Archive for July, 2009
Late 2008 Unibody 15″ MacBook Pro Unboxing
I went to my local Best Buy on January 3, 2009 to exchange my recently purchased MacBook for a MacBook Pro. I found the MBP to fit me best at what I usually need it for. At the time the highest configuration available at Best Buy was the 2.53GHz model, which I purchased at retail value of $2499. The current MacBook Pro models (Mid-2009) are almost $1000 cheaper than before, and rumors are that Apple may have downgraded some technologies in them (slower SATA I instead of SATA II, etc.) in order to sell the computers for lower prices on this unstable economy.
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Molded plastic parts: Encapsulating cases, enclosures, potting cups/shells, surface/toroid mounts
http://www.plasmetex.com
Plasmetex Industries, Inc.
IN-HOUSE MOLDMAKING
Located in San Marcos, CA, U.S.A., Plasmetex Industries attaches great importance to the quality of a mold. The majority of our molds are made in-house by skilled machinists and moldmakers. In-house moldmaking allows a close relationship between moldmaking and production departments, which ensures that preproduction and first article runs are accomplished with minimal delays.
Moldmaking equipment includes CNC milling machines and electrical discharge machines (EDM).
INTERNATIONAL
Since 1963, Plasmetex Industries, with total worldwide manufacturing space of more than 60,000 square feet, has offered a wide range of plastic parts for the electronics industry, and more recently the medical industry. These parts are standard or can be made according to customers’ drawings. Materials used are in compliance with many international and domestic environmental regulations such as European RoHS and EPA SNURs.
VERSATILITY
• Compression and transfer molding of thermosets
• Injection molding of thermoplastics
• Insert molding: Metallic terminals can be embedded in the plastic during molding or inserted after molding.
• Mold maintenance and repair
• Production sizes ranging from short runs to millions of pieces
• Secondary operations: Drill holes, cut cases to height, etc.
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How to make your own external hard drive and use it with Time Machine
This tutorial teaches you how to take an old hard drive laying around your house and make use of it by turning it into an external hard drive. Once your former internal hard drive, you have to get an external enclosure. Ebay sells them pretty cheap.
Once you have your external enclosure, install your the hard drive into the enclosure and plug it into your Mac. From there you can grab all your old files if you like, but in this tutorial, I teach you how to thoroughly erase the hard drive with no detection of what was on it ever.
After you have erased the hard drive, you now can use it as a regular external hard drive. You just saved lots of money.
If you like to use it as a Time Machine drive, go ahead and go to spotlight, and type in time machine or select it from our dock and set up your new external hard drive with Time Machine.
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ICY DOCK MB561US-4S Quad Bay External Enclosure with eSATA Port-Multiplier + USB for PC & Mac
Visit: http://www.icydock.com/product/mb561us-4s.html
This impressively new MB561US-4S 4 Bay Series is built with single e-SATA and single USB connection.
A single e-SATA port provides easy direct single connection and flexible options for advance user. With the port multiplier e-SATA connection, you can either connect to port multiplier JBOD adapter to access four drives via e-SATA connection, or connect to the port multiplier RAID controller card for the RAID solution. This is convenient for those who do video editing through Mac or PC and wants configurations of RAID 0 (Striping) settings for massive transfer speed.
Additional USB connection is for quick hook up to any computer system (especially to laptops), which allow user to access up to four hard drives at the same time, best at all theres no driver installation required. This allows users to organize their music, photos, and work data under one enclosure and its perfect for backup solution.
The enclosure takes up to four SATA drives. To power the enclosure, it uses a direct AC outlet, perfect to use it anywhere without having to deal with any adapters. The lightweight construction design protects hard drives with a layer of solid aluminum. The enclosure has a detachable 80mm ball bearing rear fan and uses a built-in fan-less power supply, making it a quiet device. The four hot-swappable drive trays offer great freedom of choice in expanding your storage solution and multi-drive exchangeability for easy maintenance.
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free digital signage software
Free digital signage software to create professional signage campaigns. We also manufacture NEMA 4X and IP65 LCD enclosures. We can even provide an affordable complete one stop shop for a signage solution.
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D-Link DNS-343 NAS Enclosure
The D-Link® 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (DNS-343) is the perfect way to store, share, and safeguard your documents, music, videos, and photos. With the D-Link tool-less installation, you can easily insert up to 4 SATA drives1 without any tools or attaching any cables. Plus, the DNS-343 is a scalable solution, allowing you to start off with one SATA hard disk drive (HDD) and add up to 3 more as you grow.
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Crested Gecko Home made enclosures Lizard Tank terrarium cages
I finally got my tank all set up and looking good. Crested Geckos look great and are very happy with there new place. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, -Dustin
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External Enclosure for a Hard Drive?
I am looking for an external enclosure for a 500GB Western Digital SATA 3.0GB/s hard drive that I just purchased. I originally wanted the drive inside my case connected to the SATA connection, but since I have an older motherboard that only supports the speed of up to 1.5GB/s transfer rate, my motherboard and Windows have trouble picking up the drive. I have to manually go and plug in the SATA cable while I’m booted to Windows in order for it to get picked up. I don’t want to be doing that so I want to purchase an external enclosure. I wanted to try using the eSATA connection. What do I need in order to use that connection? I was researching it online but I couldn’t really find any information on it. I wanted to use USB 2.0 or FireWire ONLY IF I am unable to use the eSATA connecction, as those are slower than the eSATA (at least I think they are). I wanted to use the faster port, but if I can’t, then I’ll use the slower ones instead..
I would use the jumper on the hard drive to limit the speed to 1.5GB/s BUT THE HARD DRIVE DOESN’T HAVE THAT JUMPER SETTING..
I looked on the label on the drive and it says nothing about limiting the speed..
Yes the motherboard can use SATA. I had an small size SATA drive that was working fine. The only thing with that drive is that it had the jumper limiting the transfer rate to 1.5Gb/s, and the new one doesn’t say anything bout that.
SATA 3.0 Gb/sec should normally be backward compatible to SATA 1.5 Gb/sec. Sometimes, however, controller firmware or system BIOS can make the newer standard incompatible with the older standard.
You are right that USB 2 and Firewire are both slower than eSATA is (though FireWire 800 isn’t much slower with a single drive, since very few hard drives are able to transfer more than 70 MB/second).
What I would recommend is to get a PCIe SATA 3.0 controller (if you have a PCIe slot; if not, PCI-X or PCI will also work) with both internal and external ports, so you can have internal and external SATA drives attached to your computer. The more ports on a SATA card, the more it will cost, but you’ll make up the cost in overall expandability. Also, most cards with 4 internal ports are hardware RAID capable, which means you can make an array of drives that’s much faster than any single drive.
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