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Kent, Washington.

All those disk tools are on Hiram's boot disc and probably the ultimate boot CD if you can track down a copy of either.

From an Email exchange I had with a friend, whose sister has decided that the cast of "Jersey Shore" is her fashion and behavioral template, and whose taste in literature runs to Twilight and "Teen People":

Sadly 4:3 LCDs have gone the way of the dodo. Sniff.

Just a quick science experiment to bring up: One of my customers asked me to order him extra batteries for his and his main salesman's Lenovo T400 notebooks. The battery used in that model is the same as the one used in my widescreen T61 and in newer T410 and T510 models that several other...

I'm not arguing and frankly given my situation I don't think anyone can blame me.

Not on a Lenovo. 1440x900 is the highest resolution I've seen on a 14/15" Lenovo screen. If you want to go blind looking at a high-res Dell screen, I gotta tell you, there are better ways to go blind.

He was referring to the notebook. The displays on new Thinkpads are indeed very nice.

I'd probably go with the more expensive Brother printer, just because I know there's no limit to the things HP is capable of fucking up.

I won't be able to go out there again until next week. The theory that IDE emulation or something similar is the source of the problem makes a lot of sense, but of course that's something I can't correct without having to do a repair install of Windows and that's not going to happen on that...

None recent enough to matter.

Still waiting to get my 240GB Vertex back, too.

Now if only they'd quit making SSDs

I've been directing my customers to Brother laser printers for the last few years. The MFC-2xyz guys are very solid hardware.

That word is much worse than the one I thought you meant.

More reports of Australian streets being invaded by man eating terror fish.

Yes, because I strongly suspect those chips are the single biggest impediment to the laptop having a long life regardless of its present operational state. I have a couple made in 2000 750MHz IBM T20s in my apartment that still work just fine. Someone can say that these are notebooks that are...

I am Storagereview.com forum user #7. I don't visit the forum any more. It's too noisy there. I've looked a reviews a few times in the last year. I'm primarily looking at performance graphs or a reviewer's subjective opinion about drive noise. I really don't pay much attention to the verbiage of...

I have some customers who have Latitude D630s, and both my parents' notebooks are affected as well. People keep Apple notebooks forever and ever. Even if you don't personally own or support this hardware, you probably know some people who do.

I bought the Marvell card. I don't know if I'll get to try it before next week, but at least I have it now.

SAS does not work that way.

Newegg sells an ARK rack mounted case that has nine 3.5" bays and three 5.25" (enough to hold a 5 in 3 enclosure), which holds a very respectable number of drives. When they're on sale they drop down to $60 with free shipping. Cabling is a nightmare but they're very easy to silence.

Looks like people who have Apple and Dell machines with faulty nVidia GPUs can get the GPU replaced for free.

I'd rather have eSATA work the way it's supposed to.

I was thinking it's like the best parts of Aliens and Black Hawk Down, myself.

The big database is SQLbase. It dismounts and dumps a snapshot once a day and has its own maintenance setup, but that still needs to go in with the larger system backup. I'm doing a full backup once a week and differentials through the week. The removable drive is supposed to be replaced daily...

That's the reality of working for a small business.

I'm not sure what you mean. Currently, there are two RAID1 arrays in that machine, one for the OS and one for the databases and file share stuff. I can back up the OS array on the other drive, but the other array's (differential backups) won't fit on the OS drive.

I think it's automatic and shouldn't be used unless 3D stuff is actually happening.

That's still a Silicon Image chip.

Basically everything that lives outside and comes from Oz can kill people anyway. I've read that even cuddly little Koalas are vicious bastards, let alone Nature-Guide killing fauna and carnivorous plants.

There's only one place to put a card in a 1U server. If the card has internal SATA ports but not an eSATA port, there's no place to put a plate with an eSATA port on it. The card would need the eSATA port. All the internal drive bays and ports are in use.

I haven't seen any that have onboard eSATA ports.

All claims about battery life are lies. I can an uninterrupted get 6:45 out of my SSD-equipped T61 if I disable the NICs and Bluetooth, turn the display brightness down to "3" and use both the nine cell and ultrabase batteries.

Tyan says it's not their fault, and I don't have ready access to test another of that particular variety of GT20. But given my past experiences with Silicon Image, I'm not willing to discount the possibility that everything with one of their chips in it might be garbage.

Not yet. Every time I'm there I'm under the gun to get crap done in the maintenance window. It's statistically improbable that I got three bad cards from three different vendors, though.

No. Yes. Yes. The drives work fine. The enclosures work fine when connected to a different machine on a native eSATA port.

Distances are different up in Canuckistan. They're in some weirdo frenchy measurement system for one thing and for another we're all convinced that your currency is based on beaver pelts and poutine and that everything north of Toronto, Windsor and Vancouver might as well be Nunavut.

Funny that this thread is at the top of the list. Now that the UPS man has come for today I have a 12" Edge, a 15" Edge, an L-series, and two SL-series in my office. I like the SLs best.

In theory, yes. In practice, I doubt it.

This one. It looks very intense.

I've thought about doing that, but of course you know how much Windows likes having the disk controller for the boot drives changed. I also looked in to getting a one or two drive external SAS enclosure and moving to a grown-up storage system but I can't find one for anything less than four...

I manage a server where backups to a USB drive have gotten to the point where they exceed the window of time allotted for daily maintenance due to the server's production schedule (one hour a day, seven days a week). To this point, backups have been written to an external USB2 drive. I need the...

SAS doesn't work like that. Fiber Channel does.

Near where I grew up in Illinois, there were Hope, Faith and Chastity, one right after the other, each with a single-digit population. There's also a Hell, Michigan.

What's real world battery life like?

The trailers for Battle: Los Angeles are all supremely awesome, especially the third one. Why had I not heard of this movie?

Dealnews has a link to a really sickening deal on an X201. i7/2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200rpm drive, 9 cell battery, 12" screen and 3lb. weight. $850 including the shipping.

The biggest weakness with 3.5" single drive enclosures is the crummy power brick. Antec makes a really nice single drive eSATA enclosure, but I don't want to pay what Antec charges for it. This is the one I've been buying.

For my birthday, yes. My friend is doing better now, though she has another month of recovery before she's off all her medical restrictions.