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  1. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Intel: Don't take *too* much advantage of our products.
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    OCZ Z-Drive R4 88

    Yet, it's only x8. When they need a x16 connection for data, I will be truly impressed.
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    Goddammitsofuckingmuch

    I can remember all of the Baby Bells. Now there are three. And one of them ate Ma Bell.
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    Motherboards with mSATA connectors

    But why would you really need this in a desktop?
  5. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Yeah, but you're only spawning four reencodes. I'm doing six simultaneous reencodes on four cores.
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    Suggestions for changes/enhancements to storageforum

    The lists already block it. The forum just doesn't appear to be using it when I'm logged in.
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    FLAC to MP3

    I would go with Foorbar, as well. I know for sure that you can replace the lame encoder with whatever version you like.
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    tsunami

    Not much. Containment that contains is far more useful. Then again, fuel pools are just that -- pools with fuel in them -- no containment.
  9. sechs

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    I'm sure that you'd bet your money on it if the bet was low enough. It's nowhere near that....
  10. sechs

    Canada

    Argh, I'll shoot you with my elkton! *or* I have an infection in my elkton. It's so gross.
  11. sechs

    Canada

    Try places that sound like body parts or pirate weapons, like Regina or Saskatoon.
  12. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    No, but they're certainly not working on the installer.
  13. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I tried it both ways. Obviously it's faster drive to drive than drive to self; but, even then, not more than four cores was maxed out at a time. The max speed was the same either way. I was using foobar2000 to convert FLAC-to-FLAC.
  14. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    This is the Oracle mantra: Users exist to create a load to test the product.
  15. sechs

    Suggestions for changes/enhancements to storageforum

    Thanks, but I already new that. That's how I know that standard URLs aren't in the blockable list for me. It appears that Google Analytics is only activated on the site if you are not logged-in. When I'm logged-in, you know who I am and where I go already.
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    Canada

    Try going past the border....
  17. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Alright, I found one reason to get new-gen drives: FLAC encoding. My previous-gen Sandforce-based drive still can't max out all six cores on my computer while encoding multiple FLACs. It's still drive-bound. Of course, like booting, FLAC encoding isn't something that I do all day, every day....
  18. sechs

    Suggestions for changes/enhancements to storageforum

    The standard URLs don't appear in the blockable list, otherwise it would be already.
  19. sechs

    Welcome to Armageddon

    Keep in mind that these people will be Jews....
  20. sechs

    Companies that have burnt...

    I've found that calling American Express works better.
  21. sechs

    Suggestions for changes/enhancements to storageforum

    Google Analytics.
  22. sechs

    FF4 and IE9

    My results are similar.
  23. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Previous generation SSDs appear to be available and cheaper. Granted, they're probably using the smaller flash; but few people are going to get to the end of their drive's life before it gets replaced. I guess that begs the question, when will people start putting together server farms of...
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    Samsung F3, F3EG firmware for P67, SB850 chipsets

    It it only that firmware revision? Two of my drives have that firmware, but the others appear to have earlier revisions.
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    Suggestions for changes/enhancements to storageforum

    Then how come Adblock doesn't seem to be blocking it?
  26. sechs

    Canada

    Before going to Toronto some years ago with some college friends, we stayed up and watched Canadian Bacon. Two days later, we visited the Hacker Hellfire.
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    Companies that have burnt...

    And since I have to pay sales tax, it seems like their prices are never competitive any more. Amazon plus Prime is pretty killer.
  28. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Is there some overriding reason to buy this new generation of drives beyond the fact that they are designed to work with the smaller memory chips?
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    FF4 and IE9

    I'm only at 1.1GB with 70 tabs.
  30. sechs

    Samsung F3, F3EG firmware for P67, SB850 chipsets

    I have five disks and four different firmware versions. I'm curious if any need the update.
  31. sechs

    Samsung F3, F3EG firmware for P67, SB850 chipsets

    Any clue as what the fixed firmware version is?
  32. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Then don't upgrade.
  33. sechs

    Why must TV forsake me?

    Horse people? I think I'll stick with The Borgias.
  34. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    As I've said before, the M4 is more evolutionary than revolutionary. I believe that the controller is little changed from the C300.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Actually, it's now the misogyny thread.
  36. sechs

    End of the World As We Know It

    The president only signs the bill and implements it. He really has nothing to do with "control."
  37. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    When will the new Micron drives be available? If anything, that should help to drive down prices.
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    SoHo Gigabit Router?

    Thanks sdbardwick. That's looking like a good option. Looks like I have more research to do....
  39. sechs

    End of the World As We Know It

    Check that Reagan bump!
  40. sechs

    SoHo Gigabit Router?

    Do you have experience with the Cisco router?
  41. sechs

    Happy Easter

    The date of Easter is 100% predictable, but is figured on a lunar calendar. So, it tends to jump around relative to our Gregorian calendar, much as lunar new year does. Did I miss the Passover thread?
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    Why must TV forsake me?

    The Trouble with Tribles? I didn't see the movie because it looked like crap and had at least one crap actor in it. So, I might be off.
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    SoHo Gigabit Router?

    Right now he has a separate router and switch. However, the router is getting a bit unreliable, and we're going to replace it. The theory is to reduce the number of devices, since he doesn't need so many ports. Jumbo frames would be nice, because he needs to burst data from the server for...
  44. sechs

    SoHo Gigabit Router?

    I'm looking for a reasonably priced gigabit router for a client running a home office. He has two desktops and a server which are all have gigabit ethernet, but also a 100base-T wireless AP to attach. Jumbo frames with the ability to split for the slower clients would be a real plus. What are...
  45. sechs

    Rumour: Bye bye Samsung HDDs

    What other divisions does Seagate have? And why are the less desirable manufacturers buying the more desirable ones?
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    Intel 310-series SSDs

    But they couldn't be bothered to update the interface.
  47. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I think that the accounting department is now in charge. They've really become penny-pinching bastards as of late....
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    tsunami

    If it weren't for our stupid submarine heritage, I think we would have switched to helium-cooled reactors by now. They're a much smarter design.
  49. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I thought that the fix was for the users to pay up for drives with the previous generation flash, which costs more.
  50. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    OCZ switched to the less-reliable 25nm flash. To make the drives meet the same reliability specifications, they increased the reserve area, thereby decreasing the user addressable space. Since they pulled a Western Digital and didn't change the part numbers, people didn't/don't know that the...
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