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I've had no issues using Nero 6 on Windows 7 x64. Into what problems did you run?

Are the RevoDrives part of the flash die-shrink debacle?

It fixes compatibility problems with the common runtimes, but you end up with a copy of every version of the VC++ DLLs ever. It's a lot easier than fixing backward compatibility in your development tools, however.

There goes the neighborhood. When is that next gen of SSDs due out? You know, the ones not by the spinning disk manufacturers....

As far as I can tell, PayPal is simply a system for people to cheat sellers on eBay. It's just that not everyone knows that and bothers to cheat the sellers....

Baloney.

You mean *a* numeric keypad. Once can still get ten-key calculators with printers.

This whole 25nm NAND move is a piece of crap. The new drives are not operationally identical to the old ones, as they have less user-accessible space and generally worse performance. Was it accounting or marketing that made this decision?

The problem is, we're not dealing with dickheads. We're dealing with their computers. And, in reality, it seems, our computers are dealing with them, not us. It's an arms race for a proxy war.

Unless the printer is emblazoned with the word "Phaser," it had better not need any "special" paper.

No, I did not arrive and leave on the same day. Although it did go from that seventy to freezing rain in less than twenty-four hours.

Laser printer paper?

I was in Kansas at the end of January, as my brother is shipping off to Afghanistan. The day that I arrived, the high was 70. It was 0 at the airport when I left. Welcome to what happens when the arctic loop current breaks down.

Maybe that's the problem? I've purchased non-rechargeable batteries twice in the last five years: I bought a 9V for my smoke detector last year, and a couple of years ago, I got some C cells, before realizing that I already had adapters for AAs.

One thing I noticed was different accessory packages. I got an MSI card for one guy that came in a nice box with all the necessary adapters. An ostensibly identical card from XFX came in a crappy box with only the PCIe power adapter.

I'm using a Silverstone FT02

I have a couple of customers who decided to upgrade with the release of the recent ATi card. Since every card out is a reference design, except for running across some sales and rebates there's very little difference between them. I'm thinking that people here have more cards run through their...

I've never managed to exhaust a "starter" toner cartridge. I've always decided (independently) to replace the printer before the end.

This sounds like a case of you get what you pay for....

This is backwards thinking. If you want to reduce the wear on your drive, don't use it to boot. Heck, don't even put it in your computer. My advice has been, and continues to be, if you care, but a page file on each physical drive, and Windows will figure it out. If you have "a lot" of...

I have an acquaintance with a case with a similarly huge fan on the top. He was singing its overclocking praises when I mentioned that his case must be full of dust. He made a face telling me that it was true. That huge fan makes your case an air filter. This is one of the reasons that I...

This will go great once some other company blows them away in the SSD space....

I think that's the crux of the Sandforce controller versus Micron flash difference. Sandforce is trying to deal with the reduced number of writes with their fancy controller tricks. Micron is doing it with fancy flash chip tricks. I haven't seen anything on drives using the new Sandforce...

He needs a hotplate and a minifridge, first.

Until I switched to a printer with ethernet (which is the better choice, in my opinion), I used my NAS as a print server. That does, however, require that the two devices be close enough to connect with a cable.

Maybe you'd prefer Micron's C400 then. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4086/microns-realssd-c400-uses-25nm-nand-at-161gb-offers-415mbs-reads It looks like they're putting their money on better flash, rather than a fancier controller. As long as it's evolutionary and not revolutionary, it should...

Didn't you say that it does a lot of disk IO? Maybe I'm not reading enough into this....

Too bad these won't be out for a while: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4100/ocz-vertex-pro-3-demo-worlds-first-sandforce-sf2000

So that's one, it would be nice, two mights, and a porno server - except nix on the porno server. So a total of three people who aren't booting and have no need to boot from these drives who are interested in the ability to do it. That is, nobody. In the future, sure, people will be be...

Frankly, I'm curious as to who is trying to boot from these ginormous drives.

It uses a standard mini-USB connector. It should appear as a mass storage device in Windows. Personally, I use POIloader to add locations to an SD card and just shove that in. Since I also keep an updated map there, it's a bit less clunky than writing directly to the GPS's flash.

I'm on the Pro plan, which I think is 3M/512k. It fits my needs 95% of the time, and I can deal with the other 5%.

You're crazy.

I haven't found that to be the case. They were unfazed when I said that AT&T was going to give me $150 plus a free(ish) modem to switch -- and charge me less than Comcast was. And AT&T has been so nice as to drop my price about every two months. I also had morning and evening slow-down...

Are you talking about Grenada? Reagan's the one who really got this debt thing rolling.

So, it's the worst of both worlds, with unnecessary complexity?

The consumer version of Ghost is now based on DriveImage, which isn't as good as the real Ghost, which is now only sold in the enterprise version.

Actually, trim is issued on delete. If you didn't partition and format the drive with Windows 7, it may not recognize the drive as an SSD.

The solution to Windows is to replace it with something more reliable and featured, like Linux, BSD, or Unix.

This is not completely awesome. Cool, but not awesome. Why do I need a touchscreen with a bend in it?

Much like holographic storage....

So, why are we knee-deep in debt?

Having seen Generals during development, when the generals were in it, I found it disappointing. It was sad that you had to get the expansion pack to get the game as originally envisioned. I think that the most recent game that I have is Portal. Actually, just a few days ago, I reinstalled...

In theory, any drive which Windows recognises as an SSD gets the special treatment. Keep in mind, however, Windows some times screws up, and, even when it doesn't (which is the vast majority of the time), both the controller driver and the drive firmware must support trim.

You shouldn't need to use that if trim is working properly on Windows 7.

For years, I had a have an add-in sound card in order to have the digital SPDIF output for my Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speakers. Now, you're stuck with one to get decent output.

Imagine the cost of head technology on this. This is only worthwhile if you need density in a serious way.

What's more fun is that each chain has it's own models from each manufacturer, so you can't directly compare. You might find one that you like at one store, and another store won't have it. But they'll have something comparable -- but subtly different in some way.

I find this to be pretty entertaining. Whirlpool owns Maytag. When I was getting a new washer a few years ago, I found several Whirlpool/Maytag model pairs where the only difference was the style of controls. How can Whirlpool reliable and Maytag unreliable when the machines come off the same...

When I had to RMA a drive due to a borked firmware update, I was told that all replacements come from Taiwan. Mine was shipped UPS and was received about a week after I sent off the bad drive. I suspect that they just didn't have a replacement in stock for Merc. He probably could have gotten...