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Wow!! Talk about the morning after being painful... s

Swifttech, Swifttech, ... s :mrgrn:

Quigley Down Under, while not an Oscar winner, had me rolling most of the time. I like 45-110 sharps... s

Just saw the HULK. Ang Lee, the director, really used this as a vehicle for wonderful, artful, use of camera, and formatting. He used a lot of split screen stuff, unusual, but well done. Long, but well done. s

Never happen. Insurance compaines out of business. Lawyers loosing many profitable cases. Darwinian dwindling of the gene pool taken out of the mix... Seriously, it's a great idea. Think of all the time we waste driving, that could be used productively, in transit. s

Tea How much is it going to cost to buy a decent controller to run your Raptor off? s

Mercutio: The more I think about it, the more sense swappable ide drives make, or same drives, using the firewire interface for hotswapping. Have you looked into removeable drive setups? s

Well, Hi Tea. First off, the thought of buying a new ide drive, just off the production lines, for anything, makes me want to throw up. Buy end of life, proven drives, and use em for storage is the way I like to go. Last time I did this I bought 5 Quantum LM's, for something like 50-75 each...

Wouldn't bother my power supply, but you are quite right, they would be better in an external raid box. Alternative two: What about hotswapable ide, or firewire drive setups? Seems like this would be the best way to store data, in large quanities... s

JTR: What did you say??? Noisest thing in my box is the cooler on my cpu. I do, on occassion, detect hard drive noise. I like that, since I've learned what they should sound like, and, I've been able to pick off virus problems a couple times thanks to weird drive writing noises. If I was...

"47.0GB, SCSI-II, 4MB Cache, 68PIN, great from RAID systems!" Above from Pricewatch: 29.00 Just keep adding drives until you have enough storage, with scsi, 15 devices limit. Oh, ide is only two per channel? You loose... :mrgrn:

Prof Wizard: What I've found is that if you shop carefully, you can setup scsi for little enough more then IDE, that in the long run, you save money. I bought an oem uw scsi card 99 dollars, with cable, and have a 10k cheetah hooked up to it for an old mac. It's not huge, 18 gigs, but for...

I've never understood the need for huge storage these days, when you can burn CD's for data, and DVD's for data, for 50 cents or less, for 600 MB. Seems like it's been neglected, but I suspect server type caching algorithims, and the large caches on cheetahs, function better in a random access...

Access time, cache, algorithims, all that neat stuff. I just like everything about scsi but the price, and the fact that it's expensive since royalties are paid to Intel, but the world isn't perfect. I guess my real specific liking is for Seagate's Cheetahs. Haven't found one I didn't like... s

I hate to say I told you so but: IDE PERFORMANCE MILESTONES by Santilli 1. Scsi hits 15k and 3.9 ms three years ago. 2. IDE hits an 8 mb of cache, on a 7200 rpm drive, and it's hailed as the second coming. However, it took longer. taking about 3 years to go from the previous milestone...

Pradeep: Yep, atto 32 bit vs. the later card being 64 bit/66mhz. Difference would only have been about 10 mb/sec on a board that's 32/33mhz. In other words, when I bought it, the faster bus was just becoming avaliable. Suspect these days same drives, on a current mobo and controller, could...

Why bother? I enjoy the limited membership, and limited intercourse(I'm getting old :?: :wink: ) Having large disscussions about storage topics, with the progress in IDE drives in the last 3-4 years is really much to do about nothing... s

Naw. Just certain shipping departments use'em for Conga drums prior to shipping. :wink:

OK: Some quick questions: Is anyone building a SAS or S-ATA controller that gives you any kind of value? What are the cable costs going to be like? From reading a bit, I gather all the big boys are behind this one, Seagate, etc. What are the interface differences that give is similar, or not...

It's been a hard couple years here. Seems like when I think things are going to mellow out for awhile, they get worse... s

Groltz: ROFL!!! She's already got go after the mouse instincts, and, go after the fish instincts. Now if I can get her to focus better on the front site, ... :wink: s

Pictures? Waiting on digital, so that means Canon Eos... that could take a week, at least.... s

Hey Bill!!! How's life!!! Don't answer, just glad to see you around... If you are up at this hour, life sucks... :mrgrn: :mrgrn: s

In perfect, Socratic style, the only board I've ever been considered for as a moderator, doesn't need me, which is a perfect model for the ideal, philosopher/king. He who will, if forced, do office, but, would like not too.... s

"zoom" is NOT WHAT YOU HAVE... S :mrgrn:

Yawn!!! What fun is that? I had similar optics, but we had more fun. Line up the two X's, pull trigger, target goes bye bye, up to 27 miles. 105 mm, 37 pound HEI, at 2900 fps.... s

Hi Splash!!! How have you been? Why would I change out a functioning 110 MB/sec raid? Perhaps for setting up a similar raid with one of the the G5 Macs? 8gigs of ram? a gig bus? etc. I am actually wondering what to do if, in the next year, a hard drive fails... s

Seriously: Here, nearly 3 years later, we finally have 10k ide drives. For 3 years, Davin and Eugene have been saying how great ide drives are, when, in fact, compared to existing 15k cheetahs, they seriously suck. While all the IDE guys have been sucking eggs, changing ide drives, my 4 x 15k...

