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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/02/seagate-...l-distribution/ Seagate - the answer to digital distribution? Posted Jan 2nd 2007 1:00PM by Justin Murray Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business When thinking of gaming, the companies that make the storage medium are rarely thought of. Seagate, however, is offering up an interesting view of the future; a future that could effect the way we buy our games. According to Seagate, they are working on a technology that will drastically increase the amount of data we store on hard drives. Using a technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), the company expects to be able to shove 50 TB of information into a single square inch of drive space, or around 300 TB of information on a standard 3.5" drive. With that kind of space, the entire Library of Congress can be stored ... without any compression. The technology is expected to become commercially viable in a scant three years, by 2010. This means we may be seeing the Xbox 720 and PS4 being entirely based around digital distribution or fully installed console games, mostly eliminating ugly load times and noisy disk drives. With that kind of space, we may never have to worry about filling it up; 300 TB can hold around 6,144 50 GB Blu-ray disks (or the entire Library of PS through PS3 games that could ever be created with room to spare).

Thanks again, guys. Ended up putting in a big effort at the pub yesterday. (Ever noticed how loud a keyboard can be at times?). Still, it had to be done.

Thanks, guys! Feeling a bit doughy atm with new years and a lack of sleep and all. :& Still, heading off to the pub in a couple of hours which should fix me right up.

Happy Birthday, Mate! Hope you had a great day! http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid...786598098201802

Anytime.

There's a couple of things. ImgBurn verifies the data written to disk against the original source file(s). This is why AnyDVD has to be disabled for ImgBurn to function correctly. (AnyDVD tries to correct the data being written which means ImgBurn can't verify the contents of the burnt disk with the original source). Also, ImgBurn tries to read back what it's burnt to check its integrity. Cheap media usually fails this stage with read errors. It's not necessary at all. If you trust your media, you can probably live without it. I verify most of what I do out of habit. The choice is all yours.

I agree with Kenadjian. Sounds like a virus to me also. I suggest using a trusted online virus scanner like HouseCall, regardless of what other virus scanners you've used. Find it here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Check your DMA settings for your drive also. A drive set to PIO mode will make your system run like a pig. You can find info about DMA/PIO in the FAQ.

ZoneAlarm isn't resource intensive. It just sits there like a stale bottle of piss waiting for something to happen. If you get the ZoneAlarm security suite and enable the anti-virus stuff then it's a different story. For free stuff, you can't go past ZoneAlarm for a firewall, AVG for anti-virus, Ad-Aware for spyware and Spybot Seek and Destroy for trojans/backdoors/dialers. EDIT: And get a router if you don't have one.

Yep. Prodisc are garbage. I think you've found your problem.

I don't know why anyone would bother paying someone to host images. Any half-decent ISP allocates storage space on their servers for each user. At least mine does. It might only be 30megs but who cares? Why would anyone need 5gigs of picture-hosting space? <naive mode off>

Hello and welcome. What you need is a DVD authoring package and I don't of any that are free. For something fairly simple you can have a look at the trial version of "ULead DVD MovieFactory" which can be found here: http://www.ulead.com/dmf/trial.htm It's easy to use and reasonably flexible for basic DVD creation.

I dunno, Corny. There doesn't seem to be much for 10 grand. I reckon you should get one first.

Now you've lost me. Every linux distro I've ever downloaded is already in a burnable format. ie. an ISO image. Just load ImgBurn, select the file and throw a disk into the drive.

Dontasciime is right. The load times are infuriating. Also, it's alot more complicated with menus and submenus everywhere. GT3 is alot easier to play and alot better to play.

Some of us have known L_UK for years and still know next to nothing about him. Our mysterious benefactor prefers to keep himself to himself. Personally, I think he's The Stig

GT3. Easily the best racing game on any platform. It might be a bit complicated for a 6 year old though with the abundance of racing categories like FF, MR N/A and so on. (Front wheel drive, Mid-engined, naturally aspirated etc..)

We can't help you with this. Try Google.

Get a Pioneer as they automatically set the booktype for DVD +R/DL to DVD-ROM. All this means is that there's no farting around with program settings to get the thing working properly.

Won't make any difference Blu. No point selecting 2.4x if the drive/media doesn't support it. <Clever dick mode off>

Ignore it. You can blame societys' love of litigation for this. Flashing your drive (a firmware upgrade) is an admission by the vendor that there's a problem with the drives' internal software. Sure, you can kill your drive if the upgrade goes pear-shaped but a firmware update might also fix your problem. We flash drives all the time to fix those problems and there's a few things you can do to make sure everything goes smoothly. Remove any disks in the drives and shut down any unnecessary software. Once you start flashing your drive, don't touch anything like the keyboard or mouse. Flashing can take as little as 20 seconds or as long as a few minutes. Let it do what it has to do in peace and reboot when it says you can.

Do so. If you have the patience to learn, we have the patience to teach you. <Please insert 5c to continue>

No need to "improve" anything at your end. I just have to acquaint myself with the acronyms and terminology. Like: What the heck is an "ISO" and where do they come from? I don't understand enough to suggest anything at this point. An ISO (and the multitudes of other names for it) is something like a ZIP file. It can contain a single file or thousands of files and it's built in a similar way to a ZIP file. The difference is that an ISO is what's called an image file. It can be an exact duplicate of a music CD or movie DVD or a collection of other files but it's in a special, single file format. ImgBurn can create or burn these image files onto a CD or DVD of your choice. For example: Let's assume you want to make a backup of your important files. With ImgBurn you can select these files individually or as a group and create a backup of the files as an ISO image. Now you load the newly created ISO image into ImgBurn and burn as many copies as you like. This is a fairly simple example... and speaking of examples, you should visit the GUIDES area for more info.

Honestly, a log file would help us alot. Without it we'd only be guessing.

All filetypes are supported. If it's on your HD, flashdisk, CD or whatever, ImgBurn can add it to an ISO image.