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    ExpressCard 2.0 Spec Is Out and Promises to Be 10x Faster

    WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces

    Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat

    Rumor: Dell Adamo to Pack Blu-Ray and eSATA Peripherals

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    Image of Walljasper Walljasper
    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    What moron-of-design is still putting the annoying (if-not-oversized) lights on the face of these devices? At least include a small roll of tape so we can immediately mask off the stupid thing in a matching color. Bah.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/09/09

    @Walljasper: It's not as bright as my OWC Mercury USB drive. It's a translucent plastic, and the light is a bright blue LED right on the chip, so the whole thing lights up like a tiny blue Christmas tree.
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    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    After living with my 500GB WD MyBook and its triple interface, I vowed never again to subject myself to such a shitty peripheral. Sure, I could just swap the drive out when the chip dies, but who wants to deal with that bullshit? It became way too obvious how WD managed to sell these things for such a low price.


    I now opt to buy a proper high quality enclosure and just stick in a drive of my choosing. It's well worth the extra money, but after looking at the prices of drives and empty enclosures individually, the premium is not that great either.

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    06/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I will say, however, that the drive's single press power/dismount procedure was pleasant, at first. After mounting and dismounting became an issue, that feature wasn't quite so golden anymore.
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    Image of devianaut devianaut
    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    i'm still wanting a petabyte harddrive.


    ...what?

     Reply
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    06/09/09

    @devianaut: A pedophile hard drive?
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    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    as long as the thing still fits in my microwave.
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    Image of D0rk D0rk
    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    eh, if I need 4 TB for data, it will be in a RAID format.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @D0rk: Uhm, it is in RAID format. Striping is a RAID format. I think you mean a fault-tolerant RAID format.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/09/09

    @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: *nod* I'm not so sure I trust any two drives in RAID 0 in a warm little case, honestly. Two separate drives? That I could live with.
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    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    It's a Western Digital MyBook. That's enough to make me keep walking.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: As opposed to a Seagate one that will crash out because the firmware is flaked from the factory due to poor firmware quality controls?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/09/09

    @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: Dead controller boards (MyBook) are no better than dead drives (Seagate) to the average hardware-ignorant consumer.


    Those of us who know that there's just a regular SATA drive in there, though? We'll buy the MyBooks if they're cheaper than an identical drive and an enclosure. And if part of the MyBook enclosure dies, we'll shuck it, throw out the shell, and stick the drive in another case.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @Floozy Plushbroom will eat 60 figs: Right, but I'd still rather have a drive I can salvage myself than one I have to send back to Seagate (and hope) that they do a data recovery on the drive.


    While I know how to, and have the gear to, unlock a Seagate drive that has firmware failed... I really don't like to do it. It's a pain in the ass.


    But at least the WD failed for a legitimate hardware issue.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/09/09

    @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: I definitely agree with you. Most people won't understand that, though, that was my point.


    And last I checked, Seagates had to be returned in "two-inch-thick foam rubber". Not sure if that's any different now.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @Floozy Plushbroom will eat 60 figs: I have now replaced 9 failed Seagate drives at the office. Unfortunately the firmware patch software doesn't work on all machines of the same model. I don't get that one. Heh.
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    06/09/09

    @Floozy Plushbroom will eat 60 figs: @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: Wouldn't it just be easier to have a drive that doesn't fail? I don't care if it's the controller board or bad firmware. Failure is failure.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I agree. A low quality chipset can be a huge inconvenience if you need the data right now. Then there's the added cost of replacing the drive's original enclosure with one of your choosing, which you couldn't very well done in the first place.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    As opposed to four 1TB Greens in their own dirt-cheap whatever-interface-you-want enclosure for less?


    Maybe I'm too into this "value" thing.

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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    06/09/09

    In reply to WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
    Nice idea, but I am glad i got rid of my WD MyBook drives, they kept on failing on me, and it was controller board failure, not power supply failure like LaCie.


    I personally am running 2 1TB drives independent of each other and I feel much safer with my data set up like that, as opposed to two drives set up in a proprietary RAID array... I'm looking at you LaCie!!

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @thePrototype: All raid arrays are handled in a proprietary manner by the controller. Sorry to be the one to tell you that.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @thePrototype: What I don't get is why you'd ever want a striped array for data integrity.


    I've had 0 problems w/ getting LaCie to replace failed gear. I've yet to have a MyBook WD external drive die ever, and my External Seagate drive barfed due to firmware issues.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    06/09/09

    @thePrototype: I too have had a WD MyBook start failing twice. This second time I said screw it, and put the drive in a 3rd party enclosure.


    If your looking for NAS, have you tried taking an old system and setting it up w/freeNAS?

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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    06/09/09

    @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: I get that, but the problem is if I bring a BigDisk to a data recovery expert, they won't touch it, but if I bring my tower in they will. The prob with RAID 0 (correct me if I am wrong) is that there will be some data that will span the two drives, and if there is a failure, that data is gone.


