On 10/26/11 5:24 PM, JoeTaxpayer at joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Bruce feels n is far lower than you or I do. I understand the
technologies are different, but the cost curve for dollars per GB
looks a lot like those for semiconductor density/ Moore's Law. So will
the ratio drop from
Following the recommendations of a number of people on the list I
bought a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 1 TB USB 2.0 External Hard
Drive STAC1000100 (Black). I erased it per Time Machine and it works
great. My thanks to all who commented or made suggestions. This list
is invaluable!
I
Following the recommendations of a number of people on the list I
bought a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 1 TB USB 2.0 External Hard
Drive STAC1000100 (Black). I erased it per Time Machine and it works
great. My thanks to all who commented or made suggestions. This list
is invaluable!
Fry's
Il giorno 28-10-2011 4:18, Bill Connelly ha scritto:
480Mb/s not fast enough to keep up with a photo slide show? That's
strange.
Well, 480Mb/s THEORETICAL! ;-)
THat should translate into something like 40-50 MB/s, but I've NEVER see any
USB2 device going faster than 10 MB/s.
(OTOH, I've seen
On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
But, I tried to use Slideshow option from Preview, and Preview crashed. I
don't think USB 2 was fast enough to keep up with the show.
No, that's not why Preview crashed, unless you were running the slideshow at 20
fps or so :-)
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Bruce
Hello: your name haas means hare in Dutch.
Mijn naam is haas means I do not know
Do not buy an external drive in a plastic case!
I tripped over the wire and broke the connection.
Stupid grandpa!!
Now it is useless!
My advice: buy a loose 2,5 or 3,5 inch hard drive 500 Gb to start with.
Buy an
On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
Il giorno 25-10-2011 22:29, John Callahan ha scritto:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB
to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?
I recently got a G Drive mobile 750GB, 2,5 (from G-Technology,
On Oct 25, 3:29 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB
to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up,
speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the
$100.00 range.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:19 AM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.comwrote:
(I just threw out a 3GB drive I paid
$300 for)
And yet you could have recycled it
Or wiped it and sold it on a place like eBay
On Oct 26, 10:36 am, Bruce Johnson
john...@.arizona.edujohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
I suppose. I don't imagine there's much demand for a SCSI 3GB drive.
For the fact that I long ago lost the ability to talk to this drive
and didn't know what personal data was on there, I destroyed it.
Just to share, I'm not an enemy of Green, I donated the G3s and any
higher capacity drives to a
At 8:36 AM -0700 10/26/2011, t...@io.com wrote:
I would be cautious of any of the 2.5 external drives which draw
their power off of the USB bus. That seems to cause corruption and
reliability issues in many cases.
It would help if Apple provided USB buses that had a little xtra umph
to
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Dan wrote:
It would help if Apple provided USB buses that had a little xtra umph to
them. Really irks me that the externals that spin fine on a cheap ($600) HP
laptop just sit there and keep trying to spin on a MBP.
I believe there is a sign, carved in
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Dan wrote:
It would help if Apple provided USB buses that had a little xtra umph to
them. Really irks me that the externals that spin fine on a cheap ($600)
HP laptop just sit there and keep trying to
On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:15 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB
to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up,
speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the
$100.00 range.
Seagate is
At 3:06 PM -0400 10/27/2011, Bill Connelly wrote:
But, I tried to use Slideshow option from Preview, and Preview
crashed. I don't think USB 2 was fast enough to keep up with the
show.
Doubtful the crash had anything to do with the drive's interface.
Preview's slideshow just sux.
I prefer
480Mb/s not fast enough to keep up with a photo slide show? That's
strange.
On Oct 27, 3:06 pm, Bill Connelly billycarmac...@verizon.net wrote:
But, I tried to use Slideshow option from Preview, and Preview
crashed. I don't think USB 2 was fast enough to keep up with the show.
--
You
On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:10 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
480Mb/s not fast enough to keep up with a photo slide show? That's
strange.
I remember now, the files being drawn from the external, were tiff
images, scanned at 600dpi. Maybe it was the size. Another Poster
thinks it was Preview.app ...
On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:15 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
The hard drive market is strange right now as Hitachi has decided to
abandon the market and sell its (former IBM) product line to Western
Digital.
I don't think anyone is making any money on hard drives these days.
And in the short
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-thailand-floods-tech-idUSTRE79K76Z20111021
This mentions 'Apple chief executive Steve Cook'
Freudian slip?
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those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular
Not long ago, I bought an 80GB SSD, $160. My latest HD was 3TB for
$120 $2/GB vs 4cents/GB.
The price of both keep dropping (I just threw out a 3GB drive I paid
$300 for) but I don't see these technologies crossing over, the 50 to
1 gap may narrow over time, but will see where it flattens. 10 to
On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
Not long ago, I bought an 80GB SSD, $160. My latest HD was 3TB for
$120 $2/GB vs 4cents/GB.
The price of both keep dropping (I just threw out a 3GB drive I paid
$300 for) but I don't see these technologies crossing over, the 50 to
1 gap may
At 4:29 PM -0400 10/25/2011, John Callahan wrote:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive?
500GB to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality? Need only for
back up, speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something
in the $100.00 range.
hum. A good drive?
At 9:36 AM -0700 10/26/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
In the end multi-terabyte SSD's are going to be very cheap, and hard
drives a relic of the past, and I suspect it;'s going to accelerate
greatly in the face of increased hard drive costs.
In the end, we'll stop trying to make tape drives
I think Bruce feels n is far lower than you or I do. I understand the
technologies are different, but the cost curve for dollars per GB
looks a lot like those for semiconductor density/ Moore's Law. So will
the ratio drop from 50 to 1 to 10 to one in ten years? Maybe. As you
say, there are
On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:29 PM, John Callahan wrote:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB to
700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, speed is
not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the $100.00 range.
Thanks a lot.
On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:29 PM, John Callahan wrote:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB to
700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, speed is
not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the $100.00 range.
I very much like
Il giorno 25-10-2011 22:29, John Callahan ha scritto:
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB
to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?
I recently got a G Drive mobile 750GB, 2,5 (from G-Technology, Hitachi).
It has USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 ports (it comes
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB
to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up,
speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the
$100.00 range.
Seagate is selling USB 2.0 external drives (which include, and require
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