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And what will its magnificent 64-bitness actually do? Oh sure, it will no doubt be faster for floating-point intensive stuff, about which I don't really care anyway, but overall, the majoe bottle necks in computing are on the I/O side, not the processing side anyway. That's why I voted for...

Ha!

Strikes me that the really interesting matter raised is the way that different defrag packages have such different results on different drives. I would have though that the operation of defragging would involve much the same sort of low-level disc operations no matter which program you were...

Thanks Steve. I think I'll wait for the official release. In fact I haven't upgraded from 6.00 to 6.01 yet, simply because 6.00 is working fine for me. And because I'm lazy, of course.

The little guy with the big eyes and the pitchfork.

Do you have his phone number, cas? I think he's rather cute. Drinks perhaps? :wink:

Who is Ann Improvement and why do I know her? Perhaps I meant "an improvement". Nope, not an ambient noise problem, just tha the volume is way too low. I'll scratch around for a different microphone.

Australia is very good for that. Just sell your car and take a month off. :)

Damn it, I have the documentation here. Somewhere. :(

Clocker is in part two. You can vote for him here

Thanks Cliptin. Did that, ann improvement but still not nearly loud enough. I think this mic must be designed for yakking on a webcam, right up close to your mouth. I'll find a better one, try again.

Thanks, Mercutio. I think you have sorted my entry level for me at any rate. Hidden up there in the fine print is: "Auriga "Excalibur' By HIS ATI Rage 128Pro 32MB $50 In fact it was spotting that one which prompted me to ponder using it to replace our M64s which, although I've never...

Err ... Yes Tim.

Here is an example of a supplier's email sent to me today. Taking the Nvidia prices as a benchmark (for they are around about the normal $A going rates for Nvidia based stuff) is there any reason I should look at any of the ATI cards in prefference? TNT2 M64 32Mb $58 TNT2 M64 32Mb PCI $73...

A pretty ring to the words, more in the rhythmthan anywhere else, I think. Needs the melody though.

Well, some of them do. I wasn't going to check each one individually.

Hoolie Doolie, where did that broadband link come from? That was my first impression, Doug. Then I did a back-to back timing and discovered that burst.net is near enough to equal for me at present. I think I'm actually hitting my 56k limit at the moment - it's late at night here and I've got...

My pleasure, Time, and I hope that Jake finds it instructive. I was surprised and delighted to see that there is another Lennie Lower fan in this small community - I might have guessed it would be you. Doubtless there are other gems of Lower wisdom we could pass on to Jake as his family matures.

(Continued in other threads.)

Kristi saw the first set I posted last night, by the way, and said: "I guess this means we are buying Samsungs from now on?" Guess so.

Hmmmm ..... very interesting.Here is the Barracuda ATA IV with AM switched off. (Thanks Clocker, IBM's utility worked a treat.) Vastly improved as compared to the factory-shipped configuration, but still not as good as the Samsung P40. Notice the rapid rise in access times near the left-hand...

Err, seeing as we get to vote more than once here, what if I want to vote for two people who happen to be in the same group? Handruin and Flagreen, for example? Well, you are SOL (and I don't mean our highly esteemed member from the northern side of Ballarat).

Can you vote in more than one of these polls? Why not?

OK, you know the form.

Blame cas for this one. I saw his neat new avatar and .... well, this is the result. I'm not sure how many options I can squeeze into a poll format, so I'll just work my way down the member list in post-count order, and combining the multiple personalities so as to save a litte work. (I'm...

Thanks Bill. I'll bear that in mind for when I need it. I had figured that, seeing as we have only ever seen one >80GB drive here, and that that unit ws the one I bought for myself and sold to Sol, the need to do much in the way of data transfer on >128GB drives would be a long way away. So...

Stereodude, in view of the odd look to Sol's 1000JB graph, a look at your 1200JB would be very useful. Or, indeed, any of the really large drives, say a 120GB Maxtor or IBM 7200. We are wondering if the drive is working correctly - it doesn't look like any of the other recent Western Digitals...

Switch? Where? What switch? I was thinking of making up a scratch computer with an ISA sound card - AWE64 or somesuch. I seem to remember that they were more reliable and easier to get working right.

I haven't had a chance to comment in any detail yet, Bartender, but very nice pictures. I'm enjoying them. Also, great work with your WD history: a valuable resource in the making. I'll make a link to it from the redhill site shortly.

Thanks Clocker. You know, I think I'm going to revisit the entries in my hardware guide for the Cuda ATA IV and the U Series 6. Right now they cite the faster seek time, but seeing as (a) Seagate ship the drives in crippled form, and (b) whatever accoustic difference it makes can't be...

The database is big for the number of members we have. That's because of all the largiloquence going around.

Hi Cas, nice to see you over here. Before too long you will no doubt end up like Tannin - totally unable to remember which board he is posting on without stopping to read the URL in the address window. He's made a few howlers already.

OK, OK, I'll see if I can't remember to shoot it today. Bought a Promise card yesterday, just the cheapest one, ATA-100, 128GB limit, removed the metal backing plate thingie, plugged it in, switched off the mainboard IDE controllers. It seems to work fine, at least so far. Mind you, it's a...

Having run out of PM space months ago, I have been forced into the tedious method of cutting and pasting into a text file, one at a time. Yuk. phpBB 2.1?

Exactly. I ran those VSEEK traces earlier tonight, thought "even a Seagate ought be able to do better than that, it must be the AAM" and .... blank wall. Don't they care about performance?

I have noticed with astonishment the absolute ignorance of bachelors in regard to the care of the young. To begin at the beginning,. It will be noticed in a fresh baby that it is of a pale, prawn-like colour, and is bald and toothless, exhibiting all the evidences of senility. This is the usual...

Never mind all that, HTF do I teach Tannin to proof-read his posts?

What you need, Sol, is some proper multiple personalaties.

Ignore Tannin. He was just demonstrating his usual lack of taste and good judgement. I care.

It's a bit hectic here, excuse my tardiness. I looked at the 1000JB chart of Sol's and thought exactly that. It seems very odd. I'm sure I did one of it, just can't find the darn file.

Quite right, Time. I can buy it here in Ballarat, and frequently do. Just about the only fizzy drink I ever buy these days. Oh, and Coke. I drink a can of Coke maybe three times a year.

And Coug, Quattro Pro RULEZ! In fact, it's the only component of the Word Perfect Office suite I regularly use. Mind you, the newer versions, since Corel got their dirty hands on it, are inferior to the older versions. 6.03 is the best of the lot.

Time, I buy the Word Perfect suite in an OEM version for about AU$15.

Hey! That carpet cost Tannin twenty-seven thousand dollars. Don't knock it. (Mind you, I have to admit he's not completely stupid. He did get them to thrown in a free house with it.)

There are comand line switches, Stereodude. I'll look them up tonight. Today I'm on a deadline.

I have Sulo's documentation around somewhere. I'll look it up tonight and post relevant bits. What it does is test seek distances not particular areas of the drive. It doesn't care if it's doing (for example) a five-track seek between tracks 1 and 6 or 4001 and 4006. In fact the particular...

Guys, this is great! I already have results for a lot of drives, but I have to go to work and don't have ttime to post them this morning.

OK, fixed. Dunno what that was all about.

Huh? Why the funny colour? To hell with it, I'll figure it out in the morning.

Thankyou Doug! My word, those 10K Quantums are smooooooth little drives aren't they. Rare to see a Vseek chart like that. Only this little beauty is in the same league: (A Mark 1 X15)