If anybody has specs on their RAID 5 arrays, I would love to read about them. Detailed configuration and performance results would be awesome. THANKS! --Dan

I have a 30Gb HD drive running in an external USB holder connected to a laptop running Win98 I ve been running it for a while (in 2 partitions) ok and I think one of the partitions is corrupted so have tried to Format it but it will not let me. I can format the other one. So have tried to use...

These days, with many motherboards having RAID functions built in, I am starting to wonder if they take advantage of system RAM for write back caching. Has anybody heard anything about this? Thanks, --Dan

I have been under the impression that setting drives as Master or Slave doesn't make a difference in drive performance. I mean, the "Master" doesn't really "Master" anything at all, right? Its just like calling them A and B, or 0 and 1, or X, and Y, etc. Can anybody shed some light on...

I'm thinking of buying a Syba External USB 2.0 3.5' hard drive enclosure. Also called "Best Conductivity". It uses the NEC chipset and max hard drive size of 200GB. Anyone heard good or bad things about this brand ?

Hi, I have recently changed the partition of a 20 GB hard Disk. It had three partitions C,D,E promt. There was no space in drives D & E but the drive C was half free. So i used Partion Magic 7 and alotted the some free space from Dive C to Drive D. The entire process took about 2 hrs on a P III...

Hi, I have recently changed the partition of a 20 GB hard Disk. It had three partitions C,D,E promt. There was no space in drives D & E but the drive C was half free. So i used Partion Magic 7 and alotted the some free space from Dive C to Drive D. The entire process took about 2 hrs on a P III...

Does anyone around here know about this or which NG is the best source on same?

Hi I decided to rebuild one of my machines one evening(late)... So I thought just to be safe let me ghost an image of the machine... This is the config.. I have two hard drives

I'm totally baffled by the problems I'm having setting up a second hard drive (120 GB Maxtor)on my HP Pavilion 8575C with Windows 98SE. I'm trying to set up one primary partition (D:), and two logical partitions (E: and F:), all about 40GB. If I partition the drive using Partition Magic 8, it...

I got a 40-G-byte hard drive on my new laptop under Window XP home edition. Before I patition with Partion Magic. It work fine over two weeks with all my old DOS programs. Then I start use Partion Magic 8.0 into several drives ( I work with FPGA, There are 4 brands of FPGA -...

Fry's has got an ad in the paper for a $139, retail boxed, 250Gig, disk drive with 8MB buffer, with no name given. Anyone know what drive they are selling ?

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I don't think you can can you, without making the HD "fixed" again. Do I have then to partition in DOS if I don't want to make the external HD I have "fixed" again? TIA.

I'm running XP Home w/SP1 Two IDE Hard Drives. 1 x 120GB, 1 x 200GB. I also run an external USB2.0 HDD at 80GB inside a Belkin Enclosure. I've just purchased a new Maxtor Maxline II 250GB drive which I also intend to use in an enclosure. When I connect the drive up, It shows in Device Manager, it...

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Hy, getting this error message "primary master hard disk fail"; after booting an ibm hard disk with a "maxtor draco" macintosh disk. Award Plug&Play Bios says: 1st screen Detecting IDE Primary Master...... IC35L060AVER07-0 Detecting IDE Primary Slave...... Maxtor Draco