Manuel, thanks for the advice.
The USB drive is an Acomdata E5 that can be vertically oriented so I
*hope* heat won't be a problem. As slow as I am, it won't get pushed
very hard anyway . . . ;o)
ScottGee1
On 7/6/06, Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le jeudi 06 Juillet 2006 19:49, ScottGee1 a écrit:
> > CompUSA will offer this one:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/n9w27
> >
> > tomorrow (2006-07-07) only at $399. Part of their 'One Item Per Day
> > At A Crazy Price' week of sales.
> >
> > Today I bought from them a 160GB external USB 2.0 drive which, after
> > rebates and tax will cost <US$40.
> >
> > How DO they do it? :D
>
> When a bargain looks too good to be true, it certainly is ! Acer did not
> earned a very nice reputation in the laptop field, ranking somewhere at the
> bottom along with fire prone Dells and consumer grade medions. Far from
> Toshiba, Apple and lenovo.
>
> In particular, the Acpi is atrociously bad, causing reboot and hangs. It took
> time for devoted linuxers to rewrite a clean acpi code just to be able to run
> linux on them (and of course, it's not mainstream, and I don't think it's
> easy to tweak acpi the same way with windows).
>
> Last but not least, this is obviously and end of line model, far too short to
> handle the newcoming vista gracefully. And it's not expandable either,
> because all slots are filled.
>
> So if you're willing to pay for a computer with a one year life expectancy,
> that's fine, but otherwise that's just giving a hand to help the seller empty
> his shelves before christmas.
>
> I hope you usb drive is better. Be cautious at thermal dissipation / control,
> those enclosures can go really hot (I tweaked one I had to extract more air
> as the disk inside was suffering a lot, acording to S.M.A.R.T. reports - now
> it's OK, but this is a device I can't really trust anymore because of the
> abuses it suffered)
>
> --
> Manuel Viet
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