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Advice Please: The Importance of Hard Drive RPMs by
Darren Harris
Can anyone tell me if hard drive spindle speed is an important factor
to consider when purchasing a hard drive?
Or should I just concentrate on average latency, average access, and
max. full seek time?
I ask because two hard drives with a data rate of 80mps can differ in
these other...
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Enterprise versus "consumer" grade drives by
miso
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...
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FAT32 or NTFS? by
Paul Smith
"Sammy D" wrote in message
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I use XP.
I want to create a data partition on a new hard drive of approx 50
to 100 GB and I want to store only data in it (jpegs, mpegs, mp3s).
Is it better to have it as...
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isolating new clone drive for 1st bootup by
Timothy Daniels
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open...
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Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read by
Cronos
Not my words but wanted your input on the below: especially Rod Speed.
"And then there are people who do more than write for magazines, have
decades of real-world experience, who work with small systems to systems
with hundreds of terra-bytes....
My experience with Windows NTFS and file...
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January 12th 10 08:05 AM
by Cronos
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Help hard drives keep clicking and dying by
Chris Milne
I have an older PC (2.26 ghz 1gb ram)...here is what happened.
I bought a new Seagate 400gb HD...unplugged my 120 and 80 GB Maxtors,
plugged in the seagate, installed windows Vista (from msdn), was trying
to get my Radeon card to work with windows aero. Shut down pulled out
all the pci cards to...
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Overcoming 8GB BIOS limit by
Michael
Hello,
I have a P166 computer running Windows ME on a 40GB Western Digital
hard drive. The BIOS limits the system to seeing only 8GB of the
drive, so the whole partition is 8GB. My question is, is there any way
to make another partition in the other 32GB without reformatting the
entire drive? I...
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Can a hard disk shrink? Or did ****USA steal my HD? by
George L.
**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com ****
Do computer repair centers ever replace HDs with smaller ones
and not tell customers? I took my Compaq equipped with
80 gig HD to ****USA but got back a 40 gig. My data wasn't
lost, but the drive is definitely smaler, according to...
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October 20th 03 06:43 PM
by Walt
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Location of system and cache partitions by
Joe S
I run XP Pro.
My mobo does not support SATA.
I have several hard drives. All my HDD's are PATA and 133 MBps
My operating system partition is on the primary master HDD.
I have placed various cache files in a separate partition on a
seperate HDD.
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HD Backup ? by
Hunibal
Have Winxp with SP2
Hd 80 gig
got a 500 gig external USB HD and now looking for a good backup program
Want to be able to "create" a copy on the new drive so I can see the files.
Any suggestion?
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Cheers _ Jóseph _
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Windows XP optimization tricks by
Oldtech
wrote:
Windows XP tips and tricks. Learn how to bypass very common windows
problems, to speed up your system and make it more reliable with
useful tips and tricks.
http://windowsxpsp2pro.blogspot.com
The only key strokes necessary are "Windows key + the e key"!
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Can high voltage from power supply damage harddrive? by
mm
I just talked to my friend who gave me the Dell computer, and he said
that his repair guy told him the reason his harddrive failed may
(likely?) have been a surge or something coming from the power supply.
Is this a cause of harddrive failure?
A common cause?
A conceivable cause but really a...
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1000 year data storage for autonomous robotic facility by
Bernhard Kuemel
Sorry for repost, I posted to sci.electronics before, which does not exist.
Hi!
I'm planning a robotic facility that needs to maintain hardware
(exchange defective parts) autonomously for up to 1000 years. One of the
problems is to maintain firmware and operating systems for this period.
What...
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Dying/Broken USB external enclosure HDD? by
Ant
Hello.
I think I have a dying external HDD in an Antec enclosure (USB). I
haven't used it for months until today when I wanted to do some backups.
http://pastie.org/private/kyewx2ur1w74h5pah6lrdw from gsmartctl v0.8.6-2
for Windows after an extended self test (supposed to take almost four...
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August 15th 12 01:27 AM
by Ant
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Repair Windows XP by
Lew Pitcher
On Aug 6, 3:15 pm, wrote:
Windows XP repairing and optimization tipshttp://windowsxpsp2pro.blogspot.com
Windows XP replacement and optimization tips http://www.ubuntu.com/
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Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? by
Ant
Either I'm having bad luck or USB flash drives suck even with various
sizes (e.g., 512 MB to 32 GB), well known brand names (e.g., SanDisk),
and cheap/free ones (SP and Patriot ). They don't seems like they don't last longer than a year. I
keep them in my drawers, wallets, etc.
Some just...
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October 27th 16 04:19 AM
by nospam
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ALWAYS close USB flash drive before removing? by
Eddie[_3_]
Do I always need to close or stop a USB flash drive before I remove
it?
I'm using XP. In XP's Device Manager there is an entry for Disk
Drives and when I look at the Policies tab for the flash drive, it
says:
"Optimized For Quick Removal. This setting enables
write caching on the disk...
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Tape Backup by
[email protected]
I am looking for opinions on what a decent tape backup for a PC
workstation might be, somewhere around 40 gigs or so, speed is not the
biggest issue, mostly being reasonablly priced and around 40 gigs (give
or take a few). I'm wondering what people think the better brands are
for this type of...
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Best Backup Software by
[email protected]
I've tried almost a dozen so far, most in the $39 range. All had
issues.
What I'm after is on-the-fly backup software that instantly backs up
files as soon as they are modified or created. That's it. 99.9% of
backup software is time triggered which is pretty damn lame.
Anyone know of any backup...
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November 3rd 08 11:26 PM
by Floyd63
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