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DD We need to talk. I am new to using computers to make money, from home. Let's do lunch or something....

What does it draw at idle? Does it ever get off idle, doing anything;-)? Make me an offer I can't refuse, like you did last time;-)

Wonder how AMAZON would handle such a situation?

I did my research, with some help here, and these are some of the most reliable drives available. I'm unable to register either drive, through WD. They were older drives, but unused. To be honest, the prices are the maximum I would pay for a drive. I'm not paying retail for a WD RE4. I paid...

WTF to do: OK: It looks like ServerTech Solutions Inc. specializes in fraud in advertizing, and shipping drives without the warranty that they should have, and, old, OEM drives. Problem is, the reason I bought the WD RE4 2 TB, and HGST 4 TB is they are supposed to be the best drives on the...

I am using that program. I did NOT think it was the program used by HGST to test their drives. Am i wrong?

HGST's is not. Other suggestions?

Hi I'm wondering what you use for testing hard drives? Thanks GS

Serverpartdeals???? Counter offer: Which option would you take? " Hello, I have confirmed with my sales team that this drive is not used, but was just manufactured in 2012. The drive you have now is covered by a warranty through us directly. If you chose to keep that drive, we can refund you...

Been using Pale Moon, Firefox, and IE for one site. All good.

The problem is the lack of information supplied in the adds: For Example: " WD RE4 2 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD2003FYYS by Western Digital 218 customer reviews | 4 answered questions List Price: $449.99 Price: $109.00 & FREE Shipping You Save...

The problem is the lack of information supplied in the adds: For Example: " WD RE4 2 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD2003FYYS by Western Digital 218 customer reviews | 4 answered questions List Price: $449.99 Price: $109.00 & FREE Shipping You Save...

HGST 3.6 gig arrived yesterday. Spent most of the day trying to initialize the entire disk. Would only initialize 1.6 gigs, wouldn't see the rest. Tried both machines, no joy. Finally decided to check my bios. It was F3, it's now F13, and supports 3.6 gig drives or larger. It is the latest beta...

Got that one right. My Athlon 3800 works fine with 7 but no sound drivers. Same installing 8 on my existing Gigabyte motherboard, no sound drivers. So staying with 7. Don't think the companies planned it that way?

If you follow through on Dropbox you get 48-50 gigs of storage. Free, but it eats ram....

law in our area is really bad. An attorney I know has had his per month cut from 10 grand, to 700 dollars, and, He is the rain maker????!!!! He's on 30 percent commission on his billings.

Best program to test drives to make sure they are ok from the factory?

Likely I'll copy most of this stuff to the drive, then remove the drive from service, waiting for the others to fail. 2 TB is about 1000 dollars in movies. So, the drive will have 2 grand in movies on it.

Sucks sometimes....

Congrats Sedrosken! I'm 130 grand in the hole. I got hooked on teaching special education for 10 years, after graduating from law school. My loans are split between collectors, so I can't consolidate at this point. They want so much money in payments, considering my income, and my 60 year age...

Thanks Pulled the trigger on a 4 TB Deskstar for 185. free shipping, amazon. I REALLY need to protect my data, and this will the be backup disk for a bunch of movies. I've backed up my data on two, old, seagate drives, that aren't used much. Funny how the low capacity drives seem to last a...

I'm finding everytime I find a drive for a good price, on amazon, there is a catch. For instance the product page will say a 5 year warranty on a new drive. The one with the 155.00 price tag states a 1 year warranty, and the drive is bare, or OEM. The rest are 220.00 and up, that state 5 year...

One website, run by the NCAA, arbitersports.com, seems to work by far the best when using the latest IE. I use it for that one website pretty much exclusively. Latest version of FF doesn't seem to like Twitter login. But works on Chrome. Go figure. Just downloaded Palemoon. Seems ok, and I...

REALLY? On a hot internet connection, latest IE, Chrome, and Firefox all have speed and features that make them all worth using. Wonder if I can run Puffin on my home computer;-)? THAT is a speed improvement you notice....

I will look into these drives. Maybe newegg 2TB for 149?

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Repackaged Hard Drives, July 31, 2013 By Josh Finkelstein "Josh" This review is from: HGST Deskstar 3.5-Inch 4TB 7200 RPM SATA III 6Gbps 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (0F14681) (HDS724040ALE640) (Personal Computers) *** Unfortunately, this review is not about the...

