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I've got an extra sitting on my desk, and it's either ebay or try it in a laptop. It's too small to run in the HTPC, old gaming machine, and, to be honest, I didn't notice a big difference between it and the Velociraptor when I had it installed in the Athlon 3000. I've got Kingspec drives that...

I agree, the speeds aren't much for a 3 Vertex Turbo Raid 0. On the otherhand, for an inexpensive upgrade that is useable in the future, the card was not that expensive, and, the access time makes it pretty snappy for server use, and the read times are excellent for that as well. I also wonder...

General surfing, word processing,and a bit of gaming, older games that is. I was looking at the Lenovo T60.

Hi Anyone have any suggestions for a lower priced laptop that would take a Vertex Turbo to work at full speed?

Running Crystal Disk Mark: SEQ 200.7 MB/S read, writes 30 MB/s 512k 195.7 25.11 4k 18.48 4.9 4kQD32 58.65 4.

9550SXU four port is what I'm currently running in my server. It's raided 3 Vertex Turbos. Here are my results. Don't know about the Raid-6, or huge drives.

http://cgi.ebay.com/3Ware-9500S-8-Port-SATA-RAID-Controller-Card-9500-PCI-X-/370445752663?pt=COMP_EN_Networking_Components&hash=item5640499957 In that case, the 9500 seems to be the cheapest solution. But, sounds like you have a pretty good avenue, and price already for a new box. Pretty hard...

IIRC an 8 port LSI 9500 can be had for around 75 dollars. Each channel is around 60 MB/sec, max, but aggregate, they can turn in some impressive numbers. I might even have one, but it maybe a 4 port. Wasn't fast enough for SSD use...

Because I don't like running programs in emulation? Because I'm afraid I don't have enough processor power to run a 32 bit app in windows 7 - 64 bit;-)?

Because it came with the system? Because it's there? Because on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit it has some kind of cosmic symmetry?

Flash, Adobe Download manager, those are my main concerns. It is bordering on absurd when you go to a webpage with IE 8 64 bit and you can't play the Flash, since Flash Player only works in 32 bit, and, no working Flash plugin is available for IE 8 64 bit. You can't use Firefox, since no...

Took the laptop to my meeting. Used it tethered, from about 6 pm to 8:30pm. With the Pentium M 1.6 GHz rated at 21w by intel, I went through the entire battery in about 2 hours the meeting before. This one, I recalibrated the battery, and, it used about 29% of the battery, using the SSD and the...

Hi I'm really sick of Adobe being 'the' player for web browsers. Even using Fedora, I need an Adobe plug for Flash, or Player stuff. To be honest, I would really like my computers to be Adobe free. I'm sick of the auto up dates, security threats, needing to download a download manager before...

Trying it now. Does seem to load some pages MUCH faster. Is it actually using the IE 8 64 bit code?

I wonder about that. I like your converter idea. While I may not be the typical laptop user, the better, older laptops, Panasonic, IBM,etc. are built very well, and will last a LONG time. An SSD, and all I have to comment on from experience is one good, and one bad Kingspec SSD, for 100 bucks...

How about a decent SSD for PATA laptops etc.? How about ANY decent drives for a PATA laptop?

Too funny not to share! Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent...

I was playing with Fedora 12 on my laptop prior to typing that. Need to distinguish WindowsO2007 vs. Linux OpenOffice 2007?;-) Also keep in mind I revert, after such stuff to the old mac days when Windows and MSFT are dirty words;-) Reminds me when Apple went from 7.5 to 8.0 or some such...

It's not OpenOffice. It's not Office 2000. It's not Google's documents. It's not Office: mac 2011. Handruin: I use IE on rare situations. Usually when the Adobe plug-ins don't work with either Firefox, or IE 64, I find the 32 bit IE will work to play certain content. By default it seems, when...

It's not OpenOffice. It's not Office 2000. It's not Google's documents. It's not Office: mac 2011. Handruin: I use IE on rare situations. Usually when the Adobe plug-ins don't work with either Firefox, or IE 64, I find the 32 bit IE will work to play certain content. By default it seems, when...

Hi I just had a fun experience with W02007. I was screwing around installing a ram disk, and put the IE 8 cache folder on the Ram drive. As close as I can tell, WO uses that same folder for storing temp files. The drive filed up, and I was unable to save anything in WO. I had to go into the...

Unless it's an Extreme processor, OCing is going to require putting something other then the cpu out of spec. 3.51Ghz is a pretty serious overclock. I'm not surprised it screwed with the drives, and ram. Also, the ram used in these non-enterprise motherboards seems to be less quality controlled...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245 Not bad for 109 dollars. Transfering large files getting around 60 MB/sec, with 40 being the lowside for some transfers. Nice to have a lot of room, and just plug in to the tray, no caddie for 30 bucks. I will say the caddies do a...

