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I don't see much of a problem, David, except money. Cables are avaliable, http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg09_xtcables.htm and depending on length, depends cost. Still, it's doable. Just buy a remote RAID box, and go. Of course, to be super fast, you need PCI-X and an LSI...

Backplanes are really scsi, and that really means supermicro, for SCSI, or, check on their SATA setups. The ide solutions I've looked at required 4 ide connectors, or, both mobo connectors, with slave and master set. Not really an SCA solution, at all. Knock on Sata is you have to have a SATA...

Buy another one. If you got 2 years use, for 20 bucks, you are complaining? I saw that same model, about 2-3 years ago in a Fremont PC store, and passed on it. Still, if it works, and it's that cheap... or, go SATA. s

I suspect cache, algorithims, seek times, and most important, PCI processor speed and interface speed, are very important. s

I didn't mean to turn this into an "all about Buck" thread. :wink: s

Let's see. After the debacle of trying to use the drives in raids, the different, working drives, ended up in other computers, that didn't have drives, or in boxes. One sat in a Dell, not used, for a couple years. Others were sold in computers, I put together for sale, or for backup... s

Bill, considering what we are in proximity, what's the big deal :?: :wink: s

Yes. My drives died, fairly quickly. I gave up on ide, until I saw the 5 year warranty on the Maxtor DM 9, and, I bought it from Costco. Really needed a boot drive for the mac, with huge storage, and, I figured if they are all that fast, I could connect it to my mac. I did, and it sucked...

Did 4 games at St. Mary's College, last night. Pulling out at about 11:30. The person in front of me veers way out of their lane. Standing in front of me is a 4 point buck, who goes bounding off onto the soccer field... s

Is that real? Some of the debris looks a LOT like stunt cabling, designed to flip the car... s

http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg37_firewireidehotswapbackup.htm#btn_sale_hotswapbackup

http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg11_idecable&a.htm

Thanks again, for all your help. Just got the power splitter yesterday. s

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I wouldn't be buying any of them until the SATA cards, and chipsets don't have the name Promise on them... s

Forgot to mention that this machine is a Dell, with the BX440 chipset, IIRC. I LOVE this chipset. It's VERY fast, and works much better then my Asus A7m266, considering the other components involved, the speed is from the chipset, not the other stuff in this machine. I intend to run her...

Adacadet: That's the same machine specs that we have in the other room. My GF uses it all the time for office work, and has no problems with it. I've thought about the processor upgrade, going with a 1.2-4 ghz from that upgrade company, for 100-120 bucks, Powerleap, but everytime I do...

Isn't Splash getting closed to the addressing limit of 32 bit? s

I'm with Mubs, see above.. s

Hi The box arrived yesterday. I noticed I need a power splitter, since it requires two power connectors. Other then that, from reading the manual, everything comes preset, and you just plug the drives in and go? Seems too easy. Am I missing something? s

Check that. It's the 29, with all the home theatre connections on the back. s

Best Buy has pretty much been so so, and I've always liked Circuit City. Great support on Palms. My Panasonic 27 has never been a problem, ever, and it's old... s

OH, I forgot to mention: I've already had to put a box in front of the wall outlet, since she's pulled the plug out of the wall a bunch of times... Spawn lives... s

OK: I'm ignoring her, online, and she wants to play. As I'm typing, and playing a golf game, my internet connection goes down. I can't figure out what it is. I have a 6 plug, APC protector, and it's switched off. But she's playing in the other room...???? I'm reading the thread on Panasonic...

NO DAVID! :lol: :mrgrn: One of my favorite children's book is so titled. That said,...no. and I've been looking. s

Check dot pitch sizes, too. Seems to me when I bought my Panasonic, it's either 27 or 29, that going to 32 inches was much less clear, due to a lot bigger dot pitch. Sort of like having a 19 inch monitor next to a 21 inch... Something about combs, and digital in and out, and all that stuff...

Well, just attempted to use my backup disk. First had to dump DLA. Windows Media player couldn't read the disk, since DLA grabbed it first. Next I try and open a word document, and Word won't do it, so I have to update to 2000 SR-1, core update, currently downloading. I'm sorry, but if this...