The data loss is a lot. You take each Bluray disk, at 20-30 dollars average, 40-50 gigs each, and you have 40 times 20-30 dollars lost, with this 120 dollar drive gone. Replacement? Where are you all getting, or renting Bluray disks these days? All those were from Blockbuster. Gone. I guess...

Hi Just had an external 2 TB Seagate die at 2.5 years, on a 3 year warranty. I'm after internal drives, in the 2-4 TB range, that will last. 3-6 years is good. NAS? Newegg has the 2 TB models for around 120. They suck on service. Costco? Just returned a 2 TB, after it died, pulled it out...

IIRC, I went from an Athlon 3200, and switched that out for a dual core 3800 for something like 30 dollars. Doubled the speed of the processor for 30 dollars? How can you beat that? It's still running, and since I have a Xerox dinosauer 130df Laser printer that has drivers only in XP, and...

My thoughts. The front of the 180 is really annoying. I don't like to have to open the front of the box every time I turn on the computer, and the plastic stuff they use to secure it is weak, and bended. Right now I have propped it so the front will not allow cat hair to enter, and will have to...

Hi I should be done around 2PM in Salinas doing a tourney. Does that work for you, on Sunday? gs

Thanks David That's GREAT news.... Hopefully I'll be down Sunday to pick it up, along with work.

Hi Merc Whats in the box, and what do you want for it???? email me.. Thx gs

I've recently installed Nod 32 mobile from eset. It's really kind of scary how many programs have access to all data, and most people give it to them, when they don't need it, at all. Why does Costco's and 24 Hour Fitness need to have pretty much root access to my data, email lists, etc...

Puffin makes going to my work site easy, and fast. I think the site uses Flash, IIRC, but not in any major way. Still, it makes the regular site bearable, without having to pay for the mobile site. www.arbitersports.com

Try Puffin for a web Browser: http://www.puffinbrowser.com/index.php Works great, and is MUCH faster then the other browsers...

For what it's worth: I just tried the site on my 600 Samsung Mega. I use Puffin for my web browsing on Android http://www.puffinbrowser.com/index.php I turned rotation on, and reading the forum Horizontially, it fits nicely in the Mega's screen, and I don't have to change sizes like I do in...

We all loved Eugene. He was the reason this site exists.... ROFL....

The 940 is plenty fast for anything I do. It also eats twice the energy of the current processors, and according to passmark, is half the speed of a 4770k. I'm not an overclocking type. What is a bit of a bother is the new cpus, starting with the i7, five years ago, and coupled with a decent...

Thx. With the way stuff is packaged, and my consumer/whatever consumption of computers, and parts packaged it seems to prevent ESD, i.e. plastic cases on memory etc., I've never thought ESD was really much to worry about, and thought the computer companies who design components had designed...

Thx. With the way stuff is packaged, and my consumer/whatever consumption of computers, and parts packaged it seems to prevent ESD, i.e. plastic cases on memory etc., I've never thought ESD was really much to worry about, and thought the computer companies who design components had designed...

How is Samsung relevant to XP support? I run Samsung products on XP. Is considering they are the ONLY monitors offered by Costco, that is relevant, don't you think????

Santilli Santilli is online now Storage? I am Storage! Santilli's Avatar Join Date Jan 2002 Posts 4,701 Sounds like my house... The Beast, which DD is working on, is down. I've had to move to move the HTPC in, and I'm now doing my business stuff on it. I kept the HTPC on XP3...

Reason I haven't posted here much. You all are in a different league from my skills with computers. Irony is some folks think I actually know something about computers, and won't pay me for other services, unless I come over and try to solve their computer problems.

Thanks. Great information. I'm probably responsible for the damage to my own computers....

Do Dell, HP, and the other consumer computer makers follow such anti-static environment assembly techniques? Any statistics to back this up, or tests, etc.?

I don't think DD is really in the "amateur anti-static procedures" category as a machine builder. Originally it was DD's machine... I do realize that was a dig at me, and thanks for that, but, you missed. More likely, I have a motherboard that simply went south. Out of two athlon- gigabyte...

Yes, I get DOS.... Merc used to argue for consumer stuff to be replaced by enterprise. My experience is with enterprise hardware, this system would have run, and been effective for at least 10 years, if not more, for my uses. But, the gigabyte MOBO was designed to die in 5 years. Merc: your...

This system was protected by both a UPS and a APC voltage reg. Kind of concerned about what made it go south....

PS: Work one looks a bit anemic. Hasn't Splash required you to do photos from space labs?;-) gs PS what happened to splash?