The rechargeables you listed have higher capacity but the main advantage of Eneloop batteries is that they hold charge very well while idle.
BTW there are numerous brands with higher capacity than Eneloops.
I did not have any problems using F4 in WHS v1. I had to do rather convoluted procedure to align partition (creating numerous registry entries and some files) but it worked perfectly. Eventually I migrated to WHS 2011 where F4 is giving me consistent 100+ MB/s read performance (from client PC...
Non free version of Acronis TI does not partitition SSD properly as well. There are several posts on Acronis forums that state that TI maintains alignment only when whole drive is restored. If original alignment is correct it would stay the same after a restore.
If only one partition is...
I would not count on it. File system is rather tricky business. Microsoft managed to succeed only once, with NTFS. All the promises of new object oriented file systems and in-memory databases for files never got off the ground. Even DE is half baked. If you enable shadow copy to get versioning...
Somehow hard drive manufacturers keep taking turns with series that fail more often than average. At one point Seagate was great with 7200.8 and 7200.7 series but after that had several duds, including firmware disasters in several series. Western Digital was successful with Raptors (and VR) and...
Looks like numbers as swapped between read and write and have Mbps instead MBps (Should be Megabytes, not Megabits). Somehow Intel SSDs are rather slow in sequentual writes but this speed is not that important. Most disk operations on a PC have random access pattern. Article covering Intel G2...
Based on the benchmarks alone it a very good deal. It is substantially faster than Intel and the price difference with 80GB G2 per 1GB is only 25%.
On the other hand reading OCZ support forum for SandForce SSDs gives me a pause. There are so many reports of drives dying unexpectedly and not...
This is an easy one. Imagine that a drive has storage cells, numbered 1 to N. If you save a big file that needs 10 cells and start storage on cell 11 the drive would keep writing to cell 11, 12 and so on until cell 20 (sequential write).
Now imagine that you run some process that reads from 10...
Based on this page http://www.anandtech.com/show/2974/crucial-s-realssd-c300-an-update-on-my-drive read performance drops to below 20 MB/s. So it might be the fastest drive on the market but it would stay this way for a few days only, until you write 256GB of data to it. At that point it would...
Actually it is relatively fast drive that does not make much noise. I have it in WHS with 2 WD Green drives and it is stays at the same temperature.
Review at TH: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/1tb-hdd-storage,2563.html
I installed this drive in WHS (HP EX485) and it runs cooler (31C) than WD 1TB EADS (33C). Considering that it is higher performance drive (7200rpm vs. 5400rpm) it is rather impressive. Noise level is similar to WD Green drives.
Intel 80GB G1 (Dane rebranded version) is already below $2/gb without any rebates. Considering that Intel SSD performance does not drop much with use makes the issue of TRIM support less important.
Trim improves performance but does not do anything with drive life. In a nutshell Trim makes unused by a file system blocks of flash memory empty so next write does not require moving existing data, releasing a block and finally a write. See SSD Relapse article...
I thought that I was the only one who stocked up on G5 in the end of the production run for $25 a piece. I have 2 G5s in the house, one at work and 2 shrink wrapped in the closet. Once you try G5 you cannot comfortably use any other mouse.
Tomshardware's product announcement for G500...
It wasn't a great deal. i5-750 is $150 at Microcenter so it makes 64GB SSD around $190. I would consider Intel 80GB SSD at slightly higher price to be a better choice (admittedly availability and price seem to be random in the last 8 weeks) or OCZ Agility (Indilinx controller + Intel or Toshiba...
I kept debating to get SSD now and do fresh Win7 install or wait for technology to improve. Finally decided to wait. Controllers in SSD are rapidly improving so SSDs 12-18 months from now would be substantially better (ignoring the price issue). The fact that I do not know what to do with my...
Keep in mind that refurbished ThinkPads are rather beaten up and battery is not new. When I bought mine I thought that keyboard and battery would be new but had an unpleasant surprise when received the unit. It is possible to buy new keyboard and battery (OEM) on eBay for relatively low price...
Can someone post a link to configuring XP/Vista in read-only mode on boot drive? It should be doable since XP/Vista can run off a bootable CD. I want to have a bootable SSD in my desktop PC for OS and applications only.
Totally agree. A good receiver has to be heavy since heat sinks, capacitors and frame cannot be shrunk. Personally I would go for Yamaha/Denon/Onkyo or ES line of Sony receivers ( more expensive than STR line). Specs for receivers do not tell the whole story.
You can get external 1TB Hitachi at BestBuy this week for $230 + tax (if any) and take out the drive:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...oduct&id=1177112455081
I still do not understand why so many external Hitachi drives cost less than equivalent in size internal drives.
I should have included links to a review.
Review
Temperature measurements
It is not just GPU that is hot. Memory is 81C and power transistors at 90C.
I would love to buy a decent performance graphics card with passive cooling but a brand new design/model with suspicious review results...
I saw a review of MSI 7600GS and reviewers measured temperature of GPU, memory and power transistors. It was above 70C, even in idle. Not so sure how long this card would stay alive at these stress levels.
It is nice to have passive cooling but not at the price of short lifetime. If you buy...
Keep in mind that most likely you would get proprietary credit score, if any. The most commonly used score is FICO but typically you have to pay in order to get it. It is not possible to convert non-FICO score into FICO number. The formulas are different. FICO guards their formula like Coke recipee.
There was a report by some financial analyst that Dell is planning to start selling PCs with AMD CPUs in the second half of 2006. He upgraded Dell stock as a result assuming that it would give a boost to Dell's PC sales.
Did Dell buy up all of AMD CPUs? Availability is abysmal lately. I thought it would get better in January but instead it got worse.
I would be more than happy to see Dell PCs with Athlon 64 (X2) CPUs but the current availability sucks big way.
FEAR is a nice game but very, very taxing on hardware. My Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 512MB ram, 9600XT AGPx8 video setup is not good enough to play at 1024x768 resoultion. It is too slow to be enjoyable. I would have to drop resolution to 800x600, which would look ugly on 21" monitor.
Amazon has the same model (NS-MYC18) for $95 after $25 coupon (today only). You would need $5+ filler in Kitchen&Cooking secton to exceed $125 for total (a requirement for the coupon).
Original price: 120.20
Coupon: 25.00
Final price: 95.20
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Most of the weeds come from the existing soil not from grass seed. The best way is to get rid of all grass and weeds on the existing lawn before seeding new grass (Using RoundUp or black plastic on hot days). There are selective herbicide products that destroy most of the weeds but grass has to...
Most of the seed in Lowes/HD is low quality. The best grass seed is carried by good landscaping supply stores and specialized seed companies. It is better to use seed mixed for your area. One source for Northeast is http://www.crosmanseed.com (Upstate NY) and for MA http://www.snow-pond.com/...
It is a good deal. I used signup on Dell's site last November to get $75 rebate and it took a long time (4 months) to get it. The service is not very fast (slower than Optimum Online) but very reliable and price is very reasonable. Unlike Optimum Online it is possible to renew service at...
The "official" rating is 50lbs per surface but I have my 21" Viewsonic P813 on it and kids ocassonally lean on the glass as well. It is a great value. Feels very solid.
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