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My Dad fixed computers for IBM from 59 to 93. What a change for that Old Coot. I loved the stories him and his buddies had of the original System 1 running at Khz speeds with 16k memory expansion options. Tape storage. Drum storage. Punched cards. Wow, it is amazing we got to the Moon...

They may even be willing to cut Sony a deal on their Silicone just to stick it back to Microshaft. Just sayin.

Hmmm, it sounds like to me that they are telling this kid that he should have first, removed his own personal information from the affected systems. Then he should have gotten onto some hacking web sites and sold his information to the highest bidder. If his personal information was on the...

I started out playing with some cheap no name tablets that I got for next to nothing from Big lots. Definitely useful for some tasks, but to many hiccups. I then picked up a Blackberry Playbook. A great tablet made by a crappy company. No apps. I just sold it on Ebay for a little over...

SSDs are awesome. Due to some unfortunate circumstances in my life, I was an early adopter of SSDs. Now I have a boat load of old 30 and 60 GB SSDs floating around my house Here are some things I have found out the last 4 years. An old slow SSD will run even or better than a current...

Purchased in May. Works perfectly. http://www.ebay.com/itm/230859435574?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649#shId

And get an external drive and back up your data regularly. Don

Well, hard drives have a failure rate of roughly 10% per year. At that rate he should have lost at least half the original drives in the time he was running this server. He hit the production lot jackpot with that bunch of drives, Hitachi prolly would buy them back so they could analyse...

Yea, when I had to RMA my 240 gig Vertex 2, they insisted on seeing the receipt. Don

Oh, OK. My Thecus only supported 1 TB drives, so I never looked into upgrading.

I have actually been running 5, 1 TB WD green drives in my Thecus N5200 for 3 years now with no problems. I did have to enable TLER on them though. I did buy 2 spares, just in case though. Oh yea, I run Raid 6 too. They were dirt cheap, and I never really trusted them fully. But they...

I have had 2 SSD's die on me. 1 was a first gen Patriot something or other. I think I have a twin to it still running in my HTPC. The other was an OCZ 240 Gig Vertex 2. Died after 3 months and replaced under warranty. Been running almost a year since then with no more problems. OCZ...

And pull one out of the array every few days just to make sure the recovery routines on the array work good.

Ha! The network adapter in my laptop died last week. The IT guy has had enough and is getting me a new laptop. Hope it's not another recycled one like the last one. Thanks for all the suggestions though. Don Oh yea, the OCZ toolbox does not run in XP. I suppose I could periodically remove...

Hi all. I have been using various SSD's in my computers for several years now. But for a while now, work and family issues have kept me from spending as much time here in the forums as I would like, so I am getting a bit out of touch with the current state of the art. 1 particular system...