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If you are looking for a decent and inexpensive micro-ATX mobo case, the cute CoolerMaster Elite 340 gets my vote. It uses standard ATX power supplies with PS/2 screw hole mount pattern. http://www.coolermaster.com/products/product.php?act=detail&tbcate=168&id=2563

Nope. It's certainly for real: 'Surprised' Western Digital to revisit multimedia file sharing limits The decision to block access, it says, was driven by legal fears http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052339

I have a security fastener toolkit. They are hard to come by and the one I have cost me dearly. I suspect some of the high cost was attributed to licensing fees and less to the nice tough ABS plastic case that contains it all. It has, I believe, 37 different bits -- all sorts of oddball tips...

Maybe you should have asked in a more diacritical fashion... Whërë thë hëll ïs ëvërybödÿ!?!

There's so much patently bad advice and wrong information in this thread that I don't know where to begin.

I highly suspect there will be a nasty bump in HDTV demand when the NTSC cutoff date hits and prices will rise accordingly with the nasty bump. Still, I don't plan on purchasing a "native" HD-TV system until a couple or so years after the NTSC cutoff date. I presently view over-the-air HD-TV...

That record was certainly shattered recently: Most users ever online was 510, 06-27-2007 at 02:30 PM Is a website crawling with (presumably benign) spiders such a good thing? What is StorageForum's GB-per-month production numbers these days? Back in 2003, I believe it was around 3...

There have been a few situations when I could have used a digital still camera that was narrow / pistol-like, like this Canon TX1 -- situations where I was simultaneously pushing through heavy brush and trying to take photos. Experienced photo people are generally too acclimated to the...

CNC machines? Actually, I've followed CNC machine technologies over the years and the marketplace somewhat (in recent times). I've had some semi-crazy thoughts about building my own 3-axis CNC router with a vacuum table. :owneddnce: When it comes to making wood parts for geetars and such, I...

As Mister T likes to say, "Pity the fool!" Or is it, "Pity the foo !"

Merc, you need to become a religious man. After being borne again, you'll find yourself running into all sorts of "available" women... http://www.youtube.com/v/WNwE_itrwjk

There is currently no way (that I'm aware of) to get from any level in the forums to the top of the hierarchy without typing http://www.storageforum.net/ into the browser. Case in point: Storageforum > Off Topic > Feedback > Clicking on "Storageforum" on the folder level indicator...

Unless you have a nice fat pipe to a backbone, it would be a hell of a long time over a skinny lil' DSL line in this day and age of billions of DNS entries. As for your predicament: I highly suspect that your ISP had a DNS server failure or server upgrade and is now trying to get the...

Strangely enough, just about EXACTLY two years to the week, I saw a "leaked" specifications sheet on a (then) upcoming SATA CD-R/W product from LiteON. I suspect, shortly thereafter, an overly-knee-jerk-conservative LiteON decided to delay or kill the product for economic reasons due to the...

Holy sh%# batman! I believe I'll drive over to a nearby Fry'z in the morning and buy one for $159 (+8.25% local sales tax). There was a veritable mountain of 750 GB Baccarudas in the middle of the floor at the Fry's store I'm talking about back in August.

The transition from parallel SCSI (Ultra 320) to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is definitely taking place. SAS is quickly replacing parallel SCSI in the server racks and in higher-end workstations. Mixed SAS and SATA environments are being embraced by the cutting edge technical and enterprise...

I've picked up a Logitech Revolution, but I have not actually used one. 1.) It's expensive. 2.) I suspect my "large" hands would eventually not like it so much. Actually, I would give this mouse a 50/50 chance of working out in the long run.

Ditto.

The esoteric becomes commodity: http://www.edn.com/article/CA6370822.html?industryid=42871

Did you get permission from their management first? It's certainly worth repairing these systems as opposed to just "nuking" them -- provided that it can be done faster than backing up said system, wiping that system, and reinstalling the operating system, all the application software, and...

Is "Mourn" one of us regular Storage Forum poster? I've barely kept up with the status of Floating @ Home since it started a few years ago. It seemed a bunch of people were doing SETI, then all of a sudden Floating @ Home came along and SETI more or less fell off the map. Who from this...

Your forum interface does not look like what I'm looking at now. On my right side is just a whole lot of pale blue space. I just changed displays between "linear," "hybrid," and "threaded" but the icons-on-the-right view never appeared during a Reply. Same goes for Style being set to...

I would suspect that a vast majority of the computer illiterati believe that IBM has always manufactured hard drives and still manufactures hard drives. Only the enthusiast crowd has a general understanding that IBM sold off its hard drive manufacturing and design division to Hitachi, along...

Well, I can't believe file fragmentation does a damned thing to reduced the life of flash memory, much less slow a flash drive down even one iota.

A couple of *essential* videos for those learnng to play geetar.. <snicker> http://www.youtube.com/v/evTTHS9hwvU http://www.youtube.com/v/EpbpbaN0a5s

Yep. Theramin. I've played a few briefly over the years. The last one I played was a couple of years ago, and it was the best one of the bunch. http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=14

As far as industries go, the hard drive industry as a whole is better than average about patent licensing and cross-licensing, so that's not really it. Everyone should have perpy hard drives before the end of 2007. Samsung's consumer / retail storage sales volume in North America is rather...

Your two reasons are quite valid: A computer running 24/7 -- especially an old computer -- is a major power hog and a candidate for failure (if it has a lot of run-time). However, in some situations, such a setup may not be that bad -- especially if its a commercial/industrial environment...

