Recent content by The_Engineer

If warranty isn't a big concern, then there's zero reason to favor an internal drive over an external when considering consumer-level drives. they're all the same thing. The Hitachi's I have even show up with a warranty on the Hitachi site when I plug in the serial number pasted on the drive...

Yep. I got lucky before BF and snagged 4x Hitachi 3TB's (USB 2.0 enclosure) for $95 each (office max, in store...). You better believe I tested the hell outta those puppies for a week then ripped em apart. EDIT: Ran this guy for a week straight on all 4 drives at the same time...

PM sent... Suppose I should qualify this that I'm not wanting to spend $50+ on a drive. Looking for something cheap that's not much use to someone else.

Looking for a cheap hard drive with a reasonable amount of storage to repair my aging Inspiron 9300. Would really like to find something 100GB or bigger but willing to settle for 40-60GB if that's what's on offer. Needs to be reasonably fast (i.e. 7200RPM+) Will consider pricing according to...

Well Said.

Just because you probably haven't seen it, being that you've trusted so much of you and your friends hard earned money to these power supplies: Getting the BEST BUY on a Power Supply: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2008/05/13/getting_best_buy_on_power_supply/ 'nuff said. :D

I am building a machine for a co-worker of mine and am convinced that the SSD market has matured enough and the real-world benefits are convincing enough to have him spend the money for an SSD. I do notice there seems to be a lot of competition in this space though and want to make a good...

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This is a great video but there are a lot of things that are not explained. I think the readers of [H] Would love to see some more bullet points on preciecly how this was setup and why this is a fair comparison. Also, they don't do much to justify the cost of 1x $200+ SSD instead of 2x$50...

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I purchased one of these http://cgi.ebay.com/ABIT-SLI-Switch-Card-Fatal1ty-AN8-SLI-/150377156155?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item23032d4e3b#ht_2327wt_1137 hoping it would work for my NI8. It didn't. (SLI Mode LED is always lit when card in use) Need an SLI MODE CARD, SLI...

this looks like some interesting software. Maybe cumbersome for entire filesystems with many files changing, but possibly something to integrate into a workflow for data verification? http://corz.org/windows/software/checksum/#section-Download

In my understanding of "Silent" data corruption the only real way to fight it is with monitoring and backups. The reason ZFS can combat it at a filesystem level is because of the redundancy that it builds into certain configurations like a RAID-Z etc. There are probably some software products...

Woot!