Recent content by ckevin

Nice try buddy, I don't think they're going to buy it though. Besides, there weren't enough AT'ers in Boston to even improve the odds that much. :) I picked up a 2400+ in Boston tonight -- I was one of the lucky ones, I saw that some other folks were getting 2200+ retail packages. Thanks...

I believe that the argument here is because people don't understand the tradeoffs between the WD disks and a 15k rpm scsi drive. The WD works very well for most of the tasks that you'd be interested in; the big buffer makes up for its relatively slow access time, and it has very high sequential...

I use storagereview for comparing drives. They have comparative stats on all the currently available disks, including these two. (For older drives & optical drives you can get benchmarks from their old testbed.)

Yeah, the rep actually told me in person that it was a Seagate, but that he didn't know which model -- kind of suspicious. I should have guessed that he had no idea what he was talking about.

I just spoke on the phone with a dell representative. He says that these are definitely Seagate drives; he couldn't tell me the model number, though. That limits this disk to one of two possibilities (looking at this list of 80gb disks Dell uses...

There are two threads on this deal, is there any way to get a moderator to combine them? I'm a little worried -- some of the drive's specifications are contradictory. Highlights: * Rotational Speed: 7200RPM * Average Seek Time: 9.5ms * Average Latency: 5.55ms * Buffer Cache Size: 2MB *...

I'm a little worried -- some of the drive's specifications are contradictory. Highlights: * Rotational Speed: 7200RPM * Average Seek Time: 9.5ms * Average Latency: 5.55ms * Buffer Cache Size: 2MB * Spindle Start Time: 10.0 seconds * Interface: Ultra ATA/100 Average latency (measured...

The stability problems could well be your RAM -- very, very few PC100 sticks will work *reliably* at 133. I can boot up at 933 with my old PC100 ram, but Prime95 torture test starts having round-off errors after a few minutes! My RAM has Micron 8ns chips; it worked stably for weeks at a time...

Trinitron is the only way!!! I'm so spoiled on having square pixels & straight lines (imho, the best features of the trini), that I had to re-sell the good shadow mask monitor I bought b/c the hexagonal dot grid was driving me nuts at high resolutions. Considering that a brand-new 19&quot...