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Doesn't the AMOLED screen just wreck batteries? Battery life is definitely a weak point on high performance Android devices. That's something to consider as well.

I bought one. Even if I toss the motherboard, the chassis and PSU are worth it to me.

Maybe they'll show up as 1.75TB when I connect them to my x58 motherboards instead of 750GB.

I'm now the owner of a Boxee box, a Seagate Freeagent Theater, a Popcorn Hour C200, and a Roku something-or-other. I built myself a Vortexbox, I have WHS machine and I've got an Xbox360 and a Wii as well. Out of the stuff mentioned in this thread, the only major thing I didn't buy was a Dune...

Sounds like a good way to burn in a CPU as well.

Win7/Server 2008 need AHCI mode turned on to enable some of the built-in SSD optimizations.

I really don't care. It's about all about density anyway. Unfortunately, I can't really bring myself to turn of AHCI mode on my i7s. That would suck for their SSDs.

Looking at 1155, 1366 and AM3 stuff, it looks like motherboards top out at 12 SATA ports, not all of which can be assumed compatible with the drives. A new motherboard is cheaper than an 8-port RAID card.

Spinrite, but I don't know if it will operate with huge drives. You could also script something simple with dd on a *nix machine. dd if=/dev/yes of=/mnt/hdd Would fill a drive up with repeating ones eventually.

Amazon offers free return shipping on TVs for the first 30 days. That's more than enough time for defects to become apparent.

I'm not sure. It seems like the market is crying out for some inexpensive options with 8 ports and > 2TB support but they just aren't there. Not all SAS cards support expanders and not all SAS cards play nice with > 2TB drives, and what's left starts at about $450. That's just painful.

I hate Seagate almost as much as WD at this point and that's saying something. As much as I would love to pull 32 drives out of service and replace them with a mere eight, it's not going to happen if Seagate is my only option.

I bought a 40" 1080P Toshiba LCD from Amazon for $399 today. That Viore doesn't sound like such a good deal now, does it?

Honestly, I think the best thing to do for basic backup is just to stick another internal drive into a desktop and to anoint that drive as "the drive that holds backups." I say internal because the simple fact is that external drive power supplies are so crappy and accidents are so frequent in...

That could very well be why they show up as 750GB on the machines I have. Nonetheless, I'm not that far from needing a bunch of compatible ports, so it's good to get this out there.

Some of that looks to me like someone was asked to find something to do with X random Microsoft computing initiative. I did watch the whole thing. It's also interesting that they didn't demo "render an object in 3D from the tablet computer's camera when they went through the trouble of showing...

I like the drive tray. It needs more of them, though. Or maybe I just need to break down and trade all my computer chassis for Norco monstrosities.

I've managed to obtain a half dozen Hitachi 3TB drives. I have exactly two machines where I can fully use a 3TB drive, and even at that it appears that I only have a total of four usable ports. So I need a nice disk controller with large drive support, and perhaps someone else will find this...

Relating to your difficulties time, as I believe I mentioned before, the Outlook mail uploader from Google barfed on complex folder structures (i.e. more than one level of nested folder) when I used it. I wound up verifying everything and moving what wasn't there by hand using simple IMAP copies.

To be honest, practically every modern file format is compressed to some greater or lesser degree. Even things like Word documents and CAD drawings are inflated and deflated as they're opened.

It's an Acer product. That should be the end of discussion.

They're very slow and expensive by current standards.

As I think I've mentioned before, I run drives with north of a dozen hard drives on 500W PSUs. The only thing I do is stagger spin-up.

OK, yeah, technically the one I really like is the Trackman Marble Wheel.

Thumb goes on trackball. Fingers go on buttons. I can use any input device put in front of me. I've been using trackballs for 15 years or so. I dimly recall a four hour period where I struggled a little bit to get used to my first one.

I will as usual put in a vote for a Logitech Trackman Marble+. The only thing I ever move is my thumb.

