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I've long been under the impression that Seagate's firmware in their ATA/SATA (and as far as that goes, SCSI) Barr IV, V, and 7200.7 series hard drives have all been designed to run conservatively -- no wild seeks, instead orderly conservative performance; thus the quiet but overall lackluster...

I wasn't aware of your prior Seagate position. All I recall was something recently about Western Digi. In these modern times, my main use for Seagate ATA / SATA drives is for q~u~i~e~t operations. If I was strictly into economy storage, then I'd use Samsung ATA drives. Otherwise, I'd...

Not in the case of what we're talking about here, though! The use of ferrites here is to reduce hash on low-speed signal lines. In the case of what we are talking about here (computer chassis), a well-engineered shielding design is the answer. No offence, but you just can't separate the...

Well, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon, that's for sure. Maybe a drop of US$20 by December. The top-of-the-line and mid-range MegaRAID models all sell far too well at the price they are currently at for them to even consider dropping the price any lower. By the way, the pricing nowadays...

Safety in numbers. Safety in numbers.

In the "old school" (conventional) way of PC component assembly, it's too fragile. So, what would the "new school" way be? A hard drive that slips into a very basic and minimal sort of drive bay, where the power and data cables stay connected to the various bays and you only deal with the...

Definitely no bull! Yes, I've been buying (at work) Seagate SATA (no PATA, though), and without a doubt they really have been available at the s-a-m-e price since around December of last year. The same goes for Maxtor MaxLine SATA 250 GB hard drives, SATA pricing has been the same as PATA...

How would Tea know about three-phase power? If it's what I'm thinking, then tell Tea to stay the hell away from power lines! They aren't for recreational use and they aren't meant to be an alternate path for coming down out of a tall tree! Three-phase power is all about generating and...

Well, as of last Friday, I guess Fresno is now finally back on track for the California Annual Per Capita Murder Rate Award. :o

Believe it or not, Serial (SATA, SAS) is actually supposed to reduce the overall cost of storage subsystems by simplifying the channel / bus electronics as well as the cabling. In other words, at the point in the time when SATA and PATA are at parity, it should cost you less to build a SATA...

Actually, the other way around -- wires or cabling acting like a receiving aerial. If you have possible "broadcast" RFI problems, then shielding to earth is the answer. Ferrite beads and donuts simply suppress millivolt-level signals down close to nil without producing any ill effects like...

That day was a while back. I've been getting current model SATA drives for the same price as P-ATA drives. It's been that way since at least December 2003.

The long-term plan that Intel was pushing about two years ago was that, by now, the low-end desktop mobos were supposed to have 2 SATA ports, mid-range mobos 2 or 4 SATA ports, and higher-end workstation mobos were to have 4 SATA ports. One would have to interpolate that to mean that...

So you fell for that one??? I mean like, yo, does M$ *really* have all the time in the world to go around "spying" on zillions of XP users? That EULA language crap was simply the result of some bunch of M$ Legal Counsel folk justifying their jobs. It dawned on some legal eagle at M$ that...

...which doesn't mean it's going to *add* 350 MB of anything. It also could be faster, but I'd be a bit surprised if it was. The so-called "SCSI bug" that affects some SCSI users should become a bad memory with SP-2.

Yes, I've seen cases like that one. The Supermicro case that I recently bought (discussed earlier in this subject) is the same height, half as wide, but about 6 inches DEEPER. Just about the whole front of the case is drive bays.

Er... I see that I meant to say: To read and write horizontally and vertically, you will DEFINITELY need an all new head design that...

Errr...... NO. It's all about 'encoding" only. Are you familiar with the concept of "quadrature?" It's basically something you would learn about in an EE-101 class at a university. This is the same concept. You are strictly storing binary (base 2) data, but you are still recording...

That's similar to "Quantum Theory RAID" where you have a single bit appearing in two places at once. Why didja ya think they named that company Quantum??? Yep, that's why.

Using street parlance, perpendicular recording: Not only are you recording modulations in a "up and down" fashion, you can also record modulations in a "sideway" fashion, so that your encoding is very dense (and complex) thus bumping up storage capacity.

I suspect it will be a while before both Maxtor and Seagate will get around to making public their next product announcements. In both cases, there might be announcements covering a mix of hard drives, some using "conventional" and some using perpendicular recording technologies. Seagate is...

As fast as the HIGHER END notebook computer world changes, it may not even apply anymore. But, my brother (especially) has sworn off IBM notebooks for good only because he invested a lot of money in the costly IBMs and they didn't return as much for their cost as the Toshibas he also did during...

24 hours ago, there was basically a constant 30 (+/- 5) "Guests" logged in, now it's down to around 6. So, was that like... ummm... 25 ~ 30 "weirdos" logged in for hours? :-?

Probably 70% of the Compaq notebooks aren't worth messing with, but there definitely has been a few good ones sprinkled along the timeline -- sorta. One of the better ones I used for a bit was a "portable workstation" model (I believe it was called). The damned thing had poor battery-power...

