of course that would be the case, but I was concerned about something worse. The 1394a write speeds that max out at a sucky 29MB/sec are the main problem.

I ordered a bunch of 1394b gear today, which should be here later in the week. The performance loss in a 32-bit slot is curious. I'll let everyone know how it works out.

I have seven internal hard drives as well as one internal removable bay and one external removable bay to fit another nine drive trays. With the amount of data I have, shuffling files and drives around it getting ridiculous, so I am considering a 4-drive external 1394b case. Initially, it...

Canon software is notoriously terrible; it makes the just plain bad Nikion software look good by comparison. ;) At least there have been some improvements in that the File Viewer Utility (FVU) has been replaced with the EVU (EOS Viewer Utility) for the bodies up through the 10D. The new DPP...

OK, I guess not. In that case the Transcend 45x is that fastest 1GB SD card I could find with a quick search. There may be some faster ones.

Fushigi, At 60x the Sandisk Ultra II and Extreme are the fastest production flash cards around. I am ditching the old Lexar 40x cards as they are just too slow for the newer bodies, such as the 1D MK II. (The newer Lexar 40x cards are reputedly faster, but still slower than the Ultra...

I would not be surprised if many of the new drives are not available for some time. I think the announcement timing is interesting, being so soon after the layoffs. I would expect the SCSI drives first if I were betting. However, a faster boot drive than the 15K.3 is not really need since my...