How about some real world, non-ancedotal-this-is-what-happened-to-me info on a large installation? It's not the same drive as this deal, but it sure puts the IBM/Hitachi DeathStar argument to rest - along with the argument that enterprise drives are better...
Details are here:
http://wiki.makerbot.com/cupcake
Positioning isn't going to be the same as the resolution... but yeah. It was too tempting for me to pass up.
Saw this on slickdeals. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3033479
http://store.makerbot.com/cupcake-cnc-ultimate.html
Yeah, sure the newer version is more accurate, etc, etc, etc... but it's also almost 3x as much. I bit. I consider it a Father's Day gift to myself. :)
If someone is going to the trouble of creating a gel mold of your fingerprint... they should just remove the drive from the computer and save the trouble. Use drive encryption if you're that worried.
All fixed. I finally heard back from eVGA. I'm not sure they even know why I was denied the promo for Metro 2033 - I emailed them the same invoice PDFs I uploaded to their site and got an email reply within 5 minutes with the game codes.
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Bought three eVGA cards last week; got this for all three:
No response yet after replying to the email. Nice service, eVGA. Maybe I should have spent my $1200 elsewhere.
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