yeah, the SPEC scores are completely out of line...take a look what intel published today...
at a mhz-to-mhz comparison, of course, AMD has them completely in the shitter, but...that'd be too obvious...
and yes, AMD was the first with a desktop 64-bit processor since you can buy the BOXX systems, etc. with the processor...so, the Anon. Idiot a couple posts back can rephrase what he said.
cheers,
dave
tell ya what, I'll give you heads up the next time I'm ready to post an article and you can "debug" it for me....
some people DETEST single page reviews...other's like the multi-paged approach...
Personally, I'd rather have the PDF...
cheers,
dave
geez, ya think if they could get on slashdot, they'd be able to read the first time, eh?:-)
You're definitely looking at NEW prices, not ebayed...big difference...
Hey!
I'll be more than willing to test your product out...problem is, the folks that I talked to about it (not Sandin, btw) mentioned that you've had some QC problems in the past...
I'm new to the block, so, email me and I'll do a head to head review...fair?
cheers,
dave
1.) i put them in the case because I could. I've also got an old CDROM server tower that I'm going to transistion the drives to.
2.) the "shady" adapters you're talking about are actually extremely well fabricated and thought-out. I wouldn't trade mine for the world...
got them off of Ebay...the store that routinely sells the drives for extremely cheap is HDOutlet. (look 'em up...)
As for the HBA, I can't remember where I got it, but several on ebay this past weekend were going for 35.00
cheers,
dave
and? I'm not very experienced with Linux, et al. Would you care to come over and give me a tutorial?
I can appreciate that you don't like M$. Me either...problem is, until I actually have time to sit down, fool around with any flavour of *nix, you're not going to see any reviews written on that platform...
lo siento mucho...
gee, thanks! love your work too...
actually, my drives are running rather cool (thanks for asking)...The ventilation holes provide a passive means of cooling. If heat rise, it needs a means to escape. The drives aren't loud and frankly, I could care less...
repeat after me: It was a fun project...
hey...as the article's author, I think I can offer my rationale for the pagination...(as I have 15 other places on this thread)...
1.) I'm provided a CMS framework in which to break up my article. The ads are provided by the processes that AMDZone runs, not by my pagination.
2.) I originally wrote the story up in M$ Word (don't shoot me...I'm running openoffice too...) for future placement into PDF format
3.) I tried to decide how best to break the article up...I divided this by thought process...
4.) At the end, as a courtesy, I provided the PDF for the entire article so that users would be able to just look through it that way...If you'll notice, the PDF is approximately 18 pages long...sorry!
5.) I don't make any money on these reviews...I'm not paid at all...so, there's no real motivation for me to break it into as many pages as possible....
does that help any?
cheers,
dave
Again, (and again, and again...ad nauseum...)
I paginated the article based on what I felt were appropriate breaks in the article. If you have a problem with this, let me know and I'll try to work things out a bit better next time...I just hate looking at 15 screens (in length) and trying to put some coherency together...I'd rather slap a PDF up...
cheers,
dave
ermmm..no? I broke the pages up based on what I thought were logical breaks in the content. I could care less about the ads. I write for the sheer joy of it and I don't get paid for it. So, please, talk to the author (that'd be me) before you go on spouting tripe you know absolutely nothing about...
cheers,
dave
LOL! dude, I had it, it was handy and i don't care....
now, I'm going to go back and replace the wood with 5/25" drive rails, but still, I've not heard any complaints from the drives yet....:-)
*sigh* geez...what do you want from me? a custom-fabricated aluminum housing coupled with an airbrush job that'd make Falcon-Northwest look like newbies? give me a break! It was fun, took me a few weeks, and gave me a better sense of what's out there....
dude, it's a "how-to" article, not a "preaching the merits of FC over SCSI." You've gotta understand something: people are going to want to find cheap alternatives for storage. this is simply a 'pointing the way to a watering hole' article, not the end-all, be-all of storage fantasies...
