www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT

It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS

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Hog
'03 ST4S  '96 Bastard12  '89 R100RS  '81 XS650  '78 RD400

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog 
 typed
>www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>
>It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>

Read the reviews, there are an awful lot of DOAs and early failures 
there.

-- 
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog 
>  typed
>> www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>>
>> It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>>
> 
> Read the reviews, there are an awful lot of DOAs and early failures there.
> 
Not made in China are they?

Hog wrote:
> www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
> 
> It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS

3Gbps my arse. That might be the bus speed, but the disk speed won't 
get anywhere near it.

-- 
ogden

GSXR750 K4
RGV250 VJ22

In article ,
ogden   wrote:
>Hog wrote:
>> www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>> 
>> It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>
>3Gbps my arse. That might be the bus speed, but the disk speed won't 
>get anywhere near it.

Around 110MBps sustained transfer for that drive - so about 0.86Gbps. I
suppose there's a fair amount of overhead in communicating on the bus
but it does sound like that is still limited by the drive itself.

-- 
CB500 (blue + flies)

Jim wrote:
> In article ,
> ogden   wrote:
> >Hog wrote:
> >> www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
> >> 
> >> It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
> >
> >3Gbps my arse. That might be the bus speed, but the disk speed won't 
> >get anywhere near it.
> 
> Around 110MBps sustained transfer for that drive - so about 0.86Gbps. I
> suppose there's a fair amount of overhead in communicating on the bus
> but it does sound like that is still limited by the drive itself.

It always is. The increased bus speed means that you can have more 
drives running at full chat on the same bus before you hit a 
bottleneck, but if it's SATA you're unlikely to have a shared bus 
anyway, so the numbers are just marketing nonsense.

-- 
ogden

GSXR750 K4
RGV250 VJ22

ogden wrote:
>  ... increased bus speed ...
>  ... chat on the same bus ...
>  ... you're unlikely to have a shared bus ...
>  ... just marketing nonsense.

yea, that's what i thought.
-- 
dog
rsv1000rf sl1000 two#5 pwcram#3

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:32 +0100, "Hog" 
wrote:

>www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>
>It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS

Aria were doing them for £70 a couple of weeks ago.  T'was so
difficult to resist, I bought an extra one to chuck on the slug.


-- 
Macie
ZZR600E1 | Baghira 660

"Hog"  schreef in bericht 
news:gbtc8b$3ej$1@registered.motzarella.org...
> www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>
> It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS

73 over here

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:12:36 +0100 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Macie says:

>On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:32 +0100, "Hog" 
>wrote:
>
>>www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>>
>>It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>
>Aria were doing them for £70 a couple of weeks ago.  T'was so
>difficult to resist, I bought an extra one to chuck on the slug.

Better hope there's no problems then because getting those fuck witted
useless cunts to replace a faulty item is next to fucking impossible.

-- 
Ian
"Bother!" said Pooh as he underwent aversion therapy

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:43:34 +0100, boots@despammed.com wibbled:

>On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:12:36 +0100 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Macie says:
>
>>On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:32 +0100, "Hog" 
>>wrote:
>>
>>>www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>>>
>>>It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>>
>>Aria were doing them for £70 a couple of weeks ago.  T'was so
>>difficult to resist, I bought an extra one to chuck on the slug.
>
>Better hope there's no problems then because getting those fuck witted
>useless cunts to replace a faulty item is next to fucking impossible.

Yes, but it all goes in cycles with the usual suspects though - Scan
had a bad reputation for returns before they passed the baton to CCL,
who then were overtaken in the cuntishness stakes by Ebuyer - who now
appear to be splendidly good at taking stuff back.


-- 
Macie
ZZR600E1 | Baghira 660

Wicked Uncle Nigel  wrote in message
:

>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog 
> typed
>>www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>>
>>It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>>
>
>Read the reviews, there are an awful lot of DOAs and early failures 
>there.

Well, I've used a few (7 or 8) drives from the 'spinpoint' series and
haven't had any problems with them.  Agree it's a small sample but I
thought they had a fairly good reputation.

However... If my memory serves didn't Champ have a DOA?
-- 
K75RT, K1100LT, ZXR750H1, 5TA, K100/ST2

Z500/Velorex chair for sale shortly...

deadmail@burnt.org.uk wrote:
>  Wicked Uncle Nigel  wrote in message
> :
> 
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog 
>>  typed
>>> www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4ZTT
>>>
>>> It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS
>>>
>> Read the reviews, there are an awful lot of DOAs and early failures 
>> there.
> 
> Well, I've used a few (7 or 8) drives from the 'spinpoint' series and
> haven't had any problems with them.  Agree it's a small sample but I
> thought they had a fairly good reputation.
> 
> However... If my memory serves didn't Champ have a DOA?

Yes but they brought him back.

-- 
Mike H
GSX750F

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:28:59 +0100, deadmail@burnt.org.uk wrote:

>>Read the reviews, there are an awful lot of DOAs and early failures 
>>there.
>
>Well, I've used a few (7 or 8) drives from the 'spinpoint' series and
>haven't had any problems with them.  Agree it's a small sample but I
>thought they had a fairly good reputation.

heh - I'd say that for a home user, '7 or 8' is quite a lot :-)

>However... If my memory serves didn't Champ have a DOA?

Yep - eBuyer sorted the refund with no drama at all.
-- 
Champ

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