Iomega Peerless 10 or 20GB!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Gurm:
One has to wonder WHY he wants to swap environments though...</font>

Well he just switched over to W2K the last couple of weeks and I think he's still checking out app compatibility. He does DV NLE and such and I think he's had some problems with some SW (HDTV HiPix app maybe?).

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Some people never learn from history. Look at MS and all those other high-powered companies, trying to bring back the workstation/mainframe model of computing</font>

Not sure what you're talking about here. If you're referring to centralized (timesharing) vs. decentralized computing, that pendulum has swung back and forth a few times over the last few decades.

[Gurm]

Ah. There are a few sectors of the computer industry where bull-headed companies refuse to catch up to Win2k. Audio mastering, for example - Pro Tools and ProSumer boards just don't have Win2k drivers, despite Win2k being an IDEAL solution for audio. Grr...

As for the pendulum swinging - it always swings AWAY from centralized computing to decentralized computing. ALWAYS. The designers _want_ it to be centralized - easier to manager for sure... but it always backfires.

- Gurm

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Gurm:
As for the pendulum swinging - it always swings AWAY from centralized computing to decentralized computing. ALWAYS. The designers _want_ it to be centralized - easier to manager for sure... but it always backfires.</font>

We're off the main topic here, but I'll respond to that comment. I've personally seen the swing back and forth over that time. A modern example: Don't you consider web servers as providing centralized computing? The bulk of web use is nothing more than dumb terminals sending data back and forth to a server for processing. How about the transition to ASPs? IS insists on centralized computing because it helps them control the computing environment. It was very hard to allow PCs into the corporate environment. It was only through the persistence of the grass roots movements, through demonstrating the increased functionality and productivity, that PCs ever got their foothold in the corporate landscape. IS is tired of trying to support this plethora of SW and OSes on the desktop and has been working with MSFT, Sun, and the like to build technology to help recentralize control through SW distribution, policy management, Directory Services, business frameworks, and the like. There's a constant struggle between the needs of the user to personalize and expand their computing capabilities and that of IS to manage, protect, and support the computing resources ... thus, the pendulum.

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I got JAZZed after talking about using mobile racks for removable boot drives! I went out today and bought two InClose Removable Data Storage Kits, Ultra160 with Quantum Atlas 10K 9.1GB drives, for $130 USD each! 9.1GB seems to be just the right size for boot disks and I can always add them into my RAID 0 array later if I want. I'm going to install W2K on one and Win98 on the other. I'm going to add my third IBM DDRS-39130 U2W (got it cheap!) to my existing two disk RAID 0 array (also DDRS-39130s). I'll set up my RAID array as FAT32 so I can share data files between my OSes and install NTFS5 on my W2K boot drive. It will be interesting to compare how the swap file does on my U2W controller with the boot disk versus the separate UW RAID array (I bet the array is the place for it). I haven't played with W2K since they cut Beta2 and I'm looking forward to the FS performance improvement. As you can tell, I'm JAZZed (can't stop with the Iomega pun)!