What he said. Make sure the TV can handle all the stuff you need it to, if you want a home theatre system... s

When my folks had the house in Bezerkely, and I used to drive through Tilden Park every night, I used to see some sort of wildlife every night. Skunks with tails in the air, like they just don't care... Racoons all the time, likewise deer... In our front yard, we had a little pond. One night...

GRUMPSTERS :excl: :excl: :excl: Funny, but I love, and feel for animals more then I do for most, or, nearly all humans. I'm a sick puppy... s

I guess Matrox does a really good job of testing, but, the tradeoff is impatient customers. Read Matrox forum. Still, the g550, and P-650 are both crystal clear, and everytime I sit down at this computer I can't get over the difference the card makes in 2d. s

My gripes were it SonicNow didn't let you know how much data you were going to put onto the DVD, and it wouldn't record on DVD-R, even though a big selling point of the drive is the cross format writing ability. It did write well when I finally got it going, and I made backups for all my stuff. s

3 YEAR WARRANTY... S

Well, I'm giving it another try. So far, Sony has lived up to Merc's evaluation, a royl pain in the ass. I have to download Sonic manager, then try and connect to their server, to download 6.71 update, except their server is hard to get in on, and takes repeated trys. More later. Have to...

Can't figure it out without installing it. s

I have RecordNow, and the video program. Niether liked my 4x TDK DVD-R to record too. I had three coasters right off the bat. Says revision 4.40 on my disk, but that's the entire software package numbering. Checking now.... s

David: I have the black thumb of ide drives. I'm sure that an other wise reliable drive will die on me. I do have a couple that continue to work, Quantum LM, and Maxtor ATA 5120, but my failure rates are real high, 4 of 5 on the 5120s. Suffice to say, that having a year's worth of work, and...

I just spent the better part of the evening trying to figure out if I had software that would work with this Sony DVD writer, and that would write to DVD-R. The software enclosed didn't, but I did manage, after trying two versions of Roxio, to get it to work, with some quirks. If you are on...

I'm getting really worried about backing this stuff up, so I went through it, copied it to the XL, and to the Maxtor, and to the raid. I changed the cable to a quality ATA-133 cable, for the Maxtor. Still in PIO, so I deleted the primary ide channel, and after reinstall, we are back to where we...

LM: Do you have a free utility for testing, that works? s

Well, I ran the Maxtor tests, and the drive is fine. I did change cables, but I may not have the right cable in place. It's a premium cable I bought a while back, but it's not for 100-133 standard, IIRC. It's running PIO 4 mode, master channel, on the motherboard. s

Same defrag, over on an 18XL, in about 2 minutes, and between 8-19%. s

Defrag ide 26-31 % with DVD running. Affects DVD playback, slowing fram rate. Will test scsi defrag.

MADE THE JUMP. I need reliable storage of last years stuff, and I need it now. I hooked a 160 GB Maxtor up as an internal ide backup, but it just is not my idea of a good solution. Whenever anything is being done on the ide drive, it takes lots of cpu, and makes the machine unenjoyable...

Just for giggles, I decided to copy the same 6 gig file from the XL 18 backup, to the raid, while the Tools are still running on the maxtor. It's taking 4 minutes, instead of 30. It's increase processor usage from 26-30 to 29-35%, and the typing problems remain. I think since the copying is...

Hi I'm copying stuff on my machine from my SCSI 10k Cheetah, to my DM9 160 gig cheetah for backup. In the process, the file copying took awhile, but more destressing is the near entire usage of processor 2, of 4 virtual processors. This is not good. Whenever I want to load another program...

ROFL :excl: :excl: Pradeep, it's so funny to read that. I fell for the same trap, when their cards came out. They advertized, in writing, and in their tech docs, that you could use two cards in the same machine. Bought two, and somethings never change... Never did get those POS cards to...

LM: You having problems with the 400 and 800 combination? s

They certainly have their moments... Guess that's why I like taking Splash's extensive experience, both shopping wise, construction wise, etc. along with the other members here, and going with that. Better to learn from others, then pay 3 grand for a promiseless array that never works... s