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I wonder if his name is Vlad.

I suspect that's of little concern to their occupants. After all, people are just dying to get into one. :rofl: *rimshot*

You spend a lot of time in coffins? :scratch:

The 2.0 24/96 high-res track from the Blu-ray: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: BT / Electronic Opus [24bit/96kHz 2.0] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS...

As I expected... A 2.0 mixdown omitting the LFE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: BT / Electronic Opus [24bit/96kHz 2.0 downmix] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak...

For some reason I hear the siren song calling of a 2018 Chevy Cruze TDi Hatchback to replace the 2003 Malibu I have that the ex-wife was driving. It's supposed to be available with either a 9-speed auto or a 6-speed manual. However, I've read that the 6-speed manual in the gasoline Cruze isn't...

FWIW, Toyota gave 3 years of free fuel to buyers of the Murai.

I wouldn't consider it good. Read performance is okay. Write is so-so. The Sandisk CZ80 is a good USB flash drive.

I decided to test the read performance from the 128GB Lexar S57 USB stick. I didn't see any significant slowdowns or drops. It did slow slightly from the start to the end. At the start it was ~105MB/sec. At the end it was ~85MB/sec. I didn't see it drop below 70MB/sec. I was also copying...

Expanding dynamic range isn't that hard to do. Although once it's been mangled to the extent Electronic Opus is it's hard to undo and get a natural sounding result. Removing/undoing heavy clipping is quite hard. I have the Blu-ray audio version on the way to me. Per internet reports it has...

That could be the ECC algorithms kicking in, but it seems unlikely if it does it for the remainder of the process. How many more GB is there after the 4GB mark? You could play with them if you want to experiment and repartition them taking the first 4GB out of the picture and see what they do...

Like what software do you have in mind?

Came across this song on the radio the other day and liked it:

Way to miss the reference Buechner.

It's not a tumor!

Well, I have a Sandisk Ultra "200GB" card on the way. I call it "200GB" because it's actually 196GB in base 10 parlance. I guess honesty in drive size advertising has taken another drop. And, I didn't buy it from B&H. We'll see how it fares.

Well that's rather disappointing. I was interested in one of them.

I generally do that to for cards used in cameras. However, when I'm buying a large card to expand the storage in a MP3 player where I only write data to the card a few times I figured buying cheaper cards would be okay. Apparently not.

Also, I tested a 64GB Samsung Pro microSDXC. Average write speed for the the whole 64GB of 5MB test files was just a tiny bit under 35MB/sec. No I/O errors. I didn't notice any slowdowns though I didn't sit and watch it too closely.

Software for what? I'm copying the test file set with Windows Explorer.

The partitions seem to be aligned at 0 on the Lexar S57 and the 128GB Samsung EVO+ microSDXC card. The 200GB Lexar microSDXC card that's bad has a partition that starts at 32MB into the card. Here's how the 64GB Sandisk CZ80 USB 3.0 stick did with a faster source drive and with my 5MB dummy...

I clean formatted all of the drives in my testing. They were tested using exFAT (a horribly wasteful file system, BTW). The 128GB Lexar S57 drive was also tested using NTFS (didn't improve anything). None are encrypted or require the use of any special software. Perhaps the low performing...

I've tried three different computers and multiple readers. I've used a Lexar USB 3.0 microSDXC reader, a Transcend USB 3.0 microSDXC, and the built in SDXC readers in two laptops using a microSD to SD adapter.

I suspect you may be right. It seems that inconsistent data transfer speeds may be pretty normal with files of these sizes (4.5MB average). However, the inability to successfully fill the drive with data in a single copy operation (or at all) surprises me.

Here's what it looked like right before finishing.

This 128GB PNY USB 3.0 drive I have seems be worse than the Lexar in terms of consistency. No write errors so far, but it's very inconsistent.

I had no issue filling a Sandisk Extreme 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive with no slowdowns as fast as the external USB 2.0 drive could read the source files (~31MB/sec). Then again, it's not a low end drive. It's a high end flash drive. It is also capable of writing faster than I was able to read...

So did the quality of flash memory going into USB sticks and microSD cards go down the toilet or am I just having horrible luck? I bought a 200GB Lexar 633x micro SD card from B&H, it was bad. Failed a FakeFlashTest run right out of the package. I RMA'd it back to B&H, and got a replacement...

Anyone know of a free utility that can make a video recording of an area of the screen in Windows, or a particular window?

A friend told me about Vulfpeck a few months ago. It's a shame they only release their music in lossy compressed formats. He was also a fan of Snarky Puppy.

No idea. Clearly there are some no talent hacks involved in the process somewhere.

Has that happened to you before?

Good thinking sending all of it to Handy.

So I sent this to one of my coworkers across the big pond this morning after telling them that they never ceased to fall short of expectations. I didn't get a reply.

Yeah, I added a link to my less than flattering Amazon review above also.

BT and friends should be ashamed of this: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/123429 It has obvious audible clipping in numerous tracks in addition to being very compressed in dynamic range. :smack: Link to my Amazon review

Down to $109.99 in the store I go to and online.

I decided to go peruse my e-mail... I bought two Dell laptops with optical drives in that timeframe LG GGC-H20L - 1 NEC ND-6750A SLIM - 1 NEC ND-3540A BK - 1 SAMSUNG|SH-S203B - 1 LITE ON SOHD-16P9SBLK RT - 2 So I guess that's 8. There may be more, but going e-mail by e-mail to look is not a...

I have no idea how many optical drives I bought during that time period. I'm sure it was a lot more than 0 though.

I don't have another one with me, nor another uSD card to test with (I'm not taking the one out of my phone). I also don't have a microSD to SD adapter which would let me use the reader in my laptop. So, I will have to wait until I get home, but it reads fine, so I wouldn't expect the reader...

What do you mean by host device? The source of the data for the file copy? I've tried other folders and files with the same results, and I can copy those same folders and files to other drives. Or, do you mean the USB reader the card is in?

:frusty: ARGH!!! The 2nd Lexar 200GB microSD is misbehaving. I did a bit of moderate torture testing on the card after I got it to see if was robust and it seemed okay. (I was doing a few 5x 1GB CDM runs on the card a day for a few days.) So today I attempted to copy "200GB" of music to it so...

I've found Blu-rays are quite a bit harder to scratch than DVDs or CDs. However, the reflective layer is on the bottom of the substrate, not in the middle like DVDs or on the top like CDs. They have some sort of scratch resistant coating over the reflective layer that's supposed to be somewhat...

Use Meguiar's PlastX and a piece of microfiber cloth. For a whole CD put something like a pea size dab of PlastX on the microfiber which you should have folded up some so you have something like a 1" x 1" piece in contact with the bottom of the disc. Work it around the bottom of the CD in...

Buying digital music is generally against my principles. 1) I won't buy any lossy music at the current market prices. Paying $10-12 for an album of mp3's just isn't going to happen. There's 0 distribution or manufacturing cost, and it's an inferior product. But I should pay just as much as a...

So I bought some used CDs last week via eBay and the Amazon.com marketplace. They were all supposed to be in very good condition. Of the 13 CDs, 3 had enough damage that I couldn't rip them. Several other were very dirty and needed cleaning. One of the unrippable CDs I was able to polish...

I got a 2nd card off eBay for my Acer. It works fine also. Plug and play.

I don't want the NFL suing us for using their trademark.

What a Superb Owl last night. :bow:

The box has 32GB of RAM and a 8 core Xeon E5-2687W v2 processor with Hyperthreading. It's not a slouch. :bomb: