| 2010/1/18-25 [Science/Space] UID:53637 Activity:kinda low | 1/18 Look out for some serious rain the next few weeks:
http://twitpic.com/y290d/full
\_ so... how do I read this? I didn't take meterology.
\_ Prop 8 trial continuing into next week, rainbow weather
expected?
\_ CA desperately needs the water.
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| 2009/10/6-21 [Science/Space, Politics/Domestic] UID:53430 Activity:nil | 10/5 Make sure to watch The Crumbling of America on History today! America's
infrastructure is collapsing. Tens of thousands of bridges are
structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. A third of the
nation's highways are in poor or mediocre shape. Massively leaking
water and sewage systems are creating health hazards and
contaminating rivers and streams.
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| 2008/8/4-10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:50776 Activity:nil | 8/4 I went to Fry's for the first time in ages and was surprised to
see a 1T Seagate HD on sale. I'm still using my 250G and it's
only 60% full. What the heck do people put on their HD these
days, porn? I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy a
1T drive for personal use.
\_ HDTV.
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| 2007/5/17-19 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:46676 Activity:nil | 5/17 My new 750G Seagate HD shows only 698G available. WHAT THE FUCK??
\_ 750G = 750*10^9 bytes. Your OS is probably measuring in 2^30 bytes.
See GiB vs GB
\_ Also, disk drive manufacturers advertise "raw" storage, while
your O/S measures usable storage. You lose quite a bit to
disk label information, metadata and other various things.
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| 2007/1/7-16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:45525 Activity:nil | 1/7 Looking to get an external HD for my mom (not yermom). Fry's has an
ACOMDATA 250GB USB 2.0 for $70 after rebate, but I see only review on
teh Intarweb (and it's suspiciously glowing). Any of you fine sodans
have experience with this product or its ilk? TIA. --erikred
\_ Seagate has 5 year warranty, I think. However their reliability
has gone down the drain in the past few years. I have a WD250
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| 2006/8/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43951 Activity:nil | 8/8 I want to replace the 30GB HD in a 1Ghz iBook. Will any notebook HD
do? Any recommendations? Price/Reliability more important than perf.
I'm looking at a Hitachi Travelstar or Seagate Momentus from newegg.
\_ I've used Travelstar's before in a PB, they are fine.
\_ I went through 2 Travelstars before installing a Seagate.
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| 2005/12/22-23 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:41113 Activity:moderate | 12/21 What's the quietest, most reliable 300-500GB HD out there these
days? I'm mainly concerned with reliability/sound/price per GB
to store lots of media stuff, and I'm not too concerned about
performance. Also a related question, when do you guys think
1T drives will come out, 2008? 2009?
\_ in my experience, seagate drives tend to be quieter than others
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| 2005/11/16-17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:40609 Activity:kinda low | 11/15 [unrelated to politics] My debian machine at home (I'm learning and
tinkering) seems to spin the HD down occasionally. I'd like to never
spin down the HD (or at least control which hours it can). Any
pointers to doing this?
\_ # apt-get install hdparm
# hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda
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| 2005/5/12-13 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:37652 Activity:kinda low | 5/11 If you noticed that your laptop HD never rests because it's doing
something, and you've already killed all auxilary processes and made
drives not "Fast Indexable", it's the explorer that's funky. Here
is one solution. Kill explorer and then run it again. You can use
a batch file script:
taskkill -im explorer.exe /f
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| 2005/5/11-12 [Consumer/Audio, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37625 Activity:nil | 5/11 I'd like to be able to use my mp3 player as a rescue os disk as well.
It shows up as USB HD on most OS. The mp3 player itself works fine
as long as I store all of the music on the first vfat partition. I'd
like to be able to either install linux onto the HD or store various
ISO images on the HD and have it boot from it, with menu, so I can
can select different images. Anyone know of such method?
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| 2005/5/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37579 Activity:kinda low | 5/8 Poll. If you even had to return a HD, what was your experience like?
\_ Hitachi: Regular RMA, No advanced RMA, test suite sucks
\_ WD: Had 2 consecutive failures (same model) in 6 months, the RMA
website is really good, has tracking and advanced RMA. Advanced RMA
requires you putting in credit card number so that if you don't
return the defective drive in 30 days they'll charge you. It's not
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| 2005/5/5-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37545 Activity:low | 5/5 I have a Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 80G HD that occasionally makes loud
clicking noise unrelated to head seek. Today while moving a 150M file
I started hearing that clicking noise again, and 1 min later my
computer freezes. I rebooted, tried copying other files and it's fine
and went back to the same file, and it freezes again. Help?
\_ Download the diagnostic from the http://hgst.com web site.
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| 2005/5/2-4 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:37454 Activity:moderate | 5/2 I'm that noise intolerant guy who wanted to make my PC noiseless.
Here is my update. In addition to changing my power supply to
Seasonic Tornado (which is nearly inaudible at around 20db), today,
I just received my brand new Papst 80X80mmcase fan. At $18.95 each,
it costs 3X more and weighs 2X more than the other fans. However,
it is only 12db and just as efficient as the other fans. It's
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