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[KingSparta]

Santa Dropped in Today to Say Hey What’s Up.

Since He was Here He Dropped off a Kodak EasyShare DX6440 4.0 MegaPixels

And Dropped Off A New Monitor for My Wife (Empty Boxes Will Be Under the Traditional Fiber Optic Tree)

I am thinking about buying a new Portable MP3 Player with lots of memory (no hard drives). I am just wondering if someone here has done some research on this and or bought a new player and what do you think is best that also works with MC9.

also what is Santa Bringing To Your Home (Computer, Photo, Music, MC9 Related)?

[nila]

Even though you said not hard drive I'll just mention it.

Check out the Archos - it can play Divx's and also pictures - colour touch screen - incredible jukebox - Canes iPod hands down except it's not as 'trendy'.

But I've always personally drooled over the iRiver ones even though I've never managed to get one.

They have some pretty big memories these days too - up to 1Gig I think.

They're pretty nice looking.

[jleerigby]

also what is Santa Bringing To Your Home (Computer, Photo, Music, MC9 Related)?

I'm after a new soundcard to replace my Audigy2.  I've got my eye on an MAudio 24/96 audiofile.  Whilst I've heard that these are under $100 they cost around £110 ($170) in the UK so i'll have to hope that santa is in a good mood.

[dingoBaby]

I will be getting the usual this year: Coal and a half eaten candy cane.

However, I would really like a new monitor/video card.

[IanH]

Santa dropped by here early too...

Left my wife an Alpine CDA-9815 CD/MP3/WMA player for her car.  I'm having so much fun making up MP3 disks for it, that it might end up in my car!

Not to worry...I'll leave her a lump of coal in her dash!

[crowfan]

I own 2 iRiver products and I love them both (my latest is the iFP-380T, it's a 128 MB flash player I use for the gym). they're awesome. They don't work in MC, but Steve has mentioned to me in the past that they will be looking into a plugin sometime. I do use smartlists with it though -- I just shrink the MC window and drag-and-drop the list of songs over to the iRiver software. works fine until Steve gifts us with a plugin.

 

crow

[LisaRCT]

Sorry, Santa will not be visiting this year after all . . . .  
the FBI has him under investigation and in custody as a possible terrorist, but I heard it was really only because G. Dubya had him set-up . . . . ya see it's cause Santa was in agreement with Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling legallizing same-sex marriage.

[JimH]

Gigabit Ethernet

[Doof]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

[JimH]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

[Jaguu]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

To replicate some 50GB of ape, jpg and avi files + the small amount of real stuff (my finances, stocks and IT project stuff) from pc1 to pc2 in case that pc1 or the data disk run havoc. Really fast! Much better than Raid 1! If you are really paranoid you can keep as many back copies of changes as you want if you have the needed disk space and use alternate backup disks in a case.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

[Jaguu]

Any world-blowing news from J River for Santa Claus? Really getting impatient!

[Doof]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

To replicate some 50GB of ape, jpg and avi files + the small amount of real stuff (my finances, stocks and IT project stuff) from pc1 to pc2 in case that pc1 or the data disk run havoc. Really fast! Much better than Raid 1! If you are really paranoid you can keep as many back copies of changes as you want if you have the needed disk space and use alternate backup disks in a case.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data? File transfer is only as fast as the slowest component in the chain...

[KingSparta]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

So he can stream video from MC9 to Tivo and Tivo To MC9

[toniann]

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Quote from: Doof on Today at 04:38:50pm
Quote from: JimH on Today at 04:36:35pm
Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

Quote from: KingSparta
So he can stream video from MC9 to Tivo and Tivo To MC9

Wouldn't that just put it back on MC9?
;-)

[knickelfarz]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data?

What's going on here?

[knickelfarz]

Santa Is Dropping Quotes!!!!

Why?

That's a good question.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data?

What's going on here?

[Doof]

Santa Is Dropping Quotes!!!!

Why?

That's a good question.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data?

What's going on here?

Dropped quotes make the baby Jesus cry.

