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It was a $17 drive when I bought it. I did buy a GH24NS95 from Microcenter for $16 not too long ago. It uses the same chipset as the crap DRW-24B1STi, but apparently LG knew how to implement it. It's a much better burner.

Well, they published it. As of now it's the 2nd review from the top. link

Exactly! A few years back I tried Sears buy online, pickup in store scheme on some tool deals that popped up on some of the deal sites. Somehow despite getting e-mails telling me my order was ready for pickup more often than not when I got to the store (within a few hours) at least some part...

As far as I know ASUS has always been a re-badger of optical drives. Putting their name on someone else's drives. The DRW-24B1STi is a clone of the Lite-On iHAS_24 E. The DRW-24F1ST is a Samsung clone.

FWIW... My Haswell box has the Intel controller in RAID mode, two ASMedia controllers (soldered on the mobo), a PCIe IDE controller, and a PCIe SATA card. All are enabled and it works fine. My Sandybridge has the Intel controller in RAID mode, a PCIe IDE controller, and a PCIe SATA card. It...

On a related note, I wrote a scathing review of an ASUS DRW-24B1ST drive and submitted it to Newegg today. I believe I followed all their guidelines. We'll see if it gets published or not. PS: It's the worst DVD burner I've ever tested.

Not to mention the stupid guidelines Newegg wants you to follow when you write a review. Product Review Guidelines Newegg.com reads all reviews before posting them and reserves the right to deny any review. Here are some of the things that can cause a review to be denied: Offensive or abusive...

This one. I'm pretty sure they use 1TB platters. You'll note the retail ones have better reviews. I was wrong about the price though. They were $120 when I bought them.

Yeah, by all of $40. $550 vs $590

One, maybe two. It's pretty much the size of a receiver.

I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. I have at least one PC that is using two "soft" RAID-1 setup (Intel ICH + JMB) and I don't have any OS problems. Real HW RAID cards don't usually support single drive pass through applications. You usually end up having to make a some sort of "array"...

I picked one of these up from Emotiva in their "Secret Warehouse Sale" this past week to drive my Stealth 8's. It was pretty much the least expensive "DAC" with a remote with proper 2.1 operation and XLR outputs that I could find. $350 shipped.

Coilpacks would be my first guess.

1) Probably under 10 lumen 2) It depends on the LEDs. Something like this could be over 100 lumen with good LEDs, but that's probably not very likely for most, so maybe up to 25-30 lumen. 3) 55W bulb is around 1500 lumen

The IDE card is PCI? I've had good luck with the StarTech PEX2IDE card on the IDE side (for optical drives). On the SATA side the I've used a IO Crest / Syba SI-PEX40064 with good results, again for optical drives.

Newegg was peddling retail Toshiba's 3TB 7200RPM drives for $109 with free shipping back when I put my Haswell box together several months ago. I think they've sold them for $99 one or two times since.

Hopefully it's the latter so they don't mess them up.

Do you need RAID on the new card?

That's pretty cool. Now we know what you've been doing at work. :p

Which Real-time shields do you install? I don't really see any pieces beyond the File Shield being particularly useful.

Okay, someone is going to have to help me out with this one.

There's also the lack of accents. The complete absence of any slight timing variations in all the performances which should be inevitable since they didn't perform together. If the pieces are really legit, the makers have post processed the audio to the point they sound like a choir of 20-30...

I'm not sure how prudent that is, but I suppose it's an option.

So which of the Avast products are you recommending Merc? Antivirus Pro? Avira Free has pretty much wore out its welcome. I'd pay to get rid of it at this point, and frankly I'd rather pay someone else. Do they have any Multi PC deals? I'm probably going to dump the AV protection from my...

Not to rain on anyone's parade, I'm just a bit skeptical (okay a lot skeptical) that the audio to the videos is actually from the people shown. The fidelity is way too high for the average person singing into their webcam's microphone or whatever passes for a PC microphone these days getting...

I've been buying Hitachi, now Toshiba drives.

I would expect the CPU in the X79 to have an advantage to have an advantage over the the CPU in the Z87 in Cinebench. No idea on 3DMark. No, you'll be working on super picky enterprise hardware. :D

I'm sorry, were you saying something? :erm:

CTRL + Home... Oh wait... Nm...

Do you want to get rid of it?

Yeah, the 716A is IDE. What color is it?

Probably a long shot, but does anyone have any of the following Plextor burners lying around collecting dust that they'd be willing to sell? Black bezels are preferred, but I will consider beige ones also. Plextor Premium 2 (IDE) Plextor PX-716SA (SATA) Plextor PX-755SA (SATA)

Or you could use MKVtoolnix to re-order the streams, or dump the ones you're not interested in.

You may want to rethink your strategy here. link Also this.

I don't think AMD CPUs have been popular with the folks here due to their lack of competitiveness with Intel's offerings for the past several years.

So you want something like a 1090T? Check the F/S section of a place like HardForum, ebay, craigslist...

Oh I got it, I was just going along.

That's not quite the name...

Yes, one mocking the mooner...

Did you use duct tape or bailing wire at any point in your repair job?

Well, that's better than a Thunderbowel adapter I suppose.

Norway... Finland... what the difference? :owneddnce:

So, how do you get those speeds from it? Are they making a SATA III reader for CF cards or do they live in some imaginary world where USB 3.0 delivers those sorts of speeds?

I don't have an application. I was just messing with you because 256GB and ~$1k seems a bit outlandish. :)

Those are a little small for what I'm after, so no.

On a phone I realize it's an issue. On my tablet I just don't keep personal information on it. I don't need to keep contacts on my tablet. There is no call history to mine.

I've haven't had that problem (yet?). However, in general I try to use them on optical drives or fans and not hard drives.

I just use splitters.

Or, you could learn how to use a flash optimally so the pictures look well lit instead of the typical awful flash look.

That was pretty much my reaction...