While the original Sierra games were all low-res games they redid a bunch of them (including King's Quest and Quest for Glory) a few years back in 256 color VGA mode.
These guys said they made their version in 320X200 so people would have the feeling of playing the old games, but since Sierra already did that I really don't see the point, other than doing it as an excercise.
I built up a server system for a small company that had a need for a lot of storage space so at the time the 75GB IBM 75GXP drive made a lot of sense.
I ordered two of them and used them in a mirrored raid array in a nice big server case with plenty of fans.
It didn't take long for the system to start mysteriously crashing, and it took a while to figure out, but it ended being that one of the hard drive's was bad. So I had to break the mirror, send the drive back, install the replacement and recreate the mirror.
Things worked OK for a while until it started happenening again. Grrrrr. So this time I send the other drive back. At this point it had been a big enough pain in the ass that I don't bother with the raid stuff any more. I just install the 2nd replacement drive from IBM and simply dump the main disk over to it nightly.
Each drive went bad one more time eachI built up a server system for a small company that had a need for a lot of storage space so at the time the 75GB IBM 75GXP drive made a lot of sense.
I didn't get really upset until both drives went bad one more time each. This isn't just a rant about a particular manufacturer. I actually have several IBM drives myself and all of them have worked just fine up until recently, when one of the 16.8 Giggers I ordered 3-4 years ago started making loud clacking noises.
From my personal experience with the 75GXP drives, and all of the complaining that I've heard from others, there is obviously a problem with the reliability of those drives. The fact that IBM won't fess up to it speaks rather poorly of them.
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While the original Sierra games were all low-res games they redid a bunch of them (including King's Quest and Quest for Glory) a few years back in 256 color VGA mode. These guys said they made their version in 320X200 so people would have the feeling of playing the old games, but since Sierra already did that I really don't see the point, other than doing it as an excercise.
I built up a server system for a small company that had a need for a lot of storage space so at the time the 75GB IBM 75GXP drive made a lot of sense. I ordered two of them and used them in a mirrored raid array in a nice big server case with plenty of fans. It didn't take long for the system to start mysteriously crashing, and it took a while to figure out, but it ended being that one of the hard drive's was bad. So I had to break the mirror, send the drive back, install the replacement and recreate the mirror. Things worked OK for a while until it started happenening again. Grrrrr. So this time I send the other drive back. At this point it had been a big enough pain in the ass that I don't bother with the raid stuff any more. I just install the 2nd replacement drive from IBM and simply dump the main disk over to it nightly. Each drive went bad one more time eachI built up a server system for a small company that had a need for a lot of storage space so at the time the 75GB IBM 75GXP drive made a lot of sense. I didn't get really upset until both drives went bad one more time each. This isn't just a rant about a particular manufacturer. I actually have several IBM drives myself and all of them have worked just fine up until recently, when one of the 16.8 Giggers I ordered 3-4 years ago started making loud clacking noises. From my personal experience with the 75GXP drives, and all of the complaining that I've heard from others, there is obviously a problem with the reliability of those drives. The fact that IBM won't fess up to it speaks rather poorly of them.