Personal computing discussed
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Norphy wrote:Is it that they're just taking too long to wake up from sleep? What happens if you disable power management on the drives?
canoli wrote:I'm curious if there are any tests that will determine whether a SATA port is functioning correctly.
Stickem wrote:You might look at getting new/better cables, as the ones that come with motherboards aren't very high quality.
The ones with locking clips are around $3-4 each.
canoli wrote:I'll have to buy an external enclosure
Chrispy_ wrote:You guys are taking my comments waaaay out of context again, to make me look like a grumpy old jerk (I am a grumpy old jerk but that's not relevant here) - I have only talked about USB to SATA cables in this thread, nothing else.
How is a $35 dock better than this?
It's not that I don't like those docks; If I had one, I'd probably use it, but my beef with them is that they're overly expensive for a made-in-China piece of cheap plastic that helps you guide an easy-to-fit USB to SATA into a hard drive. Apart from the fact that they look prettier than a bare drive on a desk or a drive dangling off a USB port on your machine, they're not easy for me to justify, and the average user (as in this case) will need to use it no more than once of twice in the lifetime of a disk.
Flatland_Spider wrote:I don't go around telling construction workers that heavy equipment is useless, and they could do the same thing with a shovel.
Chrispy_ wrote:they're not easy for me to justify
Chrispy_ wrote:Heh, I get your point, but heavy equipment vs shovel isn't really an analogy for dock or cable; Whilst it takes two seconds to drop a disk into a dock, hooking up a USB cable takes five.
Chrispy_ wrote:Flatland_Spider wrote:I don't go around telling construction workers that heavy equipment is useless, and they could do the same thing with a shovel.
Heh, I get your point, but heavy equipment vs shovel isn't really an analogy for dock or cable; Whilst it takes two seconds to drop a disk into a dock, hooking up a USB cable takes five. It's hardly a deal-breaker when it takes another eight seconds for the disk to spin up and the OS to discover it.
But anyway, I'm not telling people docks are no good, I'm just stating that I don't like them:Chrispy_ wrote:they're not easy for me to justify
...and was wondering if anyone else shared my sentiment that they're overkill for most people.
I guess not, but it's cool - I won't take it personally