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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 7, 2010 8:07:11 GMT -5
Maybe, because it has very lack of evidence, that's why we can't claim this problem.
Anyway, I sure hope to continue to watch movies on my DVD-ROM on either laptops. If it's the new one, I'm sure it'll still be under warranty, but my current one I'm using, I don't think so, it must have been expired already and I never intend to renew it, so I'm not taking any chances to ruin it, not to mention I already said the ROM lens replacement is very expensive.
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Post by Max Power on Jan 8, 2010 22:22:57 GMT -5
If you read carefully, Max, I DID say Blu-Ray MOVIES! Not games! Since movie keeps running as the movie plays, you're making the lens to keep running. Games I'm not sure, but I bet it won't take up much power than the movies. Well, that's his opinion. It maybe a one is a million, but he told me if I want to watch Blu-Ray movies, always use the respective Blu-Ray movie players, not PS3 consoles. What? If anything, games require MUCH more power than movies, because some games stream data off the disc and much more processing power is used to render it all on screen. With a movie, you're just playing a video file. I don't know where you got your information from, but they have no idea what they're talking about.
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Post by Clone on Jan 9, 2010 0:24:45 GMT -5
your DVD drive and our PS3's will not die because we play movies and games in them. as a mater of fact a game is more tedious to a drive because its a non linear loading system that occurs as they run unlike a movie that reads from the inside out (or the opposite). so if anything was to burn it out faster it would be a GAME not a movie. still these things will last a good long time. your fans are more likely to die before the disk drive.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 9, 2010 4:53:37 GMT -5
Gee, most probably. I knew a game will usually spin a lot, but usually that happens on consoles, not PC, as PC is installed inside the hard drive.
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Post by Clone on Jan 9, 2010 13:57:33 GMT -5
notice how the Hard Drive is the fastest failing part in a computer?
any ways. moving on...
been playing MAG non stop for two days now. its really fun doing a 64 person match for capture the point missions and i just hit the qualification for the 256 person matches for territory! can not wait to play it some more!
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 9, 2010 15:58:23 GMT -5
notice how the Hard Drive is the fastest failing part in a computer? That's why it's best to have backups to the external hard disk as well as burning your stuff into DVD-Rs. So far, my current hard disk I've been using is already 4 years old or so, still no complete failure.
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Post by Clone on Jan 10, 2010 2:07:45 GMT -5
what all ways suppresses me is that the 9 year old Hard Drive in my parents Dell lasted longer than the second hard drive we placed in it. the new one (second) only lasted 1 year! one year! now thas just plain bad...
my desktops running with out any hitches but the laptops Hard Disk's been a bit buggy under Windows...
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 10, 2010 3:00:04 GMT -5
It depends on what brand you use, I'm not sure about my old one, but my new one is 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive, I wonder that is Western Digital. That last for a good while. AND a Dell technician friend of mine told me that we must not use RAIDs (2 hard disk drives in one CPU), partitions (2 drivers in 1 hard disk) are much safer. RAIDs will have much bigger consequences because if one of the hard disk fails, your whole OS crashes (Whether if one is a C or D).
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Post by Clone on Jan 10, 2010 11:52:54 GMT -5
the Laptops hard drive is a western Digital... and the one in the desktop that failed hard was a Western Digital.
the ones that have been lasting for ever, Hitachi. I've got 4 Hitachi hard drives, ones 9 years old, and non of them have failed one bit.
to the RAID thing. if your running a mirror RAID (i think RAID 2) then your actually safer. if one hard drive fails then your still all good because one of them still has all of your information.
RAID 5 is also a mirror RAID type and same with RAID 10.
i'm seating my for ever lasting g Hitachi hard drives in to a striped RAID for my new instillation of Windows 7. the hard drives are currently the REALLY the slowest part in my computer so i'm hopping that will give me a small boost to performance.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 11, 2010 3:09:39 GMT -5
Japanese brands are good too, except we cannot be sure of it ever since many of us grew from the interest of Japanese brands now down to US brands like we are now. And wow, you must have kept your old faith.
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Post by Clone on Jan 11, 2010 22:21:25 GMT -5
i just like Hitachi because i haven't ever had any problems with them. if i havent had a compleat fail form a WD drive in a year of use and a buggy laptop hard drive from them i would be saying a thing. (however my 500GB western Digital Green drives been running like a dream! so i guess it was just a fluke for the others) just a note. Hitachi is a branch of IBM www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.58b0ea6df4571f8056fb11f0aac4f0a0/interesting isnt it?
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 11, 2010 22:37:18 GMT -5
Wow, a brand of IBM? Now that's nice to hear. But too bad, my interest with IBM faded out many years ago when Intel came in.
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Post by Clone on Jan 12, 2010 11:19:00 GMT -5
i was amassed my self when i found that out a few months a go. made me happy that they were still producing consumer products. IBM still makes the worlds most powerful processors however they have never produced them with the x86 or x64 code string, so no public user will ever really use them (unless they have a PS3 which uses one of IBM's experimental processors)
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Jan 12, 2010 12:51:41 GMT -5
I usually believe IBM is larger than Intel, but Intel mostly provide things very well such as their I7 processors. That's what I love best.
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Post by dragonuproductions on Jan 12, 2010 14:04:49 GMT -5
i7's like my god.
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