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If it's too loud, I will replace the Samsung drive with an SSD and move the drive to my other computer. However, 1TB for $100 is too hard to pass up. This will also only be on a wireless network, so I want to have enough local storage to keep a bunch of DVD images on there.

Point noted. I'll plan on the E5200, that's a pretty good savings over the E8400.

Nice idea. But I generally just torrent whatever I want.

I highly doubt he will replace it in a year. It is still quite usable for his needs. He will probably keep it at least a few more years or until it breaks.

I'm getting close to ordering the parts for a HTPC build. I already have an Antec NSK2480. So, that's the case I'll use. Other parts I'm considering: Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Samsung Spinpoint...

My Dad will be using it, he just surfs the web. So, speed wasn't a big concern as long as it is faster than the 30GB drive that came with the laptop.

I ended up getting the Samsung HM160HC 160GB. Hopefully it will work. I trust Samsung more than WD or Seagate.

Is there any reason the R51 wouldn't support a drive larger than 80GB? That's what the spec said. The Samsung drive looks good. If the notebook will support it then I'll probably get that. This is my Dad's laptop. It came with a 30GB drive, it's basically full and it runs extremely slow. So, I...

Does anyone know if there are any 7200 RPM drives that would work for this? Newegg doesn't carry any.

This looks to be the information I was looking for: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-58208.html#stor Out of these drives, which would you choose?

I need to order a new hard disk for a Thinkpad R51, does anyone know if this is PATA or SATA? I believe it's PATA, but want to be sure. Also, what size drive fits in this model?

Maybe not, but the kludge turns a sub $100 drive into an insanely fast piece of hardware.

How many people actually want to worry about setting up RAID 0? Not to mention that your failure rate is going to be terrible. So, now I have to worry even more about backups and restoration plans. I might also need to worry about keeping a spare drive on hand. If I can match that speed with a...

I ended up getting a Blackberry Curve 8330. I tried all the smartphones that they offered and l liked this one by far the best. The HTC Diamond Touch seemed slow. Plus this will only cost me 100 after rebate.

I believe that most or all of the SLC drives are immune to the stuttering. I think DD would have a better idea of this.

Just so you know SteadyState runs fine on XP and installs in about 10 minutes including the reboot.

You will probably notice some stuttering. If you install SteadyState, you will notice no stuttering.

I'm looking to get a Sprint smartphone in the near future. What would you recommend? I don't care about Exchange integration or other office type things. This will be used for personal business only. My thoughts: I will be using it with Gmail for email and it would be nice if Gmail chat works...

Anyone had a chance to try out SteadyState? It's still working great for me. This SSD is now performing like it should. I'm quite happy with the outcome.

If it's actually related to the discussion at hand, then fine. But, most of the time it isn't even close to being relevant.

I would agree with that. My sample size is small, but most people I know that own German cars have not been impressed with the reliability or the costs associated with repairs.

I must be a fucking moron for testing my sites in Safari as well.

That's correct, SteadyState requires NTFS.

What OS and filesystem are you running?

You mean Xerox.

I need it to test websites, otherwise I wouldn't bother.

I'll install it when it goes gold.

This is what I followed. I did the "fast" way, as I don't store my data on the boot drive. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is whether SteadyState is caching writes to the other drives in my system or only writes to the boot drive. I wouldn't think it would do that, but I don't know...

I decided to install XP with SteadyState to see if it would have a large enough performance benefit to downgrade from 2003 Server. This took several days, because I found out that XP doesn't support GPT partitions. So, after installing XP I had to restore my old 2003 installation, copy all the...

Sales tax in Chicago is at 10.5%. We also have a massive budget deficit in almost every level of government here.

My company is giving 1% raises unless you get CEO approval.

I wouldn't worry about these fixes with that drive, I don't think it suffers from the problems.

What SSD do you have? I think it is going to vary manufacturer to manufacturer and model to model. If you want a lot more information on this check this thread.

There are strategies for formatting these drives with a block size that matches the size of the erase block. When a MLC SSD needs to write some data, it has to clear the space before it can write to it. Most drives have to clear 512KB of space before writing. So, even if you are writing a 1KB...

I can now back this claim up with experience. I removed the SteadyState installer's version compatibility check with a handy tool called Orca. It definitely installed, but after I rebooted the system it would almost get to the login screen then reboot again. I tried to mess with some settings in...

I would actually doubt that. I'd guess that Ferarris are pretty fragile things.

MFT looked like the best option until I noticed that you can't use it on a boot volume. SteadyState doesn't support Windows 2003 Server. Looks like I am out of luck right now. Damn.

Try: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/15287-Free-utility-speeds-up-SSD-writing-on-XP--Vista-32-bit.html And: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=318673#post318673 This also looks promising: http://www.easyco.com/

That's a pretty interesting idea. Does anyone have any more information about how this works? Can I run this with 2003 Server?

Everyone will forget about this in a few years, just like his previous DUI arrest. After he wins a whole bunch more medals in London he will get a bunch more promotions. I wonder if a picture of me smoking a bong got passed around at work how long I would keep my job? Probably not very long.

The cheapest I can find is the Adaptec 2240900-R.

$80 is pretty standard if not below market rates. When I worked at a tech shop in 2000, our minimum rate was $59. Given this is 9 years later, it doesn't seem very bad. If you brought your car to the dealership what would the minimum fee be there?

The contractor one was pretty amazing. I sent it to our Unix sysadmin, he didn't think it was as funny.

Exactly, if you don't care about uninstalling updates they can be safely deleted.

I'm sure he has the number saved with Newegg and I'm sure he remembers the CVV2 without even looking at the card.

The Intel X25-M dropped in price by $100 to 399.99 today.

John Maynard Keynes would certainly be happy. Milton Friedman not so much.

Merc lives in Indiana. In Chicago there is only one UPS pickup facility, for the entire city of 2.8 million people. Out in the burbs they have other facilities. I'm not sure about FedEx, I haven't had to pickup a package from them.

Works for me too. I've never had anyone complain when I do it.

The whole idea seems pretty far fetched. I think the future is here and it's the SSD.