Hard Drive Babble, Mouse Review and Big Daddy Stuff

Changes are coming to the beach house network. For years I have been an advocate of SCSI hard drives due to their speed and dependability. My gaming machine presently uses SCSI, but that will change. I've opted to go for the SATA hard drive array in striped mode. This is a Raid 0 configuration that writes information to two different drives increasing the overall speed. Well, we will see if this theory holds up.

Seagate offers a five year warranty. They seem to have replaced IBM in the drive market as the leader. Man, those IBM drives were awesome. Hitachi bought this division and hopefully they will continue the tradition. Anyway, two Seagate 160 gigabyte SATA drives will be striped utilizing the controller that exists on the motherboard. Since this configuration boasts a 3.0 data transfer an improvement in speed should be apparent. Next update? Vista Ultimate.

There's a new mouse on the gaming machine. It is a Logitech G5 laser mouse. This is a mouse on steroids. It has a great feel, awesome speed and many features...just click on the link. It is a wired mouse. My years of obsession with wireless input devices has been shelved. The Zboard and ZBoard MERC broke my long cycle of using wireless devices. Now there's a mouse to match. BTW, the G5 is on sale at Best Buy for 49 dollars and change.

Mallory Elaine, her Mother and Dad are doing great. A trip is being planned with Beagle and Mudslingr. She's very cute and has features of both parents. Thanks goes out to everyone for the wellwishes and prayers.

"Married daughters with children...now there is danger of being classified a first edition."
~Billy Wobblynife