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DCJensen - Dec 01, 2004 12:46:02 pm PST #291 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
DCJensen - Dec 01, 2004 12:53:12 pm PST #292 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Now this IDE To USB Drive Adapter would be useful for anyone, even techs when helping, transferring old hard drive data to a new hard drive. You won't even have to open the new machine and attach the drive.
Not that the concept is new, but the dropping of the price point is welcome.
tommyrot - Dec 01, 2004 12:53:31 pm PST #293 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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When it says, "Bus Power design," does that mean it's powered from the computer's USB port? That would be unusual, as Firewire can supply a lot more power to devices than USB can. (Or did they improve that on USB 2?)
Anyway, my iBook has Firewire but only USB 1 or 1.1 or whatever.
tommyrot - Dec 01, 2004 12:55:47 pm PST #294 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Not that the concept is new, but the dropping of the price point is welcome.
Yeah, that is cheap. I paid about $79 (I think) for the same thing, except it has the enclosure. (Also, Firewire, but USB was the same price.)
DCJensen - Dec 01, 2004 12:57:36 pm PST #295 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I believe it is indeed powered by the USB connection.
However, even since 1.0 USB there have been people making lights to run off USB. Notebook hard drives are fairly low in power consumption, so I can see that as acceptable.
DCJensen - Dec 01, 2004 12:59:44 pm PST #296 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yeah, that is cheap. I paid about $79 (I think) for the same thing, except it has the enclosure. (Also, Firewire, but USB was the same price.)
I like the enclosureless design, because it makes the task at hand quicker. If I wanted to enclose it, it wouldn't take much, tho.
But for short term use? It would be quite handy. Easily transportable from site to site.
Vonnie K - Dec 02, 2004 6:09:56 am PST #297 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Quick question about DVD-Rs. You can use them like a huge-ass storage device for any ole types of files, instead of for burning DVD-format movies, right? I have all these avi-files that I've bit-torrented that's taking up room on my hard drive, but some of them are too big for a 700MB CD-R and I'm too lazy (and also not in possession of a DVD-writer) to learn to convert them and burn them as DVD. Can I just write a bunch them as regular data files onto a single DVD-R (which I understand can hold 4GB+ data)?
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2004 6:14:56 am PST #298 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You can use them like a huge-ass storage device for any ole types of files, instead of for burning DVD-format movies, right?
Yes.
Can I just write a bunch them as regular data files onto a single DVD-R (which I understand can hold 4GB+ data)?
The dual-layer blank DVDs can hold almost 8GB. We just got a dual layer burner at work, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Huh, I could back up my entire mp3 collection onto 4 DVDs.
Tom Scola - Dec 02, 2004 6:18:19 am PST #299 of 10003
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If you don't have a DVD writer, you can't burn DVD-Rs, though.
You can't just stick a blank DVD in a CD burner.
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2004 6:21:04 am PST #300 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oops, I missed the part about not having a DVD burner.