    @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: You are very lucky then, I have had three Big Disks and two MyBooks fail, and none of them are in extreme heat, and are plugged into UPS's.


    @World'sFastestBrowser_GitEmSteveDave: I have my two drives connected to my AP extreme for NAS, and so far it has been flawless, no speed issues streaming vids to my PS3 while performing backups.

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    06/09/09

    @World'sFastestBrowser_GitEmSteveDave: You have any references you can give me for how to do that? What do you need to set something like this up?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @thePrototype: Right, Raid 0 = striped array. 1 drive failure will toast the entire setup. So yeah, data gone between them. Thus why I said, "Why would you use a non-fault tolerant raid mode for crucial data?"


    Mine are on a UPS as well. I used to run them 24/7 but as the LaCie's started to eat it I stopped doing this.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    06/09/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: how I did what? Remove the drive? I found some guides online, and it was pretty easy. I then took a 9.00 USB2.0 enclosure I believe I bought from Daelzmodo and stuck the drive in there. So far no problems. I'm still backing it up though, in case the drive fails.


    As for FreeNAS, all you do is take a old system(mines a 800mhz Athalon), and install this BSD derived OS, either on a cd, usb stick, or actual hard drive, and then shove it full of as many drives as you can fit. I have two 640gb's in mine now, and after setting it's DDNS service, I can access the NAS from anywhere in the world.

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    Image of enki enki
    06/09/09

    @World'sFastestBrowser_GitEmSteveDave: That's pretty cool if you've got a very lower power old system laying around, but you'll eat up the money you saved in utility bills in no time running the extra PC.
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    06/09/09

    @enki: Well, I'm guessing this thing is eating at least 2amps at 12 volts, all day long, even when the drive is powered down. FreeNAS allows you to hibernate/sleep the system, spin down the drives, etc. for a lot of power savings.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/09/09

    @World'sFastestBrowser_GitEmSteveDave: 2 amps at 12 volts isn't quite the same as 2 amps at 120 volts though...
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    Image of AqueousBeef AqueousBeef
    06/02/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat
    Firewire 400 is much faster than USB 2.0. Might wanna fix that.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    06/02/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat
    RIP FW 400...you were my connection of choice. Shame on Apple for banishing you from every model except the po' man's MacBook.
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    Image of Usama Usama
    06/02/09

    @discounteggroll: Agreed. I make sure all the PCs I build for myself and my parents/sisters have onboard Firewire. Firewire rocks, kicks USB 2.0 in the arse for transfer speeds. The two newest PCs have eSATA but haven't had a chance to actually buy an eSATA drive. Still got an old WD or two kicking with Firewire. The USB ports on them are pretty lonely.
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    06/02/09

    @Usama: Same here, except my USB's are filled w/webcams, as there aren't many affordable firewire cams.
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    Image of senorbelly senorbelly
    12/27/08

    In reply to Rumor: Dell Adamo to Pack Blu-Ray and eSATA Peripherals
    It's "Adama", people. A-D-A-M-A.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/27/08

    @senorbelly: Adama, Adamo. Who's going to be on Earth sooner?
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    12/27/08

    In reply to Rumor: Dell Adamo to Pack Blu-Ray and eSATA Peripherals
    So unlike the MacBook Air, it will be function over form....
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    Image of imTheKing imTheKing
    12/27/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Yeah it'll be made from garbage too, which will make it cheaper than the MBA and itll start falling apart a few months down the road.
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    12/27/08

    @imTheKing: So, just like any other Dell product then?
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Kanguru's e-Flash Drive Can Handle USB and eSATA
    WTF happens if you plug both ends in at the same time?


    Gulp...!

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    11/19/08

    @Windhawk: Then you get what you call double penetration.
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    11/19/08

    @Windhawk: It goes from suck to blow, just like Mega Maid in Spaceballs...
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    11/06/08

    In reply to Datamore Porté Adds Lambo Doors to Your Hard Drive
    I hope the door is accompanied by either the hiss of air or the whine of an actuator motor.


    -because I like that.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/06/08

    @strider_mt2k: For us Douglas Adams fans out there, a good hearty sigh will suffice.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    11/06/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Indeed!

    Good one! :D
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/06/08

    In reply to Datamore Porté Adds Lambo Doors to Your Hard Drive
    Those are DeLorean doors. If it was a Lamborghini door, the side would slide up at a 45-degree angle.


    DeLorean:



    Lamborghini:


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    Image of DisposableInterloper DisposableInterloper
    11/06/08

    @OMG! Ponies!:

    Shhh! Careful, or an intern might send you a private message about being a dick.
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    11/06/08

    @DisposableInterloper:


    A) I am a dick and have never denied it.


    B) If an intern wants to tell me that I'm a dick, they can do in public. Everyone knows I'm a dick.


    3) I should be scared of being called a dick because...?

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/06/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: DeLorean is nice but the crown will always belong to

    Photobucket
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    11/06/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: 3) because if you're in dallas, everyone will try to suck you?
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    11/06/08

    @Anonymoose: Shiny!


    (-and that's the CARS!)

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