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New Hard Drives Could Spell Trouble for XP Users
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| Mar 12th
| Terrence O'Brien
Posted on 03/13/2010 10:18:10 PM PST by JoeProBono
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To: ShadowAce
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:31:05 PM PST
by
CedarDave
(Hey Mitt, how's that no-apology book tour going? Any other than ivy-tower elites energized yet?)
To: JoeProBono
Windows XP must use an emulation layer that makes the 4KB sectors appear to be several 512 byte ones. This won't have much of an impact when reading from the disk, but could lead to slowdowns of as much as 10-percent when writing data. That could be a particularly big problem for those performing media intensive tasks like video editing. Not a big deal at all.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:36:01 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: JoeProBono
This will cause some to get freeware. I doubt those with the new notebooks or other XP users would waste their money buying a copy of Vista or 7 IMO.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:36:32 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: JoeProBono
Same Old Same Old from MS and hardware interests as they conspire to force obsolescence for profit! A ROM solution on the hardware side could eliminate this problem for XP users by offering, for a small charge, a ROM upgrade that address sectors in the older 512 byte scheme. Go ahead and flame, but MS doesn't compete, MS conspires for profit. IMHO
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:39:04 PM PST
by
J Edgar
To: JoeProBono
Vista and Windows 7 users are in the clear, as are Mac users with OS X 10.4 or higher and Linux users with a kernel released after September of 2009... XP users, on the other hand, may encounter some problems.
Let's see, older versions of Mac OS, Linux and Windows are affected. Only Windows rates a mention in the headline.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:39:51 PM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(BS, MS, PhD, and a BMF besides.)
To: JoeProBono
Would anyone be kind enough to give me a lil advice?
I restored my cmptr recently, ‘cuz it was performing waaaaaay to slowly. I thought that by doing so, everything would be RESTORED as if the cmptr was brand new. Boy, was I wrong.
I still have prob’s w/ slow downloading time, my cmptr is VERY slow when starting up, &, even after “restoring” things, it still takes longer to surf the net than it did when it was brand new (I have a broadband connection, NOT a dial-up). What am I to do, & is it even possible for me to get things running as fast as it did when I bought it about 5 yrs ago???
Thank you very much.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:41:11 PM PST
by
ChrisInAR
(You gotta let it out, Captain!)
To: JoeProBono
I’m building a sweet gaming rig.
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 case
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
2X DIAMOND 5970PE52G Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) 2GB 512 (256 x 2)-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support
ENERMAX REVOLUTION85+ ERV1050EWT 1050W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
With about 5TB worth of hard drives.
Getting a couple of components per paycheck.
I’m going to play Crysis at max settings if it kills me!!!
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:44:33 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
To: J Edgar
Go ahead and flame, but MS doesn’t compete, MS conspires for profit. IMHO Ummm..exactly the same problem is going to affect older versions of Mac OS and Linux. Do they conspire for profits too(not that there is anything wromg with profits)?
To: JoeProBono
Well, let’s see. There are an abundance of cheap 2TB and below drives out there that will probably be around on EBay for quite a few years.
I’ll go out on a limb here but I think if XP users want to continue running XP after the new drives are introduced, I don’t think this will be a problem.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:48:37 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Democrats and Pelosi. The party of thieves, liars and tax cheats)
To: RandallFlagg
Good idea!
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:49:45 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: ComputerGuy
Let's see, older versions of Mac OS, Linux and Windows are affected. Only Windows rates a mention in the headline.Last I looked, WinXP was the most common OS on the planet; hence the headline.
I wonder if stubborn XP users could run their beloved operating system as a virtual machine running under Linux.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:52:16 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(What's your zombie plan?)
To: SmokingJoe
Hi SmokinJoe
The difference is that Mac users are offered inexpensive upgrades, and Linux users are offered FREE upgrades!
MS could easily offer a patch to XP users too, but they won’t because that is counter-predatory policy!
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:53:01 PM PST
by
J Edgar
To: VeniVidiVici
Well, lets see. There are an abundance of cheap 2TB and below drives out there that will probably be around on EBay for quite a few years. Ill go out on a limb here but I think if XP users want to continue running XP after the new drives are introduced, I dont think this will be a problem.
+10000%
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:53:17 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
(Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
To: ChrisInAR
Soooo Kay just what did you buy 5 yrs ago?
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:53:45 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Well, it may have been longer than that...it’s a Dell PC using Windows XP.
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posted on
03/13/2010 10:56:28 PM PST
by
ChrisInAR
(You gotta let it out, Captain!)
To: ChrisInAR
I restored my cmptr recently, ‘cuz it was performing waaaaaay to slowly. I thought that by doing so, everything would be RESTORED as if the cmptr was brand new.cmptr? Are you rationing vowels today?
To: ChrisInAR
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posted on
03/13/2010 11:02:57 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: J Edgar
“Go ahead and flame, but MS doesn’t compete, MS conspires for profit. IMHO “
You think you got problems, I still use my trusty 386sx25 running DOS6.22/WFW3.11 to code and burn microcontrollers (no, really, I do!). Try finding a replacement video card or RS232 card that’s ISA compatible! Fortunately I still have a few ISA bus development cards, and the discrete logic chips are still available, so if worse comes to worse I can build my own.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/13/2010 11:08:50 PM PST
by
ChrisInAR
(You gotta let it out, Captain!)
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