Recent content by firefighter4443

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    Upgrade Plan. Advice Welcome

    So, This thread started with "Bus Powered FW800..." but has changed enough for me to start a new one. Anyway, I've got a mid-2010 Macbook Pro with a TOSHIBA MK5055GSXF (500GB, details here) honestly, a pretty good Laptop HDD, but I wanted a SSD. After reading a lot of the anand articles on...
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    BYe BYe Seagate, it's been real...

    Alright, I've got no historical sales data to back this up but: From the first paragraph of the article in the first post of this thread: ***Quote*** The traditional hard drive market is down with many computers, tablets, and other electronic devices that need storage moving to faster and...
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    Is China fighting an undeclared economic war against America?

    I'm a proud Volunteer Firefighter, never been paid for my volunteered services. Taxpayers where I come from pay for the equipment only. I've gotta pay for the gas to get to the fire station, the lights and siren for my truck so I can get to the fire station...
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    Is China fighting an undeclared economic war against America?

    Two Thumbs Up. China has initiated a lot of captialistic laws. In addition, America isn't so far away from Socialism itself. (Social Security=Redistribution of the Wealth, Medicare=redistribution of the wealth, Unemployment=redistribution of the wealth, and on and on... get the picture?)...
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    DoJ to propose internet wiretaps bill

    Almost everyone agree's one of the of the Founding Father's most important idea's was to preserve the people's ability to remove the current government if it stopped doing what it was supposed to. In extreme cases, the people would be able to overthough the government though force (like during...
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    Is the administration trying really hard to follow the movie 1984 ?

    There is one essential problem with a Democratic Republic like the American one I have been born and raised in, and America is just starting to get old enough to really feel the effects. The one serious problem is: It is easier to pass a law than it is to remove it. I know, without a...
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    Looking for secure, inexpensive, and easy way to share a drive over the Internet.

    So... Where can I go to spend days in study about VPNs? I just checked out a couple websites that gave conceptual information about VPNs, but what do I need to study to be able to set up a LAN, then connect through a VPN to my brother's LAN? Bottom line: I'm so uneducated about VPN's I...
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    Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

    I dont know how to quote from an article so: ***QUOTE from "The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD, 8/30/2009"*** The drive most OEMs are now shipping is an even older, lower performing Samsung SSD based on an older controller. I talked to some of the vendors who ship...
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    Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

    Does anyone know of a good Benchmark I can run on my MBP? I'm currently running OSX 10.6, and I would like to be able to post the results of some good benchmarks, for the old Toshiba and the New Intel SSD. I know anand wrote a script to automatically launch 15 common OSX programs, so they...
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    Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

    I believe we are all in agreement now. I'll make sure to take pictures when I swap out my SSD and Toshiba HDDs. Its gonna be fun, because I only have one External HDD, here's my plan: Partition the WD 2TB external I currently have into Partition A and B, each one TB. Move all my movies...
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    Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

    I was confused by the photo of your setup. There was text over one of the Vantec Externals saying "T510 Backup" I thought T510 was the External Vantec's Model number.
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    How to Backup Blu Ray Discs

    Hello, So, I've thought about doing a similiar thing, with one major difference. 1) My only computer is a Mid 2010 i7 15" Macbook Pro. Because the MBP is a Mac, and the PS3 is not, I would have to use a Fat32 file format for both to communicate. What is the best way for me to store...
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    Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

    So I've found what could be a good solution, but it still does not give me a 3.5 inch drive in a bus powered enclosure :( The Lacie Little Big Disk: http://www.lacie.com/download/manual/lbd_quadra_en.pdf It supports RAID 0 and 1 built off of two 2.5 inch drives, bus powered over Firewire...
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    Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

    I didnt know you could use an external HDD's extra ports as a USB hub. The keyboard, mouse, HDD and thumb drive all communicate with the computer through the eSATAp cable?