I have up to 60-80GB of archive stuff to process every week.
To go through that lot with an IDE drive is a nono as i would waste so much time it would not be funny.
Yes it is worth it.
To wade through that lot with any IDE setup would cost me a lot of time i dont have.
demoted IDE :P
When i try to unrar upwards of 50 rar files of an archive from one HD to a folder on same HD plus burn CD off .bin file off same HD and also drag an archive off network storage to same HD IDE is a system crippler :(
Now with my SCSI drives i can just carry on with no system bog...
FWIW my dad's puter uses up to 460ish MB when he plays FS2002 on XP.
Im thinking when he cranks it up to 100% everything with the next GFX card upgrade im going to have to get him another 256MB or its going to start to chug on the HD :(
There are games already that'll stretch 512MB so it cannot...
Im pimping the NEC 1850X :D
Oh yeah, theres a thread on Ars :D that tells you all about this fine TFT but i wont linky as i dont want to rub Anand forums nose in it ;)
Did i tell you theres some good forum content on Ars :P
Hehe, guess where ive been lurking where i dont have to double click and...
Ive got a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 controller card on my Supermicro 370 DLE on a 64 bit PCI slot.
I was wondering if there was any benefit in running this card at 66mhz PCI as my mobo will allow me to do this and the card supposedly supports it.
Is this 66mhz ability just a marketing gimmick?
Just...
My Seagate 36ES2's are as quiet as the Barracuda IV with only the seeks being about as audible as a Maxtor D740X with accoustic management on :)
Now even SCSI can be quiet too.
One observation i have noticed is that while my Western Digital SE may be fast in benches the real world performance...
Hehe, maybe i better explain myself a bit better, sorry :embarassed;
I never actually used the 3Ware card in raid0 as the 3Ware card had the ability to do raid1 with raid0 read performance with only write performance being comparable to a single drive - very impressed :)
Only problem i found was...
Promise - Ugh, ive just had bad performance experience with their Fastrak 100.
Dont care how good theyre newer stuff is i wont be using them again.
I used to have a 3Ware 6400 and am still kicking myself for selling it :(
If you want IDE raid i would not look anywhere else but 3Ware FWIW.
You...
I have a drive with Smart Burn and when i try to burn a damaged .bin file with CDRWin it still BSOD's WinXP.
I can repeat this on several systems so reckon it must be a bug with CDRWin.
From this experience i would presume Smart Burn will not help reduce BSOD's FWIW.
Im not too impressed until someone finds out whether the parhelia supports "overlay" on all the attached monitors.
Im wary of the parhelia as this is a big deal and seeing as Matrox arent beating the drums about this am assuming it will be just like other cards - useless.
If anyone has any...
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=113
Just ignore the registry mullarky at the top and do the bottom route.
I just shutdown my rig, rip bits out, pop new bits in - boot off XP CD, ignore first repair prompt and continue as if doing a clean install.
When you get to just before the...
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