Recent content by dorkbert

been a few months since last activity. thread not locked, so pm sent

I don't think it's all bad; the refub G2 Nexus 7 a few month back was decent (at the time.)

whoa, talk about persistence...

aren't these things widely available on fleabay for about $35?

dude, your experience at WorstBuy (tm) sounded almost like a(n used) car dealership.

lifted from techbargains.com -- Linky SanDisk Extreme SATAIII Solid State Drives (120GB $77, 240GB $149) 0619659073428 Adorama has low prices on the following Sandisk Extreme Solid State Drives (SSDs). Tax in NY. There are rated as one of the fastest SSDs available. Features Toggle NAND and...

odd, in stock when I looked just now.

RAID 5 is designed to handle singular fault. Critical array + URE is double fault. If you want to handle double fault, go RAID 6.

And people wonder why it went out of stock in 15 minutes.

RAID 5 write hole is such a well documented problem that (I hope) most "real" RAID solutions already handle it correctly.

(sigh) mine is still in its sealed box. even bought extra ram for it. have no motivation to break it out and do something with it.

This is the unit according to HP. I doubt Adorama will sell a $3k MSRP unit for $150.

Dead. Now $439.

But it'll be the damn fastest 7200 RPM you ever see... :p

TD has 480GB for $349. Get an additional 5% cash back if going through shop Discover.