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  1. Re:install lots of usb ports by Heratiki · · Score: 2, Informative · on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays?

    You mean like this? http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_1

  2. The Thumb Drive RAID Experiment by lalder · · Score: 2, Interesting · on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?

    try this http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_1

  3. RAID: speed & reliability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Top Solid State Disks and TB Drives Reviewed

    site details an early RAID experiment using 4 thumb drives:
    http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_1

    Hmmmm...thumb drives (USB flash drives) are:
    1) hot swapable...plug-and-play
    2) inexpensive...widely available...falling in price
    3) daisy-chain USB hardware is expandable

    Seems like there should be an idea for a product in all this.
    RAID could solve the reliability issues...have the OS
    pop open a warning box:
            Thumb drive #4 has now become 'unreliable'.
            It's data has been copied to other drives.
            Please replace #4 with a new device.

  4. Re:Basic questions by Surt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive

    1. 17MB/sec. http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/review.php?item= oczrally&file=1
    2. 60 MB/sec. http://www.usb-2-0.com/what-is-usb-2-0.html#2.%20H ow%20fast%20is%20USB%202.0
    3. 60 MB/sec. http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200511/HDS72 5050KLA360_2.html
    4. 11 MB/sec. http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050520/usb_f lash_drives-09.html
    5. 35 MB/sec. http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2515

    It's 1.5 times as fast as your average flash, and only half as slow as your typical USB hard drive.

  5. Mini / Pico ITX much nicer by mustafap · · Score: 1 · on HTPC 4-Way Enclosure Roundup

    For many of the jobs they suggest - Kitchen machine, music hub, lower end specialist stuff - I personally would much rather go with Mini ITX.

    eg Via
    http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/min i-itx/

    with a nice compact case
    http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
    http://www.bigbruin.com/html/morex_3688.htm

    I guess really what Im saying is I would perfer a Mac Mini :o)

  6. Re:article doesn't explain network by 3-State+Bit · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber?
    Running with your numbers, look at this. Quoting you:
    With 500GB drives, it would take 7340.032 drives to attain 3.5PB... with NO redundancy.
    For the Deskstar7k500 [Please note that this isn't the "DeathStar" anymore, it was just when they put five instead of the industry-standard four platters into the DeskStar that they started dropping like flies, and I suppose the DeathStar reputation no longer stands. I've never owned one.]

    The specifications [see footnote for a few other sites] state
    Height (mm) 25.4
    Width (mm) 101.6
    Depth (mm) 146
    146 mm) x (101.6 mm) x (25.4 mm) x 7 340 = 2.76551705 m^3,
    and, running with the article's numbers, let's see how much of 20 feet cubed that is... (article: the most storage, memory and power support into a 20...foot box -- note that a BOX of course is less cubic area than a 20-foot cube)....

    ((146 mm) x (101.6 mm) x (25.4 mm) x 7 340) / (20 (feet^3)) = 4.88316565...

    WHAT? it's not a fraction, but larger by a factor of 4+??? Just for the hard-drives? Even when we assumed a CUBE???

    Man, I want some of the shit that guy's smoking. I was expecting to debunk with just the hard-drives taking an impossibly large percentage of the proposed 20-foot "box". But....man. Cringely must not have done even a basic sanity check. (And remember, I'm pretty sure he didn't have a 20 foot high, 20 foot wide box in mind, or he would have said cube. To a writer, a "20-foot box" sounds like an elongated storage container, e.g. 8x8x20 feet.... BTW that's the first hit for 20 foot storage container, I can only assume a writer would have such a thing in mind...)

    English and math, people, English AND math.

    Footnote:
    Other sources for specifications:
    1. First.
    2. Second.
    3. Third.
    4. Fourth.
    5. Fifth.
  7. Re:Finally. by legoleg · · Score: 1 · on Basics of Modern Intel CPUs

    Looky.... I found part 2!

    AMD info

  8. Other outlets for coverage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on VIA's New PT Chipsets

    Here are some more sites covering it... all about the same content, really:
    viperlair.com
    hardocp.com
    techreport.com
    thetechzone.com
    tweaktown.com
    thetechzone.com
    hothardware.com
    hexus.net
    pcper.com
    legionhardware.com
    thetechlounge.com
    bigbruin.com

  9. lilliput? by complete+loony · · Score: 5, Informative · on An LCD Display for an Ultra-Portable Desktop?

    Here's one, 7" 800x480 seems to be available all over the place (review).

  10. google? by iamjim · · Score: 5, Informative · on Do the 5.1 Stereo Headphones Really Work?

    reviews found at:

    bigbrui.com, overclockersclub.com, modthebox.com, pcextreme.net, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech.com, etc...