Heresy, by the way, are FANTASTIC, old, Klipisch speakers, that make a surround sound simply ROCK.... s

Thanks: But... IIRC, the boys needed us ALL to be on board with the program, and I think they needed us to sell the success of THEIR board. Nice they had it, buy Gary H, Tannin, Etc. ARE Storage Review.com. Eugene and Davin provided a place for their wisdom, and, when the cost of the board...

Hi I have ended up as Dad to a feral cat, "Alice Capone". She's a little less then two pounds, about a foot long, and smarter then a whip. Black, with white spats, and, proving the theory that cats are VERY inquestive. I think, part feral, perhaps part wild, like wild cat, lynx, she's VERY...

Well, I guess I'm glad I bought the HP Laserjet 4000N. Been running for years, no problems. Thanks for the info on the cheaper models. Wonder if the Laserjet office models are going downhill? s

Ahh, the poor fish were just hungry :wink: Thought the guy was a seal. Little boards, in a wetsuit, looks like a small seal, favorite food. Thank God they both didn't hit him at the same time. So much for the stupid fish idea about white sharks. A pair, attacking at the same time... Reminds...

Darn. If Splash thinks it's a good thing, I'm going to do serious research into this topic, and it comes at a REALLY bad time. AS we ALL know, Dolphins, and Killer Whales, are smarter, brain capacity to body weight, then we are... Law office, small law office, wants me to do a couple...

Hi Tea!! Wish I had time to get out and visit your friends at Marineworld. :cry: s

Problem with the drive is that you have to hook it up to a controller. The problem with ide, serial, whatever, is it's low cost, and, so are the controllers. Another problem is I save my money, and buy stuff that I hope doesn't break every three years, or less. Most of the people here are...

http://www.cloudmark.com/ Their free version works great. Easy steps to block.. s

YAWN!!!! YAWN!!!!!!! Another "newer and better, you have to won, it's the best thing on the planet, according to storage review, drive"...YAWN... "Scotty! All the cheetahs still firing?" "Aie, captain. Even the ones that are 7 years old. They are still faster, access wise, in the real...

DATA RECOVERY is expensive Around here, the SF area, it's SO expensive it isn't worth doing, unless your income was dependent on it. I currently don't have much that I couldn't loose on my harddrives that isn't backed up. I think people fail to respect you if you give your services away...

I researched it, and decided on a Panasonic Toughbook, CF-37. First, it's not THAT tough. It does weigh 4 pounds, dripping wet, after coffee is spilled on it, and keeps running. It's not cheap, and it's borderline for windows 2000(366mhz celeron). The newer ones would be a good idea, but...

Sound cards are weird. I've tried a bunch of cards, Philips, Sound Blaster, etc. in a Dell dimension xpsr400, and none worked. Went to an ISA Yamaha Opl3SAXWDM and it works fine. :roll: Go figure...

Stuck on the horns of a dilema(sp?) Cliptin: what causes the difference in scsi speeds, and, is the threat sufficent to justify going to service pack 3, and disabling my sound cards' features? Phillips acoustic edge. DR S

Thanks Cliptin I'm still running service pack 2, because scsi drops 10-15% with 3. You just gave me another reason to pass on it. Thanks Greg

ROFL!!!! ". I did feel a moment's guilt over that, but decided it could be my small blow for justice, freedom, and revenge on behalf of Santilli." Tannin, that made my Christmas :mrgrn:

Guy solutions not the same as girls... Remember: If you put this in the machine, chances are really good she's going to be pissed, wondering why you didn't spend the 200 bucks on a necklace for her for Christmas... :excl:

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Most raids suck at small block transfers... under 64k low rates are normal. If you want blinding speed, format for 32-64k, or even 128k, and use fat 32. Have a Merry Chirstmas. PS: I use an old ATTO card, dual channel, ultra 160, and it doesn't really start jumping until 64k.

A VERY Wise man... I have a Dell 400 mhz P2 in the other room that is now "The girls' computer". As has been posted above, she likes having her own computer, and, with a Kyro 2 video card, and a Quantum LM, it's plenty fast enough, along with 384 mb of ram. I strongly suggest you ask your...

I had a Dell system with 98 and a Turtle Beach. No drivers for 2000, for the longest time... Ditched the card, and currently need one that works. The Phillips Edge works great on my athlon, but caused boot hangs with the Dell 400mhz P2. Currently it has NO sound card, but, I might try a...