Recent content by drlava

Your observations, and the economic presence of ‘shucking’ in my opinion points to anti-competitive behavior in the bare HDD market by the main HD producers. Remember the anticompetitive lawsuit brought against RAM manufacturers for price fixing years ago? I smell the same thing here. Thanks...

Guys, I bought my current NAS drives almost exactly six years ago: WD Red WD30EFRX 3TB for $99 each. I was looking to upgrade today and the prices are about the same! 6 YEARS later! A 3TB RED NAS drive is about $80. I remember the years of HD’s sizes for a certain cost about doubling every 18...

Guys some clarification is needed here. They are not talking about FLIR version as in far infrared. This would not be possible to be focused by our lenses in our eyes. What they are most likely talking about is near infrared like what is used in the remote controls. As such in order to see in...

I'm not part of the test team, but my strong suspicion is that these are indicators that are triggered by certain events such as when an airbag is deployed so that the exact video frame that the deployment event is triggered is recorded. This allows the engineers to evaluate the state of...

I guess this means the rotating restaurant floor is out.. bummer. it was nice seeing different parts of the city while dining. Edit, I take that back, apparently rotation is still included according to the article. Phew

Is this what public schools are teaching nowdays? I pity you and the future.

Great review. I appreciate you taking the time to investigate this OEM drives performance and comparing it against the competition. these are the things that keep me coming back for more. I have to wonder, why not include the Corsair drives that you've reviewed recently?

It's great to see SSDs keep expanding in size, performance, and dropping in price. A word of warning, however. There are still compatibility issues being worked out, and these devices may not be as compatible as the controller chip-sets of companies that have been in the HD business for...

I'm using XP, but the USB drivers are sorted. The controller is a renesas uPD720201 and I've updated its firmware and drivers now to the latest http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=5214 The problem seems to be the J-Micron JMS-539 chips in the USB3-SATA bridges. I've read around...

Posting a status update on this project. After installing the cards, drivers, etc. all drives were detected. It was possible to write lightscribe labels on all 4 drives at once with SureThing 6 labeler. However, there appears to be an issue with using the sata/USB 3.0 adapters on the USB...

Am I the only one who expected to see bluescreen of death screenshots for Microsoft's latest OS? :D

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/15/m-disc-holds-your-data-forever-we-go-hands-on-for-a-few-minut/

Nice to know about the data streams, defaultuser. Those USB 3.0 burners are probably sata burners with a USB 3.0 adapter case. Here's what I ended up with and will be testing with: 5-pack sata drives http://www.ebay.com/itm/200894199058 USB 3.0 card http://www.ebay.com/itm/130647454459 USB...

Hi there, thanks for your reply. Are you speaking from experience about USB 3.0 working? One of the interesting things I found out about USB 3.0 is that if you plug multiple usb2.0 devices into a USB 3.0 hub and the hub also connected to a usb 3.0 port, that the usb 2.0 devices will still...

Occasionally I have to do DVD duplication to several disks at once. My quest was for the ability to burn at least 4 discs at once.. lightscribe and data for under $200, externally with only one cable coming from the PC, and have future expansion capability. Commonly available duplicators with...