Well, not large by today's standards, but it's large compared to what was shipping with these PC's when they were new (2004/2005). »» NOTE «« I've already tried looking for the answer in the DELL forums, but only found...

About a week ago, I asked for a recommendation for external enclosures for hard drives. One of my needs was to carry the drive enclosures on a plane, either in a carry-on item or in luggage. Some people commented that the enclosures provided no protection for the drive, except for scuffing. So...

Hi, A friend of mine came with an external disk enclosure containing the above disk. It had fallen to the floor and failed to connect after that. I hear a short burr from the disk every 3 seconds and it does not start turning. Can it be the brake mechanism which does not release? We have...

I notice that some modern HDs rattle when shaken. Is this the sound of the head stack moving about on the loading ramp? - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

What kind of performance penalty should one expect for a hard drive during write operations if its ATA Write-Read-Verify feature set is enabled? - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

I thought the following links may be useful to those who wish to understand what's inside (and outside) their hard drives. I learned a lot, anyway. Seagate ST31000333AS HDD from inside (Author: Artem Rubtsov): http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_from_inside.html Inside the firmware (Author: Aimtrading):

Here is what HD Tune's developer(s) consider to be a typical performance graph for a hard drive (160GB Maxtor): http://www.hdtune.com/HDTune_Benchmark.gif The graph shows 16 steps. AIUI, this corresponds to 16 zones of constant angular bit density and is referred to as Zone Bit Recording. Here...

I need to get external enclosures for two Hitachi 3.5" HDD. One is 320 GB, the other is 1 TB. I need both USB and eSATA (at 3.0, not 1.5!) Can anyone recommend or not-recommend specific models? The case has to be strong enough to protect the drive when carried around in a laptop bag or in...

I have 3 PCs which each have a variety of internal SATA drives, and all of which have external eSATA ports. The external eSATA ports were either factory-provided (Dell) or added by me with controller cards from Addonics and Rosewill with PCI-Express or PCI interfaces. Regardless of which...

Hi all I am comparing a Toshiba Class 6 4GB card with a Lexar Class 4 Platinum II 4GB card. Rightfully at class 6 the Toshiba should be faster (if you believe the promotion material) but strangely the Toshiba is rated at sustained 6MB/s vs the Lexar 9MB (60x). So which is actually faster? Thanks...

On Aug 19, 4:07*am, David Brown wrote: Rod Speed wrote: Thats just plain wrong too. Plenty choose to have a single drive system and when they run out of space on that, just replace the single drive with a larger one. This is just my experience...

I have a 500GB external drive, connected through USB2. Recently it's started not showing up as a drive letter under XP, until you restart it a few times. This only happens if the drive has been turned off and you turn it on while the computer is running. If you turn it on before turning the...

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:36:08 +0200, David Brown wrote: Andrew Hamilton wrote: What you say here is entirely true, but my understanding was that the PC in question was being bought and built now, with a view to possibly upgrading in the future - thus...

My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system? specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569

How are these used? http://www.cprtools.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=68 -- Reply in group, but if emailing add one more zero, and remove the last word.

Can one run a program like FDISK on an external USB disk? Reason = I wish to format a USB drive to only 64 GB FAT32. I have a recording device which writes to a USB drive, but only handles FAT32. Now the smallest drive I can find retail is 160 GB. A 64 GB flash drive is fairly expensive. I can...

David Brown wrote Rod Speed wrote David Brown wrote JR Weiss wrote David Brown wrote Rod Speed wrote You really are an expert at teenage tantrums, aren't you? Do you actually enjoy writing this sort of drivel? Obviously it's of no interest or use to anyone...

Sounds to me more like a recipe for on-the-fly disaster creation. But I'm cynical. Yousuf Khan Diskeeper Tech to Prevent Fragmented Files - CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech "Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this year that will eliminate most file...

We need to scheduke daily back ups of certain folders to an external USB drive. When we look at the folders (directory tree) on the USB drive we want it to match the source tree. We do not want a compressed file format on the destination. We would want to be able to take the USB drive to another...

I just bought a new-in-the-box 500GB Seagate SATA drive with the same Model# on the box as the others I have, but the Model# showing in the BIOS screen is different from that of the others (which are different from that on the boxes anyway). This latest drive had the bad firmware, and I have...