* Posts by Jason Frear

4 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2007

Intel powers netbook via thin air

Jason Frear
Boffin

Magnetic Inductance system might also affect hard drives

ChrisC might have a point here, even though were phasing out magnetic media, that 2Tb hard drive with all your data on might be a ripe target.

Seagate customers swamped by Barracuda drive failures

Jason Frear

Some people here swear at drives that other people swear by...

I Swore by IBM in the late nineties, and got hit by the Deathstar issue...100% failure rate, however their warranty replacements are still going strong. Put me off IBM/Hitachi drives for a while though.

Im currently on WD drives, but ive lost 3 out of 4 5000AAKS 500Gb drives, 3 out of 8 drives bought for the increasing amount of video editing I do. Still bought WD for other things, but now im trialling some Samsungs as well.

Fact is that every drive manufacturer has failures, occasionally some more than others, its horses for courses. Some people will get stung by a drive going bad and never buy that drive again, while others have years of pain-free use out of the same drives. I recommended WD drives to a friend in the early noughties (before I had my big fail), and his failed in 3 months. Theres very little we can do other than research a drive to see if the failrate is above normal before buying...

...and by backing up, natch.

Asking for experience in job ads could land you in hot water

Jason Frear
Coat

Minimum Wage Ageist?

OK so given that youre not supposed to discriminate based on age, how come the national minimum wage technically "discriminates" against the young? Shouldnt everyone get the same amount regardless of age?

...dons flame-retardant coat, gets into fireproof taxi.

Nintendo completes DS Lite 'refresh' - analyst

Jason Frear

I dunno...

...loss of backwards compatibility might be an issue, especially if youve replaced a GBA with an NDS at some point and have a back catalogue - if you ever have to replace the NDS again, and pick up one of the 3rd-gen-to-be models, that could be a problem.

On the flip side, a smaller/lighter model should also be cheaper!