I have a car computer (carputer) with a standard desktop 400gb drive. I have never ever ever had any problems with it skipping. Even driving down rough back roads it doesn't skip a beat.
If you want to find out how much vibration it takes to make your iPod skip just shake the piss out of it.
If your shaking your touch/nano/shuffle/iPhone just go ahead and give it to someone that is not a retard.
I would go with the Velociraptor. It should be quiet since it is a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" cooling enclosure. Speed wise it beats out some of the SSD drives for read and write times.
As for the OCZ SSDs I read somewhere that they were having quality issues and a rather high failure rate.
Let us know how it goes. I was eying one of those a while back but figured it could wait because I have no speakers here. But I will when I get home in a couple months
When our last vacuum bite the dust we ended up getting a Sebo X4 Extra. Looked into the Dysons and it seemed like they work good at first but fade away after a while.
Found a local Sebo dealer, but they did not carry it in stock because of the price and that it is a little know brand here in the US. Because of this he just charged us $100 over his cost. So it actually turned out to be a good and so far we (by we I mean my wife) have been very happy with it.
Hmmm....
Step 1. Put Cmoy into large chassis with large impressive tubes that only have the heaters hooked up. Bury Cmoy under lots of impressive looking caps and wiring.
Step 2......
Step 3. Profit.
I wouldn't deal with a company that doesn't ship a $5 product that is in stock within a week. That is just down right unacceptable from any company for any reason.
I could see if SP was a side business or hobby taking a bit of extra time to build/repair/ship product, but not as a full time business.
Sounds like he should have hired extra help. I know for a fact there are plenty of skilled migrant house builders in Colorado that would love a inside job for less than minimum wage under the table.
Sweet mahogany! Think of those of us with slow satellite internet in third world countries. I am going to go to bed and when I wake up the pictures might be fully download. Why do I have the feeling it's going to look like a scene from Real Genius?
If I had to guess it's no longer sponsored by SP. Look at the list of equipment. Only one SP amp. I would think if they/he were still sponsoring they would bring the best of what they have working.