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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21488)	1/22/2002 9:34:03 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

More info on backup drives: My Maxtor 5,400 Firewire 80GB drive is so cool and quiet that I keep it on-line always. My Buslink drive, although packaged more solidly and cheaper, is so noisy that I always unplug it when backups are complete. Those of you who were interested in copying DVDs may want to examine the possibility of copying DVDs to FireWire drives without compression. It only costs about $8 to hold a full DVD's worth of storage and you can reuse the space when you get bored with the flick. Craig

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21488)	1/23/2002 8:55:50 PM
From: Artslaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

With regard to Intel, their general-purpose motherboard chipsets have consistently NOT supported error-correcting memory (ECC). I knew my old 440BX had ECC support, so I did a little checking at Intel's chipset site. Looking at their old 440/450 line, every chipset besides the Celeron-specific ones had ECC (and, come on, if you are building with a Celeron, you aren't going to pay a premium for ECC!). intel.com The current line of "mainstream" chipsets are the 845 (DDR) and 850 (Rambus). They both have ECC as well. intel.com However, I have to admit that I've never ECC'ed my home computer--the probability of failure is still pretty low compared to the cost and potentially slight performance hit. The 2GB RDRAM PC workstations are ECC'ed though, since someone else is paying the bills. :) Regards, Steve (the temporary support of Intel chipsets)