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my biggest ITM complaint is that it doesnt play well w/ my ISP for some reason and gets stuck in an endless upload loop. otherwise works more or less entirely as advertised

my theory based on nothing but my guessing is that one of the things that kills external hard-drives is shittier electronics/power supply than whats in your computer. I've had external drives "die" that I've opened up, pulled the drive out of the enclosure and stuck it in my mac and gotten a few years out of it.

yeah it could be the usb interface in the enclosure itself

i think this is true, the USB interfaces die before the drive itself does. which makes it the more annoying when they glue the case shut or some such idiocy

externals are fine. get one with a warranty and clone it/back it up to the cloud.

― max, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:26 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

i did that multiple times. kinda impossible to back it up to the cloud when it's 3TB tho :(

i have been buying externals since they cost $500 for 60GB and were huge and had loud spinning fans. this has been a long heartbreak

I think the main problem with external drives is that until USB3/Thunderbolt you were stuck with USB 1 or 2 which suuuuucked or you had a nice firewire drive that was less supported with each hardware revision

idk what to tell you slocki

stop buying external drives from montreal mob-owned counterfeit computer stores

idk what to tell you slocki

― max, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

just say you're sorry

eSATA > USB anyway

ive been using fw800 for video stuff but i have a weird feeling about it

weird

fw800 users hate this one weird feeling

weird feeling in my firewire

That's my thunderbolt.

my #1 itunes match complaint is that there are gaps between the tracks on "and their refinement of the decline" by stars of the lid.

terrible

the weird feeling is i finally got around to spending the money on FW800 just as the technology is about to officially die

do they sell thunderbolt enclosures yet? would probably be pretty simple to do a swap

i dont have a thunderbolter yet

i have seen thunderbolt adapters, particularly for one of my seagates (which has died twice, rebate is great but not if it keeps dying), but they cost as much as the drive itself :/

hard drives suck

yeah... i wonder if you did the pricing of replacing HDs over time, whether that would come close to the amount of money it costs to have a dropbox pro acct

although it looks like personal use accts top out at 500 GBs

i do have a pro acct

and it's totally useful and gives me a lot of peace of mind but yeah, it's only so large. and syncing TBs of data over the internet is just... never gonna happen any time soon

if s1ocki has terabytes I'm assuming he is messing with video and doesn't really have the bandwidth to continually back those files up to dropbox

dang, xp and I missed the boat

s1ocki have you looked into Drobo?

i have—though i have heard mixed things from pros who use it. i will prob eventually get something like that if i ever make enough money to again

i've never had an external HDD fail on me. Not even the ones I frequently left to bake in the car in summer sun.

what's the upload speed on FIOS like

consumer cloud syncing of TB-scale data probably depends on symmetric 1Gbps to the home, which is available at roughly 0% of US homes. (I can get it for $120 a month if I want to.) Of course storing a TB of data in S3 costs $95 a month.

cool silby, what's your government name and billing address?

feel like storage is cheap enough where most people will be fine buying a 2TB drive for under a hundo. it's only the video people and the committed media pirates who are still looking for solutions at the consumer level

my #1 itunes match complaint is that it swapped all my Beatles mono tracks for stereo tracks.

also when I quit, there was no way to easily manage what was on your iphone. Has that been fixed?

in what way

the only thing i wish the phone had was an easy way to toggle between "full library" and "downloaded to phone." they took away your ability to download and delete individual songs but returned it after a couple months. otherwise seems to work pretty well

i think i'm too much of a control freak about my music to ever cede control to itunes match

yeah I quit when they took away the ability to delete songs, so your itunes library ended up filling all your free space and it deleted songs as needed after that. Which is fine i guess until you need space for apps or whatnot.

ah yeah they brought that back

To add to the chorus here: Match does not allow tracks of a certain length. I had some radio shows that were 3-4 hours that were not eligible for upload.

yeah thats the other problem, i dont really have a solution for that except to divide them up into segments less than 200mb each

After the screen swap on my rMBP, I was having a series of annoying "windowserver received display connect changed" crashes that was causing huge headaches. Finally had to reinstall Mountain Lion from scratch. I was dreading doing this because of prior colossal hassles with past OS X reinstalls, but the d/l from the App Store (the copy up there is up-to-date with most changes) and reinstall was completely non-intrusive. Even my MacPorts installation was untouched. Fixed my problem too and everything seems a little bit better.

If anyone is having lag on an iPad running 7, I found that turning off cellular data before the update remedied it.

looks like beta 2 fixed the instagram bug, which was my only complaint about ios7

The beta beat me. Too many crashes and too many apps not working. Back to 6 for now.

Beta 1 was a battery killer, Beta 2 crashes like crazy, can't wait to see what kind of interesting flaw Beta 3 brings to the table

can't complain about running it on the verizon iphone 5. only had one major lock up where the touchscreen wouldn't respond for a while, even after a reboot. aside from that, for a beta it's been pretty amazing.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/351742245021577216

i checked out ios 7 on an ipod touch yesterday. it probably is the right direction for things to head in, and the icons didn't strike me as being as shitty as they did when i saw them on screen.