Recent content by rade

Even better, a 2 port external Serial ATA PCI bracket for just $9, provided of course you have available internal S-ATA connectors...

Well, I've found what I was looking for, a S-ATA card with an external S-ATA port! AC Ryan SATA+ATA PCI Combo Card Beats any USB enclosure!

I'm thinking of buying a few Seagate S-ATA HDDs purely for storage purposes so that got me thinking about the possibility to maybe connect them directly to an external connection through a S-ATA controller card without the need of an external enclosure. That way greater speed would be...

I leave it on 24/7 with very few strictly maintenance related shutdowns. No hibernation mode or other mumbo-jumbo, I simply leave it on fully operational. However I usually do turn the monitor off... Have had it this way 4 years now, no problems whatsoever... PRO:s I can and do use it as a...

Try this as Administrator: Mark and right-click the file(s) Enter the file Properties Go to the Security tab Press Add... Double-click (or mark and confirm) user group Everyone (or Authenticated Users) Make sure that Everyone has been added in the user list Make sure all Allow options are...

I heard somewhere that PCI-Express cards will be hot-swappable, is this true? If that's the case, I suppose the process of inserting/removing the cards from the slots would have to be quite a bit easier to make it practical. I would think it could become a very handy feature in SFF computers...

They probably - and rightly so - think that by sending 12ms units with the same model # to reviewers people won't bother to check whether they got a 16ms or a 12ms unit. Many probably won't, they'll more likely think they are oversensitive to the ghosting issue since proffesional reviewers...

As it turns out, according to this article there ARE two different panels, one 16ms tested by Tom's Hardware and probably Neoseeker and one 12ms tested by PC Stats and probably Extreme Overclocking. The 12ms panel will substitute the 16ms in the first quarter of 2004, until then the Tom's...

But these did - and they couldn't notice any ghosting: http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/monitors/Samsung_172x_1.html Although could be mentioned that the Neoseeker review also complains about ghosting... Considering that Samsung changed the original specs for the screen, could there...

I'm sorry if I made it sound like it was imminent :) Considering the weight of IBM and others involved, and the major advantages of the technology, I don't doubt MRAM will start replacing DRAM in a few years time in home computers and when that happens the step to a solid-state MRAM-based HDD is...

Solid state flash media are plagued by a limited nr of rewrites before failure as well as slow read/write speeds, so it's questionable how useful they would be as a general purpose storage media. The real breakthrough cold come in the form of MRAM, magnetic RAM memory, which is solid-state...

If the panel has 16.2M colors, then it's an 262K color panel which uses dithering to achieve the 16.2M, which seems to be the case with all TN panels. Don't know if it's a technology limitation or just a manufacturer preference. On the other hand, all MVA, PVA and IPS panels are listed as having...

There's the issue of reliability and stability as well. NTFS significantly decreases (eliminates?) the chances that you'll lose data simply because of a bad computer crash. Also, NTFS gives you the option to compress files on-the-fly and thus compensates for some of that extra space it uses. I'd...

Hmm, well, it seems now that the 152X is more or less released, and indeed it's listed as 17ms. I'd expect it should still be faster than the AU Optronics panel, though, and better quality too... The japanese Samsung website offers it for sale and it's listed among the LCD monitors at the german...

One more link.... According to this article (translated from chinese), the release date for the 152x was supposed to be late June, while the release date for the 172X is to be expected later this year. So they are obviously both still slated for release sometime this year. Also, there are some...