Posts by ZombieDawg

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the protection system software, and no luck there. I had a chance to mess around with the Hitachi Feature Tool last night and I tried enabling and disabling each feature one at a time and nothing ever...

CAAB, yes, I'm refering to the HP Mobile Data Protection System software that parks the drive with jolts or drops sensed by the hardware accelerometer. Spetsnaz Op, if your stock hard drive is a Hitachi brand drive, try the Hitachi...

Well, this recently discussion got me to want to revisit this HDD problem. I searched around Hitachi's website last night and found a utility for tweaking the Travelstar called Feature Tool (v2.01). Apparently, the 7k100 ships with the...

It was my understanding that it's something in the firmware that tells the drive how to interact with the data protection hardware/ software. Theoretically, any hard drive should work with it- custom firmware just needs to be installed...

Hey CAAB, I've only spent about 10 hours in Maya 7 so far as the production I'm on is still using Maya 6, but it's been great in both versions. No crashes yet, no stuttering. It's definitely more stable than the OSX and Linux versions...

No, it's the 15.4" screen.

Hey Spetsnaz Op, Does your screen have the light leakage or the dark bottom corners as mine does? Thanks

I'm posting this as a heads up for anyone thinking of buying a Hitachi Travelstar for use with a HP Notebook. I received my nw8440 last week and I've posted some photos and a review in this thread. In addition to the computer, I also...

Device, Now I know that taking a digital picture of an LCD to be viewed on another computer monitor isn't the best way to judge a screen, but I'm very impressed with the quality of this screen. It's bright, the colors seem accurate,...

I do a lot of Maya, Photoshop, and After Effects work, and I needed something that'd do all that while I'm on the road. I chose the HP Compaq nw8440 and it arrived yesterday. I've only spent a few hours messing around with it but so...