Search results

Still waiting on affordable 4K OLED displays here.

I bought a 2TB drive back in 2010. I still have over 800GB free and there's some duplication of stuff on that drive. I'd say overall I doubt I have much over 300GB of unique data, perhaps 400GB at the most. Then again, I haven't played much with video. That could potentially eat up a lot of...

Yes, that's exactly what it is except it plugs into the USB 3 header on the M/B. And I was getting up to 250 MB/sec when I plugged my SATA to USB adapter into the USB port on this device. My USB 3 flash drives all achieve advertised speeds as well when connected to the USB 3 port.

As strange as it may be, the problems seem to have a been a port incompatibility issue. The drive enclosure uses an AS Media 1153E USB controller. Apparently this doesn't play nice with other USB controllers. I had been trying it on a USB3 port in a USB3 card reader connected to one of the USB 3...

I just tried it with my 500GB 840 Evo on the theory maybe it doesn't work well with Enterprise drives. Same issues. If it works for you but not for me then I may have just gotten a bad unit or a bad cable. It's a pity I don't have a spare USB 3 cable to try it with. My former next door neighbor...

Once you add in the shipping and sales tax you're probably over $10 for the cable. I'll just live with the slower transfer rates on my SATA to USB adapter and build some sort of case for it. It looks like there are a number of other drive enclosures available with UASP but after getting burned...

I don't really have any regular 2.5" HDDs to test it with. Technically speaking, the enclosure works in that my computer sees the drive. It's just slow as molasses. The SATA to USB adapter which came with my Samsung 840 seems to work just fine other than the STRs being limited to 250MB/sec...

No. It's powered via the USB cable. I'll see if I can get a refund with minimal hassle. If not, it'll most likely end up in my pile of unused junk.

The drive enclosure stinks. I'm getting inconsistent speeds between maybe 15 and 125 MB/sec which vary each time I plug it in. I've heard some reviewers say the included cable is lousy but I don't have another USB 3 cable on hand to try. I'm going to the local MicroCenter to see if they have any...

Same here. These drives have HP in the part number, so it may be they had custom firmware to work in an HP server but perhaps there were issues with that firmware. It might be nice to install whatever firmware Samsung has for SV843 drives but given the inability of Magician to recognize the...

I'm wondering about that myself, especially in light of the fact these seem virtually brand new. Probably the "refurb" part is due to the fact the drive may have been powered up once or twice by the customer, so it can't be sold as new. But it begs the question why are there so many enterprise...

Well, Newegg still has them for $30 more. ;) (Note: price was $179.99 yesterday).

My third drive had no writes and only 2 power cycles. It pretty much looks like these were all new. Unsurprisingly, they sold out earlier today.

Samsung SM843T 480GB for $94.99 Not as good a deal as this in terms of $/GB but still a great price for those looking to spend less than $100 on a drive. BTW, I ordered another SV843 today. I figured it'll come in handy sooner rather than later.

I don't but it's probably more cost effective to have a professional photo printing service do it unless you have large numbers of photos. They're likely using MUCH better equipment than a home user could afford anyway. BTW, photos seem reasonable on my Samsung CLP-510, or at least I couldn't...

After all the negative press shenanigans like this have received in the past, I'm amazed HP would try something this stupid. The printer business is shrinking as it is. Having DRM for cartridges is only going to encourage people to buy other brands or just look for decent, used printers. On...

I ordered one. I'll let you know how it works out.

This looks like it'll work. My M/B does support UASP. A few of the reviews mention obtaining 400+ MB/sec with SSDs.

I tried the SATA to USB adapter which came with my Samsung 840. It seems to work fine other than the STRs being limited to ~250MB/sec. Anyone know of any USB 3 drive enclosures which can run SSDs at full speed?

Well, Merc thinks we'll probably have sub-$200 1 TB SSDs by Xmas, which implies $400 2TB drives. The smaller sizes already make lots of sense. 2TB may not make as much sense now, but once we get to under $200/TB it'll probably start to. The 4TB Samsung still costs way too much. Purely...

If these really are virtually new then this is a steal! I did a benchmark on one of my drives. Performance seems similar to yours:

Here's the SMART data for my two drives: Either the SMART data was wiped or these drives were hardly used. The date of manufacture for both was 2015-02. Serial numbers were S1E4NYAG210688 and S1E4NYAG210727.

So long as we don't lose the existing forum threads I'm OK with it.

Even more alarming is NYC becoming Venice on the Hudson by 2100.

