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Comment Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA (Score 1) 373

Having RAID on the drive itself mostly defeats the purpose of RAID (excepting RAID 0, but even that has issues with this approach). RAID is best for combating downtime due to hardware failure. By sticking both "disks" of a RAID-1 on one drive, you have no recourse if one of those "disks" fails. You can't swap out half a drive to let it rebuild on a good 'disk'.

I was thinking more like RAID 5 or other models with redundancy, just in the same housing. HEY! don't be stealing my idea lol.

Comment Re:Use windows (Score 2) 146

Some folks argue that the stories (or, rather, the presentation and discussion of them) are unfairly slanted against Microsoft. For me, it comes down to this:

When a company has a warchest in excess of 500 billion US dollars, as well as immense market penetration in a variety of domains -- desktop operating systems, web browser, word processing software, spreadsheet software, etc. -- it is expected to have its act together.

(CompanyX AND 500 billion dollars) != "its act together"

For example:

Windows ME

Windows Vista

Zune

Games for Windows Live/Steam DRM

Surface RT

Xbox One and their DRM strategy (until it was revoked)

Comment Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA (Score 1) 373

As long as the most regularly libraries and executables are cached, it shouldn't seem slow.. for other files, you only need to wait when they're opened initially. I don't even really notice when I open documents over a wi-fi link, so I don't see why opening documents from a 5,400RPM HDD should be much worse.

With that logic, we should all go back to 56k modems because its only slow the first time you load the webpage...right?

Comment Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA (Score 2) 373

What's also certain is that with hybrid drives you get the slow read speed of a 5400 rpm, the mechanical disadvantage of a fragile rotating platter, and the catastrophic (read: total) data loss when SSD's fail.

No thanks. The money savings vs. buying a true SSD is not worth the extra complexity, slower read times, and potential for failure. If I am going to accept the risk of a SSD failure, it better be fast - through and through!

I can't wait until flash memory becomes so inexpensive that it becomes standard to have built in RAID arrays for redundancy and speed right in the HDD itself.

Comment Re:Sensationalist summary at all? (Score 1) 285

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when using this device, a bullet, from a loaded cartridge, gets propelled down a barrel by action of the explosive powders in the cartridge.

Apparently you didn't RTFA.

Additionally, it seems you never played Doom or Quake and have not heard of the term "rail gun" before

No explosive, or "loaded cartridge" required.

Comment Re:Troubling quote from the article (Score 1) 432

Police are just like everyone else, but with no one looking over their shoulders.

But, if you have drugs in your car, aren't you guilty anyway? Lies are one thing, I know. It'd suck to get pulled over for some lame traffic violation, have drug dogs called while you wait, have the dogs search your car, find nothing, and then you go on your merry way - but that'd be the last time the cops fucked with you, or you could then sue their pants off for harassment. This attack method is double-edged, for both sides.

It almost makes me want to become suspicious, just so I can get a nice, thick and juicy lawsuit going on, as currently I hate the local cops about as much as I hate the local drug dealers.

The problem is that if even if you don't have drugs in your car they will bring a dog. The dog may not even be trained to sniff drugs. The dog will (of course) indicate there may be drugs in the car and then they will continue ask you for your permission to search the vehicle. If you deny permission to search they will impound your car, which is a major inconvenience of time, money etc. Cops then have lots of options when the car is impounded...ranging from just making you pay the impound fee, to planting drugs in the car. Regardless if no drugs are found, you will be out a car, out some money to get your car back, possibly framed and of course have your 4th amendment rights stripped away. "Oh, sorry the dog found a false positive" or some other BS. Good luck winning a lawsuit for an unreasonable search when they don't find anything. Welcome to America.

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