Has anyone found a rackmount SATA drive enclosure which: 1) Hotswaps SATA drives without requiring a proprietary hard drive tray? We want to be able to plug in off the shelf SATA drives and use those for backups, and then take those out to store away. It would be a hassle to constantly install...

Old TIVO's are dirt cheap and have 40-120GB IDE drives. I put them in my PC and boot the live GPARTED CD to create and format two NTFS partitions. I've used this procedure successfully on many commercial (non-TIVO) drives. On some TIVO drives, windows XP won't install, but linux partitions,...

There are quite a few ESATA adapters for Windows available on the market. What I am looking for is a non-RAID card (or a RAID card with a JBOD option) that has a BOOT BIOS. It must be PCI or PCI-X and not PCI-Express / PCI-E. What I mean by BOOT BIOS is that I want to be able to reboot the...

Hi. I got a bunch of old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards (16 MB to 1 GB), that were used for old Palm smartphones and PDAs. I thought maybe I could use them in Linux. I also have an internal memory card reader to handle them on my Debian stable (Kernel v2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23...

I have this nice 1 TB WD Scorpio HDD with Intelli Park bug. wdidle3 and idle3-tools don't work on this one. So far I can get is to change some MOD in SA area to stop the Intelli Park thing. But then with this modification I get a click sound randomly. From 40 seconds to 2 minutes. And the SMART...

Hello folks every time my little brother uses the computer he always downloads software that i dont want on my hard drive , lots of toolbars , apps and unnecessary nonsense that only slows down the computer , i delete them in the end but i want to put an end to it , is there a way i can assign a...

Has anybody put their HD in a chamber full of helium to see how it would work? How long does it take the helium to replace almost all the air, assuming the HD vent is positioned downward?

Hello guys I have a satellite receiver with built-in plug to connect a SATA hdd: The plug is female and of course transmits both data/power supply. Now, I wonder if there is some adapter to connect an IDE hdd instead. I would avoid spending money for a SATA, as I have a number of IDE hdds.

My new system gives me a choice of how I configure the SATA drives: As EIDE or as ACHI. So, which should I use? My SATA "drives" are a Intel 80GB SSD and a WD 1TB Cavier blue drive. The only place I can find any discussion of the ACHI protocol is in the motherboard settings. What's the difference...

What would cause an old Western Digital PATA IDE 120GB drive to change its model name from WD1200BB-22FTA to WD1210CB-23-23FUA1 !!!!!!!!!! (exclamation marks given as part of the name)? Also the maximum 48-bit LBA for the drive went from 234,441,648 to 72,058,693,783,997,360, and Paragon backup...

I had my WD Black Caviar was replaced with a newer WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0 model. Within 8 months, HD Tune is showing raw read errors going from 0 to 14. WD diagnostic tools s/w shows no smart error messages or other errors in the short or quick tests. I noticed tonight the HD was "seeking" in short...

I haven't built a PC with hard drives in a few years and I have to say I am amazed at the hard drive market. First of all, it seems everyone bought everyone else. Samsung went to Seagate. Hitachi went to WD. Fujitsu went to Toshiba, which is presume is waiting to go elsewhere. Well now I can...

Hello. I don't know much about hardware so I am asking you for help. I've been using normal Samsung HDD 1TB for last 3 years and now I got new 60GB SSD 2,5". I am trying to connect both to run OS + some main programs from SSD and other storage from old HDD but there are several problems I am having...

My new system contains a SSD assigned as drive C: and a HDD with several virtual drives on it. I am going to install Win 7 on the SSD C: drive. My question is: Should I locate the Windows pagefile "virtual memory" cache on the SSD, or on the HDD? I've typically used a cache size of around 2...

Hello. Has anyone done this before? Is it fast and reliable? Just wondering since I have a bunch of old USB flash drives (256 MB to 1 GB). Thank you in advance. :) -- "We ants are runnin' the show! We're the lords of the earth!" --ANTZ /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx...

I have win 7 installed and running on C: (drive 0), D: is the DVD. I find Drive 1 unpartitioned in the Diskmgmt tool but I cannot figure how to part it. I want to create several virtual drives on an extended partition. What do i do? Nothing seems to work or make sense here, its not like Win2k....

How do drives with estimated 5-year lifespans differ when they're rated for 24 hours of operation per day vs. 8, other than in warranty and price and maybe the ability to synchronize in RAID? Are any components better in the drives with the 24 hours/day ratings?

My new MB has six SATA ports that can be configured as IDE or AHCI. I'm installing a new WD Caviar Blue drive, 1TB. Should I use the AHCI setting or the IDE setting?

The memory I'm installing is DDR2 and it states that it is CL-5...so what is CL? Clock Latency? Can I use two CL-5 modules and two CL=6 modules, appropiately paired? DA

Ahoy mateys! Do SSDs make any heat like old fashion hard disk drives (HDDs)? I noticed my Corsair Force Series F115 Solid-State Disk (SSD) (CSSD-F115GB2-BRKT-A) SSD was not even warm/hot like my old PATA/IDE Barracuda 7200.7 (ST380011A; 7200 RPM) HDD above it. It was over 80F degrees in my...