Re: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have got a SWF of the Pearl and Dean ->
http://www.planetwayne.com/albums/FunnyMovies/intromovie.swf
and some where the old Kiora advert - with the crows etc... but cant
find it at the mo!

Cheery
Wayne.


Mal Lansell wrote:
> I know about the "safely remove" thing, but I thought that
it's only
> needed to prevent problems if you pull the plug while writing to the
> disk.  Since this is to be used as a media source, I should only ever
be
> reading (unless doing maintenance), in which case a powering off
should
> be safe.
>
> However, I'm moving away from this idea now.  I had been thinking of
> saving power by going to the mini-itx route, but it's just a load of
> hassle and all the nice rackmount cases I planned to use would wipe
out
> any electicity savings.  I've seen that Abit do motherboards with 10
> sata connectors, so that plus a low-end Core2Duo in a full tower case
> should do the trick and sort the spin-down issue at the same time.
>
> As for Pearl and Dean - I thought of doing that to add to the home
> cinema "experience", but I could do with some of those
classic cinema
> adds too - anyone know if any are available?
>
> Mal
>
>
>