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I previously posted a set of tests like this on the Seagate ST2000DL003 four years ago. It was finally time to create a new RAID volume, and I decided on the Seagate ST4000VN000 for my next array. In HD Tune Pro, there are six levels of test speed/accuracy: Partial test (five levels ranging...

Oops, looks like I forgot to follow-up on this by posting the test results of all twelve drives together. As it turned out the next seven drives didn't follow the pattern of average transfer rating sorting the same as serial number (it would have been enormously surprising if they had)...

Firstly, you'd need a lacquer that matches the AG's index of refraction when hardened. Secondly, the lacquer (or pretty much any spray coating) is going to almost certainly be quite vulnerable to scratches, and over time the scratches will build up. (Tape, and any plastic that is not...

Why not get a sheet of HEA2000K-clear to cover the screen after AG removal? Sure, it'll still be glossy, but the reflections will be much darker and the polarizer will be protected.

Oooops :o Now that you mention it, I remember making that adjustment a long time ago, but I'd forgotten that it was specific to each individual forum. Hmmm, interesting. I might be preaching to the choir, but I like to use a CRT side-by-side with an LCD because the CRT can do things no LCD...

Bump. I don't know why the main Video Card forum doesn't allow you to look more than 1 page into the past. Makes no sense. I'll be receiving my RMA-replacement GeForce 8800 GTS 512 tomorrow, and that will free me up to get rid of my Radeon HD 9650. I'd really appreciate it if someone would...

jeremyshaw, could you try disabling color management, or using a photo viewer that does not do color management? You an also test if color management is being done: Take a screenshot of the gradient being viewed, and compare the screenshot against the original gradient. If they're different...

Low-resolution modes after boot-up are not a problem, because I can disable GPU scaling. If I leave it enabled, low-resolution modes (in old or retro games) are resampled with the same ugly scaling, first smoothly to 1280x800 and then pixelatedly to 2560x1600. I'm annoyed at having my bootup...

My GeForce 8800 GTS 512 finally kicked the bucket, and while I am in the process of RMA'ing it, it's a good time to upgrade; I upgraded the rest of my system already, to Sandy Bridge. My last 3 video cards were all NVIDIA (GeForce2 MX, GeForce 6600 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512), but this time I...

I don't know enough about PCIe to know how gracefully it handles this situation, but I can say this: I have my ARC-1261ML in a 8x PCIE slot, and it only goes up to about 840 MB/s. Areca's published benchmarks show the same limit. Even in PCIE v1.0, each lane is 250 MB/s. So 4x should give...

Yes Snowdog, you're right, it's my pet theory and I have very little evidence for it. The ultimate experiment would be to do an AG coating transplant between two LCDs. Is it possible to put an AG coating back onto a monitor after it has been removed using the wet-paper-towel-soaking method?

Obviously I did not make my explanation detailed enough. These effects are multiplicative, not additive! If you multiply something by zero you get zero. If the AG layer had zero thickness and were directly laid on top of the pixel layer (which is impossible because you need polarization, etc. in...

AG coating "aggressiveness" or "harshness" is not at all the only thing that controls how much sparkle effect there will be. There are many factors: 1. Pixel size (smaller pixels = more sparkle) 2. Amount of black space between subpixels (more black space = more sparkle) 3. Distance between...

While Robocopy does defragment files as it copies them, it does not defragment directories. In fact directories end up being very, very fragmented in the copy. Most file-level copying utilities probably have the same flaw. (It'd be pretty easy to get around this problem using temporary...

Cool, nice to know I'm speaking to a fellow programmer. Do you mean Linux, or some other flavor of Unix? As for me, my research into hard drive internals began when an IBM "Deathstar" I bought in 2001 developed a huge batch of bad sectors 1 year later. I wrote various small programs to assess...