Bozo:> One of the things I really like is The Beast tries to boot from that SATA enclosure, something it won't do on the Granite Digital removeable drives. I've always wanted a removeable drive setup, similar to the Panasonic CF-51, where you can change drives by just plugging in a new one, and...

One of the reasons I'm not a fan of overclocking, unless I can just OC the processor.

Over clocked to 3.51? Might this have caused the ram to corrupt the data???

100 bucks: ebay. Returned it to China once. Sat in a post office there, and was shipped back. Now I'm trying it again, with faster numbers, but the same general lag and stutters. They just contacted me to ship it back to them, which I'll be happy to do. Problem is, they keep trying to get me to...

Kingspec, POJ, 30 gig, update. I have one that works fine. The other, I tried in a used, CF-51 Mark III Panasonic laptop. Gives wonderful numbers. 70 MB/sec in ATTO and others. Great Access times, HD tach, .02 MS. Problem is, the drive sucks. It's slower with 2003 on it, in a Duo then a 7200...

Thanks. Tried it, and seems I need a driver for the phone to be recognized that I don't have. The XP install seems faster, probably a better hard drive, despite the numbers, and works great for what I need. 2003 is just fun to play with;-)

Compatibility mode says you need SP2 to install OVI Suite. Not the end of the world. Just switch the drives when going on the road.

First big snag. Phone program that allows tethering, Nokia Suite, requres XP SP2

Quick update: Bought another caddy, and installed the 'bad' Kingspec 30 gig with 2003 Server on it. It seems to work pretty well with this model CF-51 giving nearly 80 MB/sec speeds, and .02 access, with writes averaging about half those speeds. Forgot how much I liked 2003 Server. Does it feel...

THANKS FOR THAT.If only for your excellent tutorial, which I will be using, again...

Why .flac?

HI Trying to get a bunch of stuff from CD onto my phone. Any favorite programs to do this? Does NERO do it?

The laptop isn't mounted under the seat. I need something I can pull out, tether to my Nokia Nuron, and load google spread sheet, and enter income and mileage. Also, the Nuron mobile browser sucks, and Opera is barely liveable on the phone, so it's better to us the phone as a modem, and a...

I' sure I am missing the subtle parts of that remark, LM. Please explain? I was gambling on this CF-51. It has twice the Passmark scores of the Pentium 1.6 ghz M version, faster memory, faster bus, actually has good speakers, and, an ATI GPU, vs onboard for the M version. I get to use all my...

Cost was 89 plus 20 shipping. Add 44 dollars for 2 Gig 5300 ram, dual channel, add an old SSD, from Kingspec, and up and running. The Kingspec runs at 75 MB/sec in the Mark III vs. less then 50 MB/sec in the Cf-51 1.6 GHZ Penitum M. Overall, one of the better buys I've made. Great for under...

Thanks David. That's PERFECT.

Does google, or some other company have an online spread sheet that is backed up to their server, plus having access by wireless?

Hi I was wondering what traveling pros use for mileage log, income, etc. all the stuff you may not need next year for taxes? Is there any online solution that allows road access, with a server backup that isn't your own, so if your mobile phone, computer, whatever is stolen, you still have the...

Battery lasted 2.5 hours today, and, I worked all the way through a meeting today, doing an online test while the guy talked to the newbies. Worked perfectly.

Temperature correction: we hit 108 here today...

BOZO, YOU ROCK! After the third RMA, going on number 4 toasters, I gave up. Pulled the Esata connector, and went with the Antec removeable drive setup. It went in, though I seem to be running out of SATA power connectors, and was up and running in less then 4 minutes. I'm currently copying...

Small Ram disk from the beast:

After pretty much making sure the newer T2500 based, core duo works, I switched the hard drives, and, I'm putting the 7200 rpm, with minimal software in the car, and the other one is going to be the one to go to. Newer model supports 1600X1200 screen, dual core is slightly more then twice as...

This toaster has the lights quit after one day. Power is only going to one slot, and, it really hasn't worked. Wasted 50 bucks, but, I'm going to try the Antec tray, since I'd really like to be able to use the older drives for single shot backups, and then remove them from the system. The trays...

Looks like it's going to work. Only real problem is the SSD is in the old model, but, it may well end up under the car seat. New one finding drivers hasn't been fun, but, it's a bit more then twice as fast, and, ST910021A seems like a decent hard drive, if not SSD fast.

"On the other hand, to be a real downer, AMD's accomplishment here is essentially to match the Core i7-940, a product Intel first introduced in the fall of 2008. Against Bloomfield, Thuban is slower in lightly threaded applications and in cases where memory bandwidth is the primary constraint...

DD: They also appear to be a great value: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_alltime.html