I'm going to get a new RAID Hard Drive array setup soon, and i was wondering, since i'm pairing up a 3Ware 9590SE-8LP in my computer to run a Seagate...

alon@designtechnologygizmo.com

12-14-2006 07:17 PM
Arno Wagner

I have a newer dell laptop with an 80 GB hard drive on which I had about 200 mp3's stored. Over a dozen of these mp3's have suddenly went from...

humbll via HWKB.com

12-14-2006 03:39 PM
Arno Wagner

Hello, Quick scennario: User takes an 80GB disk, changes the jumper setting not realizing it's the setting that caps the disk size to 32GB. He then...

ecto

12-14-2006 01:10 PM
Folkert Rienstra

I'm going nuts here!!! I just bought a SATA external enclosure and attached a new 320G SATA drive in it. I try to attach the enclosure/drive to the...

mbelli

12-14-2006 12:36 PM
Timothy Daniels

First, a few days ago I got a great new video card for 3d games, and it had disply problems. What a huge dissapointment. I tried everything and it...

GreatArtist

12-14-2006 11:12 AM
chrisv

I have a lot of 5 1/4" floppy disks I would like to copy to CD-R. These are mostly Quickbasic and PDS 7.1 libraries and source code and such,...

Jim

12-14-2006 12:11 AM
David A. Flory

It totally stopped working and it made a moderately loud klunking noise every few seconds. Anybody know what that noise is exactly? Is there any hope...

GreatArtist

12-13-2006 10:49 PM
Arno Wagner

i'm having a problem, when i try to format a hard drive the computer turns off. the motherboard is a gigabyte ga-5aa using an atx pwr supply. any...

Art Weingardner

12-12-2006 11:26 PM
Rod Speed

I got myself a new 80 pin cable. I went to remove the old cable and I seen that the pin on the motherboard IDE slot had bent. I tried to bend it...

Sam

12-12-2006 10:42 PM
Sam

The Seagate 7200.10 consumes about 50% more power than the 7200.9 (12W instead of 8W). Could this have any consequences for waste heat, and hence...

ajmoss_throwaway_account_001@hotmail.co.uk

12-12-2006 07:48 PM
Arno Wagner

Dear NG, when I got back a harddisk from my son, BIOS shows only an available size of little bit more than 8400MB. Originally the disk was 120GB....

Ulrich Schmidt

12-12-2006 02:45 PM
Ulrich Schmidt

I'm having problems with my newly bought Xcraft RX-3HU USB2 enclosure. I fitted a new Seagate 250GB Ultra ATA100 hard drive (ST 3250820A). My system...

me@me.net

12-12-2006 01:33 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Hi all, Is there any reason why my computer would reboot itself when transferring files (usually large amounts of them) across hard drives? It is an...

Taras_96

12-12-2006 12:49 PM
Rod Speed

I have a dell laptop which i wanted to reinstall the operating system on, so i copied all my personal files including email etc onto some sony...

humbll

12-12-2006 12:31 PM
Rod Speed

I have a dell laptop which i wanted to reinstall the operating system on, so i copied all my personal files including email etc onto some sony...

humbll

12-12-2006 01:02 AM
humbll

FYI I am running win98 with a pent1 processer, I told you it is old.

gunzle1

12-11-2006 10:08 PM
CJT

I'm having trouble with this, the comp is not picking up the second hard drive so I can't format it and set it up for use. I don't even know what is...

gunzle1

12-11-2006 10:07 PM
CJT

I have just installed an IBM 3581 Autoloader on a Windows 2003 server. My intention is to use it with Veritas Backup Exec in Sequential...

Joel.Calhoun@gmail.com

12-11-2006 04:52 PM
Joel.Calhoun@gmail.com

Talking USB2 i'm used to using speedfan to read the SMART values for info but external ones dont make it through any tips on this ?

green

12-08-2006 12:31 AM
Arno Wagner

Hi. I have done some reading but I am a bit confused about whether there is anything I need to do to increase performance. A few years ago I...

Ken

12-07-2006 11:07 PM
John Turco

I haven't been keeping up with hardware developments for several years- so this is a dumb question to most of you- but, just noticed an external...

Joe

12-07-2006 12:51 PM
Rod Speed

Talking USB2 i'm used to using speedfan to read the SMART values for info but external ones dont make it through any tips on this ?

green

12-06-2006 05:53 PM
green

Hi All, I just ran into a problem with my Lacie Big Disk 500GB Firewire drive that I hope someone has seen. It contains 2x WD 250GB disks, and...

AlexBohner

12-06-2006 01:02 AM
Folkert Rienstra

Hi... What are the average read write cycles to a drive's sector before it goes bad? For example, in NAND based flash memory, after 100,000 read...

jondelac@gmail.com

12-05-2006 05:42 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Hi, I currently have two 400GB SATA Seagate drives with 8M cache on them. I wish to purchase three more of these drives but am having problems...

