Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 07:02:47 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Off list HDD stuff
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 10:50 pm, you wrote: > Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 22:43:17 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Off list HDD stuff > > From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Maybe I ought to find list where problems relating > > > specifically to audio recording and playback are discussed. > > > I'm suspecting that even the various HDDs may enter the > > > picture. As I've mentioned, one HDD I have starts clicking > > > after it runs a while and gets a bit hot. I'm wondering if > > > it's possible that an over heated HDD could suddenly loose > > > data transfer speed, and this these tiny clicks, or dropouts. > > > >Any HD as it heats could drop into an autocalibrate mode to > >reposition the head properly. Time was (when I were but a lad) > > that one could get special AV drives guaranteed not to do this > > but I suspect those days are past. > > > >Neil > > Neil... Do you suppose the excess noise this Fuji HDD makes when > it runs is an indication of bad bearings? It was a lot more > quite the 1st month after I bought it. Then it started howling > one night, and hasn't stopped. <grin> it doesn't sound good... I assume it only occurs when it spins up? > > I don't know why I bought a Fuji instead of another Toshiba HDD. > I've never had any problems with the Toshibas, and for some > reason relate 'quality' more with Toshiba than Fujistu. Ah, that would be the Fujistu who are currently being hit in a class action suite from HP and Compaq regarding a mere three hundred thousand faulty drives? > > Even if the bearings are howling, I suppose the thing could very > well last quite a long time. I was kind of thinking of selling > it for $40-$45 USD and picking up a 30GB Toshiba that runs > quieter, and may record/playback audio better. From what I > understand, the large notebooks have a larger cache that makes > them perform incrementally faster. Though I've mentioned this on > the list, and haven't gotten any confirmation of it. I should > probably find an audio list where people know a bit more > specifically about the relationship of HDDs and audio. If you can shift it, I would. Though you may find no-one wants to play, or they want their money back. The bigger the cache on a disk, the better you are for AV apps. A two-meg buffer will hold about twelve seconds of raw audio. or a couple of minutes of mpeg. Assuming, of course, that the sectors you need are adjacent. I'm using the Ogg Vorbis coder exclusively now; a single button solution on Mandrake 8 or 9 - 'grip' rips the CD, gets the track names from the CDDA database, and codes all in one. (it does mpg too). On the 750MHz desktop I'm getting rips at 4* real time and coding at 2.5* real time. > > I'm really happy with this 100CT, even if the case was a bit > busted up when I got it. The screws seem to hold it all together > well, and the performance is a great improvement over the 70. I > guess o/c-ing to 266 is on the agenda at some point, but I wonder > if it's going to stand up to Florida summers. From what I've > read, most o/c 100s work quite well at 266. > > It's funny how huge the thing looks to me. I guess it's a > slippery slide up/down the slope of acceptance going with the > tiny increase of size going up the ladder Lib models. > > How it that Portege behaving for you? Chugging along very nicely thanks :) Under linux, for writing, I get around two-two+half hours on the standard battery pack; with the big battery pack I can turn it on at Heathrow and play music all the way to JFK and still have some life left. I hate to think how long that battery would drive a libretto... Presently running W2k and mandrake 9 - which appears to have confused some of the fonts, so I'm still investigating that. Presently building the 70 (which has been a research/testbed/backup machine for a while) into a w98/m7.1 for daughter. I *can* make it work with w2k and Mandrake 8.2/9 but it really doesn't have the memory for either and the disk thrashing can get extreme. Plus you have to play serious silly buggers to get the code on there :) Neil ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
