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    FS: [SO Cal] Mac Pro 2.66Ghz Quad Core

    what generation is the Mac Pro?
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    Beats by Dr. Dre Studio Headphones Review @ [H]

    These headphones' biggest liability is that they have a display where you can test them. I took one listen and I knew the phones I had at home for music: The Sony MDR7506 at around $85 were far better than these marketing based pieces of hype. And that's listening to specific content that has...
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    Why are hard drives today so unreliable?

    Aah, a topic near and dear to my heart. Since I entered the enthusiest PC realm in about 1997, I have watched hard disk waranties go from 5 years to 3 years to 2 years for some brands. I think it is beause we are pushing the limits of what mechanical spinning platters are capable of. 7200 RPM is...
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    Your oldest drive still in use?

    Who knew those things were going to turn out to be indestructible tanks? :)
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    Your oldest drive still in use?

    I just took a 40GB Samsung 7200 RPM IDE drive out of service about 2 weeks ago. Bought it based on price/performance ratio in the summer of '99 or '00. Never thought I'd use it this long. I also have a 20MB drive in my early 80s kaypro clone, but that is more of a museum piece than a daily...
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    Need Advice on NAS

    Plenty of (but not quite as much) compiled software for the PPC processor in the DS410 as well. I run pyTiVo and a whole bunch of stuff including transmission. Being able to ssh in and really tinker is awesome, but it still had like a 5 minute setup time. For ease of use, power consumption, but...
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    Need Advice on NAS

    Ask yourself if you really want a separate PC as the NAS. I bought a Synology DS410 after running an older AMD Athlon server with an older slower hardware RAID 5 SATA card in it for a long time. The power use was insane and it was reasonably slow. Now I have this little box that draws like 60...
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    My harddrive changed partitions by itself

    Very fishy. Length of time off vs on shouldn't make any difference. Virus scan? What OS are you using? What utility did you use to view the drive?
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    Program to image drive to SSD?

    I believe Paragon sells software that will fix alignment without having to do a re-install. I must have lucked out when I ghosted an XP install to a new Intel x-25m G2 80GB SSD and my partition alignment is correct.
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    program that can list corrupted blocks?

    I believe that you wish to do can be done in linux (you can boot from a linux live CD and access all the HD utils and the command prompt). But I'm with drescherjm. If you've got bad blocks like that, consider a new HD. What does SMART say?
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    PATA 7200RPM Travelstar vs PATA SSD for older laptop

    Hmm Both those drives seem to have the J micron JMF602. Looks like my bang for the buck in this old beast will be the 7200RPM travelstar...
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    PATA 7200RPM Travelstar vs PATA SSD for older laptop

    I'm not sure that her HD usage is really going to go up much from where she is at now. If you think 64 GB will be necessary from a speed standpoint and percentage of the drive filled, I would likely just go with the 7200RPM drive based on cost.
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    PATA 7200RPM Travelstar vs PATA SSD for older laptop

    I may also have an upgrade copy of win7 around that I'm not using on any other boxes that would enable TRIM at the OS level, if you think win7 would run well on this old beast...
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    PATA 7200RPM Travelstar vs PATA SSD for older laptop

    I'm working on a friend's older laptop that had a broken LCD. It's a Compaq 2199US. PATA 40GB 4200 RPM HD, 512MB RAM, upgradeable to 1GB, Athlon XP-M @ 1.25 Ghz I think. She doesn't have much $, so a newer laptop is not in the cards right now. I replaced the screen for $30 on ebay, and now I...
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    FS: Trip financing part 2! iphone 3GS NEW 16gb, iphone 2g, treo

    PM sent
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