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Matthew Wild wrote:
| Hi all,
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| What is the general opinion of the best HDD manufacturer? Over the
| years I have heard bad about each one in one way or another.
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| I'm looking to buy an external HDD. I was disappointed to find that
| Maplin only st
> I have to agree, the most reliable type of hard drive is "RAID array".
> I've had a software RAID1 array for four years now, have had several
> different brands fail (including Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital)
> but have not lost one jot of data.
>
> I presented a Software RAID1 HowTo usi
Kris Douglas wrote:
> raided anyway
I have to agree, the most reliable type of hard drive is "RAID array".
I've had a software RAID1 array for four years now, have had several
different brands fail (including Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital)
but have not lost one jot of data.
I presented a
Kris Douglas wrote:
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> All of my servers have Compaq 10k drives, and I also have some
> desktops with Compaq's... I have never had one die, and they are
> raided anyway, so if one did, just get a new one and its all back to
> normal.
>
Some of our old audio servers at work are running Compaq d
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:39:35PM +, LeeGroups wrote:
> But doesn't the Humax have a USB port which mounts like an external
> harddrive?
>
It has a USB port, yes, but it doesnt show up as a mass storage device. You
have to use special software to get the data off it. A friend of mine wrote
>> A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box
>> and replace the fixed hard drive with a hard drive caddy. Record the
>> programmes then mount the hard drive on your local machine, then rip the
>> MPEG2 stream file to whatever you fancy.
> My Freeview box (Humax 9200T
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Rob Beard wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:58 +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
>> not much help then! well im sure someway will come along soon
>
> Well you could get yourself a Freeview box with a hard drive in. I've
> seen them somewhere (Argos I think) f
On 07/02/2008, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 23:50 +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> > Personally i always stick to western digital, as was said before they
> > do fail but so do others, warranties on a drive usually arent worth it
> > from my experience, as it would cost
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:58 +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> not much help then! well im sure someway will come along soon
Well you could get yourself a Freeview box with a hard drive in. I've
seen them somewhere (Argos I think) for under £80 with a big hard drive
in. You'd get hours of stuff on ther
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 23:50 +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Personally i always stick to western digital, as was said before they
> do fail but so do others, warranties on a drive usually arent worth it
> from my experience, as it would cost more than half the amount of a
> replacement drive to send o
Hi All
I've just taken delivery of a new LaCie 80 Gb usb external hard drive.On
plugging it in to my laptop (running dual win xp/gutsy) it automounted without
error. I have copied some files and folders to it (both from a windows xp
partition and the ubuntu partition) without issue but then not
On Thursday 07 February 2008 11:50:36 Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:00:22AM +, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> >> A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box
> >
> > My Freeview box (Humax 9200T) has an "odd" disk layout that isn't easil
Alan Pope wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:00:22AM +, Andrew Oakley wrote:
>> A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box
> My Freeview box (Humax 9200T) has an "odd" disk layout that isn't easily
> mountable on Linux. YMMV.
Yeah - having thought about this, a mu
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:00:22AM +, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box
> and replace the fixed hard drive with a hard drive caddy. Record the
> programmes then mount the hard drive on your local machine, then rip the
> MPEG2 stream
Javad Ayaz wrote:
> Does anyone know how to download files from the iplayer?
The main problem is the RTMP protocol used for streaming FLV data to the
Flash player. RTMP isn't currently supported by any stable Linux
application other than the closed-source Adobe Flash Player.
There is discussion
Hi Tom
l will try a different drive later. The one l'm trying to use is a small
Hitachi 2.5" drive which is a few years old although l do have a brand
new 80gig maxtor that l could try.
The USB caddy works with XP on my wife's machine although not with Win
2K pro.
GParted tells me: mount_point c
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