Archive for November 7th, 2005

Best SATA hard disk ?

It seems that it’d be Western Digital WD4000YR. Check this out : 400 GB capacity, 16MB buffer, uses WD’s Raptor technology heavily, beats pretty much all other SATA hard disk in various benchmark, and so on.

A bit of history; I bought 2 WD Caviar SE 120 GB, the ones with the (then) phenomenal 8 MB buffer, making it the (then) fastest ATA hard disk. Unfortunately, they seems to be not very reliable, with both already dead.
Reading the review above, it seems that WD has fixed this issue.

It seems to be THE hard disk to buy if you’re a power user.
Do you agree ? Let me know.

Twelve Monkeys

Just watched this 1995 movie, and it’s great. Lots of interesting ideas and thought-provoking.
Advice: watch it with the subtitle turned on, otherwise you may miss clues and ended up confused.

A few quotes from it:

Dr. Kathryn Railly:
…the truth is what everybody accepts. …psychiatry: it’s the latest religion. We decide what’s right and wrong. …I’m losing my faith.

Jeffrey Goines:
There’s no right, there’s no wrong, there’s only popular opinion.
(in this case, the fruitcake is actually wiser than most people)