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Forum: Storage (alternative) October 3rd 20, 04:52 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 5
Views: 2,557
Posted By [email protected]
"Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December"

On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 3:07:37 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/28/2020 5:11 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:51:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire lynnmcguire5@gmail
...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 30th 19, 06:01 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 2
Views: 1,485
Posted By [email protected]
“Raising Prices is Hard”

On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 1:26:13 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Also has a nice graph about the hard drive prices over the last ten years.

Lynn

Interesting the price of 3 TB...
Forum: Storage (alternative) July 27th 18, 10:12 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 1
Views: 848
Posted By [email protected]
How could 192 TB be squeezed on a half-inch tape?

There is a conference paper by Fuji where they claim to have achieved more
than that - 220 TB!
Mostly a new magnetic material, and thinner longer tape.
Forum: Intel June 23rd 18, 03:53 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel
Replies: 1
Views: 4,010
Posted By [email protected]
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 23rd 18, 03:46 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 328
Posted By [email protected]
packaging of DIMMs (new componentry)

I notice that some brands of memory come with the DIMM stuck in a black
platic tray (presumably the conductive anti-static stuff) but others are
totally in transparent plastic.
So is the protection...
Forum: Intel June 27th 17, 10:27 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel
Replies: 0
Views: 2,112
Posted By [email protected]
Skypond and Kabypond hyperthreading bug

allegedly this was discovered a while back, so it can't be triggered too often.
Anyway I turn off hyperthreading as I doubt operating cisterns are proficient
at scheduling all the different...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 17, 02:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 2
Views: 260
Posted By [email protected]
effect of DIMM voltage on temperatures?

Suppose one raises the memory voltage for whatever reason.
Now I presume that would raise the temperature of the DIMMS (unless the CPU
was idle begging for work). Would it also raise the CPU...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's February 4th 17, 10:57 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 39
Views: 676
Posted By [email protected]
[FoxNews]A small town's sudden power surge fried tech gear inhundreds of homes

I recall working on geophysical crews years ago. We used to go to South America
and the power in some of those towns was rather "flexible".
We had surge supressors the size of a shoebox, not the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's November 5th 16, 01:03 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 1
Views: 176
Posted By [email protected]
cases with vibration-isolated drive bays?

I have used Antec cases where the hard drives are attached with long
screws through rubber grommets, for noise reduction.
Now it is supposedly better to mount drives with metal to metal for...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 15th 16, 05:04 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 275
Posted By [email protected]
How to view what the hard drive is doing?

On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:03:33 AM UTC+8, P...@p wrote:
Hi,

Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not
bothering the hard drive, or right after it has...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's August 16th 16, 11:38 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 168
Posted By [email protected]
Found 850G SATA HD in street trash site

I have picked up lots of PC hardware from verge collections.
I always test the hard drives (look at reallocated sectors, hours and maximum temperature).
As for CPU, often that is the only component...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's July 2nd 16, 04:39 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 217
Posted By [email protected]
server (tower case) power supply?

On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 10:26:15 AM UTC+8, Flasherly wrote:

Check the weight, too. I've seen relatively small server power
supplies that weigh two, three times heavier a counterpart to
...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 26th 16, 02:05 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 217
Posted By [email protected]
server (tower case) power supply?

I bought a box of computer parts at a garage sale. I guess it came
from a business: it had things like KVM switch and 8-port GbE routers.
There was a strange power supply. It was 550 W but had no...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 4th 16, 06:46 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 2
Views: 295
Posted By [email protected]
Thunder X2 CPU - mildly interesting

http://www.cavium.com/ThunderX2_ARM_Processors.html

I am surprised by the bit
"up to 54 cores with up to 3.0 GHz"
I presume that the faster speed will come with lesser core count,
say 16.
Intel's...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 28th 16, 02:18 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 17
Views: 223
Posted By [email protected]
Just downloaded a 1.45 GB file in five minutes...

On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 5:33:46 PM UTC+8, Paul wrote:

It's hard to support gigabit fiber properly. You want
consistent transfer rates, which means using really
big routers somewhere in...
Forum: Storage (alternative) December 27th 15, 05:15 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 3
Views: 606
Posted By [email protected]
life of inactive old hard drive ?

I had stored some drives from old PCs, removed about 1999-2000.
They were wrapped in anti-static bags, put in a metal box, which was
placed in a cool dry place.
My ex-wife wanted some data off one of...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's November 8th 15, 02:14 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 1
Views: 61
Posted By [email protected]
Windoze from a branded system recovery DVD ?

Somebody gave me a heap of "system recovery" DVDs from various big-brand PCs.
They contain the Windows XP/Vista/7 to reinstall after some unhappy event.
I noticed they are typically...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 12th 15, 10:20 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 660
Posted By [email protected]
WD black too hot to touch

On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 11:47:56 AM UTC+8, Rod Speed wrote:

By not being run in a decent config with air blowing over it or
even decent thermal conduction to the drive stack its mounted...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 4th 15, 12:59 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 660
Posted By [email protected]
WD black too hot to touch

I was testing some Caviar black 2TB drives pulled from a failed pizzabox
server.
The first 2 passed okay. As it takes several hours for the long test, I left
one running overnight. When I got up, I...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's July 4th 15, 07:29 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 173
Posted By [email protected]
soft-power on now hard on

On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 12:34:47 PM UTC+8, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Try unplugging all USB devices.

If you got time, maybe you should pull the motherboard out of the
chassis for...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's July 4th 15, 03:25 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 173
Posted By [email protected]
soft-power on now hard on

I have a PC with P6T "deluxe V2" mobo. Forby I turn it on at wall socket and I hear it come to life without pressing power button. Then when I shutdown from operating system, it does and screen goes...
Forum: Storage (alternative) June 4th 15, 12:20 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 2
Views: 983
Posted By [email protected]
senate votes to limit NSA metadata collection

Will this mean less hard drives bought the spying mongrels?
Forum: Intel May 8th 15, 12:13 PM Posted to comp.sys.intel
Replies: 1
Views: 2,013
Posted By [email protected]
Xeon Phi multi-core mania

I read in a gaming forum the other day that games do not use more than 4
cores because of diminishing returns.
Reminded me when I was in geophysics, and companies starting making clusters
out of...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 4th 15, 11:42 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 957
Posted By [email protected]
Windoze Ten no dual boot?

You can dual boot 10 beta, but RTM will be locked down, up and sideways.
So you can't turn off UEFI?
I will not be upgrading then.
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 6th 15, 11:02 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 2
Views: 1,058
Posted By [email protected]
throughput of southbridge with many disk?

I found this review
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/2712/six-ssds-in-raid-0-intel-vs-amd---which-chipset-scales-the-best

Interesting that both can handle 6 drives for writing.
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