SATA is certainly more common now.MarkS wrote:Sounds perfect to have a US source!
Shaun, When I think of internal hard drives I think of SATA and IDE. What is the differnce? Is one type of drive more popular or "preferred"?
Mark
Shaun
SATA is certainly more common now.MarkS wrote:Sounds perfect to have a US source!
Shaun, When I think of internal hard drives I think of SATA and IDE. What is the differnce? Is one type of drive more popular or "preferred"?
Mark
It has not arrived yetkb2ct wrote:I mailed to Shaun on August 31st. I expect him to receive it soon.
Only you don't know what day Christmas will fall....MarkS wrote:It's like the night before christmas....
UPDATEkb2ct wrote:The drive is through customs. It took 3 weeks.
There is a problem with the power supply.
This will happen one way or another.
In my experience even USB drives are fast enough and you can always use firewire or ESATA. It also is possible to transfer them to an internal drive once you have them.
For backups etc USB is okay*, however for TB access I would either go internal SATA or external eSATA.MarkS wrote:If this EGTB ever escapes customs, I would like eventually to get a copy of it on one of those external hard drives which use a USB port to connect to the computer. Just how much slower will the access times be, as compared to an internal hard drive with a SATA hookup?
Very odd indeed, I was going to make the same comment myselfShaun Brewer wrote: * for some reason I have found the usb controllers slow down HD access noticably, which is perhaps odd when you consider that usb flash drives can work so fast despite the interface?
The complete 6 men are 1.2TB so slightly less than 1.5TB ... I don't trust incomplete TB's, going back a while when I did not have complete 5 men - I saw examples where the engine would play very odd moves to get into a won tablebases position. I suspect this still applies to the 6 men and could be critical for analysis.MarkS wrote:Hello EGTB guys,
I wanted to do a reality check with myself. I'm only going to use the EGTBs to analyse chess games -- my own pathetic ones and GM games as I go through books. Maybe even doing some endgame study and finding out the obviously bad moves. I have the Total Nalimov Tablebases 1 and II that those Chess Assistant people sell. In all, there are about 100 GB of data there which covers all the 5-piece endings, and the most important 6 piece endings.
Here is a link to these tablebases, they are the first 2 products.
http://store.convekta.com/shop_model.as ... ew=Catalog
So just wondering... would I really find the 1.5TB of full tablebases useful? Is the monster-edition only useful for you computer specialists, or for computer-computer games?
Mark
Hard drive manufacturers think that 1 kB is 1000 bytes, while your OS thinks it's 1024 bytes. Same for MB, GB and TB.MarkS wrote:BTW, when you buy things like Flash Memory, you expect to pay a little bit of a "penalty" in memory... that is a 8GB USB drive gives you about 7.3 GB of actual space (about 10% loss). I'm not sure why, but I expected this "tax" of 10% to not be as high with a Mega Drive like the 1.5TB, but when I hooked it up to make sure it worked it said I only had about 1.34 TB or something lke that. Is there a technical reason why the real memory is always less than the stated memory?
Hard drive manufacturers think that 1 kB is 1000 bytes, while your OS thinks it's 1024 bytes. Same for MB, GB and TB.