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Quote: Originally Posted by dcsimages That tower won't work for you. It's only about 4.5 in. wide in total. Opticals are 5.25 in. wide. I just found out a couple of hours before you posted your above comment that the tower won't work to hold…
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Originally Posted by Marvin I know but the tray dimensions are smaller than an optical drive: http://sansdigital-shop.com/toretrmo.html Internal optical drives have a 5.25" form factor. Won't it be more than an inch too wide and over 0.5"…
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Originally Posted by Marvin Slightly more than the door I would think. The trays in these enclosures are quite a bit smaller than 5.25" optical drives. I'm talking about opening up the enclosure's case and removing a whole drive tray from insid…
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Originally Posted by nht This is pricier but probably what we're buying: http://www.amazon.com/Thunderbolt-trayless-driverless-enclosure-technology/dp/B00AJWJMRG/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1383932052&sr=8-7&keywords=thunderbolt+raid …
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie How will you be able to tell your software to access a specific drive if it only has one interface? I'm pretty sure (I am taking a chance, since I don't know for sure) that this box should function in essentia…
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Originally Posted by wizard69 The reality is though that Apple has few options, it is either Intel or AMD and both of the companies are loosing ground in mobile. I'm definitely not seeing this as an Apple-only problem. I'm underawed with new…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Handbrake's OpenCL gave a 2x speedup here in H.264 encoding: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5835/ That's encouraging because Handbrake is one application where I'd most like to see a performance boost. I h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Thunderbolt is overkill for your burners. A 2 bay USB 3 enclosure will work It might be that for you a 6 bay USB 3 enclosure will work. Yes, Thunderbolt would be overkill for the optical drives -- but I'd lo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht As for the internal drive bays and burners...yes but it's not a kludge or very messy solution. It's two boxes attached via USB for the burner and TB for the drive bay. If you needed PCIe cards...that would be a …
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I'm not sure what the price $2800 has to do with this, but are you trying to say that my 2008 Mac Pro was a surprisingly low profit margin system, and the new Mac Pro will have a much higher profit margin, so that's why a comparable price tag isn't …
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Is it a matter of waiting until midnight Pacific time for the store to come back up?
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Quote: Have you considered the Drobo 5D? That's certainly a nice enclosure, and would let me use Thunderbolt too, but it doesn't look like it's going to handle optical drives (no place for the disc trays to pop out, even if they'd be el…
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If I were going to settle for using USB 3.0 instead of Thunderbolt for a data connection, I'd simply get a case more or less like this (probably not this particular one): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156247 …
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Quote: I doubt you'll find optical drive bays in a Thunderbolt hard drive chassis. You don't need power supplies for bus-powered USB drives and they are pretty cheap: I'm not expecting the optical drives themselves to be Thunderbolt, I'…
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That's odd. I had tried Image Capture before I posted, after seeing it recommended elsewhere. My iPhone didn't show up in the device list. I just tried it again, and there's my iPhone. I don't know what changed! Thank you for your help…
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Quote: Originally Posted by s.metcalf So since you decided to take the risk with the upgrade you can either choose to live with the problems for a while or go through a manual backup process. Good luck with that if you decide to do it. You ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Nic900 I have had to perform a number of roll backs (for want of a better phrase) and I have used Time Machine as the source and I will work with very little manual transferring. For what it's worth here's how I did it…
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For those who don't understand how cut off many parts of the US still are... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/us...pagewanted=all
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I never thought to consider whether or not the App Store handles restarting from a partial transfer properly if a transfer has been interrupted. That could be very important considering Lion would take around eight days to download via 56K modem, pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dsect No actually, this is the problem. It runs terribly everywhere and subverts the mission of the mainframe: thousands of users simultaneously. Get it off the mainframe! From which nether orifice did you extrac…