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- Best hard drive for a media center
- Best hard drive for a media centerCool and/or Quiet is more importantI'd run two 5400RPM drives in Raid-0 to counter the lower RPMs. That way, it should help keep the temperatures down. Why? because temperature has a bigger impact on the drive bearings, so it's more likely to wear-out/noisier sooner....
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Storage, Desktops, VelociRaptor, BEST HARD DRIVE, Media Center PC, RAID, Green Drive, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- (Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas)
- Eight excellent PC upgrade ideasThree Samsum Spinpoint HD's in raid configurationThree Samsum Spinpoint HD's in raid configuration is supported by many motherboards.Go for it. If a disk crashes you can replace it rapidly without data loss.VelociRaptor the fastest desktop HD?My one year old 300GB Seagate ST3300555SS SAS drive is faster:...
- Tags: Desktops, Serial ATA, SAS Institute, VelociRaptor, PC Upgrade, PC, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List for Aug/Sep 08
- OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...
- Tags: Hardware, List, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, cpu, gpu, nvidia, ati, intel, amd, wd, velociraptor
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough bite
- Western Digital has revamped the Raptor line of 10,000RPM high-performance hard drives by unleashing the VelociRaptor. But does the performance boost justify the cost? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Performance, Western Digital Corp., VelociRaptor, Serial ATA, Performance Management, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Andromeda Velociraptor 2.2 (Mac)
- Velociraptor is the only plugâ€Â"in that allows the user to create stylized motion trails that can Arc, Bounce, Cascade, Converge, Curve, Decline, Jolt, Jitter, Loop, Spiral, Spring, Streak, Trail, or Wave. Product Featuers: Enter the plugâ€Â"in with no selection for smooth motion trails and define its path. Enter the plugâ€Â"in...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Motion, Velociraptor, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-03-31
- Velociraptor Filter 2.2 (Windows)
- Velociraptor is the only plug-in filter that allows the user to create stylized motion trails that can Arc, Bounce, Cascade, Converge, Curve, Decline, Diminish, Jolt, Jitter, Loop, Spiral, Spring, Streak, Trail, or Wave.
- Tags: Andromeda Software, Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2004-07-02
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- Disks: why size means performance
- OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...
- Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Gallery: Droid vs. iPhone - battle of the screens
- when people do photos like that it's kind of useless.....aren't they? you don't see it at a one to one size and you don't get a good sense of if the more pixels actually makes sense at that small size or if the iPhone resolution is enough or if...
- Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, Apple iPhone, Droid, pixel
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)
- Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...
- Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Apricorn's 4 TB hard card: PCI RAID array pt. 1
- The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so the timing was good. You may recall the...
- Tags: Card, Bandwidth, Disk, Apricorn, Video, PCI Express, Video Capture Card, MB/sec, PeDA, WD, Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro Video Capture Card, RAID, Corporate Communications, Storage, PCI, Hardware, Marketing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Slick tools...now will they work?
- You don't want 2003 if....there is any way you can get the hardware you think you need to run 2008. And now with R2 coming out you may not need the hardware you think you need. 2003 has issues. Be sure to do your homework.I recently upgraded my 2000 AD...
- Tags: tool, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Dead-Finger Tech: Panasonic HD front projector
- I like my toys. Dual monitors on a quad-core, 12 GB Mac Pro. Blackmagic Intensity Pro HDMI capture card. 4 TB of local disk, including my favorite, a 300 GB WD 10k Velociraptor system disk. Logitech Trackman Wheel and a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite. Canon HV20 and...
- Tags: Panasonic, Movie, Tirion, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for May/Jun 09
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for May/Jun 09Extreme - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295Oh yeah. I got one of those. It's ok I guess.Personally I would take AMD processorsover Intel, but that is just my opinion. I prefer a company that will stand behind its product for more...
- Tags: Processors, Very Best Kit List, May/Jun 09, Hardware 2.0, processor, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- What to expect from Windows 7
- What to expect from Windows 7MS didn't dial-back UAC prompts, they crippled themIf you're in the mode where you get fewer UAC prompts -- i.e. the default mode -- then you might as well turn UAC off. Anything that wants to can bypass UAC in that mode via the backdoor...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Microsoft accidentally confirms Windows 7 RC coming in May
- Microsoft accidentally confirms Windows 7 RC coming in MayMicrosoft accidentally confirms Windows 7 RC coming in MayAccidently or not its still a good thing. Microsoft Windows 7 has been very stable and a very worthwhile install. Keeping the date a secret isn't a big deal. Just say...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 RC, accidentally, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- All flash drives not created equal
- Low-priced SATA flash drives are tempting. But beware: some of them test at an abysmal 2 random writes per second! The hype around flash SSDs attracted bottom-feeders to build junk drives with USB thumb drive controllers that were never intended for disk-level performance. Stuff them...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Performance, USB Flash Drive, Low-priced SATA Flash Drive, Calypso Systems, Flash Memory, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Give your system a mid-life kicker
- If the economy has made you put off buying a faster system, you aren't alone. The good news: you can make your current system much snappier with faster storage - DRAM and disk. Here's how - and why. Your CPU speed is fixed. So is your network...
- Tags: DRAM, Disk, I/O, Storage, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-02-08
- 2008's best storage products
- The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90's saw the rise of storage arrays and storage networks. While some of the products - personal SSDs and online storage I'm looking at you - aren't quite ready for prime time, they are improving fast. ...
- Tags: SSD, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PCWhy such an expensive processor?Surely you can cut a couple of hundred dollars off the price and not lose too much performance by getting a lower spec processor.That way you could keep both hard drives (great for keeping the data separate from the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), video, PC, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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