[sraymond]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

To replicate some 50GB of ape, jpg and avi files + the small amount of real stuff (my finances, stocks and IT project stuff) from pc1 to pc2 in case that pc1 or the data disk run havoc. Really fast! Much better than Raid 1! If you are really paranoid you can keep as many back copies of changes as you want if you have the needed disk space and use alternate backup disks in a case.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data? File transfer is only as fast as the slowest component in the chain...

If I remember correctly, Ultra-ATA architecture provides for a maximum of 133 MB/s.  SATA has been introducted at 150 MB/s and promises to reach 600 MB/s.  But real-world performance is significantly less.  Ultra-ATA, even with RAID, maxes out around 40 MB/s.  I've heard of users reporting SATA performance of around 65 MB/s.  This, oddly enough, is pretty close to what SATA drives claim as maximum throughput.

100 Mbps Ethernet is only 12.5 MB/s, assuming no collisions or overhead.  So Gigabit ethernet should offer definate improvements.  I'm pretty sure the 802.3 group is working on 10 GBps ethernet, so stand by!

Scott-

[Jaguu]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

To replicate some 50GB of ape, jpg and avi files + the small amount of real stuff (my finances, stocks and IT project stuff) from pc1 to pc2 in case that pc1 or the data disk run havoc. Really fast! Much better than Raid 1! If you are really paranoid you can keep as many back copies of changes as you want if you have the needed disk space and use alternate backup disks in a case.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data? File transfer is only as fast as the slowest component in the chain...

Doof,
did you ever notice that there is a difference between Mb/s and Mbps? One is Megabytes per second and the other one is Megabits per second. And just for the record: One Byte has 8 bits

You may consult the numbers given by Scott above!

[KingSparta]

And just for the record: One Byte has 8 bits

well does not a 16bit system have 16 bits per byte?

what about 32bit, 64bit, 128 bit systems?

[gwiz32]

I'm after a new soundcard to replace my Audigy2.  I've got my eye on an MAudio 24/96 audiofile.  Whilst I've heard that these are under $100 they cost around £110 ($170) in the UK so i'll have to hope that santa is in a good mood.

JLee - be carful with the less expensive MAudio cards. I bought one of their 24/96 multi I/O cards a while back and had MAJOR latency problems with the card (with both WDM and ASIO drivers). I wound up returning the card and getting an Echo Darla 24. It was a little more expensive but I was much happier. This was over a year ago and maybe MAudio has resolved their issues but I thought I would throw that at you.

[sraymond]

And just for the record: One Byte has 8 bits

well does not a 16bit system have 16 bits per byte?

what about 32bit, 64bit, 128 bit systems?

Only if 100 yards has three feet per yard, 200 yards has six feet per yard, and 300 yards has nine feet per yard.

Scott-

[Doof]

Gigabit Ethernet

Why?

That's a good question.

To replicate some 50GB of ape, jpg and avi files + the small amount of real stuff (my finances, stocks and IT project stuff) from pc1 to pc2 in case that pc1 or the data disk run havoc. Really fast! Much better than Raid 1! If you are really paranoid you can keep as many back copies of changes as you want if you have the needed disk space and use alternate backup disks in a case.

About Raid 1: Never happened to you that the Raid controller itself blew up?

How fast can a hard drive read\write data? File transfer is only as fast as the slowest component in the chain...

Doof,
did you ever notice that there is a difference between Mb/s and Mbps? One is Megabytes per second and the other one is Megabits per second. And just for the record: One Byte has 8 bits

You may consult the numbers given by Scott above!

I never was very good at binary math.

[loraan]

JLee - be carful with the less expensive MAudio cards. I bought one of their 24/96 multi I/O cards a while back and had MAJOR latency problems with the card (with both WDM and ASIO drivers). I wound up returning the card and getting an Echo Darla 24. It was a little more expensive but I was much happier. This was over a year ago and maybe MAudio has resolved their issues but I thought I would throw that at you.

The Revolution, on the other hand, is generally considered to be bulletproof. Check newegg.com for good prices. Can be had for under $100, if I recall correctly. Even with shipping, the exchange rate will mean you'll save a ton. But I don't know if newegg does international shipping.

[KingSparta]

Santa Came Back And Droped Off A New Watch (Casio E-data-bank 350)

Still Looking for an MP3 player