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3.5" drives and enclosures aren't designed to be moved around. In my experience they're a lot more delicate, no matter how much they're babied. I toss my bag full of 2.5" drives around and don't have any issues with those. I'd never try that with 3.5" drives. Also: USB is slow. Modern hard...

For what it's worth, I've never found memory testing to be all that helpful. Most of the time bad RAM just doesn't reveal itself until it's in a system. Even hardware testers are inadequate to that task.

I almost always buy a $15 keyboard and mouse kit from Logitech. I use them in classrooms and on builds I do for other people when they ask for a keyboard. They're just fine for the intended purpose. People who actually want wireless stuff are usually directed to Microsoft's least expensive...

$1800 for a 14 tape library. I'm the second owner but the drive itself was made in July so it clearly wasn't used THAT much. They gave me a half dozen blank tapes too. Tapes are around $20 for 800GB. I haven't completely figured out how to work Backup Exec with it, but since I have well over...

Personally, I just invested in an LTO4 library. My backups can sit in a fireproof safe in my parents' house.

So to answer my own question, "can Silicon Image do anything right?", the answer is no, it can't. I switched to a Marvell 6Gbps controller and magically everything worked the first time I plugged it all in. Backup time dropped to a third of what it was on USB2.

That's what Chicago looks like at dawn and twilight. Is there EXIF data that says when the picture was taken?

I don't work whenever the schools are closed, so that's nothing new. I did, however, get a 4:15AM "We had a blackout and the UPS ran out of juice and now our server isn't working"-call. So that was fun. There's about three feet of snow on my deck right now and I'm glad I don't have to shovel any...

One of the reasons I might not be seeing issues is my practice of using softRAID rather than relying on the specific features of a given controller. I suspect that the tolerances you're describing are different when there's fewer specific assumptions about a given drive's behavior while in an array.

I have four systems with 14 operating Samsung HD103UJs (1TB, 7200rpm) in RAID6 + 2 hot spares each and they've run without issue, Buck. I'm specifically thinking that the low-rpm drives are the bad guys in all this. I believe the largest array of Seagate drives I have is seven of the 1.5TB...

I don't really know or care enough about that stuff. I work with whatever people bring me. One of the consistent things that seems to come up is that low-cost HD cameras are missing basic features like mic inputs that used to be standard.

IBM/Hitachi drives have always been fine for me. Even my 75GB 75GXP had a long and healthy life.

The first guy who came to my apartment to do my business cable install had at that time never worked with any data equipment, only TV. Which might be why my cable modem was still on a residential IP block for a year and a half. I'm not sure where ISPs get these guys but they kind of scare me.

Out of the last two dozen or so orders for small numbers of drives I've placed with Amazon, the normal standard for packing is in a custom box that contains two plastic inserts that hold the drive suspended and cushioned on all sides, just like every drive you've ever gotten in a retail box...

When I started looking at replacement drives for my arrays, I kept reading that people had issues with 5900rpm drives in RAID5 arrays. Lots of problems with the drives not responding quickly enough to controller commands and dropped from the array. Seagate drives were specifically fingered as...

Does ios have Skyfire? Skyfire is what my Windows Mobile phone used to get Flash support.

Why not pay $75 or $100 to have someone put one together for you? One thing I've heard recently that kind of surprised me is that hiring manager get annoyed looking at the same MS Word resume templates over and over.

My generic recommendation for straightforward movie making is Ulead Moviefactory. The bigger problem I'm running in to these days is that a lot of simple DVD making programs don't support .MTS files from an HD camera. At that point, you need something like Xilisoft's Video Converter to turn the...

So far I've found 8 PC100 or PC133 128MB modules. I'm testing them in a Thinkpad T20 that does have a 512MB module, but you can't have that one .

Both Lifehacker and Apartment Therapy (part of Unplugd) have suggestions for cable management all the damned time. Personally, I use binder clips to keep my stuff looking tidy.

A couple of my customers have them, and so does my ex. My ex doesn't like hers because she thought it was going to be a functional tablet with a functional web browser, just something that would be less hassle for security stuff. It doesn't have Flash, which restricts some of her web browsing...

At this point my rule of thumb is that if Amazon sells it, I'm buying it from Amazon.

I haven't found any 256s yet but I'm still looking.

Kitty Midnight Madness! Because I think we all know that there can never be too many cat videos on the internet.

Is your Amazon.com broken?

The interesting issue here is who Intel's customers are in this case. Just as with the nVidia GPU recall, Intel didn't sell those chips to us directly (well, unless you have an Intel board), but rather to Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Foxconn and any other members of the usual gang of idiots.

Well that's a kick in the nuts.

Software RAID5/6 in my experience is fast enough for what I want to do with it, which is store gargantuan amounts of data in a fault tolerant fashion. If you'd like, I can run some tests to see what write speeds look like on a four or five drive Windows softRAID5.

Probably.

You can get calls if you're connected to the 4G network.

Did you have a drive failure or just some random crap where one or more of the drives disconnected?

He says he's saving it for the next time he takes a trip.

There's a setting buried in the menu options on the Android browser.

I'm not doing basic Email. It's completely fine for that. I needed to log in to delete a few thousand messages on a Google Apps account that was at quota. Turns out that neither Gmail Mobile nor the Basic HTML version of Gmail show the "select all" button or "select all messages in folder" for...

Gmail is ironically not very good through an Android phone. Email is fine, but if I navigate to the site because I need to do folder management or look at an old message, none of the available views show me things I need to see, at least not with the builtin browser or Firefox for Android.

I suspect I'm going to want to purchase something to do Remote Desktop/VNC stuff for my Evo, and possibly an 802.11 site survey application. Those are things that are missing from my phone that I'm going to need.

You know you're talking to an AT&T user in Chicago when they say things like "Sorry about that. I got too close to a building." when they resume their conversation. True story.

Enough of my customers are that I get to deal with the dropped call network on a regular basis.

I don't think you're in a position to judge that, iphone-boy.

I just found out that the version of Office 2010 that is installed through Ninite.com can be upgraded to any version for which you have a product key. I did not realize that.

Get Amazon Prime. I get HDTVs that have to be delivered freight second day.

They take forever to ship things. Maybe it's better if you're in California.

I have a new theory that the amount of ass a notebook is exponentially proportional to the number of stickers on that notebook. I developed this theory after peeling seven stickers of a Toshiba notebook that might be the biggest piece of shit I've worked on in recent memory. I think it's a...

I bought a Kindle for my dad for his birthday and despite the fact that the man reads a book a day it's still in the box three weeks later.

802.11, on every phone I've messed with, chews through a battery a lot faster than data service.

Nope. They're all little like that. Though the "little" one is still just as big as the one on my T61s.

People ask awkward questions when you carry a laptop to your daily 8:15AM appointment.

Data plans are awesome. Nothing like web browsing in the john.

Your fault for being on a service with data limits if that's important to you. Honestly, 5GB/month for most plans is probably plenty for the vast majority of users. The only way I could get above that on my other phone was if I tried really hard

My Evo was $300 with a $100 rebate. It's arguably the nicest phone on the market right now, though I'll concede that Verizon also has some sweet Android phones. Part of the reason people are willing to pay extra is that they're accustomed to the Apple tax associated with iphones and for better...