Sean

12-05-2006 05:38 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Hi all, I'm planning to replace my four years old 80 GB WD Caviar, as I'm running out of space. Its age doesn't help either as SMART data start to...

Andrzej Rokita

12-05-2006 02:05 AM
John Turco

Ok, so I have decided I NEED to get a new PC. My Promise controller is not compatible with my ECS PVM4MM2 V5.0 MB (if someone knows a card that is,...

Sam

12-05-2006 02:05 AM
John Turco

How comes the SATA II controller cards are still very expensive? Should I wait for SATA II to become available from major PC vendors? Thanks

MacRule

12-04-2006 03:33 PM
Arno Wagner

I bought a Beyond Micro 250GB USB Mobile Drive from TigerDirect.com (refurb) and installed it to my HP Media center PC and it all worked fine. I have...

dlhusk

12-04-2006 01:06 PM
dlhusk

I tried to install Kubuntu 6.06 on my system, but the installer was unable to read the partition table for my hard drive. I did fdisk to find out...

nadircruise@gmail.com

12-03-2006 11:29 PM
nadircruise@gmail.com

Hello, I'm in the process of building a NAS box using a IDE RAID 5 card (LSI i4 MegaRaid) and some old equipment I have lying around. At the moment...

vamichael@gmail.com

12-03-2006 10:10 PM
Curious George

I am running 7 servers. MS Server 2003 Standard SP1 - Running Exchange Server MS Server 2003 Standard SP1 - Running as File Server MS Server 2003...

Zoomer

12-03-2006 09:58 PM
Curious George

Hi, There seems to be 2 imaging programs for servers out there of any size - Acronis enterprise and Symantec Backup Exec System restore (formerly...

Randy Starkey

12-03-2006 09:13 PM
Randy Starkey

Peter Bjørn Perlsø <spamtrap (AT) SPAMMERSMUSTDIEmacplanet (DOT) dk> wrote: So little you wouldnt be able to pick it in a proper double blind trial...

Rod Speed

12-03-2006 05:19 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Which model hard drive is used in WD's 320 GB external hard drive that they call "My Book"? ---- The model number of the Essential Edition version...

Joe S

12-02-2006 03:02 PM
Joe S

Does anyone know about how long it should take to transfer 50 GB of data from one USB2 external drive to a 2nd USB2 drive? I am trying to do...

Homer

12-02-2006 02:09 PM
Arno Wagner

How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable? I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an additional IDE...

DJW

12-02-2006 01:41 PM
Folkert Rienstra

I have a benq 1620 pro that takes the standard eide 40 pin i think connectors. I'm planning on getting a new desktop with the SATA interface and...

Craig

12-02-2006 12:08 AM
Ed Light

Hi I'm looking for a boot manager that will allow me to easily switch between operation systems. Ideally I would like it to handle the process of...

Ian R

12-02-2006 12:01 AM
Rod Speed

Can anyone confirm that ait-5 IS backward compatible?

fdh@en.com

12-01-2006 03:31 PM
fdh@en.com

Ok, besides the really expensive stuff from digi, whos USB hubs are considered to be really reliable in terms of not crashing under load, 'playing...

phreak

12-01-2006 09:12 AM
Arno Wagner

I want to reinstall Windows xp on my wifes laptop but the cd drive is bust. I was wondering if it is possible to copy the installation disks to...

Michael

12-01-2006 12:08 AM
Sam

When are terabyte ide HDs expected to be available at retail? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- I am TERRIBLY cruel to my cat. I actually cut...

Daniel Prince

11-30-2006 08:12 PM
CJT

My laptop has a 4200 RPM HD. I was thinking about getting a USB 5400RPM HD: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=261. ...

brett

11-30-2006 05:53 PM
Arno Wagner

I have an external USB WD 250 GB hdd, but it fell of the floor last week and cannot see drive letters on windows. I've already changed the enlcosure...

ozzgurr@gmail.com

11-30-2006 11:33 AM
Rod Speed

Hello, I have put together an AMD X2 4200 CPU machine that currently has a 320gig Sata2 drive and 1gig of memory. If I had add a smaller (say 80gig)...

nospam

11-30-2006 05:51 AM
Jack

Do ide hard disk prices fall dramatically after Christmas the way some computer parts do? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- I am TERRIBLY...

Daniel Prince

11-29-2006 11:02 PM
Arno Wagner

Hi, I'm trying to control a Cypress USB-IDE bridge chip to turn on and off a 2.5" HDD by controlling the chip's power on reset signal. Once...

galapogos

11-29-2006 05:20 PM
Folkert Rienstra

I have an ASUS motherboard with Athlon 1.4 processor. This had a 40Gig WD drive which I removed. I installed XP on a new 60Gig drive (as a test)...

Gm1234

11-29-2006 12:18 PM
Folkert Rienstra

I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it...

DJW

11-29-2006 09:58 AM
DJW