It looks like a Toshiba design engineer ran out of time in developing the new Tecra M4, and decided to just hit the “zoom” button while looking at the M200 spec and submit that instead.
That’s the new Tecra, here’s the original M200:
Oh okay, if you look closely, it looks like the buttons on the screen were reversed. Still, I think this is a good example of not changing the formula when it already works so darn well.
Buzz Bruggerman blogs, “What’s in a vanity search? Or why are the numbers so far off?”
He mentions that Google returns a much larger number of total results for his name (as well as several others) in quotes, ie. “Buzz Bruggerman” returns 24,100 results on Google and only 4,079 results on MSN Search.
But more interestingly, neither engine lets you see all of those results that it supposedly found! In his case, Google did still show a greater number of results (about 1,000 vs. 500), but he says that MSN’s number seems much closer to reality.
Tim Bray has a good explanation of what’s probably going on here.
Personally, I don’t know what all the hubbub is about:
One of the three parallel IDE drives remaining in my computer is dying. I’m not sure which at the moment, since they’re all in a span array and I’m more concerned with getting all of my precious music and videos off of them. I’d been meaning to do it for some time, knowing that at least one of those drives had been acting funny and that the disk span was, well, fault intolerant. But I just kept putting it off. Well, today, after a spree of delayed-write failed messages, the urgency of this matter became clear.
I’m tempted to just do away with these Parallel ATA drive altogether. I’m certain the newest of the three is fine, so I’ll definitely find it a new home if it leaves my computer. The other two I don’t trust quite so much (they’re the same model of Western Digital Special Edition drives).
My primary system disk is actually two WD Raptors in RAID 0 that have been fantastic. My main storage disks are two Maxtor 16MB cache 300GB SATA drives in RAID 0. None of these disks has had any problems (knock on wood).
Maybe it’s time for one of those new-fangled networkable hard drive dealies.
Followup: The disk isn’t actually losing any data. Scandisk finds nothing wrong with it. It simply has a habit of “falling asleep“ and not waking up again properly. I can reactivate it in Disk Manager after it does this and it works fine (for a while). I’m still planning to remove it from my system… but at least no data was corrupted.
About an hour after I suggested a “Windows Champs” event, Scoble blogs about Team 99. He’s asking for his readers to nominate members/invitees for this event (I’ve already suggested a few myself) over at Channel 9.
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