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yeah, the SPEC scores are completely out of line...take a look what intel published today... at a mhz-to-mhz comparison, of course, AMD has them completely in the shitter, but...that'd be too obvious... and yes, AMD was the first with a desktop 64-bit processor since you can buy the BOXX systems, etc. with the processor...so, the Anon. Idiot a couple posts back can rephrase what he said. cheers, dave
hey! no worries, dude....I do believe that cost/GB is cheaper via SCSI, but it's mostly the OEMs fault for the way they position it.. :-)
no harm, no foul...
cheers,
dave
oh yeah, and a buddy of mine just got a QLA2300 (their current top-o-line FC card) for $243.00 US...> linky here
tell ya what, I'll give you heads up the next time I'm ready to post an article and you can "debug" it for me.... some people DETEST single page reviews...other's like the multi-paged approach... Personally, I'd rather have the PDF... cheers, dave
geez, ya think if they could get on slashdot, they'd be able to read the first time, eh? :-)
You're definitely looking at NEW prices, not ebayed...big difference...
right, and as such, it's still more expensive...I'm working on getting a QLA2300 to test out FC-2 cheers, dave
Hey! I'll be more than willing to test your product out...problem is, the folks that I talked to about it (not Sandin, btw) mentioned that you've had some QC problems in the past... I'm new to the block, so, email me and I'll do a head to head review...fair? cheers, dave
damn, i'll try to remember that...I love mozilla, but at work, I'm always stuck using IE. thanks for the reminder.... cheers, dave
1.) i put them in the case because I could. I've also got an old CDROM server tower that I'm going to transistion the drives to. 2.) the "shady" adapters you're talking about are actually extremely well fabricated and thought-out. I wouldn't trade mine for the world...
got them off of Ebay...the store that routinely sells the drives for extremely cheap is HDOutlet. (look 'em up...) As for the HBA, I can't remember where I got it, but several on ebay this past weekend were going for 35.00 cheers, dave
and? I'm not very experienced with Linux, et al. Would you care to come over and give me a tutorial? I can appreciate that you don't like M$. Me either...problem is, until I actually have time to sit down, fool around with any flavour of *nix, you're not going to see any reviews written on that platform... lo siento mucho...
gee, thanks! love your work too... actually, my drives are running rather cool (thanks for asking)...The ventilation holes provide a passive means of cooling. If heat rise, it needs a means to escape. The drives aren't loud and frankly, I could care less... repeat after me: It was a fun project...
hey...as the article's author, I think I can offer my rationale for the pagination...(as I have 15 other places on this thread)... 1.) I'm provided a CMS framework in which to break up my article. The ads are provided by the processes that AMDZone runs, not by my pagination. 2.) I originally wrote the story up in M$ Word (don't shoot me...I'm running openoffice too...) for future placement into PDF format 3.) I tried to decide how best to break the article up...I divided this by thought process... 4.) At the end, as a courtesy, I provided the PDF for the entire article so that users would be able to just look through it that way...If you'll notice, the PDF is approximately 18 pages long...sorry! 5.) I don't make any money on these reviews...I'm not paid at all...so, there's no real motivation for me to break it into as many pages as possible.... does that help any? cheers, dave
Again, (and again, and again...ad nauseum...) I paginated the article based on what I felt were appropriate breaks in the article. If you have a problem with this, let me know and I'll try to work things out a bit better next time...I just hate looking at 15 screens (in length) and trying to put some coherency together...I'd rather slap a PDF up... cheers, dave
ermmm..no? I broke the pages up based on what I thought were logical breaks in the content. I could care less about the ads. I write for the sheer joy of it and I don't get paid for it. So, please, talk to the author (that'd be me) before you go on spouting tripe you know absolutely nothing about... cheers, dave
LOL! dude, I had it, it was handy and i don't care.... now, I'm going to go back and replace the wood with 5/25" drive rails, but still, I've not heard any complaints from the drives yet.... :-)
*sigh* geez...what do you want from me? a custom-fabricated aluminum housing coupled with an airbrush job that'd make Falcon-Northwest look like newbies? give me a break! It was fun, took me a few weeks, and gave me a better sense of what's out there....
dude, it's a "how-to" article, not a "preaching the merits of FC over SCSI." You've gotta understand something: people are going to want to find cheap alternatives for storage. this is simply a 'pointing the way to a watering hole' article, not the end-all, be-all of storage fantasies...
it was cheap and convenient...sorry, i'm not in the habit of being politically correct on case choices...