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Can you guys help me? I'm supposed to be in charge of purchasing an external drive to store stock photography, but I don't really know that much about it. We have several assorted Macs on a firewire network, and each computer should be able to access the photos. Also might be used for backup.

The brands I've narrowed down:

LaCie Big Disk (reliability problems?)
Maxtor (heard they suck)
G-Drive or G-Raid (heard only good things, but they're kinda expensive.)

Please do my job for me.

andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

There are quite a few hard drive threads.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

DVI noise: I have my 2nd cinema display on an extension thus:

Mac - DVI male-male cable, I think 10ft - gender changer, GOLLLLD plated - DVI/ADC converter - ADC cable - cinema display.

The problem with this chain is that the darkest areas of the display flicker with bright green pixels. I'm thinking that this is what I get with DVI-D instead of the VGA analog, "ghosting", etc., when the cable connection is too long and the signal becomes too attenuated.

What's the best way to fix this problem w/o plugging the display directly into the Mac? I can't disconnect the ADC cable, which is built-in. I could get a shorter male-female DVI cable which might fix things, but it might not. Should I get a better ADC-DVI adapter?

slacki (libcrypt), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:04 (seventeen years ago)

The problem gets better after the display warms up, but never goes away completely. Also, it's a lot better with the upgrade graphics card than the original Mac Pro card.

slacki (libcrypt), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

Swapped the 10' with a 6', and it's better so far.

slacki (libcrypt), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:16 (seventeen years ago)


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