I have a Yamaha CRW-F1. It's possibly the finest overall CD-R/W ever made (i.e. -- Audio Master capability, large buffer, etc), but I have no use at all for Disc T@2. This newer way of doing it on the label side could also be a damn slow process just like Yamaha T@2 writing is -- actually...

USB doesn't allow peer-level controller-less transfers, which is something Firewire can do. However, I thought there was -- a little while back -- a movement to add this capability to USB and it would show up first with "wireless" USB, then trickle down to copper USB at some point (USB 2.x)...

The only carbon fibre tripods I've personally seen were from Manfrotto (Bogen), Hakuba, Cullman, and I believe Velbon. A small l-i-g-h-t Hakuba was the least expensive at like ummm... US$300+ at a local establishment called Southwest Camera. THEY AIN'T CHEAP ! ! ! !

Hmmmm......... But the "surge" seems to be *constant*. I'd suspect an attack of web-bot spiders, spinning webs from metadata collected. They're stealing our souls! :errr:

I've officially given up on IBM notebooks, and so has my brother. Toshiba Satellite P-25.

Finnish Formula One drivers run their cars on premium Finlandia Vodka. They have their motors running a bit rich so that the fumes of the premium Finlandia Vodka causes all the drivers behind them to slowly get drunk and crash. As for the leaders, the Finnish drivers slow down a bit to allow...

400 GiggleBytes makes me laugh.

Whew, it's a good thing I NEVER BOUGHT OFFICE XP to begin with! I recently went from Office 2K Premium to Office 2K3 Pro. Office XP was nothing more than a warmed-over Office 2K with *Activiation* added. Office 2k, on the other hand, really is a step forward from Office 2K.

It's a bit strange how they (Hitachibm) didn't mention a "future" SAS version. Surely there will be one. Since they didn't mention a SAS version of this drive, one would have to read into this message that they basically have this 300 GB model ready to go to the OEMs now, and then bit later...

Data fork, resource fork. Yes, you need a Macintosh-based program that knows how to convert all the various file formats into "renamed" files with the proper filename extensions by reading the file resource and applying the proper filename extension. The resource fork does not need to be...

At work (of course), circa 1998, a group of office worker types had something like 38-each Western Digi 6 GB hard drives with approximately 30 failures in fairly rapid succession, with the remaining WD drives still working at the time of removal. All 38 or so WD drives were replaced by a couple...

300 GB of clickity clackety! LINK

Would they accept a meta-review of 3-each Colorado 40 MB tape drives running together as a RAID-0 stripe?

Yes Tannin, that's more or less about what I was thinking (vocabulary). The numbers of these E-mail absurdities seems to have gone down recently, but I did just receive another one that seems to use a new twist replete with misspellings in the spam portion: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~...

The "Basic" Acrobat Reader versions are here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html#601uxbasic

Unless there's a hell of a lot of snow, I don't mind snow anywhere near as much as friggin' ICE. Ice, freezing rain, frozen rain, sleet, sleet+snow, all suck bad. Wet snow sucks bad, too.

And Beefalo is THE windy city -- actually. Buffalo also regularly gets pounded by snow the worst of any US city. Chicago is certainly on near the top of the list with Cleveland. And Detroit, Toledo, Rochester should certainly get honourable mentions here for snowfall. And, I can personally...

LaCie = always means overpriced to some degree. (LaCie caters mostly to the Mac ignorantii of the computing world -- price is secondary or tertiary.)

If I want to mingle with the intellectuals, I just go to Bakersfield.

But, then there's Adobe Premiere Pro (a.k.a. Premiere 7.0); no Macintosh version planned.

I've lately been receiving a few odd spam E--mails. The subject titles are pretty absurd, with random titles that look as if they were a romp through an English language dictionary. I wonder what they are up to with subjects like this. Are they trying to fool E-mail client software or...

That one is VERY similar to a spam message I received about 3 years ago -- nearly identical wording, except it was for dustbins, and also in Changzhou (pron. Chang-Jo). Hmmm...

...you forgot to add: If I want to feel isolated, but still be in a city, I just go to Eureka. If I want culture, I just go to Fresno.

The Barracuda ATA (SATA and parallel) are very quiet and very reliable. If Seagate wanted to go down the WD route, they could monkey around with the firmware a bit and boost performance more. But, their engineers have optimised the Barracuda ATA series for quiet and reliable operation with...

Er... most definitely *chicken* pox. Chicken pox is still around -- a very common childhood disease that's not bad unless you are an invalid. Small pox is definitely a serious disease with serious consequences.

The last time I had influenza was either 1975 or 1976. I got a flu vaccination and I suddenly had the flu the next day. I had the flu maybe 6 or 7 years before then. I may have possibly had a cold once back in the late 1980s, and possibly 2 or 3 times back in the 1990s. I debate that only...