Re: failing sandisk drives

Posted on 2023-10-25, 13:07

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It is getting to where it is hard to know what storage to trust. I have had quite a few western digital passports fail....well they didn't exactly fail but they got slower and slower and sloooooooooooooower.. A transfer might start out at 30 MB/s but then drop down to 25, then 20, then 15...and when …

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Re: phases of vintage computer interest

Posted on 2023-10-14, 11:04

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I had initially made that comment about throwing away and switching to dosbox jokingly, but there are grains of truth in it. I think - perhaps - some systems have aged better than others. For example, I will NEVER get rid of the two systems I have based on Asus CUBX - one 650 P3 and one 850 p3. On …

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Re: phases of vintage computer interest

Posted on 2023-10-14, 10:58

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Or when you get it out every year to male sure it sure still works, let it run for an afternoon, and then put away again 😉

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Re: failing sandisk drives

Posted on 2023-10-14, 09:19

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This has been a bad year for Western Digital. First is was the issue of SMR drives, and now it is the SanDIsk issue I haven't felt the same about SanDisk since I found out they are owned by Western Digital

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Re: phases of vintage computer interest

Posted on 2023-10-14, 00:25

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You forgot the final phase - where you throw everything out and get dosbox (laughing, joking)

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Re: failing sandisk drives

Posted on 2023-10-14, 00:15

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I was going to get another but I got scared off by all the bad reviews. I got a Samsung T7 shield instead. My initial impression is that the build quality is much better. Was it too much trouble for the Sandisk to have an indicator light? Also, the sandisk was warm *all the time* whereas the T7 is …

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failing sandisk drives

Posted on 2023-10-04, 18:28

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Has anyone else been reading about the failing sandisk extreme drives? (just curious)

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Re: Reverse dumpster find thread, AKA what did you finally throw away after years of hoarding?

Posted on 2023-10-04, 15:53

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I have been working for a while on narrowing things down. I have eliminated all the CRT monitors, and and all of the socket 7 stuff. Sometimes I think, maybe I should have not got rid of that. Then I think, what would I really being doing with it. Cheap thought - maybe there's a difference between …

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declining utility of older systems

Posted on 2023-10-04, 13:17

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Is anyone else finding declining utility of older systems? In my case, one of the things that is fueling it is storage. File sizes have become so big that storing on DVD is no longer practical. I still run win98 on some machines, but of course they cannot recognize external drives. I have some thumb …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-10-04, 12:30

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The C64 was very easy to program. You wanted to put a sprite on the screen, all you did was set a pointer and put data into the appropriate memory locations. And it was always the SAME memory locations on every commodore computer - not a different one depending on what video card might be installed …

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puzzling behavior with external SSD

Posted on 2023-10-04, 12:19

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I just wondered if someone could shed some light on this. I have a sandisk extreme, formatted NTFS. From windows 7, if II run check disk by itself, no problem. If I run it with "automatically fix file system errors" checked then it hangs past a certain point. My first thought was, it got corrupted. …

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Re: CD/DVD

Posted on 2023-06-25, 23:35

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True story, I had like a 200+ wallet full of CD-R. transitioned it all to DVD and threw out the CD-R. Well, I had a fit of nostalgia (along with a slide mistrust of DVD) and wound up re-burning a LOT of them. Fast forward, I wound up throwing out most of them 🤣

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Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2023-06-25, 10:49

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Windows 98SE (on pentium 3 650) Used for burning CDs and DVDs

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2023-06-23, 17:04

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I once did a quake level over spring break. That would have been like 12 hours a day for seven days straight. When I was done, I could not straighten out my arm (oops)

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Re: CD/DVD

Posted on 2023-06-23, 17:03

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Glad to see some people are still using physical media 😉

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2023-06-23, 15:09

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I spent WAY too much time with Duke 3D and later Qoole. I finally had to remove it all and say no more.

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2023-06-23, 15:07

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I spent quite a lot of time building Duke3D maps, eventually I even bought a physical book on it (which I've still got). It was great that the game came with its tools on the cd: the map editor, tools to mess with the art, etc. I also made mods for myself (such as, of course, importing Doom sprites …

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CD/DVD

Posted on 2023-06-23, 15:06

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Is anyone here still burning CDs or DVDs? If so, what brand? (just curious)

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SATA card

Posted on 2023-04-09, 13:05

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Hello - I haven't been on here in quite some time (don't know if anyone remembers me or not) Anyway, I have a question. It seems like the only drives you can get now are SATA. So Is tarted looking at SATA cards. First, it seems like a lot are PCI-express (which I cannot use - we are talking about an …

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Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-16, 22:56

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Maybe not any one thing. Perhaps it started with windows XP and that product activation crap. I now have a copy I never activated and was saving for a better machine and now cannot use it at all. Couple that with video games that cannot be run without some online account. The last game I played was …

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