I'm 5'9" and 197. I can put on 34" pants but I don't think I'd wear them in public.

DriveImage XML perhaps?

Pretty good deal on Ebay: 12 bay Supermicro chassis with motherboard, 800 watt PSU and 8-port SATA controller for $215 shipped. The guy has six of them.

I used to know a guy from a service company who would spit absolutely any time anyone said Toshiba. We all have our personal likes and dislikes. I'm sure the Thinkpads are solid. I've bought plenty of SLx10s and they've been great, solid machines. But at this point those C2Ds are two generations...

An interesting observation: Since I have this little Acer box here I've been playing with it. I've found that while the 2TB Seagate Green drives work like ass in RAID arrays, they're much better behaved with WHS. I stuck an eSATA card in and I presently have six 2TB drives connected. They all...

What I'm looking for is the least expensive, modern business-class notebook. There are $450 Probook 4530ses that have i3 CPUs and business-class support. Lenovo's least expensive products are the SL510 and the Edge, but the Edge isn't my favorite Thinkpad and the SL-series (which I like quite a...

General impressions, if nothing else. Support experiences would be most helpful.

My customers have the same issues with 2008 as they do with Vista/Win7, which is that some of their stuff doesn't run for one reason or other.

The problem is, no one really wants Server 2008.

Anyone done anything with these? I need to generate a quote for a number of laptops and while I'm familiar with similar Thinkpads and Latitudes, I don't have any experience with current HP products.

In the history of ever and for all my clients, I still only have six Server 2008 machines in production. At least one machine I'll have to update this year will probably still be Server 2003, though I'm going to try to get away with virtualizing it one way or the other.

Happy birthday dd. :)

It would be relatively trivial to add a port scan to such an attack to find the RDP port. It's really not worth the hassle to move it. You're better off not exposing RDP externally in the first place, but that can be an issue if you have some obnoxious client that can't handle the VPN protocols...

Global warming does not mean that the Earth just gets hotter, jtr.

I've observed that behavior on Gigabyte's AMD 990FX board too. I'm guessing it's some kind of delay whilethe storage controller initializes. I'll bet it would go away if AHCI were disabled.

Anyone know offhand of a small-ish inexpensive TV that handles DLNA video?

Part of me is tempted to suggest that suggest that there's quite a bit of the usual bias toward making things that happen to the East Coast huge news. But hurricanes do suck and there are enough people in that general area that I'm sure it will create misery on some level no matter what.

I stuck it on the only non-workstation board I had handy, which wound up being an Asus H61 something-or-other. It powered on but did not boot. That might've been correctable with a BIOS update or a Z68 board, but amazingly enough no one bought one and I didn't have THAT much time to mess with it...

Classical music has a much wider need for searchable fields and methods of organization than other music. We need to know composer, conductor, performers - possibly broken down by multiple soloists, accompanists and/or ensemble, the production label, year of recording for cases where a single...

It think if one thing has been proven definitively this week, it's that the consuming public is really demanding a high quality $100 tablet. HP presumably took a bath on every Touchpad it sold, but does anyone think that an Apple product is ever going to compete on the basis of price?

I don't care for the interface. It's very clunky, especially by relying on cover art or song title as principle forms of identification. I didn't like the space constraint nor the extreme randomness in what it actually uploaded. I could understand it uploading alphabetically until space filled...

I have it. It's pretty lame. The uploader grabbed about 10% of my music collection and sort of randomly uploaded it. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it decided what to grab. Maybe because I have multiple symlinks pointing to the same directories on my file server? Anyway, it's lame...

No, because Microsoft can tell from the generated activation code what has changed between activations.

I'm of the opinion that nice speakers are made by Brits. But we'd need to have some idea of a budget to offer recommendations. When I got around to updating the system for my bedroom, I got on Ebay and managed to find a full set of Kef's budget-line Q-series speakers for a total of $700...