I'll be happy to post the SMART data as soon as my drives arrive. Given that I ordered them late yesterday, the earliest I can expect them is tomorrow.

Well, I bought a pair of them-one for back up and another to eventually use for a boot drive since my 240GB Intel 330 is starting to get full. I figured it'll probably be a while before I'll see a nearly one TB SSD at this price again.

I've been thinking about an external SSD for backup. Very tempting at that price.

The resemblance is more than a little frightening.

You're an outlier. 95% of trips are under 40 miles. Something like 99% are under 100 miles. Recharging on the fly can solve the range issue permanently, even for people like you. You'll probably still get some people coming up with reasons why EVs supposedly can't work for them even when they...

I have two of them-one color and one B&W. Both great printers. And I bought both about a decade ago, before quality went downhill.

For what it's worth EPA mpg estimates rarely reflect real-world gas mileage either. Take both numbers with a huge grain of salt. Interestingly, if you do a lot of slow, urban driving you can probably exceed the somewhat optimistic range estimates in an EV.

Looks like about a 10% to 15% range reduction. You'll likely still break 200 miles on a full charge.

It could probably go twice as far if we made it more aerodynamic (seriously, why a grill on an EV?) but props to GM for putting out an electric with enough range so most users won't get range anxiety. Why name it the Bolt though? When I first heard a mention of it, I thought some reporter was...

Looks like the batteries are in parallel. Going by the output and guestimates of LED efficiency, it looks like maybe the light pulls 100 watts maximum from the batteries. If we assume a voltage of ~3.3V under load, then it's pulling 30 amps from the cells, or about 7.5 amps from each cell. Quite...

So basically it's a situation where you're an employee of the consulting company which "rents" you out as needed. That makes more sense. I work as an independent contractor. The only time that's been slightly different is my present consulting gig. I bill a consulting firm for my hours which in...

I've been consulting for years and I've never come across any situation where they give bonuses. I get whatever hourly rate or fee we agreed on, bill them for it, and that's it.

The only time I could afford to buy lunch was on days I had overtime. I'd treat myself to a BLT from the local deli. The rest of the time I made packs of Ramen soup which I bought from home. Every single day. I also walked 2.5 miles to/from the subway station to avoid double carfare. $8 a day...

I agree with everyone else about avoiding Walmart or other cheap, mass produced bikes. Craigslist, ads on local grocery store bulletin boards, word of mouth, and so forth are all good places to start. I don't know what exists there, but NYC has places like Recycle-A-Bicycle which fix up old...

I did it wrong, too. I put the eggs in cold water and then let it boil. I'm trying the boiled in boiling water method.

Interesting. I'd personally like to see more detailed specs from Seagate. I know the HHHL drives have much higher IOPS and STR than consumer SSDs. That probably accounts for the much larger power consumption. The Seagate's case design is just totally incompatible with even a 15W continuous power...

Those numbers don't make sense to me. For example, here's Anandtech's review of the 4TB EVO 850. Active idle power consumption is 290mW. That's really the number which matters. Scale that to 60GB and you arrive at a reasonable 4.35 watts. That's probably the real-world continuous power...

As much as I'm loathe to admit it, if NYC ever gets the games in the future it'll make the Rio games look like they were done by experts. NYC has fucking things up down to a fine art. Some headlines I might anticipate in a NYC Olympics: "Cyclists Crash in Road Race Due to Third World Street...

Call it what you will but he may well have prevented a bunch of people from being scammed out of their money.

Sometimes the cosmos align and karma has its way.

Never happened to me but it did happen to my mother and my brother. In both cases, someone charged airline tickets to their credit cards. We didn't have to pay of course and they sent us a new card. My understanding is there are two kinds of identity theft. One is where someone gets your...

I get numbness in my toes and pain on the ball of my foot while biking after about an hour or so. Not clutch foot in the strict sense, but it sounds like the same parts of the foot are affected.

My brother is mulling doing the same thing with his 1993 Mark VIII once the engine goes. I think it would make a great EV conversion.

It would be great to hit that price point for a 4TB SSD but only if they don't sacrifice reliability in the process.

Isn't this the problem with ALL religions, namely that they can be turned around without much effort into a crusade, jihad, etc? I don't really have any good answers to it, either. If you were to ban organized religion, then that's no different than radical Islam or fundamentalist Christianity...

Divorce rates and generally unhappy marriages are why I'm tempted to send a sympathy card when people I know are getting married.