That should read: BATTERY. I wouldn't normally bother using a trackball with a typical desktop workstation setup. However, trackballs are often great to use with a notebook computer, or a desktop (or server) system with a keyboard and monitor located in a cramped little environment.

I could've used an Edit Button last night, what with the back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.... spelling and grammatical screwups I was committing! Where's the Grammar Police when you need his acerbic commentary? Instead of saying this... ...I was trying to say: I'm guessing the...

About the only thing that interests me in working with HTML code these days is opening up an HTML file and hand-optimising the code to make it smaller and presumably faster. I recall several years ago, back around the advent of HTML 4, that if you mentioned that you were "studying how to...

Oh, *that* relative. Well, in that case, 0.3 visits per day, or about 2 times a week somewhat lately. A while before that, the rate was, oh, 0.0003 times a day when I was basically "unavailable" for playtime ( no, I was not in jail <chuckle> ). I recall Time becoming "unavailable" more...

You probably have to configure ReadyBoost before it can be used as such (i.e. -- a Control Panel applet for memory management, etc). ReadyBoost probably has the ability to locate flash memory plugged into a USB, ATA, or FireWire port Indeed, flash memory is vastly slower than the dynamic RAM...

Probably not in 6 months, only because it will take more than 6 months for video cards, monitors, video recorders, et cetera to start showing up with these connectors. One place that it will probably show up first, and probably in strength, will be in cheaper all-in-one computers with...

As long as you have a relatively modern mobo (most P-III, all P4, virtually all -- if not every -- Athlon) you can use a PCI-X card, your 32-bit PCI bus has to have adequate 3.3-volt support. In other words, you need a mobo that supports PCI 2.2. The 8-channel Adaptec 48300 supports 4 internal...

I will eventually dump the Adaptec SAS HBA (PCI-X) for a PCI Express HBA from Adaptec, LSI Logic -- or go embedded-on-the-mobo -- when my time comes to jump to the clearly superior PCI Express expansion bus. I ordered a "SAS bundle" Monday morning and and have it on the way now. For one...

Sorry, mentioned this above TWICE. Forgot to mention in the NOTES section that I've heard nothing particularly definitive about when hard drives using perpendicular magnetic recording will be showing up in volume. 2006 will certainly see the first wave of hard drives using perpendicular...

I use an actual bayonet-mount AI 16mm (f/2.8) fisheye lens and a 17mm (f/3.5) ultra-wide angle lens on my Nikon F3 and Nikon D100 camera bodies. I can use filters with these two lenses, but in both cases, they screw onto the *rear* element of the lens.

OK. I've been sitting on this info for about 6 months now. I don't believe I'm under NDA on this particular item. Nonetheless, I will only state that this is data from notes I took at a briefing from a respected 3rd party that shall not be revealed. Mobile 2.5-inch 4200 RPM ATA/SATA: New...

If you qualify, you can get a "SAS Bundle" direct from Adaptec for US$550 (+ your local sales tax, + $7.95 UPS ground shipping in USA). The best open market pricing I've found on an Adaptec 48300 SAS HBA (8-port model with PCI-X/133 interface) and 2-each Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 36GB SAS hard...

Rack-mountable hardware generally works fine laying on a shelf until it's time to go into a rack -- if you looking to use an equipment rack in the future. If not, you can get pedestal-based drive bays. Some of the recent vintage pedestal drive bays can be converted to rack-mount. By the...

I would consider having a 1U server with a pair of external 8-bay drive housings -- with 5 drives populating each 8-bay SAS / SCSI drive housing. The server and each drive housing would then have its own power supply for a lot higher level of dependability as far as current draw goes, and...

Forgot to mention that Canon is the other major half of SED technology. What you won't read here is that back in the shadows, Canon is being sued by NNPP (NanoProprietary, Inc.) for being jilted along the way in favour of Toshiba. [list:50f23d4d7d] Since SEDs apply the same light...

I also have one of those Skagen titanium wristwatches, but with the dark slate grey faceplate (not blue, as pictured). The timepiece is about as thin as the titanium mesh wristband is. It tends to freak some people out when they try to read the time and notice just how thin the timepiece...

Even though I haven't tested the WD "RAID Edition" drives in a RAID scenario, the *only* PATA drives I'd recommend for RAID are HitachIBM GXP series. The Hitachi (and earlier IBM) GXP series drives are easily the ones that I've had the best results from for RAID implementation, with Maxtor...

Since I keep getting reminded regularly about SED technology in the various tech journals -- more so in the last year -- I thought I'd fan the flames about it here at the StoFo. Acronym Key SED = Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display StoFo = Storage Forum ISDN = I Still Don't No...

This could be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Say hello to SED technology (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display). Commercialization of the 55"FHD is scheduled in the spring of 2006... http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/ddc/eng/sed/index.htm

Man, that's got to be the blurriest picture of an '84 Corolla I've ever seen! The problem was either you did not have the f-stop set high enough to increase depth of field, or there was too much motion of the subject for the shutter speed used.

Adaptec Strengthens SATA Product Line with New SATA II 4-Port and 8-Port RAID Controllers for Cost-Effective, High-Performance Storage Industry's First SATA II RAID-on-Chip Controllers offer Advanced Data Protection - Including Array Snapshot and RAID 6 - for Maximum Fault Tolerance Adaptec...

This is an exhibit of nano-artwork hidden on the wafers of many electronic circuits (microprocessors, RAM, controllers of all sorts, etc). A few images were submitted, but the vast majority of these were discovered while scanning the surfaces of hundreds of opened-up integrated circuits, some...