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How good is Windows 7 mirror raid? by Ian R[_3_]
Hi Guys Do any of you have experience of using Windows 7 RAID 1. I'm looking at using it for my data only (Docs, Photo's, Music) so not intending to boot from it (have SSD for OS and Progs). Is it reliable or problematic? Thanks for your time and any info.
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January 13th 14 11:35 AM
by Mike Tomlinson Go to last post
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Did something on my old Debian/Linux stable box crash and mess upmy CMOS? by Ant[_3_]
.... I woke up before 6:15 AM PST and noticed my old box wasn't responding (e.g., SSH2's text terminal commands not recognizing) correctly and its BitchX v1.2 client's clock said 2:xx PM PST when I was using it briefly and remotely (PuTTY) late last night before I passed out at about 10:32 PM...
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January 13th 14 09:50 AM
by Ant[_3_] Go to last post
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weight of WD black drive by [email protected]
I got a WD black drive and it seemed quite heavy. Looking up specs, it is more than 100 grams over a green drive. So why is this? Is it just to make the punters think the drive is robust and rugged? Or are they skimping on the weedy greenie stuff?
January 11th 14 01:53 PM
by Arno[_3_] Go to last post
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Disk drive not showing name in driver list by Yousuf Khan[_2_]
Okay, have recently upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 board (AM3+). Now something strange is happening with the disk drives drivers in Windows 7, not sure if it's worth worrying about or not. In the BIOS of the motherboard, there is a setting called "OnChip SATA Port 4/5...
January 8th 14 09:12 AM
by Yousuf Khan[_2_] Go to last post
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Seagate "retail" drive warranty by Percival P. Cassidy
A few months back I posted here that I had found both 2-yr- and 1-yr-warranty STBD2000101 drives on the shelf at Best Buy, while at that time people were complaining that the drives they had received from NewEgg were 1-yr-warranty models. I had assumed that the 2-yr-warranty drives were old...
December 27th 13 10:55 PM
by DevilsPGD[_5_] Go to last post
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WD: WD20NPVT 2TB SATA2 8MB high failure rate....? by Randall Shimizu
I heard a rumor that the WD 2.5 2tb have been experiencing a high failure rate....? Has anyone heard anything...?
December 14th 13 07:01 PM
by Arno[_3_] Go to last post
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BIOS sees 4TB drive as 1.6TB - Windows 7 sees 3726GB. But unable to format by Ian R[_3_]
Hi Ive just fitted 2 x new WD 4TB Red to my ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 (with the last BIOS update 1202). I'm running W7 Ult x64. The plan is to make a W7 Raid Mirror for my data only (Docs, Photo, Music). OS and Progs are on an SSD. On first boot up the drives are seen as 1.6TB.
December 12th 13 08:23 AM
by Yousuf Khan[_2_] Go to last post
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Backblaze on their experience with enterprise drives by miso
On 12/5/2013 3:23 AM, Neill Massello wrote: Backblaze has another blog post about hard drive reliability. This time, they assay their (more limited) experience using enterprise drives. http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/12/04/enterprise-drive-reliability/ (Hat tip again to Josh Centers at...
December 8th 13 06:11 PM
by Arno[_3_] Go to last post
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December 7th 13 03:17 AM
by Hench[_2_] Go to last post
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Bought a 3 TB Toshiba HD but now I was told I can't use as a SYSTEM boot drive? by Sam
I needed an upgrade to my Seagate Baracudda 1 TB drive on my 3 year old ASUS mobo (P6X58D-E). The mobo dces not have UEFI support. I wanted to use it as my main Windows 7 x64 drive. Little did I know that this was going to be an issue. Is there a way of allowing Windows 7 to see the full 3TB...
December 4th 13 05:18 PM
by Shadow[_2_] Go to last post
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Speed test of Intel 335 series SSD by [email protected]
Hi I just bought a Intel 335 series SSD. I've used its migration tool to migrate windows 7 from my old 3.5 inch WD hard drive to SSD. After done, I reboot it and didn't find faster than before. I check the speed of both ssd and WD HD and found that they are all 6Gb/s. Am I wrong somewhere? Any...
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December 4th 13 05:51 AM
by Arno[_3_] Go to last post
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A small GoFlex USB external HD annoyance by Shadow[_2_]
I have a ST1000LM024 silver "Seagate" external USB 3.0 drive, which I plug in once or twice a day for backups. On every laptop I've ever plugged it into (linux, win XP, win 7), when I eject it, it powers off. On my desktop, it "disconnects", but does not power off when I eject it. Running Win...
December 1st 13 02:48 PM
by Shadow[_2_] Go to last post
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Samsung 2TB drive not detected by Mark Perkins
I have three Samsung 2TB F4EG (HD204UI) hard drives in my PC, which is a home built system that I assembled in 2011 and has been working fine ever since. A few days ago, one of the hard drives "disappeared" from Windows 7's Windows Explorer and Disk Management. I rebooted the system and found that...
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November 22nd 13 07:16 AM
by Mark Perkins Go to last post
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Backblaze on consumer hard drive life expectancy by Neill Massello[_3_]
Backblaze has posted a report about using consumer-grade hard drives for their online backup service. Bottom line: 80% of their consumer hard drives last four years. http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/ The article also links to one about their testing and...
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November 18th 13 08:53 PM
by Your Name Go to last post
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diagnostic duration of WD green versus red disk by [email protected]
I was testing the hard drives from a PC what blew up (well the power supply did - a big blue flash followed by burnt smell). First I tested a WD red 3 TB. The long diagnostic took about 6 hours. Then I tested a WD green 1 TB, but same diagnostic took about 4 hours. So the red test is going twice as...
November 6th 13 05:58 PM
by Arno[_3_] Go to last post
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why is the WD 4 TB USB external so much? by Lynn McGuire[_2_]
Does anyone know why the WD 4 TB USB external is so much? http://www.amazon.com/Book-External-Drive-Storage-Backup/dp/B008S94HXG/ Lynn
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October 24th 13 08:52 PM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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Upgrading RAID 1 to larger drives... by Ian R[_3_]
Hi I have a 2TB RAID 1 (mirror) which is running out of room. I’d like to upgrade the drives to 3TB. I was wondering about the best way to do it... If I replace one of the drives with a 3TB I understand that the mirror will automatically rebuild to the new drive albeit at 2GB. Once that has
October 24th 13 08:28 PM
by David Brown[_3_] Go to last post
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WD AV drives not for desktop use by Ed Light
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=659&pgno=4 -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org
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October 18th 13 01:20 PM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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WD Hard drive failure, looking to swap PCB boards, need info please! by [email protected]
Hi there, I have recently suffered a master hard drive failure. I cant pay $700+ for data recovery and I know that the data still exists on the platters. I have discovered that if I don't get the right criteria for a donor PCB board then the drive will not work. My specs, and a few...
October 18th 13 03:46 AM
by Char Jackson Go to last post
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what is the next capacity stopping point by Lynn McGuire[_2_]
Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? Thanks, Lynn
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October 12th 13 01:13 AM
by Lynn McGuire[_2_] Go to last post
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