| 2007/7/13-16 [Computer/Networking] UID:47279 Activity:nil | 7/13 I'm thinking about getting a Soekris 4501 to replace my the P2-400
that is currently acting as my home firewall. Has anyone used a
Soekris system for this purpose? If so, how well does it work? Also,
if there are any alternatives (similar power/form factor), I would
appreciate links to those as well. tia.
\_ John got me to use a WRAP box similar to Soekris. I use this one:
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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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| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:39233 Activity:low | 8/23 Hi motd. I recently got a Dell Latitude D610 from work. There is a
"Hard Drive Password" feature in BIOS. After setting it, now every
time I boot it asks me for this before it loads the OS.
Does anyone know if this password is stored on the drive or on the
mobo? E.g., if the latter, I can just put the drive in an external
enclosure and access all files. Thanks. I suspect the latter.
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| 2005/6/16-18 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:38152 Activity:nil | 6/16 I've been hearing a lot about something called a perpendicular
hard drive, but I can't seem to figure out what the big deal
is? Anyone know why these drives are interesting (as compared
w/ regular hds)?
\_ Perpendicular recording. Imagine that a regular HDD has the bits
represented by lots of coins flipped to heads or tails, laid out in
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| 2005/5/20-23 [Consumer, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37779 Activity:nil | 5/20 DO NOT buy a Hitachi HD!!! Their return procedure sucks. I returned
my drive 2 wks ago and they still haven't shipped my replacement.
Service is just abysmal. FUCK HITACHI!!!
\_ Just wait. I remember it took a couple weeks from the day
I dropped it off at the post office.
\_ SEVERAL WEEKS? Western Digital gives you a new one the next day,
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| 2005/5/18-19 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37730 Activity:nil | 5/17 My second data backup question. I am looking for a backup media I can
take off-site. I'll repeat that we've found the failure rate backing up
to CD unacceptable. She wants to go with an Iomega product but I was
wondering if people have had good/bad experience with these,
reliability-wise and if they have better suggestions. I have about
$400 for this.
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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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| 2005/5/6-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37561 Activity:nil | 5/6 What do you people think of sticking four 250GB IDE Hitachi drives
in a single PC and calling that the backup server for 8 people (each
person gets 125GB for 2 sets of notebook images and other assorted
files).
I do know that SCSI is built for this and IDE is a hack-job /
consumer-grade.
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